{"title":"Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for AI System Auditing and Transparency","authors":"Laura Waltersdorfer , Marta Sabou","doi":"10.1016/j.websem.2024.100849","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Auditing complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is gaining importance in light of new regulations and is particularly challenging in terms of system complexity, knowledge integration, and differing transparency needs. Current AI auditing tools however, lack semantic context, resulting in difficulties for auditors in effectively collecting and integrating, but also for analysing and querying audit data. In this position paper, we explore how Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can address these challenges by offering a structured and integrative approach to collecting and transforming audit traces. This work discusses the current limitations in both AI auditing processes and tools. Furthermore, we examine how KGs can play a transformative role in overcoming these obstacles to achieve improved auditability and transparency of AI systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49951,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Web Semantics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 100849"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Web Semantics","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570826824000350","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Auditing complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is gaining importance in light of new regulations and is particularly challenging in terms of system complexity, knowledge integration, and differing transparency needs. Current AI auditing tools however, lack semantic context, resulting in difficulties for auditors in effectively collecting and integrating, but also for analysing and querying audit data. In this position paper, we explore how Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can address these challenges by offering a structured and integrative approach to collecting and transforming audit traces. This work discusses the current limitations in both AI auditing processes and tools. Furthermore, we examine how KGs can play a transformative role in overcoming these obstacles to achieve improved auditability and transparency of AI systems.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. The journal emphasizes the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications.