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# AI doom has become a kind of intellectual luxury...
> AI doom has become a kind of intellectual luxury good: affluent people standing inside the most technologically supported civilization in history explaining that technological acceleration has gone too far. They deliver the warning through satellites, fiber optics, semiconductor fabs, hyperscale clouds, machine-learning recommendation systems, and a phone containing more computation than governments once possessed.
**Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]]
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“AI doom has become a kind of intellectual luxury good: affluent people standing inside the most technologically supported civilization in history explaining that technological acceleration has gone too far. They deliver the warning through satellites, fiber optics, semiconductor fabs, hyperscale clouds, machine-learning recommendation systems, and a phone containing more computation than governments once possessed.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-ai-doom-become-governments-once-possessed
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