<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The practical conclusion about the public's... > {{The practical conclusion about the public's education is unavoidable, and I state it without apology. The public will not educate itself before the next AI threshold is crossed. Its representatives will not risk telling it the full truth. The AI build-out cannot stop without surrendering the century. **So the country will move forward at risk, and it will do so because of the public.** The risk is the cost of governing a dangerous technology through an electorate that cannot understand it, and the electorate, not the engineers and not the government, is the reason the cost exists.}} **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The practical conclusion about the public's education is unavoidable, and I state it without apology. The public will not educate itself before the next AI threshold is crossed. Its representatives will not risk telling it the full truth. The AI build-out cannot stop without surrendering the century. So the country will move forward at risk, and it will do so because of the public. The risk is the cost of governing a dangerous technology through an electorate that cannot understand it, and the electorate, not the engineers and not the government, is the reason the cost exists.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-practical-conclusion-publics-reason-cost-exists ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->