What is Explainable AI?

Explainable AI (XAI) is a set of methods and processes that make the behavior, outputs, and inner workings of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems understandable to humans in a documented and reproducible way. Expanded Explanation 1. Technical Function and Core Characteristics XAI comprises techniques that provide human-understandable accounts of how an AI system produces its outputs, including which inputs and model components contribute to decisions. It includes both

How widely is Explainable AI used?

1 organization in our directory is tagged Explainable AI, referenced across 7 articles.

What is Explainable AI most closely associated with?

Explainable AI is most closely associated with AI infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence.

Explainable AI (XAI)

Last updated August 24, 2026

Human View Machine View

This is the page you're already on — the Human View toggle above shows it in full.

A green key on the record, left, is one Decision Insights added. It doesn't exist on the company's site or in a wire feed. The same key labels its row on the right, so you can match them directly. More on how DI enriches a record.

The record

This is what the machine sees: the exact JSON-LD an agent receives for this listing.

WebSite

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#website",
  "@type": "WebSite",
  "name": "Decision Insights",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": {
      "@type": "EntryPoint",
      "urlTemplate": "https://decisioninsights.ai/search/?q={search_term_string}\u0026submit=1"
    }
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
  },
  "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
}

Organization

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "contactPoint": {
    "@type": "ContactPoint",
    "contactType": "customer support",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "description": "Decision Insights is a Registry of technology companies, open source projects, and industry terms, built for people and for AI agents that need sourced, structured information.",
  "logo": {
    "@type": "ImageObject",
    "url": "https://wiretap-cdn-assets.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/decision-insights/[email protected]"
  },
  "name": "Decision Insights",
  "parentOrganization": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Wiretap Labs",
    "sameAs": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiretap-labs",
      "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wiretap-labs"
    ],
    "url": "https://wiretaplabs.com"
  },
  "publishingPrinciples": "https://decisioninsights.ai/standards/",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/decisioninsights"
  ],
  "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
}

BreadcrumbList

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
  "itemListElement": [
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai",
      "name": "Decision Insights",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/",
      "name": "Glossary",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/",
      "name": "Explainable AI",
      "position": 3
    }
  ]
}

DefinedTerm

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/#definedterm",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Articles mentioning this entity",
      "value": 7
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Organizations tagged",
      "value": 1
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Organizations",
      "propertyID": "https://decisioninsights.ai/ns#taggedOrganizations",
      "value": [
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/reken/#organization",
          "@type": "Organization",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/reken/",
          "name": "Reken"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Related terms",
      "valueReference": [
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainability-audit/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainability-audit/",
          "name": "Explainability Audit"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/model-explainability-layer/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/model-explainability-layer/",
          "name": "Model Explainability Layer"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-analytics-framework-eaf/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-analytics-framework-eaf/",
          "name": "Explainable Analytics Framework"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/interpretability-testing/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/interpretability-testing/",
          "name": "Interpretability Testing"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-ethics/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-ethics/",
          "name": "AI Ethics"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-governance/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-governance/",
          "name": "AI Governance"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainability-benchmark-eb/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainability-benchmark-eb/",
          "name": "Explainability Benchmark"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-ethics-framework/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-ethics-framework/",
          "name": "AI Ethics Framework"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Related terms (co-occurring topics)",
      "valueReference": [
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-infrastructure/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-infrastructure/",
          "name": "AI infrastructure"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-artificial-intelligence/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-artificial-intelligence/",
          "name": "Artificial Intelligence"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/",
          "name": "Cybersecurity"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/",
          "name": "Data Center"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/",
          "name": "Enterprise"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/market/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/market/",
          "name": "Market"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-operator/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-operator/",
          "name": "Network Operator"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/application/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/application/",
          "name": "Application"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/automation/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/automation/",
          "name": "Automation"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cloud/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cloud/",
          "name": "Cloud"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-telemetry/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-telemetry/",
          "name": "Network Telemetry"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/open-source/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/open-source/",
          "name": "Open Source"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-cloud/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-cloud/",
          "name": "AI Cloud"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/anomaly-detection/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/anomaly-detection/",
          "name": "Anomaly Detection"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cloud-infrastructure/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cloud-infrastructure/",
          "name": "Cloud Infrastructure"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/debt/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/debt/",
          "name": "Debt"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/edge-resource-allocator-era/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/edge-resource-allocator-era/",
          "name": "Edge Resource Allocator"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ethernet/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ethernet/",
          "name": "Ethernet"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/funding-kut0gt/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/funding-kut0gt/",
          "name": "Funding"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/generative-ai-genai/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/generative-ai-genai/",
          "name": "Generative AI"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/infiniband/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/infiniband/",
          "name": "InfiniBand"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/military/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/military/",
          "name": "Military"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/switch/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/switch/",
          "name": "Switch"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/telemetry/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/telemetry/",
          "name": "Telemetry"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/threats/#definedterm",
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/threats/",
          "name": "Threats"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "Explainable AI is a collection of methods and processes that make AI and machine learning systems understandable to humans by documenting and exposing how models use data, generate outputs, and behave over time, supporting governance, compliance, auditability, and risk management in enterprises.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": {
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/#termset",
    "@type": "DefinedTermSet",
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/"
  },
  "name": "Explainable AI",
  "subjectOf": [
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/oracle-announces-equity-and-debt-financing-plan-for-calendar-year-2026/#blogposting",
      "@type": "NewsArticle",
      "headline": "Oracle announces Equity and Debt Financing Plan for Calendar Year 2026",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Oracle Corporation (PR Newswire release)"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "Cision"
        },
        "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-announces-equity-and-debt-financing-plan-for-calendar-year-2026-302675778.html"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/oracle-announces-equity-and-debt-financing-plan-for-calendar-year-2026/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/delloro-group-finds-ethernet-over-two-thirds-of-3q-switch-sales/#blogposting",
      "@type": "NewsArticle",
      "headline": "Dell'Oro Group finds Ethernet over two-thirds of 3Q switch sales",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "sourceOrganization": {
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "Cision"
        },
        "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ai-back-end-networks-continue-their-shift-to-ethernet-now-accounting-for-over-two-thirds-of-3q-2025-switch-sales-in-ai-clusters-according-to-delloro-group-302633730.html"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/delloro-group-finds-ethernet-over-two-thirds-of-3q-switch-sales/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/vendor-details-ai-applications-and-challenges-in-network-telemetry/#blogposting",
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "headline": "Vendor details AI applications and challenges in network telemetry",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Krupakar Annam"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/#organization",
          "@type": "Organization",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/",
          "name": "Aviz Networks"
        },
        "url": "https://aviznetworks.com/resources/blogs/from-hype-to-reality-navigating-the-challenges-of-ai-in-network-telemetry"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/vendor-details-ai-applications-and-challenges-in-network-telemetry/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/ais-potential-in-network-telemetry-and-challenges-ahead/#blogposting",
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "headline": "AI's Potential in Network Telemetry and Challenges Ahead",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Krupakar Annam"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/#organization",
          "@type": "Organization",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/",
          "name": "Aviz Networks"
        },
        "url": "https://aviznetworks.com/resources/blogs/from-hype-to-reality-navigating-the-challenges-of-ai-in-network-telemetry"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/ais-potential-in-network-telemetry-and-challenges-ahead/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/grok-adoption-declines-as-enterprises-focus-on-security-concerns/#blogposting",
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "headline": "Grok Adoption Declines as Enterprises Focus on Security Concerns",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Generated by StringerAI - An Intelligence Brief from Decision Insights"
        },
        "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/intelligence/weekly-intelligence-brief-on-artificial-intelligence-and-automation-week-of-june-16-2025/2025/06/"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/grok-adoption-declines-as-enterprises-focus-on-security-concerns/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/weekly-intelligence-brief-on-artificial-intelligence-and-automation-week-of-june-16-2025/#blogposting",
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "headline": "Weekly Intelligence Brief on Artificial Intelligence and Automation - Week of June 16, 2025",
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/weekly-intelligence-brief-on-artificial-intelligence-and-automation-week-of-june-16-2025/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/grok-adoption-stalls-as-organizations-implement-security-policies/#blogposting",
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "headline": "Grok adoption stalls as organizations implement security policies.",
      "isBasedOn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Ray Canzanese"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
          "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/netskope/#organization",
          "@type": "Organization",
          "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/netskope/",
          "name": "Netskope"
        },
        "url": "https://www.netskope.com/blog/to-grok-or-not-to-grok-for-29-of-enterprises-there-is-no-question"
      },
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/grok-adoption-stalls-as-organizations-implement-security-policies/"
    }
  ],
  "termCode": "XAI",
  "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/"
}

CollectionPage

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/",
  "@type": "CollectionPage",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T01:26:19Z",
  "description": "Explainable AI is a collection of methods and processes that make AI and machine learning systems understandable to humans by documenting and exposing how models use data, generate outputs, and behave over time, supporting governance, compliance, auditability, and risk management in enterprises.",
  "isPartOf": {
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#website"
  },
  "mainEntity": {
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/#definedterm"
  },
  "name": "Explainable AI",
  "sdDatePublished": "2026-08-24",
  "sdPublisher": {
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
  },
  "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/explainable-ai-xai/"
}

What we add

Graph

A glossary entry defines a term and stops there. It doesn't show where the term is actually being used or written about. We track and link every article that covers it.

NewsArticle Oracle announces Equity and Debt Financing Plan for Calendar Year 2026 NewsArticle Dell'Oro Group finds Ethernet over two-thirds of 3Q switch sales BlogPosting Vendor details AI applications and challenges in network telemetry and 4 more on this page

Counted facts

A dictionary definition doesn't say how often a term is actually used. This counts it across the graph -- articles that mention it, open source projects tagged with it, and the organizations tagged with it, listed here alongside the count. A term has no peer companies, and nothing here claims otherwise.

Articles mentioning this entity 7 Organizations tagged 1 Organizations Reken Related terms Related terms (co-occurring topics)

The person who sent this agent gets an answer they can act on

Somebody dispatched this agent to evaluate Explainable AI for a real decision: a shortlist, a vendor comparison, a purchase. "Explainable AI makes X" isn't something they can act on; they need to know the claim is real and where it came from. Follow one enriched link from Act 2 and see what the agent can actually hand back to them:

The record DefinedTerm Explainable AI
One of its 7 linked records NewsArticle Oracle announces Equity and Debt Financing Plan for Calendar Year 2026 https://decisioninsights.ai/oracle-announces-equity-and-debt-financing-plan-for-calendar-year-2026/
The primary source CreativeWork prnewswire.com https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-announces-equity-and-debt-financing-plan-for-calendar-year-2026-302675778.html Original author: Oracle Corporation (PR Newswire release)

Our summary is written by Decision Insights Record. The source keeps its own byline, credited above. Both are in the JSON.