# AI Alarmism Makes Mobs Trample the Exit Builders by Bryant McGill > “An [artificial-intelligence] alarm shouted to a mob produces a stampede, and a stampede tramples the people trying to build the exits.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]], “V. What Doom Does to a Mob” (September 29, 2026). - **Exact marked source:** “An alarm shouted to a mob produces a stampede, and a stampede tramples the people trying to build the exits.” - **Editorial treatment:** The bracket restores the alarm's subject so the metaphor remains attached to the article's technological argument. Square brackets identify editorial language; the exact unmodified wording remains above in this source record. - **Context:** The quotation describes the conversion of warning into stampede and the resulting attack on the people building practical exits. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Companion article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Companion article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI Risk Communication|AI Risk Communication]] - [[wiki/Mobilization to Violence|Mobilization to Violence]] - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Coalitionary Aggression|Coalitionary Aggression]] - [[wiki/Public Veto on AI|Public Veto on AI]] - [[wiki/Technological Illiteracy|Technological Illiteracy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “An [artificial-intelligence] alarm shouted to a mob produces a stampede, and a stampede tramples the people trying to build the exits.” — Bryant McGill, The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-ai-alarmism-makes-mobs-trample-the-exit-builders ```