# Thinking Machines Can Launder Human Conscience by Kurt Gray > "To keep clean our consciences, we need only to create a thinking machine, and then vilify it." > **— Kurt Gray**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Consciences Clean](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26122) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Kurt Gray; 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/Moral Accountability Layer|Moral Accountability Layer]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] - [[wiki/operational responsibility|operational responsibility]] - [[wiki/Accountability Mechanisms|Accountability Mechanisms]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "To keep clean our consciences, we need only to create a thinking machine, and then vilify it." — Kurt Gray, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-kurt-gray-thinking-machines-launder-human-conscience ```