<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The person who says ‘I trust no system’ imagines... > The person who says ‘I trust no system’ imagines this makes them impossible to control. In practice it often makes them dependent upon whichever charismatic stranger can explain the systems they refused to learn. **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 person who says ‘I trust no system’ imagines this makes them impossible to control. In practice it often makes them dependent upon whichever charismatic stranger can explain the systems they refused to learn.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-person-who-says-systems-refused-learn ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->