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James Cameron on threat posed by AI: 'I warned you guys...'

By T.K. Randall
July 20, 2023 ·  15 comments

Was 'The Terminator' a glimpse of things to come ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Daniel Jurena Back in 1984, James Cameron's original 'Terminator' movie painted a picture of a future ravaged by nuclear armageddon and an endless war against intelligent machines bent on wiping out humanity.

While such a scenario hasn't yet come to pass in the real world, the march toward ever more sophisticated AI platforms is very much the real deal.

Speaking to CTV News recently, Cameron questioned the motivations behind this technology and highlighted the risks it could pose to the human race in the not-too-distant future.

"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen," he said."I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger. 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 theater. The whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to deescalate."

So could something like ChatGPT really end up wiping out human civilization ?

Only time will tell.

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