A Survey of Explainable AI Terminology

The field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence attempts to solve the problem of algorithmic opacity. Many terms and notions have been introduced recently to define Explainable AI, however, these terms seem to be used interchangeably, which is leading to confusion in this rapidly expanding field. As a solution to overcome this problem, we present an analysis of the existing research literature and examine how key terms, such as transparency, intelligibility, interpretability, and explainability are referred to and in what context. This paper, thus, moves towards a standard terminology for Explainable AI.