Conceptual Clarifications

To tackle the issues present in the international and interdisciplinary debate on explainability, we introduce and characterize the core concepts of explainability, interpretability, contestability, certifiability, auditability, post-hoc rationalizability, and transparency. In outlining the different epistemic and practical purposes pursued with these techniques, we can determine and disambiguate some of the confusion present in the debate, and clarify what it actually is we are interested in.