Human Centered Explainable AI Framework for Military Cyber Operations

Through recent advancements, AI stands as a transformative force by reshaping societal domains and strategies. In the military cyber domain, this transformation pivots on data and contribution to increasing systems’ efficiency and human decision-making activities. However, building and conducting military Cyber Operations are processes that require dealing with context complexity and uncertainty while directly involving multiple stakeholders that need to understand and interpret the results provided by the AI systems. This represents a notable knowledge gap in current scientific and practitioner efforts that this research tackles by proposing a Human Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI) framework for military Cyber Operations. To achieve this goal, the Design Science Research methodology is used in respect to the Value Sensitive Design approach. Moreover, the framework proposed is successfully evaluated on a use case on conducting the proportionality assessment in military Cyber Operations. Conclusively, this research contributes to building responsible and trustworthy AI systems in the military domain opening a new avenue for the research and practitioner communities.