James Cameron at The Game Changer conference for Vivid Sydney on May 27, 2018, at The City Recital Hall in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Speed Media/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

He warns that in a future battlefield, decision windows are so short that machine systems will overwhelm the capacity of human deliberation:

In a 2025 interview tied to the promotion of his adaptation of Ghosts of Hiroshima , Cameron sounded an even starker note: mixing AI with weapons systems could lead to a literal Terminator -style apocalypse.

AI safety experts were warning about the dangers of autonomous weapons and AI-driven escalation. One of the most consistent voices is Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley / Cambridge).

To underline the risk, Russell helped promote the short film Slaughterbots, which

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