<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Comparisons between artificial intelligence and... > Comparisons between artificial intelligence and earlier general-purpose technologies are simultaneously necessary and insufficient: they teach us how civilization responds to radical transformation while reminding us that we have never previously transformed the substrate of problem-solving itself at this velocity. **Source:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match. There Is No Safety. There Is No Retreat.]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Comparisons between artificial intelligence and earlier general-purpose technologies are simultaneously necessary and insufficient: they teach us how civilization responds to radical transformation while reminding us that we have never previously transformed the substrate of problem-solving itself at this velocity.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-comparisons-between-artificial-solving-itself-velocity ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->