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The Illusion of Understanding: Why 'Explainable AI' Can Be Dangerously Misleading
Your company just invested in a state-of-the-art AI system. You were promised transparency. You were promised "Explainable AI." When the...

Maria Alice Maia
Jul 212 min read


Causal ML Unpacked: Your Questions on Bringing Rigor to AI
Your ML model is telling you a beautiful story. The problem? It's probably fiction. You have a model that predicts customer churn with...

Maria Alice Maia
Jul 72 min read


The Ethics of a 'Nudge': A Framework for Applying Behavioral Science in AI
That last-minute travel insurance you added to your flight booking, or the premium subscription you activated during a free trial—did you...

Maria Alice Maia
Jun 93 min read


Beyond the Buzzword: A Practical Look at 'Human-in-the-Loop' Governance
"Human-in-the-loop" (HITL) has become the most overused—and misunderstood—phrase in AI governance. It’s waved around like a magic wand to...

Maria Alice Maia
May 263 min read


The 'Algorithmic Nudge': Can AI Personalize Public Services Without Perpetuating Inequality?
The promise of AI in government is no longer a futuristic abstraction; it is a present-day reality. We are on the cusp of deploying the...

Maria Alice Maia
Apr 284 min read


What I Learned About Bias in People Analytics (And Why Governments Should Pay Attention)
More than a decade ago, when I was tasked with a Green Belt project at Ambev to build a predictive hiring model, the goal seemed clear...

Maria Alice Maia
Apr 214 min read


A New Touchpoint and Next Steps for our Data Science Insights
Nine months ago, I started this project with a simple, urgent mission: to fix how we use data in business. We began with a deep dive into...

Maria Alice Maia
Apr 72 min read


New Method: Machine Learning Methods for Causal Inference (General Overview)
Your marketing ML model is brilliant at predicting who will buy. But does it actually know why?
There’s a dangerous gap between prediction and causation, and many companies are falling into it, armed with the most advanced machine learning tools. They're using a Ferrari to drive straight into a wall.
This is one of the most insidious forms of “Doing Data Wrong”: using powerful predictive models to make causal decisions, like where to allocate your marketing budget.

Maria Alice Maia
Aug 5, 20243 min read
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