# The Future Does Not Run on Good Intentions; It Runs on Compute by Bryant McGill > “People say they oppose AI but support curing cancer, extending healthy lifespan, discovering drugs, understanding proteins, mapping cells, and modeling disease. Fine. Now explain what machine you imagine doing the impossible combinatorial work behind those ambitions. The future does not run on good intentions; it runs on compute.” > **— 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:** “People say they oppose AI but support curing cancer, extending healthy lifespan, discovering drugs, understanding proteins, mapping cells, and modeling disease. Fine. Now explain what machine you imagine doing the impossible combinatorial work behind those ambitions. The future does not run on good intentions; it runs on compute.” — 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 ``` “People say they oppose AI but support curing cancer, extending healthy lifespan, discovering drugs, understanding proteins, mapping cells, and modeling disease. Fine. Now explain what machine you imagine doing the impossible combinatorial work behind those ambitions. The future does not run on good intentions; it runs on compute.” — 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-future-does-not-run-on-good-intentions-it ```