# We Built Machines We Cannot Explain by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan > "Trouble arrives as soon as any of the machine's customers, managers, or assistants start asking a few simple questions." > **— Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26192) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan; 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/Recursive Opacity Loop|Recursive Opacity Loop]] - [[wiki/Transparency|Transparency]] - [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]] - [[wiki/Accountability Mechanisms|Accountability Mechanisms]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Trouble arrives as soon as any of the machine's customers, managers, or assistants start asking a few simple questions." — Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jon-kleinberg-built-machines-cannot-explain ```