# Hugo de Garis **Domain:** Evolutionary Engineering / Artificial Intelligence Futures **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Hugo de Garis** described an ambition to build “artilects,” artificial intellects much more capable than humans. His 1997 *Wired* interview presents evolutionary engineering as an approach and anticipates disagreement about whether such systems should be built. It is an ambition and scenario, not a report of achieved superintelligence. ## Relationships - **Interviewed by:** [*Wired*, “The Brain Builder” (1997)](https://www.wired.com/1997/12/degaris/) on evolutionary engineering, proposed artilects, and prospective ideological disagreement. - **Addresses:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] as a possible outcome of engineered intelligence; [[wiki/Evolutionary Algorithms|Evolutionary Algorithms]] concerns a family of technical methods rather than proof of his predicted outcome. - **Collection and article routes:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]], [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]], and [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] frame the question of deliberate capability construction without claiming one coordinated program. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “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* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intellects Could Outthink Humanity by Hugo de Garis|Artificial Intellects Could Outthink Humanity by Hugo de Garis]]