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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
The adaptation of Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities is necessary for analytical insights into big data to reach its full potential. A key barrier to adoption appears to be user trust in ‘black-box’ algorithms, especially under uncertainty and when dealing with high-stakes consequences. A thorough understanding of user trust, interpretability of AI techniques and design methodologies for assistant uptake and trust in these systems is imperative if these technological advantages are to be adopted in order to achieve required analytical outcomes.
The issue of explainable AI remains a major obstacle to the broader application of AI-powered products and services due to issues of transparency and accountability. In addition to public debate around the need for transparency and accountability to be built into AI applications, this issue remains an obstacle for governments developing regulatory frameworks and legislative changes to govern the use of AI technologies. Many engineers and data scientists have questioned whether meaningful explainability, to the degree required, is technically possible, particularly as approaches such as neural networks and deep learning are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and complex.
Example Approaches:
Research proposals could approach this from a variety of disciplines, or as a cross-disciplinary effort. The problem touches on aspects of data science, engineering, psychology, human-centered computing, systems and design thinking, software development and UX and UI design, with links into social sciences.
Proposals could consider:
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
As data volumes and complexities increase and become more difficult to analyze manually, AI capabilities will need to be adopted to produce critical results in any meaningful timeframe. It is imperative that the IC understand user trust in new technological capabilities and designs AI systems accordingly in order to facilitate trust amongst end-users, and ensure systems can recover when perceived trust is lost.
Deep learning and neural networks are built into the core of many applications and capabilities of high interest and worth to intelligence services. The ‘black box’ problem remains perhaps the best known issue commonly discussed in public discourse about AI and machine learning. The issues raise concerns around the ethics and accountability of AI applications, particularly where applied to counter security threats and challenges. Improving the explainability of neural networks would assist developers to refine and improve neural networks applications. Additionally, improvements in the accountability of AI solutions would support public trust in AI, particularly within government AI capabilities and solutions.
Key Words: Artificial Intelligence, Trust In Technology, Automation, Uncertainty, Explainable AI, Trusted Analytics
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