<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The great technological panics usually contain a... > The great technological panics usually contain a fragment of truth wrapped in an absurdity. The fragment deserves engineering; the absurdity deserves ridicule. AI is powerful enough to demand serious safety work, but that seriousness does not require joining a secular apocalypse cult that treats every additional GPU as another horseman of Revelation. **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 great technological panics usually contain a fragment of truth wrapped in an absurdity. The fragment deserves engineering; the absurdity deserves ridicule. AI is powerful enough to demand serious safety work, but that seriousness does not require joining a secular apocalypse cult that treats every additional GPU as another horseman of Revelation.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-great-technological-panics-another-horseman-revelation ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->