Terminator Got the AI Takeover Wrong, But That Doesn't Make Me Feel Better

Terminator Got the AI Takeover Wrong, But That Doesn't Make Me Feel Better

When James Cameron released The Terminator in 1984, it was generally received as a fun, thrilling popcorn flick. Now that artificial intelligence is being woven into our daily lives—and the military-industrial complex—it’s starting to feel like a step-by-step manual for obliterating a civilization. Can we retroactively chastise James Cameron for not being enough of a visionary to foresee Skynet first being used to generate terrible erotica and q…