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The provision establishes an operational standard for AI system design and disclosure, requiring that decision-making processes be comprehensible when outcomes materially affect users' circumstances. This creates a baseline expectation for transparency mechanisms in AI-assisted decision systems.
This provision requires Microsoft AI systems informing high-impact decisions to be designed with understandability mechanisms in place, enabling users to comprehend the decision-making process rather than receiving opaque outputs. The specific implementation mechanisms, technical standards, and scope of "major impact" decisions are not defined in this provision text.
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"Transparency: AI systems should be understandable. When AI systems are helping to inform decisions that have a major impact on people's lives, it's important that people can understand how those decisions were made.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Responsible AI
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The provision establishes an operational standard for AI system design and disclosure, requiring that decision-making processes be comprehensible when outcomes materially affect users' circumstances. This creates a baseline expectation for transparency mechanisms in AI-assisted decision systems.
This provision requires Microsoft AI systems informing high-impact decisions to be designed with understandability mechanisms in place, enabling users to comprehend the decision-making process rather than receiving opaque outputs. The specific implementation mechanisms, technical standards, and scope of "major impact" decisions are not defined in this provision text.
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