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Explainable AI report: transparency, audits and accountability

Source-linked evidence on explainable AI, transparency, audits, model documentation and disclosure rules, updated daily. Coverage counts are signals of attention—not measures of importance, harm or consensus.

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Daily source coverage90 days
2026-05-18 2026-08-15
1,198records in archive
481latest 30 days
+126%versus prior 30 days

By record type

Research 886
News 212
Field notes 55
Policy 39
Incidents 6

Leading sources in this record

arXiv 488
OpenAlex 123
arXiv cs.CY 79
arXiv cs.AI 55
Fast Company 25
arXiv cs.HC 24
arXiv cs.LG 14
UK Contracts Finder — AI procurement 14
HuggingFace Daily Papers 13
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 12

What this report tracks

Tracks interpretability research, explanations, audit access, model and system documentation, and disclosure law. It does not assume that an explanation is faithful or useful without supporting evidence.

Questions to take into the evidence

  • Which explanation methods are being evaluated with users?
  • What information do auditors and affected people receive?
  • Where are disclosure duties becoming enforceable?

Latest evidence

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Variety (AI)

Adam Scott Says His Daughter’s Acting Class Was Forced to Watch His Failed ‘Office’ Audition as an Example of What Not to Do — open the original publisher

Once upon a time, “Severance” star Adam Scott auditioned for the beloved sitcom “The Office.” Years later, he’s reliving the memories of that failed audition after his daughter’s acting teacher had the class compare Scott’s audition tape to John Krasinski’s successful tape. “He put it to the class like, ‘Okay. Let’s discuss why he got the job, […]

News Jobs & economyTransparency
FedScoop

GSA acquisition product pricing data flawed, may cause agencies to overpay, watchdog says — open the original publisher

In an audit, the GSA’s Office of the Inspector General said the Federal Acquisition Service’s product catalog and data reporting system had varying names and part numbers for the same item. The post GSA acquisition product pricing data flawed, may cause agencies to overpay, watchdog says appeared first on FedScoop .

News Transparency
arXiv cs.CY

The AI Accountability Ecosystem in the Era of Language Models — open the original publisher

arXiv:2608.12320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article reviews and updates the framework for accountability in AI based on account- ability ecosystems. We update the framework in light of the latest developments since the release of Large Language Models for general public use. We propose three interlinked updates to the original AI accountability ecosystem: (i) reorienting the accountability ecosystem to AI infrastructure and supply chains, (ii) providing greater emphasis on outcomes moni

Research Transparency
arXiv cs.CY

Applied and Filtered: An End-to-End Algorithmic Fairness Audit of A Public Employment Agency — open the original publisher

arXiv:2608.13022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic fairness evaluation commonly assesses AI systems as bounded technical components, abstracting away the organizational context in which they operate. We present, to our knowledge, the first independent end-to-end fairness audit of a semi-automated hiring system operated by Barcelona Activa, a public employment agency using the third-party TalentClue platform for candidate search and shortlisting. We analyze approximately 497,000 candidat

Research Bias & fairnessJobs & economy
Science and Engineering Ethics

Language Models as a Challenge for Business Ethics – A Partially Open-Source Approach — open the original publisher

Large language models have become central infrastructures of contemporary digital economies while raising persistent ethical concerns regarding linguistic inequality, opacity, data governance, and the concentration of technological power. Much of the current debate on AI ethics focuses on normative principles such as fairness, transparency, and accountability. While these principles remain essential, they often do not sufficiently explain why ethically problematic outcomes persist under competit

Research Bias & fairnessRegulation
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Explainable artificial intelligence in accounting and financial auditing: a systematic review — open the original publisher

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a response to the need to understand and make transparent the decisions of machine learning models, particularly in sensitive contexts such as accounting and financial auditing. In this domain, XAI enables the interpretation of results generated by automated systems applied to fraud detection, risk management, financial analysis, and regulatory compliance, thereby strengthening the trust of auditors and regulators. The objective of this st

Research RegulationTransparency

Method and limits

This report is assembled automatically from source metadata and keyword classifications. It summarizes what the tracked source fleet published; it does not independently validate every linked claim. Source-fleet growth can inflate historical comparisons. Cite the individual evidence record and original publisher for substantive claims.