no code implementations • 27 Apr 2022 • Jonathan G. Richens, Rory Beard, Daniel H. Thompson
To act safely and ethically in the real world, agents must be able to reason about harm and avoid harmful actions.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2019 • Ciarán M. Lee, Christopher Hart, Jonathan G. Richens, Saurabh Johri
Here, we devise a general heuristic which takes a causal discovery algorithm that can only distinguish purely directed causal relations and modifies it to also detect latent common causes.
1 code implementation • pproximateinference AABI Symposium 2019 • Yura Perov, Logan Graham, Kostis Gourgoulias, Jonathan G. Richens, Ciarán M. Lee, Adam Baker, Saurabh Johri
We elaborate on using importance sampling for causal reasoning, in particular for counterfactual inference.
1 code implementation • 15 Oct 2019 • Jonathan G. Richens, Ciaran M. Lee, Saurabh Johri
We show that this approach is closer to the diagnostic reasoning of clinicians and significantly improves the accuracy and safety of the resulting diagnoses.