One of the central themes of the legal debate on artificial intelligence concerns the possibility of explaining the decisions taken.
This week’s reading suggestion is the essay “COUNTERFACTUAL EXPLANATIONS WITHOUT OPENING THE BLACK BOX: AUTOMATED DECISIONS AND THE GDPR” by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt and Chris Russell, published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 31, Number 2 Spring 2018

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v31/Counterfactual-Explanations-without-Opening-the-Black-Box-Sandra-Wachter-et-al.pdf?