<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The clearest description of AI may eventually be... > The clearest description of AI may eventually be neither software nor machine nor industry. It may be civilizational infrastructure for intelligence itself. Once that possibility becomes visible, arguing about whether society should ‘allow AI’ begins sounding like a nineteenth-century committee debating whether electricity should be permitted to continue. **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 ``` “The clearest description of AI may eventually be neither software nor machine nor industry. It may be civilizational infrastructure for intelligence itself. Once that possibility becomes visible, arguing about whether society should ‘allow AI’ begins sounding like a nineteenth-century committee debating whether electricity should be permitted to continue.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-clearest-description-ai-should-permitted-continue ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->