From: John Brockman < Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 4:36 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: You =ood? Good...and busy. =ere's my new project below - "The Deep Thinking Project". At the farm all day. NYC tomorrow. =all. JB =obile (best number to use) THE =EEP THINKING PROJECT I am now getting started on my new project which =nvolves two dozen of the world's leading thinkers on Al and will result =n a book, US rights to which have been successfully auctioned to Penguin Press. =entative title: DEEP THINKING: ON THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF Al. The =nspiration for framing the project came from Jaan Tallin, co-founder of Skype and =cience philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, =rites: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening =n the Al research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ =ears, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now =lowly—and very encouragingly! — making their way to the mainstream =1 community." Thus, DEEP THINKING =hallenges the dominant Al narrative by identifying the leading "dissidents" in the =roader Al and science communities and presenting their counter-narratives in their own voices — =wenty-four erudite scientific thinkers who, for most of their careers, have =hought deeply about Wiener's ideas in the context of their own scientific fields: the Al =esearchers Dario Amodei and Stuart Russell; the communications theorist =oichi "Joi" Ito; the complex adaptive systems researcher Geoffrey West; the =omputational socia)l scientist Alex "Sandy" Pentland; the computer scientist W. =aniel Hillis; the cultural anthropologist Mary =atherine Bateson; the arts curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; the genomics researcher =eorge Church; the molecular biologist Ventraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the =uantum mechanical engineer Seth Lloyd; the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; the =hysicists Freeman Dyson, Neil Gershenfeld, Lawrence Krauss, Judea Pearl, and =rank Wilczek; the psychologi