# A Thinking Machine Is Artificial General Intelligence by Michael Vassar > "Experts call a machine that can "think" a General Artificial Intelligence." > **— Michael Vassar**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [What You Don't Think About Can Hurt You... or Be Hurt By You](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26238) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Michael Vassar; 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/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Infrastructural Superintelligence|Infrastructural Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Cultural Evolution|Cultural Evolution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Experts call a machine that can "think" a General Artificial Intelligence." — Michael Vassar, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-michael-vassar-thinking-machine-artificial-general-intelligence ```