{"id":13966,"date":"2025-08-07T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:40:53","slug":"skynet-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/07\/skynet-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Skynet Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/07\/james-cameron-terminator-style-apocalypse-ai-weapons-hiroshima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Cameron warns of \u2018Terminator-style apocalypse\u2019 if AI weaponised<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/catherineshoard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catherine Shoard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The ORIGINS of Skynet in the different timelines - TERMINATOR Skynet Story\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uR4mOpSCws?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/jamescameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Cameron<\/a>\u00a0has warned that the use of artificial intelligence in a global arms race could lead to the kind of dystopia fictionalised in his Terminator franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/james-cameron-blockbuster-movies-ai-cut-costs-1236365081\/\">&nbsp;Rolling Stone<\/a>&nbsp;to promote the publication of Ghosts of Hiroshima, an account of the first atomic bombing by bestselling author Charles Pellegrino which Cameron intends to adapt for the big screen, the film-maker behind three of the four highest-grossing films of all time (Titanic and the first two Avatar films), said that although he relies on AI professionally, he remains concerned about what might happen if it was leveraged with nihilistic intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do think there\u2019s still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse where you put AI together with weapons systems, even up to the level of nuclear weapon systems, nuclear defence counterstrike, all that stuff,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cBecause the theatre of operations is so rapid, the decision windows are so fast, it would take a super-intelligence to be able to process it, and maybe we\u2019ll be smart and keep a human in the loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/07\/james-cameron-terminator-style-apocalypse-ai-weapons-hiroshima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian James Cameron warns of \u2018Terminator-style apocalypse\u2019 if AI weaponised by Catherine Shoard 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\u00a0James Cameron\u00a0has warned that the use of artificial intelligence in a global arms race could lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}