# Artificial Intelligence’s Benefits Depend on Careful Use by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman > "The potential benefits of artificial intelligence will be vast, but like any powerful technology these benefits will depend on this technology being applied with care." > **— Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [General Purpose Learning Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26258) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Cultural Evolution|Cultural Evolution]] - [[wiki/Narrative Intelligence|Narrative Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Affective Computing|Affective Computing]] - [[wiki/Open-Ended Evolution|Open-Ended Evolution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The potential benefits of artificial intelligence will be vast, but like any powerful technology these benefits will depend on this technology being applied with care." — Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-demis-hassabis-artificial-intelligences-benefits-depend-careful ```