"Never complain, never explain": why robots may not have to be explicable after all

Gabriele Trovato, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Yegang Du

Keywords: social robots, human robot interaction, user-centred design

TL;DR: a different point of view on explicability in social robotics, arguing for re-thinking the necessity of explicability at all costs

Abstract: Explicability in AI and robotics is at the centre of interdisciplinary discussions, which involve machine learning, computer science, ethics, and more. Transparency and explicability are generally seen as a need for systems that encompass AI. We offer a different point of view, arguing for re-thinking the necessity of explicability at all costs, citing examples from videogames user-centred design, and existing applications in social robotics.