Edison Jakurti
Lecturer in Economics at Abilene Christian University
Edison Jakurti is a Lecturer in Economics at Abilene Christian University. He completed his PhD in Economics at Leipzig University, his Master of International Development Policy at Duke University, and his Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Economics and Statistics, at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
15:15 - 15:45
25 OCT - SAT TALKS
From Correlation to Causation: Why It Matters for AI
This talk explains how researchers move beyond misleading correlations to uncover true cause-and-effect, drawing on striking examples and showing how causal inference techniques can also help large language models—and artificial intelligence more broadly—become more reliable and insightful.