Watson, David S. ; Gultchin, Limor ; Taly, Ankur & Floridi, Luciano: Local Explanations via Necessity and Sufficiency: Unifying Theory and Practice

_Minds and Machines_ 32 (1):185-218. 2022Necessity and sufficiency are the building blocks of all successful explanations. Yet despite their importance, these notions have been conceptually underdeveloped and inconsistently applied in explainable artificial intelligence, a fast-growing research area that is so far lacking in firm theoretical foundations. In this article, an expanded version of a paper originally presented at the 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, we attem