Claim · 2009-06-22 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

De Garis's Forbes article of 2009 states that he sees a war coming, the "Artilect War", between the groups he labels "the Terrans", "Cosmists" and "Cyborgists".

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What it connects

The Coming Artilect War → articulates → Conflict over building superhuman machines

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Claim and evidence

The Coming Artilect Wararticulates ↓Conflict over building superhuman machines

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2009-06-22 · publication Records dated 2009 →
Role: Articulation, Later restatement
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsA forecast restated for a general readership.

The evidence 01

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The Coming Artilect War

Forbes.com · 2009-06-22

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Source excerpt

“I see a war coming, the "Artilect War," not between the artilects and human beings, as in the movie Terminator, but between the Terrans, Cosmists and Cyborgists.”

Location in source paragraph beginning 'I differ sharply'

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Hugo de Garis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 a9285ead0027ca64af6fe4f2ee9b7720cb87625247a039e7bb5788d3c78bb025). Current Forbes page dated Jun 22, 2009, 06:00pm EDT, with an update stamp Jun 19, 2013, 04:43pm EDT.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hugo de Garis, “The Coming Artilect War”, 2009-06-22.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (27 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 39) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

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