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Latest episodes

AI's Fluency Is Not Understanding | Elias Bareinboim S3E02 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

Send us Fan Mail This episode was created in collaboration with the UBC Causal AI Cluster: https://aicausal.ubc.ca/ Ask an image model what happens when you flip the switch on a desk lamp, and many will show it lit, even when the cable is…
Spaceflight Epidemiologist's Grand DAG | Robert Reynolds, PhD S3E01 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

September 28, 2026 · 55 min

Send us Fan Mail Join the UBC Causal AI Cluster launch event In-person & online on October 8, 2026 More on the event here How do you build a causal model when only a few hundred people in history have ever been your population? Robert…
Can You Trust It? (One Day, 140K Downloads) | Isaac Gerber S2E12 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

July 13, 2026 · 56 min

Send us Fan Mail How do you trust causal inference code that no human has read? On New Year's Day this year, Isaac Gerber was a little bored. A week later he had shipped diff-diff, a difference-in-differences library that has since…
Strait of Hormuz: Causal Models for Rare Events | Alexander Denev S2E11 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

June 1, 2026 · 43 min

Send us Fan Mail *How do you forecast an event that has never happened before?* How do you forecast an event that has never happened before? The recent closure and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz are unique events. For events like…
Causality, Experimentation, and Marketplaces | Lawrence De Geest S2E10

April 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Send us Fan Mail Causality, Experimentation, and Marketplaces Meet Lawrence de Geest (Zoox, ex-Lyft, ex-NBA), a former soccer player and an ex-NBA data scientist, who fell in love with marketplaces, despite the fact he hated math. In the…

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Do Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Exist? | Stephen Senn X Richard Hahn S2E9 | CausalBanditsPodcast

January 30, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Send us Fan Mail Do Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Exist? For the last 50 years, we've designed cars to be safe... For the 50th-percentile male. Well, that's actually not 100% correct. According to Stanford's report, we introduced…
Causal Inference & the "Bayesian-Frequentist War" | Richard Hahn S2E8 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

December 27, 2025 · 1 hr 24 min

Send us Fan Mail *What can we learn about causal inference from the “war” between Bayesians and frequentists?* What can we learn about causal inference from the “war” between Bayesians and frequentists? In the episode, we cover: - What…
The Causal Gap: Truly Responsible AI Needs to Understand the Consequences | Zhijing Jin S2E7

October 30, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

Send us Fan Mail The Causal Gap: Truly Responsible AI Needs to Understand the Consequences Why do LLMs systematically drive themselves to extinction, and what does it have to do with evolution, moral reasoning, and causality? In this…
Create Your Causal Inference Roadmap. Causal Inference, TMLE & Sensitivity | Mark van der Laan S2E6 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

September 22, 2025 · 1 hr 30 min

Send us Fan Mail Create Your Causal Inference Roadmap. Causal Inference, TMLE & Sensitivity If you're into causal inference and machine learning you probably heard about double machine learning (DML). DML is one of the most popular…
Causal Inference, Human Behavior, Science Crisis & The Power of Causal Graphs | Julia Rohrer S2E5 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

June 4, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min

Send us Fan Mail *Causal Inference From Human Behavior, Reproducibility Crisis & The Power of Causal Graphs* Is Jonathan Heidt right that social media causes the mental health crisis in young people? If so, how can we be sure? Can other…
MSFT Scientist: Agents, Causal AI & Future of DoWhy | Amit Sharma S2E4 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

April 14, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

Send us Fan Mail *Agents, Causal AI & The Future of DoWhy* The idea of agentic systems taking over more complex human tasks is compelling. New "production-grade" frameworks to build agentic systems pop up, suggesting that we're close to…
Causal Secrets of N=1 Experiments | Eric Daza S2E3 | CausalBanditsPodcast.com

March 31, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

Send us Fan Mail 📽️ FREE Online Course on Causality 📕 Causal Inference & Discovery in Python Causal Secrets of N=1 Experiments Join me for a one of a kind conversation on the opportunities and challenges of n-of-1 trials, Eric's…

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About the show

Causal Bandits Podcast with Alex Molak is here to help you learn about causality, causal AI and causal machine learning through the genius of others. The podcast focuses on causality from a number of different perspectives, finding common grounds between academia and industry, philosophy, theory and practice, and between different schools of thought, and traditions. Your host, Alex Molak is an a machine learning engineer, best-selling author, and an educator who decided to travel the world to record conversations with the most interesting minds in causality to share them with you.Enjoy and stay causal!Keywords: Causal AI, Causal Machine Learning, Causality, Causal Inference, Causal Discovery, Machine Learning, AI, Artificial Intelligence