James Cameron is the mind behind the movie The Terminator. He says what’s taking place with AI is scarier than his movie script
“AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research, so then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation.
An entity which has access to the comms beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data.
Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism. At best, these tech giants become the self-appointed arbiters of human good, which is the fox guarding the hen house. They would never, ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash.
That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago. If for no other reason, then it's no longer science fiction.”
