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New preprint: The Dead Salmons of XAI
Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology
Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks
arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792
arxiv.org
The Dead Salmons of AI Interpretability
In a striking neuroscience study, the authors placed a dead salmon in an MRI scanner and showed it images of humans in social situations. Astonishingly, standard analyses of the time reported brain re...
