<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The anti-AI imagination is strangely impoverished... > The anti-AI imagination is strangely impoverished because it can vividly imagine every machine-generated catastrophe yet becomes almost completely incapable of imagining machine-assisted breakthroughs. It sees the synthetic pathogen but somehow not the synthetic antibody, the autonomous weapon but not autonomous defense, the malign mutation but not accelerated drug discovery. Fear has a very selective imagination. **Source:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The anti-AI imagination is strangely impoverished because it can vividly imagine every machine-generated catastrophe yet becomes almost completely incapable of imagining machine-assisted breakthroughs. It sees the synthetic pathogen but somehow not the synthetic antibody, the autonomous weapon but not autonomous defense, the malign mutation but not accelerated drug discovery. Fear has a very selective imagination.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-anti-ai-imagination-fear-selective-imagination ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->