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A person's right to receive meaningful information about an automated decision that significantly affects them. Under GDPR Articles 13 to 15, controllers must give meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences of automated decisions covered by Article 22. Article 86 of the EU AI Act adds a right to clear and meaningful explanations from the deployer when a decision based on a high-risk Annex III system (except critical infrastructure) produces legal or similarly significant adverse effects. Typical cases are credit refusals, job application rejections, and insurance denials.
Why this matters for your team
If your AI system influences consequential decisions about individuals, design explainability in from the start — not as a compliance afterthought. Meaningful explanations require knowing which features drove the decision, which most black-box models don't surface by default. This is a legal requirement in the EU and increasingly in US state laws.
A job candidate whose application was rejected by an AI screening tool submits a GDPR access request asking for an explanation. The company must provide a meaningful description of the AI's decision logic — 'the algorithm scored you low' is not sufficient.