Post-deployment monitoring of explainable AI (XAI) systems has emerged as a critical concern for maintaining trustworthy AI behaviors over time [1]. While pre-deployment validation establishes baseline explanation quality, it does not guarantee sustained performance when models encounter distribution shifts, concept drift, or evolving user expectations [2]. This article addresses the research g...
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Human-Readable AI Explanations: Specification for Audience-Appropriate Transparency
The proliferation of artificial intelligence systems has foregrounded the need for explanations that are not only technically accurate but also tailored to the cognitive and professional contexts of diverse stakeholders. This article establishes a systematic specification framework for generating audience‑appropriate explanations of AI decisions, bridging the gap between model‑level transparenc...
XAI for High-Stakes Decisions: Extra-Specification Requirements for Critical AI
The deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous infrastructure demands rigorous specification of behavioral expectations. Existing regulatory frameworks often lack the granularity required to capture the multifaceted nature of these systems, leading to gaps between intended safety guarantees and actual operational realities. This article investiga...
Explanation Quality Specifications: Metrics, Thresholds, and Acceptance Criteria for XAI
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) seeks to make model decisions transparent and understandable to diverse stakeholders. However, the notion of an “acceptable” explanation remains under-specified, lacking consensus on quantitative criteria. This article formalizes explanation quality by defining three interrelated research questions: (RQ1) what fidelity thresholds guarantee faithful repr...
Real-Time XAI Specifications: Performance Requirements for Production Explanations
The rapid deployment of AI-driven decision systems in production environments has intensified the demand for explanation generation that is not only semantically meaningful but also temporally bounded and resource-constrained. This article establishes a formal specification framework for real-time explainability, defining precise performance requirements for latency, fidelity, and computational...
Cross-Border AI Explanation Requirements: Specifying XAI for Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed across jurisdictions that impose distinct obligations on the transparency and interpretability of model decisions. While the European Union’s AI Act establishes a comprehensive framework for high‑risk AI, the United States relies on sector‑specific Executive Orders and guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIS...
The ISO/IEC 24027 Bias in AI Explanations: Specification Implications
Explainability frameworks increasingly intertwine technical desiderata with normative commitments, yet the standards community struggles to reconcile algorithmic transparency with equitable outcomes. ISO/IEC 24027—Artificial intelligence—Explainability requirements for AI systems—offers the first international attempt to codify explanatory integrity, but its pragmatic implementation e[REDACTED]...
Adversarial Robustness in XAI Specifications: Why Explainability Must Be Secure
Explainability (XAI) systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, yet their vulnerability to adversarial manipulation threatens trust and decision integrity. This article investigates the adversarial robustness of specification-based XAI mechanisms, focusing on how malicious inputs can subvert explanatory outputs without altering the underlying model behavior. We pose three cor...
XAI Interoperability Standards: How Explanation Formats Should Be Specified
Explainable AI (XAI) systems generate explanations to justify model decisions, yet current standardization efforts lack coherent specifications for explanation formats. This article establishes a rigorous framework for XAI interoperability, defining mandatory components for explanation formats that ensure technical compatibility and functional validity across diverse deployment contexts. We ana...
Testing Explainability Compliance: Specification-Based Testing for AI Transparency
Explainability compliance in artificial intelligence systems demands rigorous evaluation methodologies that can verify whether AI models adhere to predefined specification criteria. This article introduces specification‑based testing (SBT) as a systematic approach to assess AI transparency, focusing on how well model outputs conform to declared functional and ethical constraints. We outline a r...