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De Garis's article of 1989 poses the question whether humanity will or will not serve as the stepping-stone toward a higher form of evolution, and forecasts that many people will see humanity that way. Copy claim link
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Date 1989 · publication Records dated 1989 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The article poses the evolutionary framing as a question and forecasts that others will hold it; it does not state that the rise of the artilect is an expression of an evolutionary process. Scope and limits The evolutionary framing is stated as the question the article poses and as a view the author forecasts others will hold; the article does not assert a physical or cosmological law.
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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 “a real one concerned with the choice about whether humanity will or will not serve as the stepping-stone toward a higher form of evolution.” Location in source p. 17
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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. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hugo de Garis, “What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect”, 1989. 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 (24 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. primary source Supports 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 “a lot of people will start seeing humanity as a stepping-stone toward a higher form of evolution” Location in source p. 20, 'Options'
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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. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hugo de Garis, “What If AI Succeeds? The Rise of the Twenty-First Century Artilect”, 1989. 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 (17 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. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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