# The Singularity Needs Defensive Co-Scaling, Not Deceleration by Alexander Wissner-Gross > "Defensive co-scaling is how we end up in a great future. At the dawn of cities, it would have been a terrible idea to say we could not form cities because cities breed crime. Cities are fountains of economic growth. Instead, police forces, fire departments, and other municipal services defensively co-scale with the population. The singularity will need exactly the same thing: do not decelerate; defensively co-scale." > **— Alexander Wissner-Gross**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 13:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7hdOwJj4&t=823s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alexander Wissner-Gross|Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[wiki/Defensive Co-Scaling|Defensive Co-Scaling]] - [[wiki/AI Control|AI Control]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Defensive co-scaling is how we end up in a great future. At the dawn of cities, it would have been a terrible idea to say we could not form cities because cities breed crime. Cities are fountains of economic growth. Instead, police forces, fire departments, and other municipal services defensively co-scale with the population. The singularity will need exactly the same thing: do not decelerate; defensively co-scale." — Alexander Wissner-Gross, MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-alexander-wissner-gross-singularity-needs-defensive-co-scaling-not-deceleration ```