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AI Automated-Decision Explanation Letters: Why Was I Denied?
AI can draft automated-decision explanation letters, but the underlying decision logic and appeal process must be humanly governed.
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- 1The premise
- 2automated decisions
- 3explainability
- 4appeals
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Section 1
The premise
AI can draft automated-decision explanation letters that tell a user the top reasons their application was declined and how to appeal.
What AI does well here
- Translate model feature contributions into user-facing reason codes
- Draft appeal-path instructions specific to the decision type
What AI cannot do
- Verify that the explanation actually reflects the decisive features
- Decide whether the model should have been used for that decision class
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