In the 1984 movieTerminator , an by artificial means intelligent ( AI ) defense mesh called Skynet becomes self - aware and promptly starts a world atomic war so as to pass over out human beings .
The film utilizes world ’s biggest awe at the time : atomic annihilation and a robot Arnold Schwarzenegger that ’s been sent back in time . Our fright and musical theme about artificial intelligence have change passably in the last ( oh god ) 37 yr , however – and the theatre director ofTerminatorhas give an update on how he thinks Skynet could practicably take over the world , with no need to have access to a nuclear arsenal at all .
In aninterview with BBC News , James Cameron has spoken of how Skynet could instead merely use fake metier and cryptic fakes to make humanity take ourselves out .
" If Skynet wanted to take over and wipe us out , it would actually look a band like what ’s move on right now , " Cameron said in the interview .
" It ’s not going to have to wipe out the entire biosphere and environment with nuclear weapon system to do it , it ’s going to be so much easier and less energy need to just turn our minds against ourselves . "
The director , who has work with advanced limited burden in films likeAvatar , believe that deepfakes could be used to stir up latent hostility and cause harm before the news cycle has had time to debunk whatever the television may be .
“ All Skynet would have to do is just deepfake a bunch of people , pit them against each other , stir up a batch of foment and then just run this gigantic deepfake on humanity , ”
A clean convincing thick imitation , but still identifiable as a faker .
Cameron does n’t believe that the technology is estimable enough yet to fool the world – or enough of it , anyway – but thinks that over time that will change . When it does , he reverence that people are not skeptical enough of what the media they see to defend themselves against it . The film director is also interested about who will be in control of AI when it does emerge .
" I ’m always sceptical of new technology and we all should be . Every single progress in technology that has ever been created has been weaponized . I say this to AI scientists all the time and they say ' no no no , we ’ve got this under control . We just give the AIs the ripe goals , ' " he explained .
" So who ’s decide what those goals are ? The people who put up the money for research , right ? Which are all either big business or defense . So you ’re going to teach these new sentient entities to be either avaricious or homicidal . "
To tot needless equivocalness to the interview , he ended with " I intend I could be a projection of an AI right now . "
