<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Nobody spent seventy years and trillions of... > Nobody spent seventy years and trillions of dollars building machines that learn, reproduce, improve and act so that the quarterly report would look better; the goal was always a new kind of mind. Everyone who has worked near the frontier understands this. The successor to humanity was the point from the beginning, and the public is only now being told what the builders have always known they were building. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Nobody spent seventy years and trillions of dollars building machines that learn, reproduce, improve and act so that the quarterly report would look better; the goal was always a new kind of mind. Everyone who has worked near the frontier understands this. The successor to humanity was the point from the beginning, and the public is only now being told what the builders have always known they were building.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-nobody-spent-seventy-always-known-building ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->