Heading into the Future

MISSION STATEMENT

Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis believes that a major war before the end of the 21st century, resulting in billions of deaths, is almost inevitable.^[2]:234Intelligent machines (or ‘artilects’, a shortened form of ‘artificial intellects’) will be far more intelligent than humans and will threaten to attain world domination, resulting in a conflict between ‘Cosmists’, who support the artilects, and ‘Terrans’, who oppose them (both of these are terms of his invention). He describes this conflict as a ‘gigadeath’ war, reinforcing the point that billions of people will be killed.