What is certain is that inquiry minds steeped in the scientific ethos, such as Musk's, should consider all possibilities and avoid making dogmatic statements, either of the AI-will-destroy-civilization type or AI-will-cure-all-diseases kind.
Several past and serving officers have also been warned that the inquiry is minded to criticise them over their actions and decision-making during the first phone-hacking investigation in 2006, and then a decision to refuse for 18 months from the summer of 2009 to reopen the criminal investigation despite mounting evidence that the number of victims was much wider than officially admitted.
Never mind that Mr Campbell has so far got off lightly at the Hutton inquiry; never mind the strenuous denials that the Kelly affair had anything to do with the timing of his departure.
People seeking information do so for a particular purpose or with a particular inquiry in mind, and there is so much information available in the world's libraries and on the Internet more and more, these two are becoming identical that even experts cannot possibly consider a small fraction of the full range of sources that may be relevant to their questions.
All methods of channeling require that you have a very specific inquiry in mind for your spirit guide or your own subconscious.
However, we have, to borrow John Gardner's words (1990), achieved a "workable unity" in our quest to respond to the 21st-century call for inquiry-minded students who think outside traditional disciplinary boxes.
"Open-minded inquiry into the problems of the black family was shut down for decades, precisely the decades in which it was most urgently needed.
Police then sought a rehearing, and the appeals court concluded its earlier opinion had wrongly required officers "to engage in an essentially speculative inquiry" into demonstrators' minds.
It increased very much more when we went into Iraq … " She told the inquiry: "To my mind Iraq, Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11," and continued: "Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people.
According to Brookings, its mission is to "conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level". Brookings says it values the independence of its scholars and prides itself on "open-minded" inquiry.
The new inquiry took a mind-boggling 12 years to reach its findings.
