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"Society will need to shed some of its obsession for causality in exchange for simple correlations: not knowing why but only what."

Kenneth Cukier is deputy executive editor and the host of the hugely popular weekly podcast , Babbage. He is the coauthor of the New York Times Bestselling book “Big Data” with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. In 2016 he was elected as a trustee of Chatham House, a British international affairs institute. In 2017 he was named an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Said Business School, where he speaks about artificial intellingence and buissness.An internationally respected journalist, Kenneth was the technology editor of the Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune and Foreign Affairs.

‘One of the world’s most respected data experts’ - The LSE

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