# Provide appropriate transparency and explainability

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
- **Jurisdiction**: United Kingdom
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Principle 2, Part 3

## In brief

Provide appropriate transparency and explainability is a voluntary measure under the UK AI regulation framework in the United Kingdom (Principle 2, Part 3). Organisations should communicate when and how AI is used and provide explanations proportionate to the risk, so that people can understand decisions affecting them. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 1 framework.

## What the duty requires

Organisations should communicate when and how AI is used and provide explanations proportionate to the risk, so that people can understand decisions affecting them. For personal data, UK GDPR transparency and automated decision-making rights make this binding in practice.

## What an organisation does about it

Publish AI use notices and keep explainability documentation for decisions about individuals.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Decision explanation, human review and appeal route (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/decision-explanation-and-appeal-route
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards
- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure

## Parent instrument

- A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0073 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0073; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/uk-principles-transparency-explainability
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach
- **Provision**: Principle 2, Part 3
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Provide appropriate transparency and explainability (UK AI regulation framework)" [AIPT-OBL-0073, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0073 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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