# Transhumanism and eugenics > 트랜스휴머니즘은 우생학에서 파생되었다. <트랜스휴머니즘>은 [우생학](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Eugenics.txt)에서 파생되었다. > was most aligned with the more extreme ideologies linked to the pursuit of AGI, including one that had been decades in the making, according to his former colleagues. Known as , the idea had controversial roots and a history that helped explain why AI's builders sometimes neglected the nasty, more current side effects of the technology. … > > The core idea stems back to the [1940s](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/1940s.txt) and [1960s](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/1960s.txt) when an evolutionary biologist named joined and ran . The eugenics movement proposed that humans should improve themselves through , and it flourished in British universities and among the country's intellectual and upper classes. Huxley himself came from an aristocratic family (his brother wrote ), and he believed society's upper crust was genetically superior. Lower-class people needed to be weeded out like a bad crop and subjected to forced sterilization. "(They) are reproducing too fast," Huxley wrote. > > When the latched on to the eugenics movement, Huxley decided it needed a rebrand. He conined a new term, **, in an essay saying that alongside proper breeding, humanity could also "transcend itself" through science and technology. ## See also - [우생학은 왜 나쁜가](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/What%20makes%20eugenics%20bad.txt)