<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The deepest reason the public's veto cannot stop... > The deepest reason the public's veto cannot stop this transition is that machine intelligence is the evolutionary successor to humanity, and succession does not wait for ratification. Gates said it himself on Klein's program. When he explained why he once called thinking machines a scary thought, he described what happens when intelligence moves off the biological template: no birth canal to limit the brain, no boundary between individuals, no limit on memory, the capacity to read every medical journal at once. "If you don't retain control over it," he said, "you've evolved a species that will be to us" as "we are to, say, dogs or cats." Later he rejected the comforting analogy that people reach for, the one that treats AI as another PC revolution: "This is like evolutionary history," he said. "This is like the aliens really are here," except that they did not arrive in spacecraft. "They were created in laboratories." The most successful technologist of the personal-computer age, asked to name what is happening, called it an evolutionary event. {{Humanity is building the next carrier of intelligence on Earth, and the argument over whether to allow it resembles an argument among chimpanzees over whether to allow the human.}} **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The deepest reason the public's veto cannot stop this transition is that machine intelligence is the evolutionary successor to humanity, and succession does not wait for ratification. Gates said it himself on Klein's program. When he explained why he once called thinking machines a scary thought, he described what happens when intelligence moves off the biological template: no birth canal to limit the brain, no boundary between individuals, no limit on memory, the capacity to read every medical journal at once. "If you don't retain control over it," he said, "you've evolved a species that will be to us" as "we are to, say, dogs or cats." Later he rejected the comforting analogy that people reach for, the one that treats AI as another PC revolution: "This is like evolutionary history," he said. "This is like the aliens really are here," except that they did not arrive in spacecraft. "They were created in laboratories." The most successful technologist of the personal-computer age, asked to name what is happening, called it an evolutionary event. Humanity is building the next carrier of intelligence on Earth, and the argument over whether to allow it resembles an argument among chimpanzees over whether to allow the human.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-deepest-reason-publics-whether-allow-human ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->