Long before A.I. scholars began analyzing the threat the programmed brains are likely to possess, the likes of Hollywood darlings, James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger had already predicted these dire straits. Unfortunately no one ‘listened’ to them back then. While different races continue to spoil themselves to establish their power in The Witcher’s mystical world, the earthlings here are questioning their own security.

As Artificial Intelligence takes over the governing elements of the human brain, a new wave of human oppression is perhaps the biggest problem at hand. Soon, the so-called self-invited plague might infect the governing bodies of human society, reducing the pockets of human functionality to mere labor: a species regulated by the supreme robots.

Even though all this is nothing but predictions, the harm AI is already causing is certainly concerning. Recently talking along the same lines to CTV News, the Oscar-winning director James Cameron sighed that even though he “warned” about this back in 1984 through his sci-fi movie, The Terminator, “you didn’t listen.” He notably shares his concern with the AI godfathers and believes that evaluating the creators of AI and their intention behind it is important. Well, if they did not, it would not take long for a post-modern Prometheus to be born.

Cameron further stated the biggest danger relies on “the weaponization of AI.” “I think that we will get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI,” the Avatar director stated, further maintaining that the threat will only “escalate.”

Not just James Cameron, even Arnold Schwarzenegger identifies with these concerns

While Cameron believes Robot combat will commence at a pace, humans will no longer be able to “intercede,” the Terminator alum, Arnold Schwarzenegger could not stop singing praises of the director who already predicted the future of AI in Terminator almost 4 decades earlier.

At An Evening With Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Academy Museum, the 76-year-old Austrian Oak further stated that he had a talk with James Cameron back in 1984 about how machines will become self-aware and take over humankind. The former governor further stated that the sci-fi is no longer a fantasy or even futuristic, because “it is here today.”

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