The Artificial Intelligence Chronicle – Open to feedback

The History of AI, a part of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, starts post content of the AI Chronicle on AI World Society Network (AIWS.net). This content is the AI Chronicle – Open to Feedback: we encourage to receive comments,...

Professor Judea Pearl’s tweets

Glad you asked. I have been in this business for 3 decades and have not found anything clearer, more rigorous or friendlier than Chapter 4 of Primer. Here is a free link https://t.co/Sf5yw328zl. Enjoy, and don't let the mystics tell you counterfacuals...

Efficient Intervention Design for Causal Discovery with Latents

Raghavendra Addanki, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Andrew McGregor, Cameron Musco Professor Judea Pearl wrote:”An interesting paper on causal discovery using both observations and interventions. The problem is to recover a causal graph while...

Plenary 2: The Mathematics of Causal Inference: with Reflections on Machine Learning

Professor Judea Pearl wrote:In my Microsoft lecture here, I talked about statistics as the “calculus of shadows” and causality as a 3D calculus. I can think of several 4D’s and 5D’s, like object-based and agent-based calculi. But...

What Statisticians Want to Know about Causal Inference and The Book of Why

I was privileged to be interviewed recently by David Hand, Professor of Statistics at Imperial College, London, and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society. I would like to share this interview with readers of this blog since many of the questions...

Former Prime MInister of Finland discussed the Social Contract 2020, a New Social Contract in the Age of AI

On May 12, 2020 at the online AIWS Roundtable, co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF), Former Prime Minister of Finland Esko Aho discussed the Social Contract 2020, a New Social Contract in...

Causal Thinking in the Twilight Zone

Judea Pearl University of California, Los Angeles Computer Science Department Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1596, USA (310) 825-3243 / [email protected] To students of causality, the writings of William Cochran provide an excellent and intriguing vantage...

A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Framework For Social Contract 2020

Version 1.0, 05/05/2020 Nazli Choucri, Michael Dukakis, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Thomas Patterson, Alex Pentland, Nghia Trong Pham, David Silbersweig   I.            A  New Social Contract in the age of Artificial Intelligence The term “artificial...

BAYESIANISM AND CAUSALITY, OR, WHY I AM ONLY A HALF-BAYESIAN

In D. Corfield and J. Williamson (Eds.) Foundations of Bayesianism, Kluwer Applied Logic Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers,Vol. 24, 19-36, 2001. TECHNICAL REPORT R-284 July 2001   JUDEA PEARL   1 INTRODUCTION I turned Bayesian in 1971, as soon...