kifejted

Kifejted is a term used in discussions of artificial intelligence and cognitive transparency to denote the explicit, structured presentation of a model's reasoning for a given decision or output. It refers to artifacts such as stepwise traces, narrative explanations, or systematic summaries that connect inputs, intermediate inferences, and conclusions.

Origin and usage: The coinage appears in contemporary debates about explainable AI and is often discussed as an approach to make AI reasoning more accessible to users, auditors, and researchers. The word is thought to be inspired by the Hungarian verb kifejteni, meaning to elaborate or explain, and is used in a predominantly English-language discourse. The linguistic provenance of the term is not universally standardized, with some scholars noting possible links to Hungarian, while others treat it as a broader neologism in AI ethics and interpretability discussions.

Applications: In research and practice, kifejted is used to discuss transparency, accountability, and trust. It often accompanies methods such as chain-of-thought prompting, interpretable models, and audit log generation to document how a system arrived at a result.

Limitations: Critics warn that generated kifejted may be incomplete, impressionistic, or misleading, and that producing an explanation can reveal sensitive information or disclose proprietary methods. There is ongoing debate about whether such explanations reveal true internal processes or only a useful approximation.

Related topics include explainable artificial intelligence, chain-of-thought prompting, and model interpretability.