<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # You cannot honestly calculate the danger of AI... > You cannot honestly calculate the danger of AI while assigning a value of zero to the dangers AI may help civilization prevent. Pandemic detection, cyber defense, materials failure, energy optimization, biological discovery, asteroid science, medicine, logistics, and countless unknown problems belong on the other side of the ledger. Existential-risk arithmetic with only one column is theology, not mathematics. **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]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “You cannot honestly calculate the danger of AI while assigning a value of zero to the dangers AI may help civilization prevent. Pandemic detection, cyber defense, materials failure, energy optimization, biological discovery, asteroid science, medicine, logistics, and countless unknown problems belong on the other side of the ledger. Existential-risk arithmetic with only one column is theology, not mathematics.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-cannot-honestly-calculate-column-theology-mathematics ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->