Modern AI systems—from credit-scoring engines to 175-billion-parameter language models—often behave as opaque black boxes. Lack of transparency fuels bias, erodes trust, and slows regulatory approval. A 2024 survey of mechanistic-interpretability techniques (Rai et al., 2024) shows that even experts struggle to trace how specific neurons drive toxic or incorrect outputs. In parallel, landmark policy such as the EU AI Act (formally adopted 2024) now requires a documented, “human-understandable” explanation for every high-risk AI decision.
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Ribeiro et al. introduce LIME, the first framework for local, model-agnostic explanations, allowing practitioners to approximate any black-box model with an interpretable surrogate (KDD ’16).
Lundberg & Lee publish SHAP, grounding feature importance in Shapley values and releasing a library that soon becomes the industry default (arXiv:1705.07874).
Article 22 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation mandates transparency for automated decisions— a policy wake-up call that propels XAI research.
Olah et al. release the Zoom In series, revealing how vision models form reusable logic units (Distill 2020). IBM simultaneously open-sources the AI Explainability 360 toolkit.
Thousands of attention heads are mapped and open-sourced, proving mechanistic interpretability can scale to GPT-like models (transformer-circuits.pub).
GPT-4 adoption surges; independent tests report ≈ 27 % factual error in zero-shot answers (Bubeck et al., 2023). Enterprises double down on explainability and safety-alignment budgets.
Hsu et al. unveil CD-T (Contextual Decomposition Transformer) for live inspection of language-model circuits (arXiv 2024). Europe passes the AI Act—the first law that explicitly mandates explainability by design.
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