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∂AIL Mr. Richard J. Lutz↓H.R. Box 226↓Main Capitol
↓Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120∞
.<<(717) 783-3207>>

Dear Mr. Lutz:

	Thank you for your letter of February 24.  I will be glad
to discuss with you the issues raised in your paper.

	In think that humans can eventually understand intelligence
well enough to make computer programs smarter than humans.  However,
this requires a conceptual advance and not merely a development
program (however well-funded), and therefore how long it will take
cannot be predicted now.  It is also difficult to see what is the
best way to use this intelligence, but it obviously shouldn't be
used to realize the fables of wishing caps wherein a wish is carried
out literally - and in the fables with invariably harmful consequences.
Whatever artificial intelligence we can achieve should be used to
show us as clearly as possible the consequences of the alternate policies we
are considering.

	I am familiar with the metaphor of intelligence as a disease, and
I am afraid I regard the metaphor as a symptom of an ideological disease -
which I hope is curable in your case.  My prescription, for what it's
worth, is to include in your program a study of past ideological movements
and cults, especially those based on predictions of doom.
More concretely, I don't agree with your evaluation of the automobile, etc.
and with the low value your paper seems to put on the individual pursuit
of individual goals.

	I look forward to discussing these issues if you come to
Stanford.

.sgn