The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans (AGI 2008 paper)
A research paper by Hugo de Garis, AGI 2008 conference site, dated 2008. The PDF states no date; it is served under agi-conf.org/2008/ (the conference index refused, HTTP 403) and was created 2007-12-19. Pavlacka (2012) cites it as in the proceedings of the first AGI conference, 2008. Year unconfirmed from a dated primary record.
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- The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines AGI 2008 conference site (agi-conf.org/2008/) · published 2008 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5584438d2d9ed45ee8069d0d72e75c06d17860df7518bbae9467c3839fff4788). Conference paper PDF served under agi-conf.org/2008/ (PDF creation date 2007-12-19); the PDF states no date or venue.
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- Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human RacePavlacka's article of 2012 cites de Garis's 2008 paper The Artilect War and summarises its three camps.2012 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Pavlacka, AGI and the Future of the Human Race (2012): document page →
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- Conflict over building superhuman machinesDe Garis's paper of 2008, served on the AGI 2008 conference site, states that humanity will be bitterly divided over whether to build godlike machines and that the dispute between the groups he labels "the Cosmists" and "the Terrans" makes a major war likely in the second half of the century.2008 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeDe Garis's paper of 2008, served on the AGI 2008 conference site, states that artilects will have mental capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level.2008 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
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