Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms

In a recent post (and papers), Anders Huitfeldt and co-authors have discussed ways of achieving external validity in the presence of “effect heterogeneity.” These results are not immediately inferable using a standard (non-parametric) selection...

Fréchet Inequalities – Visualization, Applications, and History

Scott Mueller and Judea Pearl This post introduces readers to Fréchet inequalities using modern visualization techniques and discusses their applications and their fascinating history. Table of Contents Introduction Plots Examples Example 1 Example...

Which Patients are in Greater Need: A counterfactual analysis with reflections on COVID-19

Scott Mueller and Judea Pearl With COVID-19 among us, our thoughts naturally lead to people in greatest need of treatment (or test) and the scarcity of hospital beds and equipment necessary to treat those people. What does “in greatest need” mean?...

Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19

This past week, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has organized a virtual conference on AI and COVID-19, a video of which is now available. Being unable to attend the conference, I have asked the organizers to share...

Causal, Casual, and Curious (2013-2020): A collage in the art of causal reasoning

Journal of Causal Inference by Judea Pearl Introduction This collection of 14 short articles represents adventurous ideas and semi-heretical thoughts that emerged when, in 2013, I was given the opportunity to edit a fun section of the Journal of Causal...

Dukakis: Global accord needed on use of AI by governments

By BOB SALSBERG, August 9, 2018 BOSTON (AP) — Is self-driving government in the future? Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and erstwhile presidential candidate, doesn’t think so. But he’s jumping into the debate over artificial...

Introduction for the Section “Modern Causal Inference” on AIWS.net

In “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”, Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, wrote: “The ideal technology that causal inference strives to emulate is in our own mind. All because we asked a simple question: “Why?” Causal...

Artificial Intelligence with Python: Your Complete Guide to Building Intelligent Apps Using Python 3.x and TensorFlow 2

New edition of the bestselling guide to artificial intelligence with Python, updated to Python 3.x and TensorFlow 2, with seven new chapters that cover RNNs, AI & Big Data, fundamental use cases, chatbots, and more. Key Features Completely updated...

AIWS.net Hosts the Policy Discussion on Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in Ai Age

An online preliminary policy discussion about the Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Age will be held under the AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net) from April 28, 2020. A face-to-face...