A Context-Sensitive Approach to XAI in Music Performance
This is an incremental position paper proposing a conceptual framework for explainable AI in the specific domain of music performance.
The authors propose an Explanatory Pragmatism framework for XAI in music performance, addressing the lack of universal explainability methods by emphasizing context and audience-specific requirements to enhance AI transparency in artistic applications.
The rapidly evolving field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has generated significant interest in developing methods to make AI systems more transparent and understandable. However, the problem of explainability cannot be exhaustively solved in the abstract, as there is no single approach that can be universally applied to generate adequate explanations for any given AI system, and this is especially true in the arts. In this position paper, we propose an Explanatory Pragmatism (EP) framework for XAI in music performance, emphasising the importance of context and audience in the development of explainability requirements. By tailoring explanations to specific audiences and continuously refining them based on feedback, EP offers a promising direction for enhancing the transparency and interpretability of AI systems in broad artistic applications and more specifically to music performance.