The Book of Why’s second edition is scheduled for September 20, 2026
Judea Pearl says the update will include reader-suggested corrections, recent breakthroughs in causal inference, and discussions of large language models and “world models.”
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Judea Pearl announced on September 17 that The Book of Why’s second edition is scheduled for September 20, 2026. He says it will cover causal-inference breakthroughs involving missing data and personalized medicine, alongside discussions of large language models and world models.
Pearl also argues that causal inference may hold the key to controlling artificial general intelligence. He shared a Geoffrey Hinton interview, describing it as exploring the virtues of maternal instincts if they could be programmed into AI. CNN’s headline says Hinton argues that an AI “kill switch” would not work in the long run.
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