Utah State University professor Hugh De Garis predicts a takeover by AI-based “artilects” and a coming conflict between humans and machines in his 2005 book “The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines.”

He is featured in a coming documentary by Chicago filmmaker Ken Gumbs called “Building Gods.” Preview here.