Norbert Wiener on AI
5 quotes from Norbert Wiener on the wall, 1948 to 1964, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Technology Press / John Wiley & Sons / Hermann et Cie, MIT Press, Science, Vol. 131, No. 3410.
- 1964
Norbert Wiener, MIT mathematician and founder of cybernetics, in his last book, published in 1964, on machines that learn and reproduce and the moral problems they raise.
MIT PressGod and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
- 1960
Machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers
Norbert Wiener, MIT mathematician and founder of cybernetics, wrote this article on learning machines and control for Science in May 1960, adapted from his lecture of 27 December 1959 at the AAAS meeting in Chicago.
Science, Vol. 131, No. 3410Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation
We may not know, until too late, when to turn it off
Norbert Wiener, MIT mathematician and founder of cybernetics, in an essay on the risks of fast learning machines published in Science in May 1960.
- 1948
Bound to devalue the human brain
Norbert Wiener, mathematician at MIT, in the introduction to Cybernetics (1948), signed Mexico City, November 1947, comparing the first industrial revolution's effect on the human arm with what computing machines would do to mental work.
Information is information, not matter or energy
Norbert Wiener, MIT mathematician, at the end of the chapter on computing machines and the nervous system in Cybernetics (1948), arguing that the mechanical brain does not secrete thought.
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Applicable to both machines and living organisms
Physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth with mathematician Norbert Wiener and engineer Julian Bigelow, in "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology", a January 1943 paper in Philosophy of Science that became a founding text of cybernetics.
Philosophy of Science, vol. 10, no. 1Behavior, Purpose and Teleology