Explainable artificial intelligence Luca Longo editor ; Part 2 This three volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence xAI 2023 held in Lisbon Portugal in July 2023. The 94 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 220 qualified submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Interdisciplinary perspectives approaches and strategies for xAI; Model agnostic explanations methods and techniques for xAI Causality and Explainable AI; Explainable AI in Finance cybersecurity health care and biomedicine. Part II: Surveys benchmarks visual representations and applications for xAI; xAI for decision making and human AI collaboration for Machine Learning on Graphs with Ontologies and Graph Neural Networks; Actionable eXplainable AI Semantics and explainability and Explanations for Advice Giving Systems. Part III: xAI for time series and Natural Language Processing; Human centered explanations and xAI for Trustworthy and Responsible AI; Explainable and Interpretable AI with Argumentation Representational Learning and concept extraction for xAI