# We Are the First Humans Who Could Destroy the Whole World by Howard Gardner > “For the first time in history — as far as we know! — we humans live in a world that we could completely destroy.” > **— Howard Gardner**, *2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [Following Sisyphus, not Pandora](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10366) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|AI in the 1970s]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|Never Going to Make It!]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Species-Level Maturation|Species-Level Maturation]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Species-Level Maturation|Species-Level Maturation]] - [[wiki/Howard Gardner|Howard Gardner]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “For the first time in history — as far as we know! — we humans live in a world that we could completely destroy.” — Howard Gardner, 2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-howard-gardner-first-humans-could-destroy-world ```