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ExTraSafe 2026
Explainability, Transparency, and Safety 2026

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Explainability, Transparency, and Safety
co-located with 49th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( KI2026 )

Bremen, Germany, August 11, 2026 .

Edited by

Benjamin Paaßen ¹
Vera Schmitt ²
Thomas Kosch ³
Julius Schöning ⁴
Hanna Drimalla ¹
Florian Rabe ⁵
Tim Schrills ⁶
Daniel Neider ⁷
Peter Fettke ⁸

¹ Bielefeld University , Faculty of Technology, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany
² Technical University of Berlin , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 10587 Berlin, Germany
³ Humboldt-University of Berlin , Department of Computer Science, 12489 Berlin, Germany
⁴ Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
⁵ University Erlangen Nuremberg , Technical Faculty, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
⁶ University of Lübeck , Institute of Human-Centered Interactive Systems, 23562 Lübeck, Germany
⁷ TU Dortmund University , Department of Computer Science, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
⁸ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University , Institute for Information Systems, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Table of Contents

Preface
Summary: There were 14 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume.

Session 1: Compliance, ethical aspects, and regulation

Technical, Organizational and Ethical Aspects of Integrating Enterprise Large Language Models into Existing Information Systems Infrastructure 1-8
Lara Kuhlmann , Alexander van der Staay , Maximilian Nebel , Annika Zemke , Christian Janiesch , Michael Henke
From Plausible to Verifiable: Hybrid Data as a Reference Standard for Explainable and Compliant AI 9-18
Julius Schöning , Paul Wachter

Session 2: Robustness and Trust

Robustness Verification of Traffic Sign Recognition: Practical Feasibility from a Safety Perspective 19-31
Marvin Schneider , Jörn Schneider , Holger Voos , Jürgen Kaiser
LLM Inconsistency under Paraphrase Attacks 32-48
Jiaao Li , Matthis Großkreutz , Tobias Peters , Ingrid Scharlau , Benjamin Paaßen

Session 3: Explainability

A New Paradigm for the Empirical Evaluation of the Understandability of LIME Visualizations 49-58
Marc Halbrügge
The Conversational Core Job as a Local Context in Game Explanations 59-70
Vivien Lohmer , Josephine B. Fisher

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