# A New Mind Could Bring Planetary Benefits by Pamela McCorduck > "We've developed a new mind, to live side by side with ours. If we handle it wisely, it can bring immense benefits, from the planetary to the personal." > **— Pamela McCorduck**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [An Epochal Scientific, Technological, And Social—"Human"—Event](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26024) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Pamela McCorduck; 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/AI for Science|AI for Science]] - [[wiki/Exploring Machine Consciousness|Exploring Machine Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Planetary Consciousness|Planetary Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Co-Creative Substrate|Co-Creative Substrate]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "We've developed a new mind, to live side by side with ours. If we handle it wisely, it can bring immense benefits, from the planetary to the personal." — Pamela McCorduck, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-pamela-mccorduck-new-mind-bring-planetary-benefits ```