De Garis's article of 1989 names, as a third option beside letting artilects evolve or not, that some human beings might modify their own bodies and brains to become artilects themselves.
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What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect → bears on → Human minds transferred into machines