21st Century Engineering by Anirudh Dhebar
July 2026
Modeling how the world really works
This topic is motivated by a March 16 piece in The Financial
Times, “AI Models Need to Understand Cause and Effect,”
with the subhead “They should be able to map how reality
works, not just how it looks” – “they” being AI models.
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