(Un)explainable Technology

Hendrik Kempt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Applied Ethics Group, RWTH Aachen University, where he received his PhD in 2023. His work focuses mainly on questions of the ethics of human-machine interaction, of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and of technology in general. He has previously published the monographs “Chatbots and the Domestication of AI” (2020) as well as “Synthetic Friends - A Philosophy of Human-Machine Friendship” (2022), edited a book with Megan Volpert on “RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy”, and has written several journal articles and book chapters on the issues of ethics of technology.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conceptual Clarification.- Chapter 3: Epistemological Conditions.- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Explainability.- Chapter 5: Applied Cases.- Chapter 6: Explainability Debunked?.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.