# Help Us They May by Norbert Wiener > "Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence." > **— Norbert Wiener**, *God & Golem, Inc. (1964)* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: God & Golem, Inc. (1964). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] - [[wiki/Operational Autonomy|Operational Autonomy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence." — Norbert Wiener, God & Golem, Inc. (1964) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-help ```