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 quickly drive people into madness as it reinforces all of your worst ideas?

Back then, the idea of a machine deciding humanity must go was a cheap thrill that felt distantly believable. Sure, it could happen, but artificial intelligence would never come close to anything even remotely like that.

Today, AI has so quickly ingrained itself in our liv

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