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Causality research appears sidelined at major AI conference

A Reddit user noted the absence of any workshops dedicated to causality at the 73-workshop Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). The user expressed concern that the field of causal inference may be losing traction, with its focus seemingly shifting to LLMs and agents, and suggested that interest in causality is now primarily confined to specialized conferences like UAI, AISTATS, and CLeaR. AI

IMPACT Suggests a potential shift in research focus within the AI community away from causality towards LLMs and agents.

RANK_REASON User opinion piece on a conference's workshop selection.

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Causality research appears sidelined at major AI conference

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Beautiful_Baker_2233 ·

    73 NeurIPS workshops, and not a single one on Causality [R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Is this it for Causal Inference? Looks like the field continues to be of interest only at UAI/AISTATS/CLeaR. All good venues, but LLMs/Agents/etc seem to have eaten much of the lunch of several other subfields at the top 3 conferences.</p> <p>God…