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This document appears to be a page from a book or report produced for the House Oversight Committee (Bates stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016354). It profiles Alex "Sandy" Pentland and his views on "social physics," Big Data, and the predictability of human socioeconomic systems. The text references a specific group meeting attended by Pentland in Washington, Connecticut.

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Name Role Context
Alex "Sandy" Pentland Subject / Researcher
Exponent of "social physics," discussed Big Data and human-AI ecologies at a group meeting.
Norbert Wiener Author / Influence
Author whose work on feedback Pentland cited as influential.

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Group meeting where Pentland discussed Norbert Wiener and feedback.
Washington, Connecticut
Alex Pentland Narrator/Author (implied)

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Alex Pentland Intellectual Influence Norbert Wiener
Pentland stated reading Wiener 'felt like reading my own thoughts.'

Key Quotes (4)

"The ability to see the details of the market, of political revolutions, and to be able to predict and control them is definitely a case of Promethean fire—it could be used for good or for ill."
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"reading Norbert Wiener on the concept of feedback 'felt like reading my own thoughts.'"
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"The fact that everything is datafied means you can measure things in real time in most aspects of human life"
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"you can build predictive models of human systems in ways you could never do before."
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