From: John Brockman < INIMI> To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:35:50 +0000 You good? Good...and busy. Here's my new project below - "The Deep Thinking Project". At the farm all day. NYC tomorrow. Call. l best number to use) THE DEEP THINKING PROJECT I am now getting started on my new project which involves two dozen of the world's leading thinkers on AI and will result in a book, US rights to which have been successfully auctioned to Penguin Press. Tentative title: DEEP THINKING: ON THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF AI. The inspiration for framing the project came from Jaan Tallin, co-founder of Skype and science philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, writes: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening in the AI research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ years, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now slowly—and very encouragingly! — making their way to the mainstream AI community." Thus, DEEP THINKING challenges the dominant AI narrative by identifying the leading "dissidents" in the broader AI and science communities and presenting their counter- narratives in their own voices - twenty-four erudite scientific thinkers who, for most of their careers, have thought deeply about Wiener's ideas in the context of their own scientific fields: the AI researchers Dario Amodei and Stuart Russell; the communications theorist Joichi "Joi" Ito; the complex adaptive systems researcher Geoffrey West; the computational socia)1 scientist Alex "Sandy" Pentland; the computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis; the cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson; the arts curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; the genomics researcher George Church; the molecular biologist Ventraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the quantum mechanical engineer Seth Lloyd; the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; the physicists Freeman Dyson, Neil Gershenfeld, Lawrence Krauss, Judea Pearl, and Fran