Judea Pearl Announces Second Edition of The Book of Why, Due October 20
yudapearl · x · 2026-10-04
Judea Pearl confirmed that The Book of Why, co-authored with Dana Mackenzie, will get a second edition arriving October 20th, continuing to spread the ideas of Causal AI.
Context: Pearl's Google Scholar citations have surpassed 150,000, and the book itself has over 6,500 citations. The Turing Award winner is a founding figure of Bayesian networks and causal inference, long arguing that moving from correlation to causation is essential for AI's progress.
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