<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The price of running AI policy on two channels is... > The price of running AI policy on two channels is risk, and the public is the reason the price must be paid. A mature electorate could be told the truth, could support the build-out and the safeguards together, and could fund the monitoring layer Gates is demanding without reading it as a betrayal of the race. Such an electorate would let the country move fast and carefully at once. The actual electorate forces a cruder choice. Its leaders can emphasize danger and watch the herd bolt into moratoriums that surrender the century, or emphasize speed and accept that the safety architecture will be built without the full engagement Gates is asking for. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The price of running AI policy on two channels is risk, and the public is the reason the price must be paid. A mature electorate could be told the truth, could support the build-out and the safeguards together, and could fund the monitoring layer Gates is demanding without reading it as a betrayal of the race. Such an electorate would let the country move fast and carefully at once. The actual electorate forces a cruder choice. Its leaders can emphasize danger and watch the herd bolt into moratoriums that surrender the century, or emphasize speed and accept that the safety architecture will be built without the full engagement Gates is asking for.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-price-running-ai-engagement-gates-asking ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->