Seeking the Sputnik of AGI
An interview by Hugo de Garis and Ben Goertzel, Essay A8 of the author's e-book 'de Garis Essays', dated 30 March 2011. Date from the author's list of his Humanity+ Magazine essays (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/humanity-mag-essays/) and the magazine address /2011/03/30/; the magazine page was not read.
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- Seeking the Sputnik of AI: Hugo de Garis Interviews Ben Goertzel on AGI, OpenCog, and the Future of Intelligence Essay A8 of the author's e-book 'de Garis Essays' (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com); listed by the author as published in Humanity+ Magazine on 30 Mar 2011 · published 2011-03-30 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 a9450cccbeaa8871a59c0dc7506e6b6eff1bf0a473486370575d5730141ca210). Text as reprinted in the author's 2015 e-book compilation; the Humanity+ Magazine page (hplusmagazine.com) refused the connection.
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableDe Garis's answer in the interview "Seeking the Sputnik of AGI" (2011; read in his 2015 e-book reprint), asked by Goertzel which he would choose, states that he vacillates but that if he really had to choose he would choose "Cosmist", since freezing evolution at the human level would be "a cosmic tragedy".2011-03-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Human minds transferred into machinesGoertzel's answers in the interview he gave de Garis (2011) state that humans may gradually fuse with machines until the machine component dominates, so that people could feel themselves become superhuman minds.2011-03-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Human minds transferred into machines: propositions page →
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableGoertzel's answers in the interview he gave de Garis (2011), asked to choose between a godlike artilect at the cost of humanity and humanity's survival, state that his gut reaction is to choose humanity.2011-03-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Conflict over building superhuman machinesGoertzel's answers in the interview he gave de Garis (2011; read in the 2015 e-book reprint) state that a species dominance war is one way the future could go but that there is "no reason to think it’s the most likely way", and describe a gradual fusion of humans with machines in which there would be "no species dominance debate". They state that such conflicts could occur but that focusing on their consequences "seems pointless".2011-03-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
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