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This document is page 11 of a House Oversight Committee exhibit (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016814). It contains an essay or book excerpt discussing the history of cybernetics and artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on Norbert Wiener's 1950 book 'The Human Use of Human Beings.' The text highlights Wiener's early warnings about the dangers of technological control and commercialization, contrasting his views with contemporaries like John von Neumann and John McCarthy, who favored commercialization and the development of 'artificial intelligence' over Wiener's 'cybernetics.'