When the machine no longer simply computes a function but instead maintains a state, it can start to make inferences about the human by the sequence of requests presented to it. And when different programs correlate across different request streams— say, correlating Web-page searches with social-media posts, or the payment for services on another platform, or the dwell time on a particular advertisement, or where the user has walked or driven with their GPS-enabled smartphone—the total systems of many programs communicating with one another and with databases leads to a whole new loss of privacy. The great exploitative leap made by so many West Coast companies has been to monetize those inferences without the knowing permission of the person generating the interactions with the computing machine platforms. Wiener, Turing, and von Neumann could not foresee the complexity of those platforms, wherein the legal mumbo-jumbo of the terms-of-use contracts the humans willingly enter into, without an inkling of what they entail, leads them to give up rights they would never concede in a one-on-one interaction with another human being. The computation platforms have become a shield behind which some companies hide in order to inhumanly exploit others. In certain other countries, the governments carry out these manipulations, and there the goal is not profits but the suppression of dissent. Humankind has gotten itself into a fine pickle: We are being exploited by companies that paradoxically deliver services we crave, and at the same time our lives depend on many software-enabled systems that are open to attack. Getting ourselves out of this mess will be a long-term project. It will involve engineering, legislation, and most important, moral leadership. Moral leadership is the first and biggest challenge. 54 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016274