Explainable AI: How to Make Machine Learning Decisions Understandable

Author(s): Jayita Gulati

Originally published on Towards AI.

Learn about Explainable AI and its Methods and how to implement them in Python.Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash

Imagine using an AI system to decide who gets a loan — but no one can explain why it approved one person and rejected another. That’s the challenge many modern AI systems face. As machine learning models grow more powerful, they often become less transparent. These “black box” models make decisions that can impact lives, yet their inner workings are hidden from users.

Explainable AI (XAI) is a solution to this problem. It focuses on creating tools and techniques that make AI decisions understandable to humans. Instead of just giving an output, explainable models can show why a certain prediction was made, what factors influenced it, and how reliable the decision is. In this article, we explore several methods of Explainable AI (XAI) and demonstrate how to implement them using Python.

Here are some important reasons why explainability is essential:

Accountability: If something goes wrong, we need to know what happened and why. Explainability supports legal and ethical responsibility.Trust: When users understand a model’s decision-making, they are more likely to trust and use it. Clear explanations help reduce fear around AI.Debugging: Developers use explanations to find bugs, biases, or weak points in a model. This helps improve the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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