James Cameron weighs in on the dangers of AI: 'I warned you in 1984'

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Oscar\u002Dwinning Canadian filmmaker James Cameron thinks AI could pose a threat to humanity.

Cameron continued, “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 deescalate.”, Cameron predicted a “never-ending conflict between humans and artificial intelligence … will take place.

“Whether that’s a smooth transition or whether that’s a rocky one or whether there’s an apocalypse, remains to be seen but I don’t think people are taking it as seriously as they should,” he said. “If you talk to any AI researcher, they all say it’s pretty inevitable that they’ll be able to develop an artificial intelligence equal to ours or even greater. And I don’t think that there’s enough adult supervision for what they’re doing.

He added, “When I dealt with AI back in 1984, it was pure fantasy and certainly on the outer bounds of science fiction. Now, these things are being discussed fairly openly and are an imminent reality.”But with AI a central issue in the ongoing actors and writers strike, Cameron is less worried about the technology being used to craft screenplays.

“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 … [is] something that’s going to move an audience,” he told Kapelos. This week, Google announced it was testing an AI product that can produce news stories, pitching the program to news organizations including the

 

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