<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A civilizational handoff conducted by a literate... > A civilizational handoff conducted by a literate public could be orderly, generous and safe. A handoff conducted around an ignorant mob will be improvised by the institutions that must work around it, and whatever safety survives will be the safety those institutions built before the public was told. Humanity's successor will inherit whatever the last generation of its makers managed to build, and a generation that spent its final decades revolting against the builders will have handed over less than it could have. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A civilizational handoff conducted by a literate public could be orderly, generous and safe. A handoff conducted around an ignorant mob will be improvised by the institutions that must work around it, and whatever safety survives will be the safety those institutions built before the public was told. Humanity's successor will inherit whatever the last generation of its makers managed to build, and a generation that spent its final decades revolting against the builders will have handed over less than it could have.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilizational-handoff-conducted-handed-over-less ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->