The Cognitive Enterprise Project
The Constitution

Article IV

Explainability

No conclusion is legitimate unless it can be explained. Reasoning must be inspectable, traceable, and open to challenge by any accountable party.

Explainability is the precondition for oversight. A judgment that cannot be examined cannot be trusted, corrected, or improved.

Clauses

  1. §1Every judgment must be reconstructable from its inputs and reasoning.
  2. §2Explanations must be intelligible to the humans accountable for outcomes.
  3. §3The right to challenge a conclusion is guaranteed and must be honored.