{
  "id": 8068,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipx005",
  "title": "Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation",
  "summary": "In recent months, researchers,1 government bodies,2 and the media3 have claimed that a ‘right to explanation’ of decisions made by automated and artificially intelligent algorithmic systems is legally mandated by the forthcoming European Union General Data Protection Regulation4 2016/679 (GDPR). The right to explanation is viewed as a promising mechanism in the broader pursuit by government and industry for accountability and transparency in algorithms, artificial intelligence, robotics, and oth",
  "authors": "Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,agents-autonomy,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2017-04-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:34.082Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/8068",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipx005",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}