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Wiener’s 1960 article says a learning machine trained on a war game could produce a policy that wins on points at the cost of the nation’s real interests. Copy claim link
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Date 1960-05-06 · publication Claimed date 1959-12-27. Printed p. 1355 says the article is adapted from a lecture at the AAAS meeting in Chicago on this day. The lecture text was not retrieved, so the wording is not dated to it. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element No explicit claim about what success in the war game shows; the passage concerns a mismatch between the game’s objective and the nation’s. Scope and limits The evidential reading is an inference, and the criterion needs an explicit claim.
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Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation ↗ Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) · 1960-05-06
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Source excerpt “if the rules for victory in a war game do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it is more than likely that such a machine may produce a policy which would win a nominal victory on points” Location in source Printed p. 1357, paragraphs before the heading "Man and Slave"
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Source details and check notes Authors Norbert Wiener Version Scan of the original Science pages in a later JSTOR download, hosted on a Pennsylvania State University course page; text layer read and pp. 1357–1358 compared with the rendered pages by the pre-1996 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Norbert Wiener, "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation", Science 131 (1960), 1355–1358. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted; the inspected copy is a university course file.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes The same passage as the B6 record. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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