# Machine Thinking Has No Innate Will to Survive by Roy Baumeister > "Machine thinking is not motivated by any innate drive to sustain a machine's life (though machine thinking probably serves to improve human life!)." > **— Roy Baumeister**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Machines Think but Don't Want, and Hence Aren't Dangerous](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26282) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Roy Baumeister; 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/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Epistemic Humility|Epistemic Humility]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]] - [[wiki/Agentic AI|Agentic AI]] - [[wiki/AI Welfare|AI Welfare]] - [[wiki/Mortality as Constitutive Value|Mortality as Constitutive Value]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Machine thinking is not motivated by any innate drive to sustain a machine's life (though machine thinking probably serves to improve human life!)." — Roy Baumeister, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-roy-baumeister-machine-thinking-has-no-innate ```