<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The informational ecology built around humanity’s... > The informational ecology built around humanity’s exclusive command of language-rich general cognition is already broken: machines write, reason, translate, perceive, design, converse, search, synthesize, code and increasingly act. Humanity is not waiting for the threshold of machine intelligence; we are living inside it. **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 ``` “The informational ecology built around humanity’s exclusive command of language-rich general cognition is already broken: machines write, reason, translate, perceive, design, converse, search, synthesize, code and increasingly act. Humanity is not waiting for the threshold of machine intelligence; we are living inside it.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-informational-ecology-built-intelligence-living-inside ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->