<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The administration advertises full steam ahead... > {{The administration advertises full steam ahead because it understands the public it governs, and that choice of message is deliberate. A government that told a binary, tribal, stampede-prone electorate the complete truth, that AI is simultaneously the most dangerous and the most strategically necessary technology in history, would trigger the stampede the full truth is already beginning to provoke: moratoriums, bans, violence, and the paralysis of every factory the country needs. So the message is simplified to the signal the herd can follow without panicking.}} Gates was alluding to exactly this when he warned against letting the AI debate collapse into two extremes: a public that cannot hold both truths at once must be governed through the one it can follow. Trump's "hoax" line is best read as herding, delivered to the only audience that can veto the build-out. [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] showed the same logic in OpenAI's gradual-deployment doctrine, in the executive order promising to "demystify" AI through education, and in the intelligence community's written plan for a communications strategy aimed at the American people. {{Governments simplify the truth about dangerous technology in proportion to how dangerous their own public becomes when it hears the whole truth.}} **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The administration advertises full steam ahead because it understands the public it governs, and that choice of message is deliberate. A government that told a binary, tribal, stampede-prone electorate the complete truth, that AI is simultaneously the most dangerous and the most strategically necessary technology in history, would trigger the stampede the full truth is already beginning to provoke: moratoriums, bans, violence, and the paralysis of every factory the country needs. So the message is simplified to the signal the herd can follow without panicking. Gates was alluding to exactly this when he warned against letting the AI debate collapse into two extremes: a public that cannot hold both truths at once must be governed through the one it can follow. Trump's "hoax" line is best read as herding, delivered to the only audience that can veto the build-out. Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse showed the same logic in OpenAI's gradual-deployment doctrine, in the executive order promising to "demystify" AI through education, and in the intelligence community's written plan for a communications strategy aimed at the American people. Governments simplify the truth about dangerous technology in proportion to how dangerous their own public becomes when it hears the whole truth.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-administration-advertises-full-hears-whole-truth ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->