Explainability Debunked?

Having elaborated on the epistemological conditions and the ethical interplay between explainability and expertise, we have found that explainability does not have a purpose beyond its instrumental value for other purposes. It might even be problematic to insist on explainability too rigorously. Since the applied cases of unexplained technology have demonstrated that explainability is often not the technique required for ethical permissibility, we can elaborate on whether explainability is practically relevant in the first place. Especially considering the emergence of ever-growing foundational models has undercut hopes to meaningfully increase explainability in AI.