Sometimes it’s better if they don’t

An operant conditioning chamber (also known as a Skinner Box) is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University.

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.’’

— B.F. Skinner (1904-1990), Harvard behavioral psychologist, in Contingencies of Reinforcement