Terminator and other sci-fi films blamed for public's concerns about AI

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There are calls for more public education surrounding the future role of artificial intelligence, amid claims that many people's fears are based on films.

Rashik Parmar, chief executive of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, said Hollywood blockbusters like Terminator and Ex Machina had "ingrained" public concerns about AI.

 

His words came after a letter was released by the San Francisco-based Centre For AI Safety warning the technology could wipe out humanity and the risk should be treated with the same urgency as pandemics or nuclear war.

[Crossy]

It goes back much, much further: -

 

 

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And an excuse to play some Sarah Connor Hazel O'Connor (last verse is relevant).

 

 

[KhunLA]

You mean Terminator wasn't a documentary, and time travel doesn't exist ...

... oh krap