Claim · 2012 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Pavlacka's article in the Berkeley Scientific Journal (2012) states that de Garis's argument for an artilect war is not completely convincing, citing Kurzweil's view that few people will be "Terrans" and the possibility that artilects are created before opponents become aware of them.

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What it connects

Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race → contests → Conflict over building superhuman machines

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Claim and evidence

Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Racecontests ↓Conflict over building superhuman machines

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Date: 2012 · publication Records dated 2012 →
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that opposition will organise before artilects exist.

Scope and limitsA short article in the Berkeley Scientific Journal (Spring 2012, vol. 16, no. 2); it summarises de Garis's 2008 paper before disputing it.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race

Berkeley Scientific Journal 16(2), Spring 2012 (eScholarship) · 2012

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Source excerpt

“De Garis’ argument is understandable, though not completely convincing.”

Location in source p. 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Bryon Pavlacka
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 4690a1ab440f8f53c675a58596f82b4068e463ba1f81d7a59961c58f80203ed7). Publisher's PDF on eScholarship.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Bryon Pavlacka, “Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race”, 2012.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (9 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 73) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race

Berkeley Scientific Journal 16(2), Spring 2012 (eScholarship) · 2012

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Source excerpt

“The other possibility that De Gargis neglects is that the artilects may be created before would-be-terrans are even aware of the possibility of their construction.”

Location in source p. 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Bryon Pavlacka
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 4690a1ab440f8f53c675a58596f82b4068e463ba1f81d7a59961c58f80203ed7). Publisher's PDF on eScholarship.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Bryon Pavlacka, “Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race”, 2012.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (25 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. The source spells the name 'De Gargis' here. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 73) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review.

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