<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # If artificial intelligence kills us, the fault... > If artificial intelligence kills us, the fault will lie with the ignorant public, a coalition of frightened primates that preferred its tribe to its education and its fear to its future. The machine will have supplied the danger; the public will have supplied the doom. A people capable of learning could have taken the third road, racing ahead and building the safeguards at the same time. This people could hold only two options, full acceleration or surrender, and a species that can only stampede or freeze will eventually meet a danger that punishes both. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “If artificial intelligence kills us, the fault will lie with the ignorant public, a coalition of frightened primates that preferred its tribe to its education and its fear to its future. The machine will have supplied the danger; the public will have supplied the doom. A people capable of learning could have taken the third road, racing ahead and building the safeguards at the same time. This people could hold only two options, full acceleration or surrender, and a species that can only stampede or freeze will eventually meet a danger that punishes both.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-artificial-intelligence-kills-danger-punishes-both ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->