# Artificial Intellects Could Outthink Humanity by Hugo de Garis > “My dream is to create ‘artilects,’ or artificial intellects, with intellectual capacities many orders of magnitude above human levels.” > **— Hugo de Garis**, *“The Brain Builder,” Wired interview, 1997* ## Sources and Context - **Interview:** [“The Brain Builder,” *Wired* (1997)](https://www.wired.com/1997/12/degaris/). The source prints straight double quotation marks around “artilects”; this typographic curly-single presentation retains the word and meaning. De Garis was describing an ambition for evolutionary engineering, not reporting achieved superhuman machines. The same interview presents opposing social reactions to that ambition. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Hugo de Garis|Hugo de Garis]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “My dream is to create ‘artilects,’ or artificial intellects, with intellectual capacities many orders of magnitude above human levels.” — Hugo de Garis, “The Brain Builder,” Wired, 1997 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-de-garis-artilects-outthink-humanity ```