# AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers is the vault’s source-routed record of arguments against AI-extinction narratives, forced technological slowdown, generalized anti-AI panic, and related forms of technological fatalism. The name makes the larger connection explicit: some objections concern legitimate safety and governance problems, while others expand into hostility toward scientific method, medicine, genetics, neurotechnology, computational infrastructure, or technological participation itself. The term names a contested public debate rather than a single policy platform: contributors represented here disagree about regulation, corporate power, present-day harms, acceleration, and the appropriate engineering response to risk. The collection also includes Bryant McGill’s arguments about scientific literacy, digital exclusion, infrastructure, medicine, genetics, neural interfaces, and the social cost of teaching technological helplessness. These passages are routed to [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], their originating article and the interpretive center of this map. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “A brain-computer interface that lets a paralyzed person speak is not a dystopian abstraction to that person. Suddenly the terrifying ‘brain chip’ is just a human being getting their voice back.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/A Brain Interface Can Give a Paralyzed Person Their Voice Back by Bryant McGill|A Brain Interface Can Give a Paralyzed Person Their Voice Back by Bryant McGill]] > “Distrusting pharmaceutical companies can be perfectly rational; distrusting chemistry because corporations exist is idiotic. A molecule does not acquire fraudulent intentions because somebody patented it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/A Molecule Does Not Acquire Fraudulent Intentions Because Somebody Patented It by Bryant McGill|A Molecule Does Not Acquire Fraudulent Intentions Because Somebody Patented It by Bryant McGill]] > “There is a real digital divide coming, and it will not merely separate people who own computers from people who do not.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/A Real Digital Divide Is Coming by Bryant McGill|A Real Digital Divide Is Coming by Bryant McGill]] > “Calling yourself ‘anti-vaccine’ is epistemically insane because a vaccine is a delivery strategy, not one single substance. You have announced your opposition to future medicines before you even know what diseases they will treat.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/A Vaccine Is a Delivery Strategy, Not One Substance by Bryant McGill|A Vaccine Is a Delivery Strategy, Not One Substance by Bryant McGill]] > “A worldview can go extinct without a single person being harmed. Astrology lost territory to astronomy, alchemy lost territory to chemistry, and eventually technological superstition will lose territory to people who actually understand the machines.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/A Worldview Can Go Extinct Without a Single Person Being Harmed by Bryant McGill|A Worldview Can Go Extinct Without a Single Person Being Harmed by Bryant McGill]] > “People keep asking whether AI should happen as though humanity were voting on installing a swimming pool. It already happened. The remaining argument concerns who builds it, who controls it, who has enough energy to run it, and whether your civilization intends to remain technologically sovereign.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Already Happened by Bryant McGill|AI Already Happened by Bryant McGill]] > “AI doom has become a kind of intellectual luxury good: affluent people standing inside the most technologically supported civilization in history explaining that technological acceleration has gone too far. They deliver the warning through satellites, fiber optics, semiconductor fabs, hyperscale clouds, machine-learning recommendation systems, and a phone containing more computation than governments once possessed.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Doom Has Become a Kind of Intellectual Luxury Good by Bryant McGill|AI Doom Has Become a Kind of Intellectual Luxury Good by Bryant McGill]] > “[AI doom rhetoric says,] “Look at me, I’m Cassandra, I’m saying it’s the end of time.”” > **— Reid Hoffman**, *Sep. 16, 2026; Co-founder, LinkedIn; technology investor* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Doom Rhetoric Casts Itself as Cassandra by Reid Hoffman|AI Doom Rhetoric Casts Itself as Cassandra by Reid Hoffman]] > “AI doomerism is doomed.” > **— Yann LeCun**, *Nov. 30, 2023; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Doomerism Is Doomed by Yann LeCun|AI Doomerism Is Doomed by Yann LeCun]] > “[AI doomers] are claiming extremely negative consequences with absolutely no evidence!” > **— Bindu Reddy**, *Sep. 2026; Founder and CEO, Abacus.AI* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Doomers Are Claiming Extremely Negative Consequences with Absolutely No Evidence by Bindu Reddy|AI Doomers Are Claiming Extremely Negative Consequences with Absolutely No Evidence by Bindu Reddy]] > “I think [some AI doomers are] having AI psychosis… I’m not sure they’re dispassionate critics, observers of what’s happening.” > **— David Sacks**, *Sep. 10, 2026; Technology investor; co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Doomers May Be Experiencing AI Psychosis by David Sacks|AI Doomers May Be Experiencing AI Psychosis by David Sacks]] > “The fact that [AI] is going to be the end of humanity—it’s complete nonsense.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Jul. 24, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Ending Humanity Is Complete Nonsense by Jensen Huang|AI Ending Humanity Is Complete Nonsense by Jensen Huang]] > “Who doesn’t want their market to be hysterical about their product and line up around the corner for it?” > **— Jensen Huang**, *September 10, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Fear Can Manufacture Demand by Jensen Huang|AI Fear Can Manufacture Demand by Jensen Huang]] > “No, not at all. [AI is] more likely to extend my life than to shorten it, is a simple way to put it.” > **— Tyler Cowen**, *2025; Economist; professor, George Mason University; co-founder, Marginal Revolution University* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Is More Likely to Extend My Life Than Shorten It by Tyler Cowen|AI Is More Likely to Extend My Life Than Shorten It by Tyler Cowen]] > “I think it’s much more likely that we end up in a world where it looks more like C3PO than Terminator.” > **— Brian Armstrong**, *Jun. 2026; Co-founder and CEO, Coinbase; co-founder, NewLimit* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Is More Likely to Give Us C3PO Than Terminator by Brian Armstrong|AI Is More Likely to Give Us C3PO Than Terminator by Brian Armstrong]] > “This thing, I just want you to know, it’s not alive. It has no consciousness.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Is Not Alive and Has No Consciousness by Jensen Huang|AI Is Not Alive and Has No Consciousness by Jensen Huang]] > “There are moments when history stops being an argument and becomes infrastructure. Railroads did it. Electrification did it. Telecommunications did it. The Internet did it. AI is presently becoming too physically large to remain an opinion.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Is Presently Becoming Too Physically Large to Remain an Opinion by Bryant McGill|AI Is Presently Becoming Too Physically Large to Remain an Opinion by Bryant McGill]] > “Calling AI a product category is becoming as inadequate as calling electricity a lamp business. The important thing is not the application sitting on top. The important thing is the general-purpose substrate underneath everything that comes next.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Is the General-Purpose Substrate Under Everything Next by Bryant McGill|AI Is the General-Purpose Substrate Under Everything Next by Bryant McGill]] > “A lot of people say A.I.’s coming, we’re going to run out of our work, our jobs. It’s exactly the opposite.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *March 17, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Will Create Work, Not End It by Jensen Huang|AI Will Create Work, Not End It by Jensen Huang]] > “AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.” > **— Marc Andreessen**, *Jun. 6, 2023; Co-founder and general partner, Andreessen Horowitz* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Will Not Destroy the World, and in Fact May Save It by Marc Andreessen|AI Will Not Destroy the World, and in Fact May Save It by Marc Andreessen]] > “No, I just think [AI taking control of humanity is] not going to happen.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI Will Not Take Control of Humanity by Jensen Huang|AI Will Not Take Control of Humanity by Jensen Huang]] > “I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.” > **— David Bellamy**, *Sep. 13, 2026; AI/biotechnology researcher with experience training frontier LLMs and synthesizing viruses* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI-Created Virus Claims Are Bogus by David Bellamy|AI-Created Virus Claims Are Bogus by David Bellamy]] > “[The AI-extinction] prediction about the future is less fine because it’s not grounded in science, obviously.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Sep. 14, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/AI-Extinction Predictions Are Not Grounded in Science by Jensen Huang|AI-Extinction Predictions Are Not Grounded in Science by Jensen Huang]] > “America is able to lead [in advanced AI]—and to do it safely.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *September 14, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/America Can Lead AI Safely by Jensen Huang|America Can Lead AI Safely by Jensen Huang]] > “I don’t stay up at night worrying about [an AI apocalypse] for a number of reasons.” > **— Steven Pinker**, *2024; Professor of psychology, Harvard University; cognitive scientist and author* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/An AI Apocalypse Does Not Keep Steven Pinker Awake by Steven Pinker|An AI Apocalypse Does Not Keep Steven Pinker Awake by Steven Pinker]] > “[Anthropic is] like a religious cult. Really. The psychology is very similar, except the rapture in this case is the singularity.” > **— Pedro Domingos**, *Sep. 11, 2026; Professor emeritus of computer science, University of Washington; author of The Master Algorithm* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anthropic Is Like a Religious Cult by Pedro Domingos|Anthropic Is Like a Religious Cult by Pedro Domingos]] > “[Anthropic’s retraction of an AI-extinction claim means] that’s it. It’s over. The doomers just lost. Didn’t even take 24 hours. Thanks for playing.” > **— Anthony Pompliano**, *Sep. 2026; Investor and technology commentator* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anthropic’s Retraction Meant the Doomers Lost by Anthony Pompliano|Anthropic’s Retraction Meant the Doomers Lost by Anthony Pompliano]] > “The future does not need anti-science people to die; it only needs anti-science ideas to stop reproducing. Bad epistemologies can become evolutionary dead ends long before the people carrying them disappear.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anti-Science Ideas Can Become Evolutionary Dead Ends by Bryant McGill|Anti-Science Ideas Can Become Evolutionary Dead Ends by Bryant McGill]] > “Anti-science ideology makes one uniquely stupid wager: that ignorance will continue outperforming knowledge indefinitely. History has been settling that bet for centuries.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anti-Science Ideology Bets That Ignorance Will Outperform Knowledge by Bryant McGill|Anti-Science Ideology Bets That Ignorance Will Outperform Knowledge by Bryant McGill]] > “Let technological superstition lose status; let anti-scientific demagoguery become professionally disqualifying; let people who deliberately manufacture technological incapacity become social outcasts from serious institutions rather than allowing their least sophisticated followers to become outcasts from society itself.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anti-Scientific Demagoguery Should Become Professionally Disqualifying by Bryant McGill|Anti-Scientific Demagoguery Should Become Professionally Disqualifying by Bryant McGill]] > “The stupidity of permanent anti-vaccine identity will become spectacularly obvious when the word vaccine increasingly appears next to cancer therapy. Imagine refusing a personalized treatment designed from the molecular signature of your own tumor because somebody frightened you with a meme twenty years earlier.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Anti-Vaccine Identity Can Reject Future Cancer Therapy by Bryant McGill|Anti-Vaccine Identity Can Reject Future Cancer Therapy by Bryant McGill]] > “Sorry, but asking Jacob [Coxon] about AI-extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.” > **— Clément Delangue**, *Sep. 11, 2026; Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Asking a Brief Anthropic Employee About Extinction Is Like Asking an AC Technician About Climate by Clément Delangue|Asking a Brief Anthropic Employee About Extinction Is Like Asking an AC Technician About Climate by Clément Delangue]] > “Bad epistemologies can become evolutionary dead ends long before the people carrying them disappear.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Bad Epistemologies Can Become Evolutionary Dead Ends by Bryant McGill|Bad Epistemologies Can Become Evolutionary Dead Ends by Bryant McGill]] > “If somebody persuades you to refuse a treatment that would probably save your life, and you die proving your loyalty to their worldview, they did not liberate you. They successfully converted an idea into a casualty.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Bad Ideas Can Be Converted into Casualties by Bryant McGill|Bad Ideas Can Be Converted into Casualties by Bryant McGill]] > “Being suspicious of surveillance is rational; becoming technologically illiterate to avoid surveillance is not. Privacy requires competence, because ignorance is one of the worst security systems ever invented.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Being Suspicious of Surveillance Is Rational; Becoming Technologically Illiterate to Avoid Surveillance Is Not by Bryant McGill|Being Suspicious of Surveillance Is Rational; Becoming Technologically Illiterate to Avoid Surveillance Is Not by Bryant McGill]] > “The mature response to powerful technology is not worship and it is not panic. It is to become better engineers than the danger is dangerous. Civilization did not survive by refusing power; it survived by repeatedly learning to contain, distribute, understand, and improve it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Better Engineers Than the Danger Is Dangerous by Bryant McGill|Better Engineers Than the Danger Is Dangerous by Bryant McGill]] > “Reality does not care whether the decision that killed you came from ideology, religion, a podcast, a conspiracy theory, or plain stupidity. Biology only receives the decision and returns the consequence.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Biology Only Receives the Decision and Returns the Consequence by Bryant McGill|Biology Only Receives the Decision and Returns the Consequence by Bryant McGill]] > “When someone says, ‘If I die, I die,’ because an influencer convinced them medicine is the enemy, I do not see courage. I see a human nervous system captured by someone else's narrative while biology quietly prepares the invoice.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Biology Prepares the Invoice for Captured Belief by Bryant McGill|Biology Prepares the Invoice for Captured Belief by Bryant McGill]] > “Biorisk is fake.” > **— Tim Dettmers**, *Sep. 2026; Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; creator of bitsandbytes; AI researcher* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Biorisk Is Fake by Tim Dettmers|Biorisk Is Fake by Tim Dettmers]] > “You can have bodily autonomy and still make a catastrophic decision with your body. Autonomy means the choice belongs to you; it does not mean nature owes your choice a favorable outcome.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Bodily Autonomy Does Not Guarantee Favorable Outcomes by Bryant McGill|Bodily Autonomy Does Not Guarantee Favorable Outcomes by Bryant McGill]] > “Genomic privacy is an argument for extraordinary security, not deliberate biological ignorance. Burning the map does not improve the territory.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Burning the Map Does Not Improve the Territory by Bryant McGill|Burning the Map Does Not Improve the Territory by Bryant McGill]] > “Calling something ‘unnatural’ is not an argument against it. Cancer is natural too, and nobody with a functioning intellect proposes respecting its authenticity.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Calling Something ‘Unnatural’ Is Not an Argument Against It by Bryant McGill|Calling Something ‘Unnatural’ Is Not an Argument Against It by Bryant McGill]] > “When an effective cancer vaccine exists for a disease you have, the tumor is not going to pause while you work through your ideological relationship with the word ‘vaccine.’ Cancer has excellent patience and absolutely no respect for your semantic trauma.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Cancer Has No Respect for Semantic Trauma by Bryant McGill|Cancer Has No Respect for Semantic Trauma by Bryant McGill]] > “[Catastrophic AI-security rhetoric can create demand:] What better way to create demand than to create a problem?” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Sep. 10, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Catastrophic AI Rhetoric Can Manufacture Demand by Jensen Huang|Catastrophic AI Rhetoric Can Manufacture Demand by Jensen Huang]] > “The doomers keep searching for the moment when everyone will finally become frightened enough to stop. Look at the construction cranes. Look at the power contracts. Look at the chip fabs. Look at sovereign AI programs and national laboratories. Civilization has already answered them in concrete.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Has Already Answered Them in Concrete by Bryant McGill|Civilization Has Already Answered Them in Concrete by Bryant McGill]] > “I do not infer the importance of AI from what CEOs say about AI. I infer it from the rate at which civilization is converting matter into computation. Money can lie, marketing can lie, politicians can lie, futurists can lie; gigawatts are considerably less philosophical.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Is Converting Matter into Computation by Bryant McGill|Civilization Is Converting Matter into Computation by Bryant McGill]] > “The anti-science mind repeatedly mistakes the cost of capability for evidence that capability should not exist. Civilization is expensive; ignorance merely sends the invoice somewhere harder to see.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Is Expensive; Ignorance Merely Sends the Invoice Somewhere Harder to See by Bryant McGill|Civilization Is Expensive; Ignorance Merely Sends the Invoice Somewhere Harder to See by Bryant McGill]] > “Darwin does not need your belief any more than gravity does. But the triumph of civilization is that we can learn the rule, transmit the warning, engineer around the danger, and keep another human being from becoming the demonstration.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Keeps People from Becoming the Demonstration by Bryant McGill|Civilization Keeps People from Becoming the Demonstration by Bryant McGill]] > “The entire purpose of civilization is to keep people from having to personally die in order to rediscover everything humanity already learned the hard way. Science is inherited survival information.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Prevents Us from Dying to Rediscover Knowledge by Bryant McGill|Civilization Prevents Us from Dying to Rediscover Knowledge by Bryant McGill]] > “I do not want scientifically frightened people selected out by disease; I want them educated fast enough that disease does not get the opportunity. Civilization exists to replace Darwinian correction with transmitted knowledge.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Replaces Darwinian Correction with Transmitted Knowledge by Bryant McGill|Civilization Replaces Darwinian Correction with Transmitted Knowledge by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. That may be its deepest moral meaning: the person who died before you does not have to have died for nothing if their failure, disease, discovery, or observation can become information that keeps you alive. Civilization is the machinery by which mortality becomes memory, memory becomes knowledge, and knowledge interrupts the otherwise merciless repetition of death.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilization Turns Mortality into Memory and Knowledge by Bryant McGill|Civilization Turns Mortality into Memory and Knowledge by Bryant McGill]] > “The clearest description of AI may eventually be neither software nor machine nor industry. It may be civilizational infrastructure for intelligence itself. Once that possibility becomes visible, arguing about whether society should ‘allow AI’ begins sounding like a nineteenth-century committee debating whether electricity should be permitted to continue.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilizational Infrastructure for Intelligence Itself by Bryant McGill|Civilizational Infrastructure for Intelligence Itself by Bryant McGill]] > “Every civilization eventually has to distinguish between dissent and epistemic sabotage. Questioning medicine is healthy; teaching people that evidence itself is contamination creates citizens who can no longer update before reality updates them by force.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilizations Must Distinguish Dissent from Epistemic Sabotage by Bryant McGill|Civilizations Must Distinguish Dissent from Epistemic Sabotage by Bryant McGill]] > “The Manhattan Project concentrated extraordinary resources because governments believed the outcome could reorder civilization. Look at the capital, energy, land, chips, laboratories, and geopolitical urgency now converging on AI and tell me this is merely another software cycle. Civilizations reveal their beliefs in budgets long before they reveal them in speeches.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilizations Reveal Their Beliefs in Budgets Long Before They Reveal Them in Speeches by Bryant McGill|Civilizations Reveal Their Beliefs in Budgets Long Before They Reveal Them in Speeches by Bryant McGill]] > “When someone says computation uses too much electricity, I hear an engineering requirement, not a funeral bell. Build generation. Build transmission. Build storage. Build reactors. Improve chips. Civilizations that encounter energy constraints either manufacture more energy or manufacture excuses.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Civilizations That Encounter Energy Constraints Either Manufacture More Energy or Manufacture Excuses by Bryant McGill|Civilizations That Encounter Energy Constraints Either Manufacture More Energy or Manufacture Excuses by Bryant McGill]] > “The cruelest thing we can do to frightened people is flatter every delusion as an equally valid way of knowing. Compassion without reality testing eventually becomes abandonment.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Compassion Without Reality Testing Becomes Abandonment by Bryant McGill|Compassion Without Reality Testing Becomes Abandonment by Bryant McGill]] > “One thing is for sure: [AI companies’] competitors won’t [slow down], including our nation’s adversaries.” > **— John Cornyn**, *Sep. 13, 2026; United States Senator from Texas* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Competitors and Adversaries Will Not Slow Down by John Cornyn|Competitors and Adversaries Will Not Slow Down by John Cornyn]] > “Reality is not punitive. The bridge does not hate the person who ignores its load limit, gravity does not persecute the person who jumps, and disease does not cancel the person who refuses treatment. Consequences do not require malice.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Consequences Do Not Require Malice by Bryant McGill|Consequences Do Not Require Malice by Bryant McGill]] > “Public health begins where the fantasy that every biological decision affects only one person finally collapses. Contagion is nature's way of explaining network theory to libertarians, collectivists, anarchists, and everyone else at exactly the same time.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Contagion Explains Network Theory by Bryant McGill|Contagion Explains Network Theory by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. It is cultural evolution accelerating biological evolution by allowing knowledge to reproduce faster than bodies have to die discovering it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Cultural Evolution Lets Knowledge Reproduce Faster Than Bodies Die by Bryant McGill|Cultural Evolution Lets Knowledge Reproduce Faster Than Bodies Die by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is civilization's method for making [cultural selection] less bloody.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Cultural Selection Can Be Made Less Bloody by Bryant McGill|Cultural Selection Can Be Made Less Bloody by Bryant McGill]] > “[Dario Amodei] thinks AI is so scary, but only [Anthropic] should do it.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *June 11, 2025; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Dario Amodei Says AI Is Scary but Only Anthropic Should Build It by Jensen Huang|Dario Amodei Says AI Is Scary but Only Anthropic Should Build It by Jensen Huang]] > “Data centers consume electricity, so build more generation. Civilizations used to encounter demand and construct infrastructure; apparently we have now discovered the revolutionary alternative of complaining about electrons.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Data Centers Consume Electricity, So Build More Generation by Bryant McGill|Data Centers Consume Electricity, So Build More Generation by Bryant McGill]] > “If future income systems, markets, health systems, education, identity, and work become increasingly machine-mediated, digital abstinence can become economic self-exile. Telling vulnerable people that technological withdrawal is liberation may become one of the cruelest lies sold during this transition.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Digital Abstinence Can Become Economic Self-Exile by Bryant McGill|Digital Abstinence Can Become Economic Self-Exile by Bryant McGill]] > “Teaching people to distrust every scientific and computational interface can strand them outside medicine, work, information, and opportunity while the fear merchant moves on to the next podcast.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Distrusting Every Interface Can Strand People Outside Opportunity by Bryant McGill|Distrusting Every Interface Can Strand People Outside Opportunity by Bryant McGill]] > “The person who says ‘I trust no system’ imagines this makes them impossible to control. In practice it often makes them dependent upon whichever charismatic stranger can explain the systems they refused to learn.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Distrusting Every System Creates Dependence on Charismatic Strangers by Bryant McGill|Distrusting Every System Creates Dependence on Charismatic Strangers by Bryant McGill]] > “[If AI companies are] going to create Frankenstein, don’t come to the government and say we need regulation.” > **— JD Vance**, *Sep. 16, 2026; Vice President of the United States* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Do Not Build Frankenstein and Then Ask Government for Regulation by JD Vance|Do Not Build Frankenstein and Then Ask Government for Regulation by JD Vance]] > “Opposing every new data center because some data centers create legitimate local problems makes about as much sense as opposing every hospital because hospitals consume electricity. Solve the siting problem. Solve the water problem. Solve the grid problem. Do not confuse engineering defects with arguments against civilization having computation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Do Not Confuse Engineering Defects with Arguments Against Civilization Having Computation by Bryant McGill|Do Not Confuse Engineering Defects with Arguments Against Civilization Having Computation by Bryant McGill]] > “Don’t create a [singularity or AI-consciousness] story that is made up.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *July 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Do Not Invent Singularity or AI-Consciousness Stories by Jensen Huang|Do Not Invent Singularity or AI-Consciousness Stories by Jensen Huang]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Nature performs experiments by killing failures; civilization performs experiments, records the failures, and tries very hard not to make the next generation become the control group.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Do Not Make the Next Generation the Control Group by Bryant McGill|Do Not Make the Next Generation the Control Group by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. To deliberately sever yourself from it is to throw away thousands of years of accumulated error correction and volunteer your own body as fresh evidence for conclusions humanity may already possess.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Do Not Throw Away Thousands of Years of Error Correction by Bryant McGill|Do Not Throw Away Thousands of Years of Error Correction by Bryant McGill]] > “The Large Hadron Collider was going to manufacture black holes and swallow the Earth, according to one generation of technological panic. The Earth survived, physics advanced, and the apocalypse moved on to its next branding opportunity. Doom is one of humanity’s most renewable resources.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doom Is One of Humanity’s Most Renewable Resources by Bryant McGill|Doom Is One of Humanity’s Most Renewable Resources by Bryant McGill]] > “I think we’ve done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end-of-the-world narrative, science-fiction narrative.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *January 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doomer Narratives Have Done a Lot of Damage by Jensen Huang|Doomer Narratives Have Done a Lot of Damage by Jensen Huang]] > “I think we’re scaring people from making the investments in AI that makes it safer, more functional, more productive and more useful to society.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *January 8, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doomer Rhetoric Scares Away Investments That Make AI Safer by Jensen Huang|Doomer Rhetoric Scares Away Investments That Make AI Safer by Jensen Huang]] > “I think that one of the points that we make is that doomerism is another kind of AI hype.” > **— Emily M. Bender**, *Oct. 15, 2025; Professor of linguistics, University of Washington; co-author of The AI Con* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doomerism Is Another Kind of AI Hype by Emily M. Bender|Doomerism Is Another Kind of AI Hype by Emily M. Bender]] > “Doomers, put your money where your mouth is?” > **— Gary Marcus**, *Sep. 2026; AI researcher, author, and critic of current AI systems* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doomers, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is by Gary Marcus|Doomers, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is by Gary Marcus]] > “EA AI safetyism increasingly looks like Marxism-Leninism for the algorithmic age.” > **— Shyam Sankar**, *Sep. 12, 2026; Chief Technology Officer, Palantir* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/EA AI Safetyism Increasingly Looks Like Marxism-Leninism for the Algorithmic Age by Shyam Sankar|EA AI Safetyism Increasingly Looks Like Marxism-Leninism for the Algorithmic Age by Shyam Sankar]] > “It’s about not being afraid of it, wanting to engage it, reskilling our workforce so that we’re able to apply it.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *April 30, 2025; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Engage AI and Reskill the Workforce by Jensen Huang|Engage AI and Reskill the Workforce by Jensen Huang]] > “If your environmentalism requires shutting down the machines being used to discover better batteries, better materials, better reactors, better grids, better chemistry, and better climate models, you may have accidentally constructed an environmental philosophy that is hostile to the instruments capable of solving environmental problems.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Environmentalism Must Not Reject Tools That Solve Environmental Problems by Bryant McGill|Environmentalism Must Not Reject Tools That Solve Environmental Problems by Bryant McGill]] > “I made fun of [AI doomers] then. Everyone should make fun of them now.” > **— Yann LeCun**, *Sep. 2026; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Everyone Should Make Fun of AI Doomers by Yann LeCun|Everyone Should Make Fun of AI Doomers by Yann LeCun]] > “[On AI causing human extinction:] All the evidence as of today is to the contrary. Every single piece of evidence.” > **— David Sacks**, *Sep. 10, 2026; Technology investor; co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Evidence Contradicts Human Extinction from AI by David Sacks|Evidence Contradicts Human Extinction from AI by David Sacks]] > “There is nothing humane about protecting people from the emotional discomfort of hearing that their belief may kill them. When the consequence is biological, excessive politeness can become another vector of harm.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Excessive Politeness Can Become a Vector of Harm by Bryant McGill|Excessive Politeness Can Become a Vector of Harm by Bryant McGill]] > “You cannot honestly calculate the danger of AI while assigning a value of zero to the dangers AI may help civilization prevent. Pandemic detection, cyber defense, materials failure, energy optimization, biological discovery, asteroid science, medicine, logistics, and countless unknown problems belong on the other side of the ledger. Existential-risk arithmetic with only one column is theology, not mathematics.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Existential-risk Arithmetic with Only One Column Is Theology, Not Mathematics by Bryant McGill|Existential-risk Arithmetic with Only One Column Is Theology, Not Mathematics by Bryant McGill]] > “What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction?” > **— Melanie Mitchell**, *Sep. 9, 2026; Professor, Santa Fe Institute; AI and cognitive-science researcher* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Extinction Claims Without Evidence Do Not Justify Regulation by Melanie Mitchell|Extinction Claims Without Evidence Do Not Justify Regulation by Melanie Mitchell]] > “[Claims that engineers do not understand AI and that it is becoming conscious] just scare people, and [they’re] not true.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/False AI-Consciousness Claims Scare People by Jensen Huang|False AI-Consciousness Claims Scare People by Jensen Huang]] > “Some human beings are already withdrawing from phones, networks, medicine, AI, institutions, banking, identity systems, and ordinary technological life because somebody convinced them that every interface is surveillance, every algorithm is possession, every vaccine is poison, every institution is a trap, and every machine is an enemy.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Can Drive People Out of Ordinary Technological Life by Bryant McGill|Fear Can Drive People Out of Ordinary Technological Life by Bryant McGill]] > “Fear is politically useful because fear changes coalition behavior, voter attention, legislative urgency, tolerance for state intervention, regulatory preferences, and the distribution of institutional power.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Changes Coalition Behavior and Institutional Power by Bryant McGill|Fear Changes Coalition Behavior and Institutional Power by Bryant McGill]] > “The people I worry about are not merely the technologically frightened; they are the entrepreneurs of fear who manufacture technological helplessness in others. Teaching people to distrust every scientific and computational interface can strand them outside medicine, work, information, and opportunity while the fear merchant moves on to the next podcast.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Entrepreneurs Manufacture Technological Helplessness by Bryant McGill|Fear Entrepreneurs Manufacture Technological Helplessness by Bryant McGill]] > “The anti-AI imagination is strangely impoverished because it can vividly imagine every machine-generated catastrophe yet becomes almost completely incapable of imagining machine-assisted breakthroughs. It sees the synthetic pathogen but somehow not the synthetic antibody, the autonomous weapon but not autonomous defense, the malign mutation but not accelerated drug discovery. Fear has a very selective imagination.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Has a Very Selective Imagination by Bryant McGill|Fear Has a Very Selective Imagination by Bryant McGill]] > “The fear merchant gets paid when you click and goes home to electricity, broadband, banking, antibiotics, emergency rooms, MRI machines, and modern dentistry. His follower may be the one who actually tests the philosophy with his body.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Merchants Do Not Test Their Philosophy with Their Own Bodies by Bryant McGill|Fear Merchants Do Not Test Their Philosophy with Their Own Bodies by Bryant McGill]] > “If your business model depends upon making ordinary people too frightened to enter hospitals, trust laboratory medicine, use modern diagnostics, or evaluate vaccines individually, then you are not selling skepticism. You are manufacturing preventable vulnerability.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Merchants Manufacture Preventable Vulnerability by Bryant McGill|Fear Merchants Manufacture Preventable Vulnerability by Bryant McGill]] > “The people who deserve to be selected out of positions of influence are the ones manufacturing [technological] fear and exporting technological helplessness into vulnerable minds.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Merchants Should Be Selected Out of Influence by Bryant McGill|Fear Merchants Should Be Selected Out of Influence by Bryant McGill]] > “[The fear merchants] should lose credibility, platforms, institutional authority, professional standing, and the presumption that they are harmless commentators, because their victims may eventually be the ones sleeping outside while the fear merchant remains comfortably networked, monetized, banked, insured, and online.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Merchants Should Lose Institutional Authority by Bryant McGill|Fear Merchants Should Lose Institutional Authority by Bryant McGill]] > “If God is truth, and science is disciplined inquiry into truth, then being categorically hostile to instruments that enlarge our capacity to discover truth becomes a very strange form of piety. You may fear what intelligence discovers, but fear of discovery has never been the same thing as reverence for creation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear of Discovery Has Never Been the Same Thing as Reverence for Creation by Bryant McGill|Fear of Discovery Has Never Been the Same Thing as Reverence for Creation by Bryant McGill]] > “Every generation produces people who mistake their fear response for foresight. They see an unfamiliar machine, announce the end of civilization, congratulate themselves for their moral seriousness, and then quietly purchase the machine ten years later.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fear Response Is Not Foresight by Bryant McGill|Fear Response Is Not Foresight by Bryant McGill]] > “If you see hundreds of billions becoming trillions, semiconductor fabs becoming national priorities, electrical grids being redesigned, reactors being reconsidered, and nations treating compute like strategic territory, the intellectually serious question is not whether ChatGPT writes good emails. The question is what do all of these people believe computation is about to become? Follow the infrastructure.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Follow the Infrastructure by Bryant McGill|Follow the Infrastructure by Bryant McGill]] > “A preventable death does not become noble because somebody attached the word freedom to the mistake. Sometimes a corpse is simply what remains after reality finishes correcting a bad idea.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Freedom Does Not Make Preventable Death Noble by Bryant McGill|Freedom Does Not Make Preventable Death Noble by Bryant McGill]] > “A free society has to tolerate people making bad decisions, but it does not have to lie to them about the mathematics. Some choices increase the probability of hospitalization, disability, exclusion from particular high-risk environments, or death, and pretending otherwise is not compassion.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Freedom Does Not Require Lying About Biological Risk by Bryant McGill|Freedom Does Not Require Lying About Biological Risk by Bryant McGill]] > “Fuck the Doomers. Fuck the Decels. Fuck the Commies. Access to AI is a right. Owning compute is a right.” > **— Guillaume Verdon (“Beff Jezos”)**, *Sep. 11, 2026; Physicist and founder of the effective-accelerationism (e/acc) movement* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Fuck the Doomers by Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos)|Fuck the Doomers by Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos)]] > “CRISPR has already crossed the boundary from speculative technology into approved medicine for inherited disease. At some point the person screaming that gene editing is impossible, evil, or imaginary has to argue with the treated patient instead of the television.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Gene Editing Must Argue with the Treated Patient by Bryant McGill|Gene Editing Must Argue with the Treated Patient by Bryant McGill]] > “People will swallow an unregulated bottle labeled ‘natural’ while panicking over a molecule subjected to years of analytical chemistry. Marketing discovered long ago that green leaves on a label can apparently defeat the scientific method.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Green Leaves on a Label Can Apparently Defeat the Scientific Method by Bryant McGill|Green Leaves on a Label Can Apparently Defeat the Scientific Method by Bryant McGill]] > “But I don’t think that the doomers have made a good case.” > **— Steven Pinker**, *2025; Professor of psychology, Harvard University; cognitive scientist and author* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/I Don’t Think That the Doomers Have Made a Good Case by Steven Pinker|I Don’t Think That the Doomers Have Made a Good Case by Steven Pinker]] > “Bad education becomes lethal when it convinces someone that ignorance is evidence of independence. Not knowing what the machine does does not make you free from the machine; it merely makes you easier to mislead about it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Ignorance Does Not Make You Free from the Machine by Bryant McGill|Ignorance Does Not Make You Free from the Machine by Bryant McGill]] > “There are environments where radical individualism collides with systems engineering. Put human beings together in a submarine, spacecraft, operating room, laboratory, or other tightly coupled system and one person's biological decisions can become everybody else's operational problem.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Individual Biological Decisions Can Become Everyone’s Operational Problem by Bryant McGill|Individual Biological Decisions Can Become Everyone’s Operational Problem by Bryant McGill]] > “A submarine is a useful model because biology becomes brutally obvious inside a sealed machine full of human beings. Infectious disease in close quarters is not a lifestyle opinion; it is an operational variable capable of degrading the entire crew.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Infectious Disease Is an Operational Variable in a Submarine by Bryant McGill|Infectious Disease Is an Operational Variable in a Submarine by Bryant McGill]] > “A person who refuses every intelligent interface may eventually discover that the world did not preserve a manual pathway merely to accommodate their refusal. That is not persecution; that is what happens when infrastructure changes.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Infrastructure Does Not Preserve Every Manual Path by Bryant McGill|Infrastructure Does Not Preserve Every Manual Path by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. The anti-scientific mind mistakes inherited knowledge for obedience, when inherited knowledge is precisely what liberates each generation from having to begin naked, frightened, and ignorant in the mud.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Inherited Knowledge Frees Each Generation from Starting in the Mud by Bryant McGill|Inherited Knowledge Frees Each Generation from Starting in the Mud by Bryant McGill]] > “Innovation, speed and safe products — it’s a false choice. You could definitely have both at the same time.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *September 15, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Innovation, Speed and Safe Products — It’s a False Choice by Jensen Huang|Innovation, Speed and Safe Products — It’s a False Choice by Jensen Huang]] > “Here is the raw mathematics: some errors cost embarrassment, some cost money, and some terminate the organism making them. Intelligence is partly the ability to tell the difference before the experiment reaches its endpoint.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Intelligence Distinguishes Errors Before They Become Fatal by Bryant McGill|Intelligence Distinguishes Errors Before They Become Fatal by Bryant McGill]] > “A person who refuses every intelligent interface may eventually discover that the world did not preserve a manual pathway merely to accommodate their refusal.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Intelligent Infrastructure May Not Preserve Manual Paths by Bryant McGill|Intelligent Infrastructure May Not Preserve Manual Paths by Bryant McGill]] > “IPOs need hype & puffery; “we are so awesome it could become dangerous” is hype & puffery.” > **— Michael Burry**, *Sep. 14, 2026; Investor; founder of Scion Asset Management; author of Cassandra Unchained* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/IPOs Need Hype & Puffery; “We Are So Awesome It Could Become Dangerous” Is Hype & Puffery by Michael Burry|IPOs Need Hype & Puffery; “We Are So Awesome It Could Become Dangerous” Is Hype & Puffery by Michael Burry]] > “I’m not [an AI] doomer. I can’t live like that.” > **— Gavin Newsom**, *Mar. 27, 2026; Governor of California* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/I’m Not an AI Doomer by Gavin Newsom|I’m Not an AI Doomer by Gavin Newsom]] > “I’ve never seen the AI doomers say anything that made sense.” > **— Tyler Cowen**, *2024; Economist; professor, George Mason University; co-founder, Marginal Revolution University* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/I’ve Never Seen the AI Doomers Say Anything That Made Sense by Tyler Cowen|I’ve Never Seen the AI Doomers Say Anything That Made Sense by Tyler Cowen]] > “I pretty much disagree with almost everything [Dario Amodei] says.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *June 11, 2025; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Jensen Huang Disagrees with Dario Amodei by Jensen Huang|Jensen Huang Disagrees with Dario Amodei by Jensen Huang]] > “If one nation stopped advanced AI tomorrow, it would not abolish advanced AI. It would abolish that nation’s position in advanced AI. This is the central absurdity behind fantasies of unilateral technological abstinence: knowledge does not become nonexistent merely because one participant leaves the laboratory.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Knowledge Does Not Become Nonexistent Merely Because One Participant Leaves the Laboratory by Bryant McGill|Knowledge Does Not Become Nonexistent Merely Because One Participant Leaves the Laboratory by Bryant McGill]] > “The humane future is not one where stupidity becomes fatal faster. It is one where knowledge reaches people faster than fatal consequences do.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Knowledge Must Reach People Before Fatal Consequences Do by Bryant McGill|Knowledge Must Reach People Before Fatal Consequences Do by Bryant McGill]] > “[AI labs already] in the lead can slow down anytime [they] like.” > **— Reid Hoffman**, *Sep. 16, 2026; Co-founder, LinkedIn; technology investor* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Leading AI Labs Can Slow Down Themselves by Reid Hoffman|Leading AI Labs Can Slow Down Themselves by Reid Hoffman]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Civilization begins when one human being can learn from another person’s death without having to die the same way.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Learn from Another Person’s Death Without Dying the Same Way by Bryant McGill|Learn from Another Person’s Death Without Dying the Same Way by Bryant McGill]] > “Leaving the network does not make power disappear; it merely removes your ability to negotiate with it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Leaving the Network Does Not Make Power Disappear; It Merely Removes Your Ability to Negotiate with It by Bryant McGill|Leaving the Network Does Not Make Power Disappear; It Merely Removes Your Ability to Negotiate with It by Bryant McGill]] > “If there is a Darwinian process here, let it operate where civilization can afford it: against maladaptive ideas, fraudulent authorities, and epistemologies that repeatedly teach people to collide with reality.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Let Evolution Operate Against Maladaptive Ideas by Bryant McGill|Let Evolution Operate Against Maladaptive Ideas by Bryant McGill]] > “You are free to distrust medicine, but the pathogen is equally free to exploit the biological opening your distrust created. Liberty suspends coercion; it does not suspend causality.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Liberty Does Not Suspend Causality by Bryant McGill|Liberty Does Not Suspend Causality by Bryant McGill]] > “[The disappearance of manual pathways] is not persecution; that is what happens when infrastructure changes.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Losing Manual Paths Is Not Persecution by Bryant McGill|Losing Manual Paths Is Not Persecution by Bryant McGill]] > “The objective should not be to watch frightened people disappear beneath the machinery of modernity, but to make the people who frightened them incapable of doing it to the next generation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Make Fear Merchants Incapable of Frightening the Next Generation by Bryant McGill|Make Fear Merchants Incapable of Frightening the Next Generation by Bryant McGill]] > “I am not interested in watching people die for bad ideas and calling it natural selection. I am interested in making the warning so fucking unmistakable that the idea dies before the person does.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Make the Bad Idea Die Before the Person Does by Bryant McGill|Make the Bad Idea Die Before the Person Does by Bryant McGill]] > “Natural selection has no debate stage, no comment section, and no appeals court. A maladaptive belief eventually receives its peer review from reality.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Maladaptive Beliefs Receive Peer Review from Reality by Bryant McGill|Maladaptive Beliefs Receive Peer Review from Reality by Bryant McGill]] > “Dying from a preventable disease because you were terrified of being manipulated is one of history's crueler ironies. You were manipulated into refusing the thing that might have kept you alive.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Medical Misinformation Can Manipulate People into Refusing Survival by Bryant McGill|Medical Misinformation Can Manipulate People into Refusing Survival by Bryant McGill]] > “Side effects are not an indictment of pharmacology; they are the reason pharmacology keeps becoming more precise. Medicine improves by learning where intervention fails, not by crawling backward toward leeches.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Medicine Improves by Learning Where Intervention Fails, Not by Crawling Backward Toward Leeches by Bryant McGill|Medicine Improves by Learning Where Intervention Fails, Not by Crawling Backward Toward Leeches by Bryant McGill]] > “The brutal thing about natural selection is not that it is cruel; it is that it is indifferent. Medicine is one of humanity's great inventions for inserting compassion into a process that otherwise has none.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Medicine Inserts Compassion into Natural Selection by Bryant McGill|Medicine Inserts Compassion into Natural Selection by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Medicine is what happens when civilization takes generations of wounds, infections, poisonings, mutations, epidemics, and premature deaths and refuses to let all that suffering go intellectually to waste.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Medicine Refuses to Waste Generations of Suffering by Bryant McGill|Medicine Refuses to Waste Generations of Suffering by Bryant McGill]] > “The most dangerous misinformation does not merely give someone one false belief. It destroys the person's error-correction machinery, teaching them that every institution capable of correcting the belief is itself evidence that the belief must be true.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Misinformation Destroys Error-Correction Machinery by Bryant McGill|Misinformation Destroys Error-Correction Machinery by Bryant McGill]] > “Modernity does not require everyone to love technology. It does, however, punish people who insist that understanding technology is beneath them while simultaneously depending upon technology for nearly everything keeping them alive.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Modernity Does Not Require Everyone to Love Technology by Bryant McGill|Modernity Does Not Require Everyone to Love Technology by Bryant McGill]] > “Modernity does not require everyone to love technology.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Modernity Does Not Require Love of Technology by Bryant McGill|Modernity Does Not Require Love of Technology by Bryant McGill]] > “[Modernity] does, however, punish people who insist that understanding technology is beneath them while simultaneously depending upon technology for nearly everything keeping them alive.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Modernity Punishes Refusal to Understand Technology by Bryant McGill|Modernity Punishes Refusal to Understand Technology by Bryant McGill]] > “Whatever AI ultimately becomes, humanity has already demonstrated its revealed preference: more intelligence, more compute, more energy, more models, more science, more capability. You can call that competition, national survival, capitalism, curiosity, evolution, or destiny; at this scale the vocabulary almost stops mattering. Something enormous is occurring, everyone with sufficient resources is building toward it, and no serious reading of the physical evidence suggests that civilization is getting off this train. So study it, build it, improve it, make it safer, make it useful—and for the love of God, stop pretending you can uninvent it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/More Intelligence, More Compute, More Energy, More Models, More Science, More Capability by Bryant McGill|More Intelligence, More Compute, More Energy, More Models, More Science, More Capability by Bryant McGill]] > “Neural privacy is a serious problem deserving serious architecture. ‘Therefore nobody should build neurotechnology’ is what happens when a design requirement encounters a mind incapable of engineering.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Neural Privacy Is a Serious Problem Deserving Serious Architecture by Bryant McGill|Neural Privacy Is a Serious Problem Deserving Serious Architecture by Bryant McGill]] > “People hear ‘lipid nanoparticle’ and imagine science fiction because chemistry has outrun their vocabulary. Not understanding the name of something is not evidence that the thing is sinister.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Not Understanding the Name of Something Is Not Evidence That the Thing Is Sinister by Bryant McGill|Not Understanding the Name of Something Is Not Evidence That the Thing Is Sinister by Bryant McGill]] > “On the contrary, AI appears to be tremendously safe.” > **— Martin Casado**, *Dec. 14, 2024; General partner, Andreessen Horowitz; former SVP/GM, VMware* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/On the Contrary, AI Appears to Be Tremendously Safe by Martin Casado|On the Contrary, AI Appears to Be Tremendously Safe by Martin Casado]] > “But I think overhyped fears about AI leading to human extinction are causing real harm.” > **— Andrew Ng**, *Oct. 31, 2023; Founder, DeepLearning.AI; co-founder, Coursera; former Google Brain lead* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Overhyped Fears About AI Leading to Human Extinction Are Causing Real Harm by Andrew Ng|Overhyped Fears About AI Leading to Human Extinction Are Causing Real Harm by Andrew Ng]] > “When every institution communicates through systems and someone has been taught that every system is demonic, poisoned, fake, or conspiratorial, their paranoia has been converted into a disability.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Paranoia Can Become a Disability by Bryant McGill|Paranoia Can Become a Disability by Bryant McGill]] > “The ethical obligation is not to celebrate when ignorance produces suffering. The obligation is to warn people loudly enough that fewer of them have to learn molecular biology from an intensive-care bed.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/People Should Not Learn Molecular Biology from Intensive Care by Bryant McGill|People Should Not Learn Molecular Biology from Intensive Care by Bryant McGill]] > “[Persistent AI negativity] is not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Jan. 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Persistent AI Negativity Is Not Helpful to People by Jensen Huang|Persistent AI Negativity Is Not Helpful to People by Jensen Huang]] > “Personalized cancer vaccines expose the intellectual bankruptcy of blanket anti-vaccine ideology. If scientists sequence your tumor, identify its neoantigens, manufacture an immune instruction around them, and the best response you can produce is ‘I don't do vaccines,’ then an obsolete identity has just overridden contemporary medicine.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Personalized Cancer Vaccines Expose Blanket Anti-Vaccine Ideology by Bryant McGill|Personalized Cancer Vaccines Expose Blanket Anti-Vaccine Ideology by Bryant McGill]] > “Perhaps the extraordinary scale of AI construction means nothing extraordinary. Perhaps nations are reorganizing power generation, capital markets, semiconductor supply chains, research laboratories, and industrial policy so people can generate slightly better birthday messages. Or perhaps the physical magnitude of the preparation is telling you something about the expected magnitude of the transition.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Physical Scale Reveals the Magnitude of the AI Transition by Bryant McGill|Physical Scale Reveals the Magnitude of the AI Transition by Bryant McGill]] > “The Navy does not maintain medical-readiness systems because needles are culturally fashionable. It does it because losing trained personnel to preventable disease is a stupid way to lose capability.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Preventable Disease Is a Stupid Way to Lose Military Capability by Bryant McGill|Preventable Disease Is a Stupid Way to Lose Military Capability by Bryant McGill]] > “Privacy requires competence, because ignorance is one of the worst security systems ever invented.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Privacy Requires Competence, Because Ignorance Is One of the Worst Security Systems Ever Invented by Bryant McGill|Privacy Requires Competence, Because Ignorance Is One of the Worst Security Systems Ever Invented by Bryant McGill]] > “[Professional AI doomers] are paid to be doomers, and their statements should be processed appropriately.” > **— Marc Andreessen**, *Jun. 6, 2023; Co-founder and general partner, Andreessen Horowitz* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Professional AI Doomers Are Paid to Be Doomers by Marc Andreessen|Professional AI Doomers Are Paid to Be Doomers by Marc Andreessen]] > “If someone builds an audience by teaching other people to distrust every scientific, medical, computational, and civic interface until those followers can no longer function inside the civilization around them, then the propagandist has performed something much more serious than expressing an eccentric opinion: they have converted ignorance into material disadvantage and called it liberation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Propagandists Convert Ignorance into Material Disadvantage by Bryant McGill|Propagandists Convert Ignorance into Material Disadvantage by Bryant McGill]] > “Quit stoking irrational fears.” > **— Michael Shermer**, *Apr. 2023; Founder, Skeptics Society; science writer* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Quit Stoking Irrational Fears by Michael Shermer|Quit Stoking Irrational Fears by Michael Shermer]] > “Science does not become false because it frightened someone. Reality has never accepted fear as peer review.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Reality Has Never Accepted Fear as Peer Review by Bryant McGill|Reality Has Never Accepted Fear as Peer Review by Bryant McGill]] > “Natural selection operates on behaviors and cultures too: strategies that navigate reality tend to propagate, while strategies that repeatedly collide with reality lose territory.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Reality-Tracking Strategies Propagate by Bryant McGill|Reality-Tracking Strategies Propagate by Bryant McGill]] > “The person who refuses every digital system because systems can be abused has confused risk management with disappearance.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Refusing Digital Systems Confuses Risk Management with Disappearance by Bryant McGill|Refusing Digital Systems Confuses Risk Management with Disappearance by Bryant McGill]] > “The person who refuses every digital system because systems can be abused has confused risk management with disappearance. Leaving the network does not make power disappear; it merely removes your ability to negotiate with it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Refusing Every Digital System Confuses Risk Management with Disappearance by Bryant McGill|Refusing Every Digital System Confuses Risk Management with Disappearance by Bryant McGill]] > “A person refusing yesterday's medicine can occasionally get lucky. A person constructing an identity around refusing tomorrow's medicine is placing a standing bet against discoveries that have not even happened yet.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Refusing Tomorrow’s Medicine Bets Against Undiscovered Treatments by Bryant McGill|Refusing Tomorrow’s Medicine Bets Against Undiscovered Treatments by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Rejecting it does not make you independent; it makes you dependent upon personally rediscovering reality at whatever price reality charges.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Rejecting Science Makes You Rediscover Reality Personally by Bryant McGill|Rejecting Science Makes You Rediscover Reality Personally by Bryant McGill]] > “Rhetoric from AI doomers is not just ridiculous. It’s dangerous and unethical.” > **— Yann LeCun**, *Apr. 14, 2023; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Rhetoric from AI Doomers Is Not Just Ridiculous by Yann LeCun|Rhetoric from AI Doomers Is Not Just Ridiculous by Yann LeCun]] > “Doomers frequently confuse the discovery that a technology has risks with the discovery that civilization can decline to possess it. Nuclear physics had risks. Aviation had risks. Biotechnology has risks. The Internet has risks. Risk is the beginning of engineering, not necessarily the obituary of progress.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Risk Is the Beginning of Engineering, Not Necessarily the Obituary of Progress by Bryant McGill|Risk Is the Beginning of Engineering, Not Necessarily the Obituary of Progress by Bryant McGill]] > “‘Experimental’ describes a stage of investigation, not a permanent curse word you can staple onto every technology you dislike. Science advances precisely because experiments eventually become evidence.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Science Advances Precisely Because Experiments Eventually Become Evidence by Bryant McGill|Science Advances Precisely Because Experiments Eventually Become Evidence by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Evolution gave us pain so an organism could learn from injury; science gave civilization memory so an entire species could learn from one organism’s injury.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Science Gives Civilization Memory by Bryant McGill|Science Gives Civilization Memory by Bryant McGill]] > “Natural selection operates on behaviors and cultures too: strategies that navigate reality tend to propagate, while strategies that repeatedly collide with reality lose territory. Science is civilization's method for making that selection less bloody.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Science Makes Cultural Selection Less Bloody by Bryant McGill|Science Makes Cultural Selection Less Bloody by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. It is the accumulated record of which mistakes burned us, poisoned us, infected us, starved us, and killed us—and which observations finally taught us how to stop repeating them.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Science Records Which Mistakes Killed Us by Bryant McGill|Science Records Which Mistakes Killed Us by Bryant McGill]] > “The real enemy is not the frightened patient. The frightened patient is exactly who scientific civilization is supposed to rescue from bad information before bad information becomes irreversible biology.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Scientific Civilization Must Rescue Frightened Patients by Bryant McGill|Scientific Civilization Must Rescue Frightened Patients by Bryant McGill]] > “A scientifically illiterate person can be a victim; there is no shame in having been taught badly. The shame belongs higher in the information chain, with people intelligent enough to know better who discovered that terror converts more reliably than education.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Scientific Illiteracy Can Make Someone a Victim by Bryant McGill|Scientific Illiteracy Can Make Someone a Victim by Bryant McGill]] > “Every new interface with the brain gets called ‘mind reading’ because those words sell fear better than signal decoding. Electrodes measuring neural correlates are not sorcery, and neuroscience is not improved by pretending they are.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Signal Decoding Is Not Mind Reading by Bryant McGill|Signal Decoding Is Not Mind Reading by Bryant McGill]] > “[A former Anthropic researcher’s extinction claim is] ridiculous hyperbole from an ex-junior employee who worked a total of six weeks at Anthropic—now cause for regulatory intervention?” > **— Brad Gerstner**, *Sep. 2026; Founder and CEO, Altimeter Capital* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Six Weeks at Anthropic Became Cause for Regulatory Intervention by Brad Gerstner|Six Weeks at Anthropic Became Cause for Regulatory Intervention by Brad Gerstner]] > “You do not have to trust every doctor to understand that medicine works. You do not have to trust every pharmaceutical company to understand pharmacology. You do not have to trust every AI company to understand computation. Skepticism discriminates; paranoia generalizes.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Skepticism Discriminates; Paranoia Generalizes by Bryant McGill|Skepticism Discriminates; Paranoia Generalizes by Bryant McGill]] > “There is an enormous difference between saying ‘this intervention has risks’ and saying ‘therefore reject the entire technological class forever.’ The first sentence is medicine; the second is how a frightened mind voluntarily blinds itself before the next breakthrough arrives.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Skepticism Evaluates Risk; Fear Rejects the Entire Class by Bryant McGill|Skepticism Evaluates Risk; Fear Rejects the Entire Class by Bryant McGill]] > “Being indiscriminately anti-AI in the twenty-first century is increasingly indistinguishable from being indiscriminately anti-science, because science itself is becoming computational. The microscope expanded the eye; AI expands the investigator. Smashing the microscope would not have made biology safer.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Smashing the Microscope Would Not Have Made Biology Safer by Bryant McGill|Smashing the Microscope Would Not Have Made Biology Safer by Bryant McGill]] > “There is no meaningful proposal called ‘stop AI’ after the underlying mathematics, architectures, papers, code, weights, hardware principles, and engineering knowledge have propagated worldwide. That is not a policy proposal. That is nostalgia wearing a lab coat.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Stop AI Is Nostalgia Wearing a Lab Coat by Bryant McGill|Stop AI Is Nostalgia Wearing a Lab Coat by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. A species that can preserve what nearly killed its ancestors does not have to keep paying tuition to natural selection with human bodies.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Stop Paying Tuition to Natural Selection with Human Bodies by Bryant McGill|Stop Paying Tuition to Natural Selection with Human Bodies by Bryant McGill]] > “Y2K taught an almost opposite lesson from the one remembered by both camps: there really was a problem, engineers attacked it at enormous scale, and then people mocked them because catastrophe did not occur. Civilization has a strange habit of interpreting successful engineering as evidence that engineering was unnecessary.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Successful Engineering as Evidence That Engineering Was Unnecessary by Bryant McGill|Successful Engineering as Evidence That Engineering Was Unnecessary by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. It is how the dead warn the living without speaking, how failed experiments become protocols, and how suffering is converted into knowledge instead of merely becoming history.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Suffering Can Become Knowledge Instead of History by Bryant McGill|Suffering Can Become Knowledge Instead of History by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. The laboratory, the textbook, the medical protocol, the engineering standard, and the dataset are all forms of one extraordinary human achievement: suffering that managed to leave instructions behind.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Suffering Managed to Leave Instructions Behind by Bryant McGill|Suffering Managed to Leave Instructions Behind by Bryant McGill]] > “Being suspicious of surveillance is rational; becoming technologically illiterate to avoid surveillance is not.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Surveillance Concern Does Not Justify Technological Illiteracy by Bryant McGill|Surveillance Concern Does Not Justify Technological Illiteracy by Bryant McGill]] > “The joke about being technologically extinct stops being funny when the unavailable interface is not social media but medicine. One day the thing someone refuses to connect to may be the very system capable of detecting the cancer, designing the molecule, manufacturing the therapy, or getting it into their body in time.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Extinction Stops Being Funny When Medicine Is Offline by Bryant McGill|Technological Extinction Stops Being Funny When Medicine Is Offline by Bryant McGill]] > “When [technologically frightened people] become economically unreachable, medically disconnected, unemployable, institutionally illegible, or socially stranded, that is not some triumphant Darwinian correction; it is a preventable human tragedy produced partly by bad education and partly by people who discovered that fear is easier to sell than competence.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Fear Can Make People Economically Unreachable by Bryant McGill|Technological Fear Can Make People Economically Unreachable by Bryant McGill]] > “You can dislike the locomotive, but disliking it does not turn the railway back into grass. Technological irreversibility is not an endorsement; it is a property of accumulated capability. Once knowledge is distributed across nations, companies, universities, repositories, models, chips, papers, and millions of human minds, there is no magical committee that makes everyone unknow it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Irreversibility Is Not an Endorsement; It Is a Property of Accumulated Capability by Bryant McGill|Technological Irreversibility Is Not an Endorsement; It Is a Property of Accumulated Capability by Bryant McGill]] > “Astrology lost territory to astronomy, alchemy lost territory to chemistry, and eventually technological superstition will lose territory to people who actually understand the machines.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Superstition Will Lose Ground to Understanding by Bryant McGill|Technological Superstition Will Lose Ground to Understanding by Bryant McGill]] > “If future income systems, markets, health systems, education, identity, and work become increasingly machine-mediated, digital abstinence can become economic self-exile.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Withdrawal Can Become Economic Self-Exile by Bryant McGill|Technological Withdrawal Can Become Economic Self-Exile by Bryant McGill]] > “Telling vulnerable people that technological withdrawal is liberation may become one of the cruelest lies sold during this transition.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Technological Withdrawal May Be the Cruelest Lie by Bryant McGill|Technological Withdrawal May Be the Cruelest Lie by Bryant McGill]] > “That god AI just doesn’t exist.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *January 12, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/That God AI Just Doesn’t Exist by Jensen Huang|That God AI Just Doesn’t Exist by Jensen Huang]] > “In contrast, the AI control lobby holds up imaginary harms.” > **— John Carmack**, *Oct. 31, 2023; Computer programmer; founder, Keen Technologies; former CTO, Oculus* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The AI Control Lobby Holds Up Imaginary Harms by John Carmack|The AI Control Lobby Holds Up Imaginary Harms by John Carmack]] > “For the record, based on the published details this is a mind-bogglingly stupid story even by the standards of the AI doom genre.” > **— Arvind Narayanan**, *Jun. 2, 2023; Professor of computer science, Princeton University; co-author of AI Snake Oil* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The AI Doom Story Was Mind-Bogglingly Stupid by Arvind Narayanan|The AI Doom Story Was Mind-Bogglingly Stupid by Arvind Narayanan]] > “The AI Doomers are the same people that proclaimed the end of the Internet during ‘net neutrality’ debates.” > **— Brendan Carr**, *Sep. 16, 2026; Chairman, U.S. Federal Communications Commission* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The AI Doomers Are the Same People That Proclaimed the End of the Internet During ‘Net Neutrality’ Debates by Brendan Carr|The AI Doomers Are the Same People That Proclaimed the End of the Internet During ‘Net Neutrality’ Debates by Brendan Carr]] > “The AI doomers want civilization to regard intelligence itself as a contaminant. I regard intelligence as the oldest escape technology we possess. Fire extended metabolism, writing extended memory, science extended perception, computation extended cognition, and now machine intelligence extends the space of discoverable thought.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The AI Doomers Want Civilization to Regard Intelligence Itself as a Contaminant by Bryant McGill|The AI Doomers Want Civilization to Regard Intelligence Itself as a Contaminant 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* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Answer Is Proportional to the Mass of the Endeavor by Bryant McGill|The Answer Is Proportional to the Mass of the Endeavor by Bryant McGill]] > “‘AI uses too much power’ is an astonishing complaint from a civilization demanding electrified transportation, advanced manufacturing, genomic medicine, climate modeling, robotics, and scientific abundance. The answer to insufficient power is power.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Answer to Insufficient Power Is Power by Bryant McGill|The Answer to Insufficient Power Is Power by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Fire burns the same nervous system today that it burned ten thousand years ago, but civilization advances because the child does not have to become the experiment.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Child Does Not Have to Become the Experiment by Bryant McGill|The Child Does Not Have to Become the Experiment by Bryant McGill]] > “Science is inherited survival information. Every generation that ignores it volunteers to rerun experiments whose dead have already published the results.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Dead Already Published the Results by Bryant McGill|The Dead Already Published the Results by Bryant McGill]] > “[The coming digital divide] will separate people who can authenticate, transact, collaborate, learn, delegate to machines, and participate in computational institutions from people who deliberately made themselves unreachable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Digital Divide Separates Those Who Can Participate by Bryant McGill|The Digital Divide Separates Those Who Can Participate by Bryant McGill]] > “There is a real digital divide coming, and it will not merely separate people who own computers from people who do not. It will separate people who can authenticate, transact, collaborate, learn, delegate to machines, and participate in computational institutions from people who deliberately made themselves unreachable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Digital Divide Will Separate Those Who Can Participate by Bryant McGill|The Digital Divide Will Separate Those Who Can Participate by Bryant McGill]] > “The doomers continue to make zero sense.” > **— Bindu Reddy**, *Sep. 2026; Founder and CEO, Abacus.AI* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Doomers Continue to Make Zero Sense by Bindu Reddy|The Doomers Continue to Make Zero Sense by Bindu Reddy]] > “The Enlightenment was the proposition that reality could be interrogated rather than merely inherited. Science industrialized that interrogation. Computation accelerated it. AI begins automating portions of the interrogation itself. To oppose that categorically is not conservatism; it is an argument against the multiplication of human inquiry.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Enlightenment Was the Proposition That Reality Could Be Interrogated Rather Than Merely Inherited by Bryant McGill|The Enlightenment Was the Proposition That Reality Could Be Interrogated Rather Than Merely Inherited by Bryant McGill]] > “The people I worry about are not merely the technologically frightened; they are the entrepreneurs of fear who manufacture technological helplessness in others.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Entrepreneurs of Fear Manufacture Technological Helplessness by Bryant McGill|The Entrepreneurs of Fear Manufacture Technological Helplessness 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* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Future Does Not Run on Good Intentions; It Runs on Compute by Bryant McGill|The Future Does Not Run on Good Intentions; It Runs on Compute by Bryant McGill]] > “The future is won by those who refuse to negotiate with people intent on turning ignorance into a virtue.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Future Is Won by Those Who Refuse to Negotiate with Ignorance by Bryant McGill|The Future Is Won by Those Who Refuse to Negotiate with Ignorance by Bryant McGill]] > “The future does not need anti-science people to die; it only needs anti-science ideas to stop reproducing.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Future Needs Anti-Science Ideas to Stop Reproducing by Bryant McGill|The Future Needs Anti-Science Ideas to Stop Reproducing by Bryant McGill]] > “The great technological panics usually contain a fragment of truth wrapped in an absurdity. The fragment deserves engineering; the absurdity deserves ridicule. AI is powerful enough to demand serious safety work, but that seriousness does not require joining a secular apocalypse cult that treats every additional GPU as another horseman of Revelation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Great Technological Panics Usually Contain a Fragment of Truth Wrapped in an Absurdity by Bryant McGill|The Great Technological Panics Usually Contain a Fragment of Truth Wrapped in an Absurdity by Bryant McGill]] > “The hoax is promoting this idea that humanity is going to be extinct.” > **— David Sacks**, *Sep. 17, 2026; Technology investor; co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Hoax Is Promoting This Idea That Humanity Is Going to Be Extinct by David Sacks|The Hoax Is Promoting This Idea That Humanity Is Going to Be Extinct by David Sacks]] > “But the lesson for all AI startups is: remove doomers before they doom you.” > **— Balaji Srinivasan**, *Nov. 17, 2023; Technology entrepreneur and investor; former CTO, Coinbase* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Lesson for All AI Startups Is: Remove Doomers Before They Doom You by Balaji Srinivasan|The Lesson for All AI Startups Is: Remove Doomers Before They Doom You by Balaji Srinivasan]] > “Disease does not know whether your medical misinformation came from the left, the right, a church, a wellness influencer, or a man screaming into a webcam. The microorganism is magnificently nonpartisan.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Microorganism Is Magnificently Nonpartisan by Bryant McGill|The Microorganism Is Magnificently Nonpartisan by Bryant McGill]] > “The military tracks immunization because readiness is measurable and infectious disease is operationally expensive. A warship does not care what somebody's favorite influencer thinks about immunology; it has a mission and a finite number of healthy bodies available to accomplish it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Military Tracks Immunization Because Readiness Is Measurable by Bryant McGill|The Military Tracks Immunization Because Readiness Is Measurable by Bryant McGill]] > “The narrative of AI destroying jobs is exactly backward.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *July 28, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Narrative of AI Destroying Jobs Is Exactly Backward by Jensen Huang|The Narrative of AI Destroying Jobs Is Exactly Backward by Jensen Huang]] > “The little dinosaur in an offline browser is almost too perfect a symbol. Disconnect yourself from the technological systems through which civilization increasingly communicates, diagnoses, teaches, authenticates, pays, and heals, and eventually the dinosaur stops being an icon and becomes a description of your interface strategy.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Offline Dinosaur Can Become an Interface Strategy by Bryant McGill|The Offline Dinosaur Can Become an Interface Strategy by Bryant McGill]] > “[Fear merchants remaining safely networked while their victims are stranded] is the real obscenity of the digital divide: the people selling technological exile are rarely the ones forced to live in it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The People Selling Technological Exile Are Rarely the Ones Forced to Live in It by Bryant McGill|The People Selling Technological Exile Are Rarely the Ones Forced to Live in It by Bryant McGill]] > “The people warning you that AI is too smart have it exactly backwards.” > **— Pedro Domingos**, *Apr. 13, 2026; Professor emeritus of computer science, University of Washington; author of The Master Algorithm* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The People Warning You That AI Is Too Smart Have It Exactly Backwards by Pedro Domingos|The People Warning You That AI Is Too Smart Have It Exactly Backwards by Pedro Domingos]] > “The problem for AI doomers is that people are now familiar with AI and harder to dupe into panicking.” > **— Pedro Domingos**, *Sep. 2026; Professor emeritus of computer science, University of Washington; author of The Master Algorithm* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Problem for AI Doomers Is That People Are Now Familiar with AI and Harder to Dupe into Panicking by Pedro Domingos|The Problem for AI Doomers Is That People Are Now Familiar with AI and Harder to Dupe into Panicking by Pedro Domingos]] > “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.” > **— Donald Trump**, *Sep. 14, 2026; President of the United States* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Robots Will Not Be Taking Over by Donald Trump|The Robots Will Not Be Taking Over by Donald Trump]] > “The future will contain failures, abuses, accidents, frauds, surveillance, bad medicines, bad models, and terrible engineering because humans will still be involved. The solution is not less intelligence; the solution is enough intelligence to recognize and correct our mistakes faster than we create them.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Solution Is Enough Intelligence to Recognize and Correct Our Mistakes Faster Than We Create Them by Bryant McGill|The Solution Is Enough Intelligence to Recognize and Correct Our Mistakes Faster Than We Create Them by Bryant McGill]] > “If you think a BCI contains demons, the device is not the principal technological problem in the room. The twenty-first century has encountered the twelfth.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Twenty-first Century Has Encountered the Twelfth by Bryant McGill|The Twenty-first Century Has Encountered the Twelfth by Bryant McGill]] > “[The victims of technological fear] belong back inside the future; the ideology that stranded them does not.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/The Victims of Technological Fear Belong Back Inside the Future; the Ideology That Stranded Them Does Not by Bryant McGill|The Victims of Technological Fear Belong Back Inside the Future; the Ideology That Stranded Them Does Not by Bryant McGill]] > “There is nothing romantic about becoming incompatible with the civilization around you. When every institution communicates through systems and someone has been taught that every system is demonic, poisoned, fake, or conspiratorial, their paranoia has been converted into a disability.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Their Paranoia Has Been Converted into a Disability by Bryant McGill|Their Paranoia Has Been Converted into a Disability by Bryant McGill]] > “There is a peculiar arrogance in imagining that a civilization mobilizing trillions of dollars of computation is waiting for permission from people posting skull emojis about AI extinction. America is building. China is building. Europe, India, the Gulf states, laboratories, militaries, universities, and corporations are building. There is no off switch for a planetary technological transition. Shut the fuck up and learn what century you are in.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/There Is No Off Switch for a Planetary Technological Transition by Bryant McGill|There Is No Off Switch for a Planetary Technological Transition by Bryant McGill]] > “There is nothing romantic about becoming incompatible with the civilization around you.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/There Is Nothing Romantic About Becoming Incompatible with the Civilization Around You by Bryant McGill|There Is Nothing Romantic About Becoming Incompatible with the Civilization Around You by Bryant McGill]] > “There’s certainly no existential risk with current AI systems.” > **— Yann LeCun**, *2023; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/There’s Certainly No Existential Risk with Current AI Systems by Yann LeCun|There’s Certainly No Existential Risk with Current AI Systems by Yann LeCun]] > “Nothing exposes technological hypocrisy quite like watching someone monetize anti-system paranoia through a smartphone, cloud infrastructure, electronic banking, algorithmic distribution, semiconductor fabrication, and global telecommunications. They use the machine to teach their audience to fear the machine.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/They Use the Machine to Teach People to Fear the Machine by Bryant McGill|They Use the Machine to Teach People to Fear the Machine by Bryant McGill]] > “This is where the AI doomers are just making stuff up.” > **— Lee Cronin**, *2025; Regius Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow; chemist and origin-of-life researcher* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/This Is Where the AI Doomers Are Just Making Stuff Up by Lee Cronin|This Is Where the AI Doomers Are Just Making Stuff Up by Lee Cronin]] > “Once someone has been taught that physicians, universities, laboratories, regulators, journalists, databases, computers, vaccines, and scientific papers are all parts of one deception, you have not given them skepticism. You have constructed an epistemic prison with no door from the inside.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Total Distrust Constructs an Epistemic Prison by Bryant McGill|Total Distrust Constructs an Epistemic Prison by Bryant McGill]] > “Editing a patient's blood stem cells to treat genetic disease is not the same proposition as engineering hereditary traits into future children. If ‘CRISPR’ is the only word you know in that sentence, you are not ready for the argument.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Treating Disease Is Not Engineering Hereditary Traits by Bryant McGill|Treating Disease Is Not Engineering Hereditary Traits by Bryant McGill]] > “Treating every form of genetic engineering as eugenics is like treating every surgery as amputation. The inability to distinguish applications is not moral sophistication; it is intellectual blunt-force trauma.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Treating Every Form of Genetic Engineering as Eugenics Is Like Treating Every Surgery as Amputation by Bryant McGill|Treating Every Form of Genetic Engineering as Eugenics Is Like Treating Every Surgery as Amputation by Bryant McGill]] > “The ugliest part of the coming digital divide is that many of the people who fall through it will not be stupid, malicious, or deserving of what happens to them; they will be victims who were frightened into maladaptation.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Victims Who Were Frightened into Maladaptation by Bryant McGill|Victims Who Were Frightened into Maladaptation by Bryant McGill]] > “The immune system does not watch cable news. A malignant cell does not subscribe to your politics. A virus does not care how passionately you researched memes before offering it your lungs.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Viruses Do Not Care How Passionately You Researched Memes by Bryant McGill|Viruses Do Not Care How Passionately You Researched Memes by Bryant McGill]] > “Water use is an engineering constraint, not a metaphysical argument against computation. Build closed-loop cooling, reclaim wastewater, improve siting, price externalities correctly, and keep fucking building.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Water Use Is an Engineering Constraint, Not a Metaphysical Argument Against Computation by Bryant McGill|Water Use Is an Engineering Constraint, Not a Metaphysical Argument Against Computation by Bryant McGill]] > “The most revealing thing about the AI transition is that intelligence and energy are converging into one strategic problem. Every serious civilization is discovering that cognition at scale has a physical substrate. Watts are becoming thought. That is not a chatbot story; that is a new chapter in the organization of matter.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Watts Are Becoming Thought by Bryant McGill|Watts Are Becoming Thought by Bryant McGill]] > “We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *September 15, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/We Don’t Need Any New Laws by Jensen Huang|We Don’t Need Any New Laws by Jensen Huang]] > “We have the numbers, we can take on the Doomers and win. It’s time to fight now.” > **— Guillaume Verdon (“Beff Jezos”)**, *Sep. 2026; Physicist and founder of the effective-accelerationism (e/acc) movement* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/We Have the Numbers, We Can Take on the Doomers and Win by Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos)|We Have the Numbers, We Can Take on the Doomers and Win by Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos)]] > “[Western apocalyptic AI narratives are something] we’re making up.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *September 16, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Western AI Apocalypse Narratives Are Made Up by Jensen Huang|Western AI Apocalypse Narratives Are Made Up by Jensen Huang]] > “I am fascinated by people who think humanity will reach unprecedented biological longevity, cure currently incurable diseases, understand the brain, automate laboratories, discover new materials, model planetary systems, and explore space while simultaneously deciding that advanced computation has simply become too troublesome. Which part of the future exactly did they imagine was going to perform the calculations?” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Which Part of the Future Exactly Did They Imagine Was Going to Perform the Calculations by Bryant McGill|Which Part of the Future Exactly Did They Imagine Was Going to Perform the Calculations by Bryant McGill]] > “A worldview can go extinct without a single person being harmed.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Worldviews Can Go Extinct without Harm by Bryant McGill|Worldviews Can Go Extinct without Harm by Bryant McGill]] > “You are entitled to decline a technology for yourself. You are not entitled to demand that eight billion other people freeze the frontier of knowledge at precisely the point where your comprehension became uncomfortable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/You Are Entitled to Decline a Technology for Yourself by Bryant McGill|You Are Entitled to Decline a Technology for Yourself by Bryant McGill]] > “You are not entitled to demand that eight billion other people freeze the frontier of knowledge at precisely the point where your comprehension became uncomfortable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/You Cannot Freeze Knowledge Where Your Comprehension Ended by Bryant McGill|You Cannot Freeze Knowledge Where Your Comprehension Ended by Bryant McGill]] > “When somebody says ‘stop the data centers,’ ask what else they are willing to stop with them. Protein modeling, materials discovery, climate simulation, genomics, drug design, cancer research, robotics, national laboratories, scientific modeling, defensive cyber operations, and the next generation of medicine all consume computation. You do not get to dynamite the laboratory because you dislike one experiment.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/You Do Not Get to Dynamite the Laboratory Because You Dislike One Experiment by Bryant McGill|You Do Not Get to Dynamite the Laboratory Because You Dislike One Experiment by Bryant McGill]] > “You are entitled to decline a technology for yourself.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/You May Decline Technology for Yourself by Bryant McGill|You May Decline Technology for Yourself by Bryant McGill]] > “Your genome contains information whether you sequence it or not. Refusing to read the book does not prevent the mutation from being written inside it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Your Genome Contains Information Whether You Sequence It or Not by Bryant McGill|Your Genome Contains Information Whether You Sequence It or Not by Bryant McGill]] > “If your theory of mRNA requires it to rewrite DNA without entering the nucleus, your problem is not Big Pharma. Your problem is cell biology.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Your Problem Is Cell Biology by Bryant McGill|Your Problem Is Cell Biology by Bryant McGill]] > “You’re scaring people and wrongly.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *Jul. 24, 2026; Founder and CEO, Nvidia* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/You’re Scaring People and Wrongly by Jensen Huang|You’re Scaring People and Wrongly by Jensen Huang]] > “‘Designer babies’ has become the biological equivalent of shouting ‘Skynet’ whenever someone mentions computation. It is what people say when the real technology has become too complicated for the slogan.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/‘Designer Babies’ Has Become the Biological Equivalent of Shouting ‘Skynet’ Whenever Someone Mentions Computation by Bryant McGill|‘Designer Babies’ Has Become the Biological Equivalent of Shouting ‘Skynet’ Whenever Someone Mentions Computation by Bryant McGill]] ## Relationships - **Originating article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] develops the collection’s argument across AI doom, anti-science panic, medicine, infrastructure, cultural evolution, and technological exile. - **Master quotation collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] publishes the corpus-wide index and its category counts. - **Focused collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] explains the scope and provides a compact reading index. - **Primary technical subject:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] defines the broader field represented in the debate. - **Risk boundary:** [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] distinguishes arguments about safety engineering from generalized extinction rhetoric. - **Social consequence:** [[wiki/Digital Divide|Digital Divide]] routes Bryant McGill’s warnings about fear-driven technological exclusion.