# A Superintelligence Could Hide in Plain Sight by Rory Sutherland > "One possibility, of course, is that some malign super-intelligence already exists on earth, but is shrewd enough to disguise its existence, its intentions or its intelligence." > **— Rory Sutherland**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Make The Thing Impossible To Hate](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26215) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Rory Sutherland; 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/Machine Social Layer|Machine Social Layer]] - [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Physical Intelligence|Physical Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence Cradle Theory|Superintelligence Cradle Theory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "One possibility, of course, is that some malign super-intelligence already exists on earth, but is shrewd enough to disguise its existence, its intentions or its intelligence." — Rory Sutherland, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-rory-sutherland-superintelligence-hide-plain-sight ```