# It Depends on Who the Thinking Machine Is by Robert Sapolsky > "What do I think about machines that think? Well, of course it depends on who that person is." > **— Robert Sapolsky**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [It Depends](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26164) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Robert Sapolsky; 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/Emergent Self-Model Formation|Emergent Self-Model Formation]] - [[wiki/Personhood Allocation|Personhood Allocation]] - [[wiki/Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution|Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution]] - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "What do I think about machines that think? Well, of course it depends on who that person is." — Robert Sapolsky, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-robert-sapolsky-depends-who-thinking-machine ```