A Decision Theoretic Perspective on Artificial Superintelligence: Coping with Missing Data Problems in Prediction and Treatment Choice (opens in new tab)

Enormous attention and resources are being devoted to the quest for artificial general intelligence and, even more ambitiously, artificial superintelligence. We wonder about the implications for methodological research that aims to help decision makers cope with what econometricians call identification problems, inferential problems in empirical research that do not diminish as sample size grows. Of particular concern are missing data proble...