LogIn"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen."
James Cameron, an Oscar-winning filmmaker and the director behind The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, has recently weighed in on the rapid advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, saying that he is of the opinion that AI technology can potentially pose a serious risk to humanity.
In a sit-down interview with CTV News, the creator of one of the most iconic and recognizable sci-fi movie franchises about a killer robot driven by a rogue human-hating nuclear-war-starting AI expressed his agreement with the warnings issued by experts in the AI field over the past few months, saying that he "absolutely [shares] their concern". "I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen," he noted when asked about the future of AI.
Furthermore, Cameron emphasized the importance of scrutinizing the motives and intentions of those developing AI technology. He urged the evaluation of whether they are driven by profit, which he referred to as "teaching greed", or if their focus is on defense, which he labeled as "teaching paranoia".
"I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger," commented the filmmaker. "I think that we will get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI, and if we don't build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it'll escalate. You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre, the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to de-escalate."
Cameron has also voiced his thoughts on the ongoing Writers' and Actors' strikes, largely driven by the usage of their works in training AI models, expressing his belief that the technology is not yet at a level of replacing writers and stating his disinterest in AI writing his scripts.
"I just don't personally believe that a disembodied mind that's just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said – about the life that they've had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality – and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it, I don't believe that have something that's going to move an audience," Cameron said. "Let's wait 20 years, and if an AI wins an Oscar for Best Screenplay, I think we've got to take them seriously."
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