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For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027025.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of human cloning. If replicated...

12.9 AGI Ethics As Related to Various Future Scenarios 235
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013151.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nes in that in both cases an AGI’s progression from standard intelligence happens on a time scale which permits ongoing human interaction during the ascent. However, in this case, as there is no predetermined limit on intelligence, it is necessary to account for the possibility o...

17.3 Conclusion 315
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013231.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…a roadmap does not give a highly rigorous, objective way of assessing the percentage of progress toward the end-goal of human-level AGI. However, it gives a much better sense of progress than one would have otherwise. For instance, if an AGI system performed well on diverse metri...

explain a puzzle in our lives or to help us through trauma. These stories are narratives that provid
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012832.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ding justifications for what we can’t explain or wish to explain in a different way. This is an adaptive feature of the human mind, one that is uniquely human. But this same feature can be used to justify immoral and atrocious behaviors, the kind that lead to excessive harms. Whe...

174 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013090.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

174 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World The Second Brain . The gastrointestinal neural net contains millions of neurons and is capable of operating inde- pendently of the brain. It modulates stress response and other aspects of emotion and motivation based on exp...

xii Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015686.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…inistic. This book lays out the options — the chinks — that would allow free will to enter our Universe. To understand human thinking we would really like to look inside a working human brain. We can’t do this yet. All we can do is observe minds at work when they communicate wit...

30 2 What Is Human-Like General Intelligence?
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012946.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

30 2 What Is Human-Like General Intelligence? between the learning components associated with different kinds of memory, and hence are un- likely to give rise to the emergent structures and dynamics characterizing general intelligence. One of the central ideas underlying CogPrim...

210 12 The Engineering and Development of Ethics
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013126.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ing and Development of Ethics We realize this point may be somewhat contentious — a counter-argument would be that the human brain is known to support at least moderately ethical behavior, according to human ethical standards, whereas less brain-like AGI systems are much less we...

In the past decade, genetic engineering has caught up with computer science with regard
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016968.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…orge created and is director of the Personal Genome Project, which provides the world’s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data (GET) and sparked the growing DNA ancestry industry. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for President Ob...

Computers, as a Tool for Creativity, Can’t Replace the Artist
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016367.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… is distinctively different from machine learning, because at each decision there’s this core feeling that comes from a human being, which has to do with empathy, which has to do with communication, which has to do with questions about our own mortality that only a human could as...

A Patternist Philosophy of Mind
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012951.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Chapter 3 A Patternist Philosophy of Mind 3.1 Introduction In the last chapter we discussed human intelligence from a fairly down-to-earth perspective, looking at the particular intelligent functions that human beings carry out in their everyday lives. And we strongly feel this...

A further parallel between chimpanzees and small scale human societies comes from analyses of
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012789.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

A further parallel between chimpanzees and small scale human societies comes from analyses of two extreme warring societies, the Waorani of New Zealand and the Yanomamo of Venezuela. Though violence accounts for between 40-55% of all deaths in these two groups, attackers appeared...

Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016372.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ten about both those possibilities. But the most sophisticated Als are still far from being able to solve problems that human four-year- olds accomplish with ease. In spite of the impressive name, artificial intelligence largely consists of techniques to detect statistical patter...

does.” Parreno’s piece is an intuitive assembly of our experience of “life” through
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016399.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…, perspectival engagement. Our consciousness is electrically (cybernetically) enmeshed, yet we don’t respond as if this human-generated set of elegant simulations had its own intelligence. The artistic use of cybernetic beings also reminds us that consciousness itself is not jus...