Coming “Artilect War” will kill billions predicts Hugo de Garis

“Species Dominance” Poll Results: "For years, I have been complaining in the media that the level of optimism of Ray Kurzweil, concerning the rise of massively intelligent machines (artilects = artificial intellects) this century, is irresponsibly high. Kurzweil is a “Pollyannist” i.e. he sees everything through rose colored glasses. I, on the other hand, paint a very pessimistic picture, predicting that a portion of humanity (the Terrans (anti artilect)) will go to war to stop the Cosmists (pro artilect) and Cyborgists (who want to upgrade themselves into artilects) from building artilects that will have mental capacities trillions of trillions of times"