Judea Pearl is The Chancellor’s Professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2011. His latest book "Coexistence and Other Fighting Words – Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002-2025" was released on December 10, 2025.

Topics covered include causality (causal inferencing), heuristics, artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics, operations research, optimization, Alan Turing, Daniel Pearl, purpose and meaning in life, and regret. Judea's website: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html Note: Apologies for the low audio stemming from m

Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that's generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics. He has developed and championed probabilistic approaches to AI, including Bayesian

Sam Harris speaks with Judea Pearl about his work on the mathematics of causality and artificial intelligence. They discuss how science has generally failed to understand causation, different levels of causal inference, counterfactuals, the foundations of knowledge, the nature of possibility, the illusion of free will,

UCLA Professor and renowned scholar on Artificial Intelligence Judea Pearl weighs in on the struggle to defend Israel and his mission to honor his son Daniel's memory.    Follow David Suissa on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.