Claim · 1989 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

De Garis's article of 1989 forecasts that many people will see humanity as a stepping-stone toward a higher form of evolution and hold it humanity's destiny to help the artilects leave the planet.

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What it connects

What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect → bears on → Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilectbears on ↓Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1989 · publication Records dated 1989 →
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: The passage forecasts that others will hold the view; it does not itself state that human succession by artilects would be acceptable or desirable.

Scope and limitsRecords a forecast of other people's view, within a scenario; not the author's own endorsement.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect

AI Magazine 10(2), Summer 1989, pp. 17–22 (AAAI); publisher's PDF at ojs.aaai.org · 1989

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Source excerpt

“will claim it is humanity’s destiny to help the artilects get off the planet”

Location in source p. 20, 'Options'

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Hugo de Garis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 bfb40a7efb65b582325b9800ab23b1f9f854898188951d992996bc3dd0827fb5). Publisher's PDF of the printed article (AI Magazine Volume 10 Number 2, 1989); retrieved with a plain curl user agent because the site's bot challenge blocks browser user agents.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hugo de Garis, “What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect”, 1989.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (14 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Record ID ht-w02-degaris-1989-what-if-ai-succeeds