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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 11:45:41 Eastern Daylight Time 

consulta-on, here: hSps://ico.org.uk/for-organisa-ons/guide-to-data-protec-on/key-data-protec-onSubject: ICO/Turing Ins-tute na-onal UK guidance on AI explainability 

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 3:08:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

From: David Leslie 

To: NIST Explainable AI 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I am the Ethics Lead at the Alan Turing Ins-tute and co-author of the United Kingdom’s guidance (wriSen 

with the Informa-on Commissioner’s Office) on explaining AI decisions, published this past May, aVer public 

themes/explaining-decisions-made-with-ar-ficial-intelligence/ 

It strikes me that this should have been a relevant work to consult and assess as you were wri-ng your Four 

Principles of Explainable Ar-ficial Intelligence. And yet, I find no men-on of it in your document. I am 

wondering if this was an oversight or simply a choice about relevant sources. Looking over your piece, I am 

inclined to think that the ICO/Turing guide might have expanded and enriched NIST’s point of view. 

All best wishes, 

David Leslie 

Dr David Leslie, 

Ethics Theme Lead and Ethics Fellow, 

Public Policy Programme, The Alan Turing Institute 

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