Overview

• He warns that combining AI with weapons systems—including nuclear defense—could outpace human decision-making and trigger catastrophic failures
• He calls confronting generative AI the film industry’s most important issue, urging that it be mastered and controlled to remain an artistic tool and not replace actors
• As a Stability AI board member, Cameron explores how generative tools can halve VFX costs and speed production while preserving human creative roles
• He says real-world AI advances and geopolitical tensions have left him unable to start a new Terminator script because reality overtakes fiction
• Cameron places superintelligence alongside climate change and nuclear threats as existential challenges demanding immediate policy and industry action