Dharmateja Priyadaeshi Uddandarao: Your AI Predicts. It Can’t Explain Why. | Ep 1336

The Digital Executive · Oct 21, 2026 · 25m

In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Dharmateja Uddandarao, Senior Data Scientist and Statistician at Amazon, to make a distinction that most business leaders have never fully grasped — and that costs organizations millions of dollars in misattributed decisions every year. Dharmateja opens by tracing how causality became the through line of his career not by design, but by repeatedly hitting the same wall: a beautiful, high-accuracy model would ship a recommendation, a leader would ask whether the product actually caused the outcome or whether it…