Why is it so Hard to Understand AI?

David Jensen is Professor of Computer Science in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on machine learning, causal modeling, and research methods in computer science. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, an interdisciplinary effort to study social phenomena using computational tools and concepts. From 1991 to 1995, he served as an analyst with the Office of Technology Assessment, an agency of the United States Congress. He currently serves as the vice-chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council, the research visioning arm of the Computing Research Association. He has received two college-wide outstanding teaching awards at UMass, and he has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in machine learning and AI.