Should explainability be a fifth ethical principle in AI ethics?

It has been recently claimed that explainability should be added as a fifth principle to AI ethics, supplementing the four principles are usually accepted in Bioethics: Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence and Justice. We propose here with regard AI, on one hand is indeed new dimension of ethical concern paid attention to, while other hand, itself not necessarily considered an “principle”. think rather (i) epistemic requirement for taking into account principles, but itself; (ii) demand can derived from principles. do agree key Ethics, practical importance stakeholders take account; we argue it principle, maintain philosophical consistency organization