Tweets by Judea Pearl

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Causal Inference that’s not A/B Testing: Theory & Practical Guide

WRITTEN BY Eva Gong Undoubtedly, randomized experimentation (assuming it is conducted properly) is the most straightforward way to establish causality (refer to my previous article on a collection of A/B testing learning resources!). However, practically...

Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms

Abstract We show how experimental results can be generalized across diverse populations by leveraging knowledge of mechanisms that produce the outcome of interest. We use Structural Causal Models (SCM) and a refined version of selection diagrams to...

AIWS Roundtable: Solutions to Reopen for Democratic Countries

Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am (EST), April 22, 2020 Speaker: Alex Pentland, Faculty Founding Director, the MIT Connection Science Co-founder of the AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net) and the Social Contract 2020 The Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,...

The History of AI (HAI) at AIWS.net, Michael Dukakis Institute is the first historical site in AI

Mission: Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 10, 2020 at UCLA: “study history to avoid mistakes from the past, learn great lessons from history for today and tomorrow”. The mission of HAI is to do so, in addition to shaping a better future and...

The History of AI (HAI) at AIWS.net, Michael Dukakis Institute is the first historical site in AI

  Boston, 04/15/2020 Mission: Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 10, 2020 at UCLA: “study history to avoid mistakes from the past, learn great lessons from history for today and tomorrow”. The mission of HAI is to do so, in addition to...

Announcement

The History of AI” will be announced on May 5, 2020, at the Online AIWS Roundtable the Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Age, which is organized by Boston Global Forum and World Leadership...

Discussion from the AIWS Roundtable: Transparency is not a luxury

The world’s current growing pandemic of the Wuhan virus amplifies the paramount and ultimate goal of our AI initiative.  Our vision is to establish a universal AI value system ensuring that AI technology advancement would make lives better and not...

A solution to reopen in democratic countries

Boston, April 18, 2020 The economic devastation caused by the coronavirus has been swift. Tens of millions of jobs lost; retail sales have collapsed; and industrial production has fallen precipitously. But even as the government remains focused on containing...