📧 Communication

This document is a narrative excerpt (page 55 of a larger House Oversight file) describing a meeting in the 1980s between the author and physicist Frank Wilczek at Wilczek's home in Princeton (formerly Albert Einstein's home). The text focuses on Wilczek's views on Artificial Intelligence (AI), quoting three specific 'observations' regarding consciousness as a property of matter, AI as a product of human culture, and the role of incentives in driving behavior. It concludes with a reflection on the necessity of AI for the future of human expansion.