MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI Generated Explanations (Workshop)

Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. This half-day MIRAGE workshop at IUI 2026 confronts the Explainability Pitfalls and Dark Patterns embedded in AI-generated explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We convene an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to define, detect, and defuse these hazards. By shifting the focus from making explanations to making explanations safe, MIRAGE propels the community toward an accountable, human-centered AI future.