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# The most useful thing an individual citizen can do... > {{The most useful thing an individual citizen can do is refuse to be part of the mob. Learn how the models work. Read the safety frameworks and the incident reports. Support the factories and the safeguards together. Refuse the binary that Gates warned about, the one that turns AI into climate change, a two-team war in which nothing can be discussed. Every citizen who does this lowers the price of telling the public the truth, and a public that can be told the truth is a public that can be trusted with a slower, safer and still victorious path.}} {{Every citizen who learns the artificial intelligence instead of fearing it lowers the price of honesty for an entire government.}} The probability that enough citizens will do this in time is low, which is exactly why the few who do matter so much. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The most useful thing an individual citizen can do is refuse to be part of the mob. Learn how the models work. Read the safety frameworks and the incident reports. Support the factories and the safeguards together. Refuse the binary that Gates warned about, the one that turns AI into climate change, a two-team war in which nothing can be discussed. Every citizen who does this lowers the price of telling the public the truth, and a public that can be told the truth is a public that can be trusted with a slower, safer and still victorious path. Every citizen who learns the artificial intelligence instead of fearing it lowers the price of honesty for an entire government. The probability that enough citizens will do this in time is low, which is exactly why the few who do matter so much.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-most-useful-thing-who-matter-much ```