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Inaccessible training data

AI Risk Atlas

IBM (2025)

Sub-category
Risk Domain

Challenges in understanding or explaining the decision-making processes of AI systems, which can lead to mistrust, difficulty in enforcing compliance standards or holding relevant actors accountable for harms, and the inability to identify and correct errors.

"Without access to the training data, the types of explanations a model can provide are limited and more likely to be incorrect."

Supporting Evidence (1)

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"Low quality explanations without source data make it difficult for users, model validators, and auditors to understand and trust the model."

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