The Caucus for Women in Statistics will host the International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science October 10 to celebrate female statisticians and data scientists around the world.

Will Eagan’s ASA story is far from complete, but he’s so far earned his GStat, won a scholarship, and founded a student chapter.

In the first half of 2023, the machine learning programs ChatGPT and GPT-4 changed the landscape of artificial intelligence research seemingly overnight. Judea Pearl’s research bridges the subjects of statistics and artificial intelligence and highlights the importance of causality in both settings. Dana Mackenzie, Pearl’s co-author for The Book of Why, interviews him here to get his take on recent developments. When they wrote their book in 2018, Pearl contended machine learning had not yet moved past the first rung of the “ladder of causation.” Computers could not correctly answer queries about interventions and still less about counterfactual scenarios. Has his assessment changed?

The Math Alliance is a national mentoring community focusing on increasing traditionally excluded American minorities in the quantitative sciences professions.

Nathen Huang looks at the potential use of AI in the federal government—how it can help but also its possible limitations.