Overview

• James Cameron warns that pairing artificial intelligence with military and nuclear weapons could trigger a real-world Terminator-style apocalypse.
• He argues that the speed and complexity of modern conflicts would demand a superintelligent AI to manage critical nuclear defense decisions.
• Cameron frames climate change, nuclear arsenals and unchecked AI development as simultaneous existential dangers to humanity.
• He criticizes current gaps in military AI regulation and insists that humans must remain in control of autonomous weapons.
• Cameron is adapting Charles Pellegrino’s Ghosts of Hiroshima into a film intended to rekindle empathy for nuclear survivors and underscore the perils of destructive technologies.