Explainable Machine Learning, Model Transparency, and the Right to Explanation Machine Learning Times – The Predictive Analytics Times

Check out this topical video from Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel:

A computer can keep you in jail, or deny you a job, a loan, insurance coverage, or housing and yet you cannot face your accuser. The predictive models generated by machine learning to drive these weighty decisions are generally kept locked up as a secret, unavailable for audit, inspection, or interrogation. The video above covers explainable machine learning and the loudly-advocated machine learning standards transparency and the right to explanation. Eric discusses why these standards generally are not met and overviews the policy hurdles and technical challenges that are holding us back.

About the Author

Eric Siegel, Ph.D.,is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who makes machine learning understandable and captivating. He is the founder of thePredictive Analytics WorldandDeep Learning Worldconference series, which have served more than 17,000 attendees since 2009, the instructor of the acclaimed online courseMachine Learning Leadership and Practice End-to-End Mastery, a popular speaker whos been commissioned formore than 110 keynote addresses, and executive editor ofThe Machine Learning Times. He authored the bestsellingPredictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which has been used in courses at more than 35 universities, and he won teaching awards when he was a professor at Columbia University, where he sangeducational songsto his students. Eric also publishesop-eds on analytics and social justice. Follow him at@predictanalytic.

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