Documentation Practices of Artificial Intelligence
This work provides a synthesis for researchers and practitioners on improving AI documentation, but it is incremental as it reviews existing literature without new empirical results.
The paper reviewed literature on AI documentation practices to address transparency and accountability challenges, identifying trends like increased automation and holistic approaches.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) faces persistent challenges in terms of transparency and accountability, which requires rigorous documentation. Through a literature review on documentation practices, we provide an overview of prevailing trends, persistent issues, and the multifaceted interplay of factors influencing the documentation. Our examination of key characteristics such as scope, target audiences, support for multimodality, and level of automation, highlights a dynamic evolution in documentation practices, underscored by a shift towards a more holistic, engaging, and automated documentation.