<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Genomics is terrifying only if ignorance feels... > Genomics is terrifying only if ignorance feels safer than knowledge. Your genome already exists whether anyone sequences it or not; inherited pathogenic variants do not become more polite because nobody looks at them. The rational response to genomic privacy risk is better consent, encryption, access controls, governance, and law, not maintaining biological ignorance as a privacy technology. Burning the library is a remarkably stupid method of protecting the books. **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 ``` “Genomics is terrifying only if ignorance feels safer than knowledge. Your genome already exists whether anyone sequences it or not; inherited pathogenic variants do not become more polite because nobody looks at them. The rational response to genomic privacy risk is better consent, encryption, access controls, governance, and law, not maintaining biological ignorance as a privacy technology. Burning the library is a remarkably stupid method of protecting the books.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-genomics-terrifying-ignorance-method-protecting-books ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->