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advances have begun to alter the climate and
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021355.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Pa at Q »e | 109 ¢ advances have begun to alter the climate and thereby blurred the boundary between the human and the natural in another way. See for examples of this phenomenon, Bill McKibben, The End of Nature (New York: Random House, 1989). "Nicholas Epley, Adam Waytz, a...

actually exists, or may not see it at all
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021341.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…dy surpassed that of our nearest primate relatives, and over the next two years they pick up what appear to be uniquely human mind-reading capacities. By age five, children demonstrate the most sophisticated of mind-reading abilities—the capacity to recognize that others’ beliefs...

acknowledge that loneliness is not
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021382.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 137-73. 10. 11. 12. Page | 136 Cacioppo JT, Patrick W. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Bunyan J. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Grand Rapids, MI: Ba...

ESil Origins - ‘February 24 ~ 26, 2017
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011292.txt Feb 28, 2016 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ial Intelligence: Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY systems. Effective meaningful human control faces challenges with the interpretation and fusion of sensor signals and the understanding of humans of Al pattern recognition and inference. DI...

In the 1980s, Judea Pearl introduced a new approach to artificial intelligence called
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016244.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…l limitations of deep-learning systems and points out that basic barriers exist that will prevent them from achieving a human kind of intelligence, no matter what we do. Leveraging the computational benefits of Bayesian networks, Judea realized that the combination of simple grap...

Anxiety, Substance Abuse, many sleep disorders such as Nightmare Disorder, etc., in addition to PTSD
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025107.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…at going unconscious during sleep does not, at first glance, seem especially adaptive). Studies of sleep in various non-human animals reveals a direct relationship between longer periods of NREM (Slow-Wave) Sleep and a stronger immune system, especially in fighting parasites. NRE...

(3) Investments in AI should be accompanied by funding for research on ensuring
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016287.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ant it becomes to align their goals with ours. As long as we build relatively dumb machines, the question isn’t whether human goals will prevail but merely how much trouble the machines can cause before we solve the goal-alignment problem. If a superintelligence 1s ever unleashed...

Co-authored with Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013205.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…is phenomenon, the "trickiness" of cognitive synergy. [LW MLO09], summarizing a workshop on “Evaluation and Metrics for Human-Level AT’ held in 2008, discusses some of the general difficulties involved in this type of assessment, and some requirements that any viable approach mus...

18.4 SelfModification via Theorem-Proving 323
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013239.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… inputs, and making appropriate independence assumptions. These are not exactly the types of theorems that are found in human-authored mathematics papers. By and large they will be nasty, complex theorems, not the sort that many human mathematicians enjoy proving or reading. But...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019258.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e to bring down gov- ernments through the financing of opposition groups and economic sanctions “under the pre- text of human rights protection and the neces- sity to form civil society institutions.”? Russian officials in 2015 warned that Electric Yerevan, an Armenian protest mo...

Entitlement Spending: While Beneficiaries From Aging Population
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020885.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…iple enrollees in Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid. Source: Social Security K P Administration, Dept. of Health & Human Services. (@)E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 87 Entitlement Spending: Entitlement Program + Government Employee Beneficiaries Are N...