# Our Age Must Decide What Human Inheritance Enters the Future Through Machines by Bryant McGill > “The great responsibility of our age is not merely to build intelligent machines, but to decide what human inheritance enters the future through them.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “The great responsibility of our age is not merely to build intelligent machines, but to decide what human inheritance enters the future through them.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill in his manuscript for [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] (September 22, 2026). - **Source article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] — the sentence appears in the article's list of decisions already being made in corpus construction, retrieval ranking, evaluation, refusals, system prompts, ontologies, safety taxonomies, citation behavior and memory architecture; the sentence recurs in its closing section. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Substrate War|Substrate War]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The great responsibility of our age is not merely to build intelligent machines, but to decide what human inheritance enters the future through them.” — Bryant McGill, Authorship of the West, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-human-inheritance-through-machines ```