Causal Inference Without Counterfactuals: Comment

Judea Pearl 1. BACKGROUND The field of statistics has seen many well-meaning crusades against threats from metaphysics and other heresy. In its founding prospectus of 1834, the Royal Statistical Society resolved “to exclude carefully all Opinions...

Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality

A. Philip Dawid We develop a mathematical and interpretative foundation for the enterprise of decision-theoretic statistical causality (DT), which is a straightforward way of representing and addressing causal questions. DT reframes causal inference as...

The History of Artificial Intelligence: looking back at history to shape the future

Nguyen Anh Tuan The Social Contract 2020 sets the foundation for a new historical chapter: the emergence of AI societies. Governor Michael Dukakis stressed the importance of studying history to prevent past mistakes from repeating in the present and...

The History of AI (HAI) at AIWS.net, the first historical site in Artificial Intelligence

On May 5, 2020, the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation will officially launch the History of Artificial Intelligence project. Topics for the History of Artificial Intelligence Project: Historical events, achievements, and figures...

Vietnam’s breakthrough strategy for AI economy

Jason Furman, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Michael Dukakis, Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig July 18, 2018  Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc aspires to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build a prosperous Vietnam. The AI initiative would...

Journal of Causal Inference

Your benefits Interdisciplinary approach Quantitative methodology Outstanding editorial board One of leading journals in causal inference Open access publication Objective Journal of Causal Inference (JCI) is a fully peer-reviewed, open...

AIWS Summit 2020: Speech by Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament

 AIWS Summit 2020: Speech by Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament April 28, 2020 Anf. Andreas Norlén, AI World Society Summit 2020, the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid ———————– Governor...

AIWS Summit 2020: The Social Contract 2020 and starting the History of AI project at AIWS.net

Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, every event has to be done online, and so will be AIWS 2020. AIWS 2020 will be from April 28, 2020 to June 6, 2020, starting with a speech by the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Andreas Norlén, on April 28, 2020. Distinguished...

Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense

Yixin Zhu, Tao Gao, Lifeng Fan, Siyuan Huang, Mark Edmonds, Hangxin Liu, Feng Gao, Chi Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Ying Nian Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Song-Chun Zhu Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”...