# Scientific Information Is Not Innocent by Norbert Wiener > "To provide scientific information is not a necessarily innocent act, and may entail the gravest consequences." > **— Norbert Wiener**, *Atlantic Monthly response on controlled missiles (1946)* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Atlantic Monthly response on controlled missiles (1946). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]] - [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] - [[wiki/Information Inheritance|Information Inheritance]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/State-Dependent Catastrophe|State-Dependent Catastrophe]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "To provide scientific information is not a necessarily innocent act, and may entail the gravest consequences." — Norbert Wiener, Atlantic Monthly response on controlled missiles (1946) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-scientific-information-not-innocent ```