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enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016837.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…es the possibility that our minds are composed of subsystems with incompatible preferences; if true, that would limit a machine’s ability to optimally satisfy our preferences, but it doesn’t seem to prevent us from designing machines that avoid catastrophic outcomes.) The formal...

Turing’s Machine 213
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015903.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Turing’s Machine 213 Thanks to Turing’s insight into coding schemes and the machines he designed, the British were soon able to read almost every coded message the Germans sent during the war, giving the Allies an enormous advantage. The D-Day invasion involved convincing Hitler...

Western Union, which has the telegraph monopoly in America, to provide the Black Chamber
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020307.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…lin D. Roosevelt reactivated the operation as the Signals Security Agency. It proved its value in breaking the Japanese machine-generated cipher “purple.” In June 1942, using deciphered Japanese messages to pinpoint the location of the Japanese fleet at Midway; America’s won a de...

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)

…on to the preceding result. Rose said, of her own artistic decision making: It, to me, 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 communica...

literally smarter on every level, and because the abilities of the higher levels depend on those of
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025964.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… (In individuals of the same group, slower development often indicates defects, of course.) Another support comes from machine learning: we find that the same learning functions can learn visual and auditory pattern recognition, and even end-to-end-learning. Google has built aut...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016404.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016987.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

Computers, as a Tool for Creativity, Can’t Replace the Artist
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016950.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…on to the preceding result. Rose said, of her own artistic decision making: It, to me, 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 communica...

Sneak home and pray you'll never know
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018386.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…als who led Europe’s armies. The Great War was going to bea charnel house. The continent had built itself into a battle machine, wired by trains and telegraphs and armies. There was no reverse gear. There was not even a switch to slow it down, let alone turn it off. A massive, te...

superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016344.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s in their competition with the other superintelligences. Or we might simply be irrelevant. It is not impossible that a machine intelligence has already emerged and we simply do not recognize it as such. It may not wish to be noticed, or it may be so alien to us that we are incap...

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016254.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…es the possibility that our minds are composed of subsystems with incompatible preferences; if true, that would limit a machine’s ability to optimally satisfy our preferences, but it doesn’t seem to prevent us from designing machines that avoid catastrophic outcomes.) The formal...

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016912.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…determining role in social dynamics. Those loops would not only connect people with one another but connect people with machines, and—crucially—machines with machines. Wiener glimpsed a world in which information could be separated from its medium. People, or machines, could com...

Acknowledgements 379
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016069.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…gsberg’s Bridges Peano Portrait Beer Mug, Table and Chair Einstein and Gédel Chapter 10 Alan Turing Portrait Enigma Machine Can you decode this? Correct the code Lego Turing Machine Old Fashioned Relay Mechanism 3D Printing Machine Block Print from ‘No Silver Bullet Cha...

Alex “Sandy” Pentland
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016938.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…iplines is now framed as feedback systems that are dynamic and driven by energy flows. Even AI is being recast as human/machine “advisor” systems, and the military is beginning large-scale funding in this area—something that should perhaps worry us more than drones and independen...