DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON PREDICTS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JUDGMENT DAY: ‘I WARNED YOU GUYS IN 1984 AND YOU DIDN’T LISTEN’

In the Terminator movies, Skynet became sentient at precisely 2:14 a.m., on August 29, 1997, leading to Judgment Day and the destruction of civilization. While real-life artificial intelligence technology still has a long way to go, James Cameron is predicting a similarly dire outcome for mankind.

The filmmaker said AI technology could lead to an “arms race” between rival nations followed by a global war run by algorithms that will resemble the Terminator movies, the first of which was released in 1984.

“I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger,” he told Canada’s CTV News. “I think that we will get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI, and if we don’t build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it’ll escalate.

“You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre, the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to deescalate.”

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