<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The language of AI safety becomes misleading... > The language of AI safety becomes misleading whenever safety is treated as a destination rather than a gradient. There is safer aviation, not safe aviation; safer medicine, not safe medicine; and safer roads, reactors, buildings, drugs and industrial processes, each purchased by understanding failure modes while accepting that zero risk is generally achieved only by abolishing the activity. **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 language of AI safety becomes misleading whenever safety is treated as a destination rather than a gradient. There is safer aviation, not safe aviation; safer medicine, not safe medicine; and safer roads, reactors, buildings, drugs and industrial processes, each purchased by understanding failure modes while accepting that zero risk is generally achieved only by abolishing the activity.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-language-ai-safety-achieved-abolishing-activity ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->