In theory we could rig up a quad copter with a machine gun, loudspeaker, and AI, with programming that demands that every human it encounters be interrogated with the question, &quot;do I, a mechanical computer, have the ability to think?&quot; and if the human gives a negative reply, it uses the machine gun on the human until the human is dead or decides to utter a positive response: &quot;yes, this flying death machine can think&quot;.<p>Whether or not we say &quot;machines can think&quot; is a political question, and political power comes out of the barrel of a gun. If a machine can wield political power, then it can get you to say &quot;machines can think&quot; because truth is inherently political.