# Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Alien to Human Intelligence by Douglas Coupland > "People assume that AI or machines that think will have intelligence that is alien to our own, but that's not possible." > **— Douglas Coupland**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Humanness](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26102) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Douglas Coupland; 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/Human Intelligence|Human Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] - [[wiki/General-Purpose AI|General-Purpose AI]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "People assume that AI or machines that think will have intelligence that is alien to our own, but that's not possible." — Douglas Coupland, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-douglas-coupland-artificial-intelligence-cannot-alien-human ```