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Flash Card: LLM Explainability Is Traceability

July 27, 2026 · 1 min read

Generative AI Development · part of The Exam Room

Q. Someone asks you to explain a RAG answer. What is the realistic form of FM explainability?

A. Traceability: citations back to the source passages that grounded the answer (Bedrock Knowledge Bases RetrieveAndGenerate returns them), plus documented behaviour. It is not SHAP-style per-feature attribution.

Why? Do not promise feature attribution on an LLM; explainability here is grounding and documentation.

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