Explaining The Unexplainable: How To Win US FDA’s Trust In Artificially Intelligent Drug Manufacturing

One issue that has surfaced as the pharmaceutical industry responds to the US FDA’s recent discussion paper on manufacturing with AI machine learning models is the question of how to explain what the models are doing.

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The question of how to explain what artificial intelligence models are doing is emerging as a key regulatory issue in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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