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Type: Essay / scientific article / house oversight committee evidence
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This document is page 18 of a production labeled 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016821', featuring an essay titled 'Wrong, But More Relevant Than Ever' by MIT professor Seth Lloyd. The text analyzes Norbert Wiener's 1950 book 'The Human Use of Human Beings,' discussing cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and the societal impacts of automation. Seth Lloyd is a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, and this document likely appears in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Epstein's funding of scientific research and ties to academia.

People (3)

Name Role Context
Seth Lloyd Author / MIT Professor
Author of the essay; identified as theoretical physicist at MIT and external professor at Santa Fe Institute. Lloyd i...
Norbert Wiener Subject
Author of 'The Human Use of Human Beings' and 'Cybernetics'; the essay analyzes his work.
James Watt Historical Figure
Mentioned in relation to the steam engine governor.

Organizations (4)

Name Type Context
MIT
Seth Lloyd's employer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department within MIT where Lloyd is a professor
Santa Fe Institute
Organization where Lloyd is an external professor
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016821'

Timeline (3 events)

1948
Publication of the book 'Cybernetics'
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1950
Publication of 'The Human Use of Human Beings'
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2000-2001
Dotcom crash
Global

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Seth Lloyd Academic/Analytical Norbert Wiener
Lloyd is writing an analysis of Wiener's historical works.

Key Quotes (3)

"It is a remarkably prescient book, and remarkably wrong."
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"Wiener foresaw a moment in the near future of 1950 in which humans would cede control of society to a cybernetic artificial intelligence, which would then proceed to wreak havoc on humankind."
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"Unless society could find productive occupations for these displaced workers, Wiener warned, revolt would ensue."
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