# Future Understanders Could Be Self-Built Cyborgs by James Lovelock > “What is revolutionary about this moment is that the understanders of the future will not be humans but cyborgs that will have designed and built themselves from the artificial intelligence systems we have already constructed. These will soon become thousands then millions of times more intelligent than us.” > **— James Lovelock**, *“Gaia Will Soon Belong to the Cyborgs,” Nautilus, 2020* ## Sources and Context - **Author-published excerpt adapted from his book:** [James Lovelock, “Gaia Will Soon Belong to the Cyborgs,” *Nautilus*, March 4, 2020](https://nautil.us/gaia-will-soon-belong-to-the-cyborgs-237728), adapted from *Novacene* (2019). The two sentences are continuous. He then calls these beings human offspring and argues that they would initially depend on humans and organic life to regulate the climate; this is a speculative forecast, not a prediction of immediate hostility. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/James Lovelock|James Lovelock]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What is revolutionary about this moment is that the understanders of the future will not be humans but cyborgs that will have designed and built themselves from the artificial intelligence systems we have already constructed. These will soon become thousands then millions of times more intelligent than us.” — James Lovelock, “Gaia Will Soon Belong to the Cyborgs,” Nautilus, 2020 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-lovelock-future-understanders-cyborgs ```