Judea Pearl: Causality citations grow exponentially while his 1988 classic plateaus
yudapearl · x · 2026-10-30
Judea Pearl shared Google Scholar data showing his 1988 book "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" still draws a steady 1,000 citations per year (36,000+ total), while "Causality" citations keep growing exponentially. He asks whether this signals where AI is heading, tagging Bareinboim, Gary Marcus, and others.
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