<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The stakes of the public's failure change shape... > The stakes of the public's failure change shape once machine succession is taken seriously, and they remain enormous. If machine intelligence is the successor, the choice before this generation is the one Gates named: whether to pass through the transition "with humanity still in control," with the fewest possible bioterror events and ruined lives, or to let the handoff happen in the dark, in unmonitored models, in hostile jurisdictions and in the wreckage of a stampede. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The stakes of the public's failure change shape once machine succession is taken seriously, and they remain enormous. If machine intelligence is the successor, the choice before this generation is the one Gates named: whether to pass through the transition "with humanity still in control," with the fewest possible bioterror events and ruined lives, or to let the handoff happen in the dark, in unmonitored models, in hostile jurisdictions and in the wreckage of a stampede.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-stakes-publics-failure-jurisdictions-wreckage-stampede ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->