The Terminator was released back in 1984 and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will go on to save humanity from the AI superintelligence system Skynet. "I warned you guys in 1984!" Cameron previously said of the rise of AI. "And you didn’t listen."

James Cameron has raised alarms about the risks of artificial intelligence, especially when integrated with military weaponry, giving the example of his film The Terminator.

"I do think there's still a danger of a ‘Terminator'-style apocalypse where you put AI together with weapons systems, even up to the level of nuclear weapon systems, nuclear def