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James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
The director James Cameron has warned that the use of artificial intelligence in a global arms race could lead to the kind of dystopia fictionalised in his Terminator franchise. Photograph: Javier Corbalan/APCameron’s original 1984 Terminator film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is set in a world in which humanity is ruled by an artificially intelligent defence network called Skynet. Last September, he joined the board of directors of Stability AI and earlier this year said the future of blockbuster film-making hinges on being able to “cut the cost of [VFX] in half”.
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