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This paper argues that the prevailing XAI paradigm suffers not from technical limitations but from a profound philosophical misconception: the assumption that explanation is primarily about transparency. We argue that the development of useful explanation is not fundamentally a question of information transfer, but of epistemic parity. Through a case of harbor monitoring we show that stakeholders are indeed conceptually misaligned; however, these misalignments ultimately reflect underlying conflicts between domain-specific assumptions and authority claims. We call for replacing transparency-focused XAI with a new paradigm of Domain Authority Negotiation (DAN) that explicitly acknowledges explanation as a contestation of epistemic power rather than a mechanism of revelation.

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Conceptual Misalignment in XAI

  • 会议论文

  • 发表日期：

    2026年

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  • Rolf Hvidtfeldt,
  • Mohammad N. S. Jahromi,
  • Àlex Pujol Vidal,
  • Stine N. Christensen,
  • Jeppe Agger Nielsen,
  • Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,
  • Thomas Ploug,
  • Thomas B. Moeslund

摘要

This paper argues that the prevailing XAI paradigm suffers not from technical limitations but from a profound philosophical misconception: the assumption that explanation is primarily about transparency. We argue that the development of useful explanation is not fundamentally a question of information transfer, but of epistemic parity. Through a case of harbor monitoring we show that stakeholders are indeed conceptually misaligned; however, these misalignments ultimately reflect underlying conflicts between domain-specific assumptions and authority claims. We call for replacing transparency-focused XAI with a new paradigm of Domain Authority Negotiation (DAN) that explicitly acknowledges explanation as a contestation of epistemic power rather than a mechanism of revelation.