Overview

• Cameron cautions that linking AI to weapons systems, including nuclear defense counterstrikes, could unleash a real-world catastrophe reminiscent of his Terminator saga.
• He argues that the speed of AI-enabled combat operations may exceed human reaction times, necessitating superintelligent processing to manage critical decisions.
• Recalling past near-misses in nuclear incidents, he highlights human fallibility as a danger when oversight fails in automated defense networks.
• Cameron frames AI risks alongside climate change and nuclear arsenals as three converging existential threats at this pivotal juncture.
• While warning of AI’s military perils, he embraces generative tools as a Stability AI board member to halve visual-effects costs and is adapting Ghosts of Hiroshima for the big screen.