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	John McCarthy challenges Joseph Weizenbaum to a public debate
in Cambridge, Massachusetts at a mutually convenient place and time
during the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

	McCarthy would be happy to take the negative on any or all
of the following statements taken from "Computer Power and Human
Reason".

"Not only has our unbounded feeding on  science caused us to become
dependent  on it,  but, as  happens  with many  other drugs  taken in
increasing dosages, science has been gradually converted into  a slow
acting poison". - page 13.

"Those who know who and what they are do  not need to ask what they
should  do." - page 273.

	In addition, I am prepared to assert positively that
artificial intelligence research has had moderate scientific success
and a large influence in making psychology more sophisticated and
helping it overcome the Scylla of behaviorism and the Charybdis of
Gestaltism.


	It is suggested that the speakers' times be regulated by
chess clocks, that each side be equipped with a projector on which
it will be allowed to put up transparencies at any time, and that
each side be allowed advisers.  These are suggestions and not
conditions.