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from the optimism-about-AI-leads-to-future-pessimism dept. "It will be the greatest witch hunt humanity has ever known because the stake is so high: survival of the human species." So says Hugo de Garis in this article of the Herald Journal. This seems to jibe with the extended(?) title of De Garis' 2005 book, which sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans, A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines. But de Garis isn't in a fabulist mood: "I will try to persuade you that it is not science fiction, and that strong reasons exist to compel humanity to believe," he says in the introduction of The Artilect War. De Garis considers himself a less-than 100 percent Cosmist, and admits in his book, "The prospect of building godlike creatures fills me with a sense of religious awe that goes to the very depth of my soul and motivates me powerfully to continue, despite the possible horrible negative consequences." More recently he commented: "I think it would be tragic if humanity chooses to freeze progress." http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2006/04/05/news/news04.txt de Garis Home Page: http://www.cs.usu.edu/~degaris/ < | >
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