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ArticleEthics and information technology2022

Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI.

Rune Nyrup, Diana Robinson

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Article in Ethics and information technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Artificial Intelligence: Reframing Critical Appraisal in Emergency Medicine.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026
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  6. Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress?Ethical theory and moral practice : an international forum · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rune NyrupLeverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9880-6912
Diana RobinsonLeverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7468-0123

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is an emerging, multidisciplinary field of research that seeks to develop methods and tools for making AI systems more explainable or interpretable. XAI researchers increasingly recognise explainability as a context-, audience- and purpose-sensitive phenomenon, rather than a single well-defined property that can be directly measured and optimised. However, since there is currently no overarching definition of explainability, this poses a risk of miscommunication between the many different researchers within this multidisciplinary space. This is the problem we seek to address in this paper. We outline a framework, called

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Ethics of artificial intelligenceExplainable artificial intelligenceExplanationMedical artificial intelligenceUnderstandingXAI

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PMID35250370
PMCPMC8885497

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