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Introduction: On the Promise and Peril of AI
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016809.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Promise and Peril of AI by John Brockman Seth Lloyd: Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever It is exactly in the extension of the cybernetic idea to human beings that Wiener’s conceptions missed their target. Judea Pearl: The...

only until it runs out of fuel. Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016825.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

only until it runs out of fuel. Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are starting to run into limits imposed by basic physics. The clock speed of computers maxed out at a few gigahertz a decade and a half ago, simply because the chips were starting to melt. The mini...

from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016978.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices and gener...