[R] Has Explainable AI Research Tanked?

I have gotten the feeling that the ML community at large has, in a weird way, lost interest in XAI, or just become incredibly cynical about it.

In a way, it is still *the* problem to solve in all of ML, but it's just really different to how it was a few years ago. Now people feel afraid to say XAI, they instead say "interpretable", or "trustworthy", or "regulation", or "fairness", or "HCI", or "mechanistic interpretability", etc...

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