AI-ML for Decision and Risk Analysis

Louis Anthony Cox Jr. is a Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Colorado, USA; Chief Digital Intelligence Officer at Entanglement, Inc.; and President of Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research company specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning; health, safety, and environmental risk analysis; epidemiology; policy analytics; data science; and operations research. Dr. Cox is Editor-in-Chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). He has authored and co-authored over 200 journal articles and numerous books and chapters in these fields. He holds over a dozen US patents on applications of artificial intelligence, signal processing, statistics, and operations research in telecommunications. His current research interestsinclude computational statistical methods for causal inference in public health risk analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics for risk management, business, and public policy applications.

• Part I.  Received Wisdom.- 1.Rational Decision and Risk Analysis and Irrational Human Behavior.- 2.Data Analytics and Modeling for Improving Decisions .- 3.Natural, Artificial, and Social Intelligence for Decision-Making.- Part 2: Fundamental Challenges for Practical Decision Theory.- 4.Answerable and Unanswerable Questions in Decision and Risk Analysis.- 5.Decision Theory.- 6.Learning Aversion in Benefit-Cost Analysis with Uncertainty.- Part 3: Ways forward 7.Addressing Wicked Problems and Deep Uncertainties in Risk Analysis.- 8.Muddling Through and Deep Learning for Bureaucratic Decision-Making.- 9.Causally Explainable Decision Recommendations using Causal Artificial Intelligence.- Part 4:  Public Health Applications.- 10. Re-Assessing Human Mortality Risks Attributed to Agricultural Air Pollution: Insights from Causal Artificial Intelligence.- 11.Toward more Practical Causal Epidemiology and Health Risk Assessment Using Causal Artificial Intelligence.- 12. Clarifyingthe Meaning of Exposure-Response Curves with Causal AI.- 13. Pushing Back on AI: A Dialogue with ChatGPT.- Index.