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Are All Explainable Models Trustworthy?

Robert de Graaf
Towards Data Science
5 min readJul 29, 2019

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Explainable AI or Explainable Data Science is one of the top buzzwords of Data Science at the moment. Models that are explainable are seen as the answer to many of recently recognised problems with machine learning, such as bias or data leaks.

A frequently given reason to make models more explainable is that they will then be trusted more readily by users, and sometimes it appears people assume…

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