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CAUSAL INFERENCE SUMMER SHORT COURSE AT HARVARD

19 Mar, 2019

We are informed of the following short course  at Harvard. Readers of this blog will probably wonder what this Harvard-specific jargon is all about, and whether it has a straightforward translation into Structural Causal Models. It has! And one of...

On Imbens’s Comparison of Two Approaches to Empirical Economics

29 Jan, 2020

Many readers have asked for my reaction to Guido Imbens’s recent paper, titled, “Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics,” arXiv.19071v1 [stat.ME] 16 Jul 2019. The note...

Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19

04 Apr, 2020

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...

Dukakis: Global accord needed on use of AI by governments

13 Apr, 2020

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...