When thinking about causal inference, mechanistic or process models are important. I think that the association of “causal” with black-box models leads to lots of problems.

Columbia University computer science professor Elias Bareinboim points to a new textbook he’s been developing, Causal Artificial Intelligence. He also points to a recent paper with Drago Plecko, On the Structural Basis of Conditional Ignorability, that revisits the connection between … Continue reading → …