# The Answer Is Proportional to the Mass of the Endeavor by Bryant McGill > “The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is becoming an industrial metabolism. When civilization starts pouring capital, electricity, concrete, copper, silicon, laboratories, transmission lines, nuclear plants, and entire careers into something at this velocity, perhaps stop pretending the objective is a better chatbot. The answer is proportional to the mass of the endeavor. Whatever this is, it is a species-level event.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is becoming an industrial metabolism. When civilization starts pouring capital, electricity, concrete, copper, silicon, laboratories, transmission lines, nuclear plants, and entire careers into something at this velocity, perhaps stop pretending the objective is a better chatbot. The answer is proportional to the mass of the endeavor. Whatever this is, it is a species-level event.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill for [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]] — Bryant McGill identifies this article as the originating publication for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]] - **Article:** [[articles/STFU About AI and Water and Just Eat Your Burger|STFU About AI and Water and Just Eat Your Burger]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is becoming an industrial metabolism. When civilization starts pouring capital, electricity, concrete, copper, silicon, laboratories, transmission lines, nuclear plants, and entire careers into something at this velocity, perhaps stop pretending the objective is a better chatbot. The answer is proportional to the mass of the endeavor. Whatever this is, it is a species-level event.” — Bryant McGill, The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-the-answer-is-proportional-to-the-mass-of-the ```