Right to Explanation

The legal or ethical right of individuals to receive a meaningful explanation when they are subject to a decision made by an automated system, as established in regulations such as the GDPR.

If an AI makes a decision about you; like denying your insurance claim; you have the legal right to ask "why?" and get an understandable answer. This is law in the EU under GDPR.

This legal right directly affects how your organisation designs and deploys AI. Your governance framework must ensure that AI systems in scope can generate meaningful explanations and that processes exist for handling explanation requests.