# Fast AI Harms Can Kill Slow AI Benefits by Bryant McGill > “The benefits of artificial intelligence arrive through slow institutions and its harms arrive through fast networks, and a public that feels the harms first will try to kill the benefits before they are born.” > **— 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]], “VIII. The Jobs Question Gates Will Not Soften” (September 29, 2026). - **Exact marked source:** “The benefits of artificial intelligence arrive through slow institutions and its harms arrive through fast networks, and a public that feels the harms first will try to kill the benefits before they are born.” - **Editorial treatment:** The Reminder reproduces the complete rendered extraction surface without alteration; bold emphasis and source-only wikilink syntax are not part of the poster text. - **Context:** The sentence contrasts harms moving through fast networks with benefits moving through slow institutions and explains the politics produced by that asymmetry. ## 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 Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] - [[wiki/Public AI Trust|Public AI Trust]] - [[wiki/AI Risk Communication|AI Risk Communication]] - [[wiki/Intelligence as a Utility|Intelligence as a Utility]] - [[wiki/AI Capability Diffusion|AI Capability Diffusion]] - [[wiki/Public-Benefit Framings|Public-Benefit Framings]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The benefits of artificial intelligence arrive through slow institutions and its harms arrive through fast networks, and a public that feels the harms first will try to kill the benefits before they are born.” — Bryant McGill, The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-fast-ai-harms-can-kill-slow-ai-benefits ```