Редактирование: Hugo de Garis (раздел)

== "Falling out with the transhumanists" ==

In 2012 an article by de Garis was published on H+ Magazine: "THE SINGHILARITY INSTITUTE: My Falling Out With the Transhumanists"<ref>https://hplusmagazine.com/2012/08/21/the-singhilarity-institute-my-falling-out-with-the-transhumanists/</ref> that made the following claims:

* The project to ensure a “human friendly” AI "is a noble goal, but utterly naïve and poorly thought out"
* "Future artilects will be far smarter than human beings and will have their own desires, and goals. They will do what THEY want, and not what stupid humans program them to do"
* "By definition artilects are smarter than humans, so could look at the human programming in their 'DNA equivalent', decide it was moronic and throw it away"
* "Humanity won’t be augmented, it will be drowned"
* "Transhumanists suffer from tunnel vision. They focus on minor extensions of human capacities such as greater intelligence, longer healthier life, bigger memory, faster thinking etc. They tend to ignore the bigger question of 'species dominance' i.e. should humanity build artilects that would be god like in their capacities, utterly eclipsing human capacities."
* "Transhumanists are too childishly optimistic, and refuse to 'bite the bullet.' They do not face up to the big question of whether  humanity should build artilects or not and thus risk a gigadeath Artilect war"
* "Perhaps deep in their hearts, the Transhumanists feel the force of the above argument, but find the prospect of a gigadeath Artilect War so horrible that they blot it out of their consciousnesses and pretend that all will be sweetness and light, all very happy, but not very adult."