Modelling Intentions in Structural Causal Models via Intentional Interventions
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In this talk we consider the problem of how we could express and capture intentions in structural causal models. We state desiderata for modelling the intentional behaviour of agents, we review limitations of previous approaches, and then introduce intentional interventions, a new time-agnostic operator that induces a twin SCM we call a final model. We illustrate the use of final models to perform simple teleological reasoning aimed at discovering the presence of intentional agents acting on a system or inferring their aims.