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Transparency

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D5

Transparency is the provision of relevant information about an AI system to appropriate audiences at a usable depth for the stated context.

Review status: 2027-02-24

Technical explanation

It can enable users, deployers, reviewers, or affected people to understand relevant capabilities, limitations, interactions, and routes for questioning outputs.

Conceptual boundaries

Transparency is not source-code disclosure by default and does not by itself equal explainability, interpretability, accountability, or truth.

Provider-neutral example

A provider can give a deployer clear instructions about a system’s intended purpose, relevant limitations, expected input conditions, and human-oversight measures.

Limitations

Information that is available but irrelevant, inaccessible, or incomprehensible to its audience does not establish useful transparency.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1OECD AI Principles
    Source
    OECD AI Principles
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Transparency and explainability
    Supported claim
    The OECD AI Principles call for meaningful information appropriate to the context about AI capabilities, limitations, interactions, and, where feasible and useful, sources, factors, processes, or logic behind outputs.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    The OECD principle is not a default mandate to disclose source code or every internal detail.
    1.2Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D5 instrument slice
    Source
    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D5 instrument slice
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Article 13(1)-(3), consolidated text of 27 July 2026
    Supported claim
    The OECD AI Principles call for meaningful information appropriate to the context about AI capabilities, limitations, interactions, and, where feasible and useful, sources, factors, processes, or logic behind outputs.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    The OECD principle is not a default mandate to disclose source code or every internal detail.
  2. 2.1Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D5 instrument slice
    Source
    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D5 instrument slice
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Article 13(1)-(3), consolidated text of 27 July 2026
    Supported claim
    For high-risk AI systems within its scope, the EU AI Act requires transparency sufficient for deployers to interpret output and use the system appropriately, with accessible instructions for use.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is an EU instrument-specific obligation for high-risk systems and does not establish that any disclosure makes an output true or accountable.
    2.2OECD AI Principles
    Source
    OECD AI Principles
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Transparency and explainability
    Supported claim
    For high-risk AI systems within its scope, the EU AI Act requires transparency sufficient for deployers to interpret output and use the system appropriately, with accessible instructions for use.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is an EU instrument-specific obligation for high-risk systems and does not establish that any disclosure makes an output true or accountable.
    2.3European Commission, AI Act regulatory framework
    Source
    European Commission, AI Act regulatory framework
    Source role
    Supplementary source
    Exact locator
    High risk, supplementary summary
    Supported claim
    For high-risk AI systems within its scope, the EU AI Act requires transparency sufficient for deployers to interpret output and use the system appropriately, with accessible instructions for use.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is an EU instrument-specific obligation for high-risk systems and does not establish that any disclosure makes an output true or accountable.