<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # If one nation stopped advanced AI tomorrow, it... > If one nation stopped advanced AI tomorrow, it would not abolish advanced AI. It would abolish that nation’s position in advanced AI. This is the central absurdity behind fantasies of unilateral technological abstinence: knowledge does not become nonexistent merely because one participant leaves the laboratory. **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 ``` “If one nation stopped advanced AI tomorrow, it would not abolish advanced AI. It would abolish that nation’s position in advanced AI. This is the central absurdity behind fantasies of unilateral technological abstinence: knowledge does not become nonexistent merely because one participant leaves the laboratory.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-nation-stopped-advanced-participant-leaves-laboratory ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->