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Explainability (AI)

Explainability is the ability to describe, in terms a person can understand, why a model produced a given output, for example which factors drove a credit decline. It supports validation, human oversight, customer explanations under the GDPR and AI Act transparency duties.

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Updated 31 Oct 2026.