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Hindustan Times
3 hours ago
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- Hindustan Times
James Cameron warns about the consequences of AI: ‘There's still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse'
Filmmaker James Cameron, known for his futuristic visions on screen, is once again warning the world—but this time, it's not through fiction. While promoting Ghosts of Hiroshima, a book he plans to adapt into a motion picture, James expressed growing concern about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially when paired with weapons systems. Director James Cameron highlights the existential threats posed by climate change, nuclear weapons, and super-intelligent AI while promoting his upcoming film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, set for release on December 19. What James Cameron said about AI Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Avatar: Fire and Ash director stressed that combining AI with military systems—particularly nuclear defense—could set the stage for catastrophic consequences. 'I do think there's still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse,' he said, referencing his own iconic film franchise that explored AI-driven doomsday scenarios. James' 1984 film The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer AI-powered cyborg, became a cultural touchstone for debates around machine autonomy. In its 1991 sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the same character returns as a protector—highlighting the dual nature of technological advancement. James argued that modern warfare is moving too quickly for human judgment to keep up, potentially requiring super-intelligent systems to manage rapid-response decisions. He acknowledged that, ideally, a human would still be involved in those decision loops. However, he noted the reality: human error has already brought the world dangerously close to nuclear incidents in the past, raising questions about whether machines—or humans—are better suited for such critical choices. He also emphasised the convergence of what he sees as three major existential threats: climate degradation, nuclear weapons, and the rise of super-intelligent AI. 'They're all sort of manifesting and peaking at the same time,' he said, suggesting that while super-intelligence could offer solutions, it's a risky gamble. The director's recent decision to join the board of Stability AI drew mixed reactions online while some praised the move as visionary, others questioned whether it aligned with his cautionary views on artificial intelligence. James Cameron's latest Looking ahead, James' next project, Avatar: Fire and Ash, continues his exploration of pressing global issues, including climate change and identity. The film is slated for release on December 19.
Daily Mirror
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Titanic director James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style' AI weapons threat
Oscar-winning director James Cameron has warned that the dystopian future he imagined in The Terminator may no longer be confined to fiction as AI takes over. The filmmaker raised fears that artificial intelligence could soon control military systems, including nuclear weapons. The Canadian filmmaker, 70, told Rolling Stone magazine that an arms race relying on AI presents a 'dangerous' scenario that could spiral beyond human control. His comments came as he promoted the new book Ghosts of Hiroshima, which he plans to adapt into a feature film. '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 defence counterstrike, all that stuff,' Cameron said. 'Because the theatre of operations is so rapid, the decision windows are so fast, it would take a super-intelligence to be able to process it, and maybe we'll be smart and keep a human in the loop. 'But humans are fallible, and there have been a lot of mistakes made that have put us right on the brink of international incidents that could have led to nuclear war. So I don't know.' The Avatar and Titanic director, whose 1984 hit The Terminator featured a self-aware AI system named Skynet launching nuclear Armageddon, said the convergence of today's crises, from climate change to AI, should be taken seriously. 'I feel like we're at this cusp in human development where you've got the three existential threats: climate and our overall degradation of the natural world, nuclear weapons, and super-intelligence,' he continued. 'They're all sort of manifesting and peaking at the same time. Maybe the super-intelligence is the answer. I don't know. I'm not that, but it might be.' Cameron's concerns about AI are longstanding. In a viral 2023 interview, he poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence could replace human screenwriters, saying: 'I just don't personally believe that a disembodied mind that's just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said, about the life that they've had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality , and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it… I don't believe that's ever going to have something that's going to move an audience. You have to be human to write that. I don't know anyone that's even thinking about having AI write a screenplay.' Despite his reservations, Cameron has embraced certain uses of AII, particularly in relation to the spiralling cost of filmmaking. In September 2024, he joined the board of Stability AI, the firm behind the image-generation tool Stable Diffusion. Speaking on a podcast earlier this year, he outlined how he believes AI could help reduce production budgets without eliminating human jobs. 'If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I've always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see, Dune, Dune: Part Two, or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films, we've got to figure out how to cut the cost in half,' he said. 'Now that's not about laying off half the staff at the effects company. That's about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things and then other cool things, right? That's my sort of vision for that.'
India Today
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
James Cameron warns against AI dangers, predicts Terminator-style apocalypse
Director James Cameron expressed his concerns regarding the future dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI). While promoting the book - 'Ghosts of Hiroshima', which he plans to adapt as a motion picture, Cameron mentioned that an arms race relying on AI is a dangerous 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' director, in a recent interview with Rolling Stone said, "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 defense counterstrike, all that stuff."advertisementHe cautioned humans against how the AI threat could put the world on the brink of a nuclear war. Cameron further said, "Because the theater of operations is so rapid, the decision windows are so fast, it would take super-intelligence to be able to process it, and maybe we'll be smart and keep a human in the loop. But humans are fallible, and there have been a lot of mistakes made that have put us right on the brink of international incidents that could have led to nuclear war. So I don't know." "I feel like we're at this cusp in human development where you've got the three existential threats: climate and our overall degradation of the natural world, nuclear weapons, and super-intelligence," he went on."They're all sort of manifesting and peaking at the same time. Maybe super-intelligence is the answer. I don't know. I'm not predicting that, but it might be," the director Cameron joining the board of the artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, had led to mixed reactions on the internet. While many were supportive of his move, others termed it "human ingenuity."Cameron's 'The Terminator' franchise kicked off in 1984 with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the titular role. Schwarzenegger portrayed a cybernetic android in the movie. While the first instalment showed him as the antagonist, he returned in the sequel - 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' (1991), as the saviour reprogrammed Model 101 Series 800 "T-800". Actor Linda Hamilton also played a pivotal role in both the next - 'Avatar: Fire and Ash', deals with the issues of climate change and identity. The film is scheduled to release on December 19, 2025.- EndsMust Watch
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Agony or ecstasy? One last hurrah awaits India, England in fitting finale to showdown for the ages
If only Mohammed Siraj hadn't stepped on the rope… A thrilling finish is on the cards in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. (PTI) … but then, we would have had this classic, would we? Glass half-empty? Or half-full? More importantly, what does your gut tell you? Will England knock off the 35 runs required on Monday morning (the forecast shows 0 per cent rain till 1 PM, but who really knows) to complete the most sensational of victories? Will Mohammed Siraj, who keeps coming and coming like Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, and his pace-bowling brothers conjure the four wickets remaining and take their team to a famous 2-2 draw? And hey, what about a tie, perhaps the most fitting ending to a series that has surpassed all expectations, bucked all predictions? My gut, if anyone cares, is tight; my gut feel is hopelessly off-radar. On Sunday, as we trooped into The Oval, I foresaw Ollie Pope trapped leg before or losing his leg-stump, falling over trying to work Siraj's remaining ball of his unfinished over to leg. Instead, what we got was a solid push to mid-off. Forget gutfeel, focus on the game, one told oneself, through gnashed teeth and bruised ego. But that shouldn't stop you. Gutfeel is often overshadowed by want. For India's supporters and England's. The want of a victory. The want of one decisive telling statement in a series full of eloquent those. The want of the final salvo being fired, of the target hitting home, of the unmatched delight that success brings. Even if it's not one's own success, it sometimes feels that way. This is one such instance. How we have arrived at this denouement has been a fabulous, unmatched experience. Indian followers will insist their team should have sewn up this series by the end of Lord's, the realists and neutrals will say 2-1 to India at the time. But this isn't about what might have been. This is about what it is. And now, about what could be over a gripping hour or so on the final day of a series that will see action for a 25th day on the trot. What more could one ask for? So, what might Monday have in store that the preceding 24 days haven't? No, really, what could it? We have seen just about everything there is to see. Spectacular centuries. Inexplicable collapses. Incredible spells of bowling. Other-worldly shows of courage. And character. How do you match that, let alone top it? And yet, here we are: England 339 for six, 35 required for 3-1 to the hosts. England 339 for six, four wickets needed for 2-2 to the visitors. The red corner, or the blue? Who did the stoppage for bad light and rain on Sunday evening help? Was it the batting side, desperately trying to weather a raging storm, or a bowling attack running on fumes? Holding fort for England are the two Jamies, Smith and Overton, no mugs with the bat. The former averages 51.19 in 15 Tests, the latter 48.50 (but in only his second Test; his first-class average is a handy 21.82 in 98 matches). To follow are Gus Atkinson, who boasts a Test hundred, and Josh Tongue. Oh, and Chris Woakes, him of the dislocated left shoulder. What odds on Woakes walking out with five needed, his left arm in a sling, somehow hoping to take his team over the line? Will that be the final act this series deserves? Or will it be Siraj, whose catch-that-wasn't allowed Harry Brook to breeze from 19 to 111, allowed England to go from a potential 137 for four to 301 for three? All series long, the Hyderabadi has been a gathering force, a sinewy mass of character and steel and skills and nous and with the admirable, scarcely believable blessing of shrugging off heartbreak with unimaginable equanimity. He has bowled more overs (181.2) than anyone else from either side, and he has also taken more wickets (20) than all-comers. It was his unfortunate dismissal, bowled off the middle of the blade to a defensive push, which confirmed India's 22-run loss at Lord's. Isn't it time he got the due that has steadfastly eluded him? Is this the moment the higher powers have reserved for him, for his bravery and perseverance and persistence and positivity, for his jigar? Also Read: 'Ek ghanta zor lagayenge, uske baad…': Shubman Gill's war cry that triggered India's miraculous comeback Will you switch on the TV at 3.30 PM IST with shaking hands and thumping hearts, and then peer at the screen between split fingers because you can't bear to watch the action, but you also can't not watch it? Or wait nervously for a text from a friend, informing you of the result, because you can't take the tension? They say Test cricket is a fading art form, that it is gasping for breath, clutching at straws, desperately in need of oxygen. Maybe they haven't watched this series. At all. So, what is your gut feeling, truly?
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Star of iconic 80s action blockbusters is unrecognizable in rare sighting... can you guess who he is?
An actor who starred in a string of iconic 1980s blockbusters was unrecognizable during a rare public sighting this week. At the peak of his fame, he was known for his collaborations with a director who went on to make two of the highest-grossing pictures of all time. In the 1990s, he acted alongside famous faces ranging from Charlie Sheen and Nicolas Cage to Angelina Jolie and Kurt Russell. He cut a distinguished figure when he surfaced in sweltering Los Angeles this Thursday - the day he celebrated his 69th birthday. The actor wore a casually stylish ensemble of a black t-shirt and matching jeans when he was glimpsed emerging from a supermarket. Can you guess who he is? He is none other than Michael Biehn, known to 1980s sci-fi fans as leading man Sgt. Kyle Reese in The Terminator and supporting character Cpl. Dwayne Hicks in Aliens. In The Terminator, Kyle Reese is a soldier in the resistance against a futuristic AI takeover, and enlists in a time-travel mission to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger's title character from murdering Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor. Aliens saw Michael cast opposite Sigourney Weaver, as members of a space crew desperately trying to survive an onslaught by malign extraterrestrials. Both movies were helmed by James Cameron, who directed Michael again in the 1989 sci-fi thriller The Abyss, featuring him alongside Ed Harris. Michael also briefly appeared as Kyle in the director's cut of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in a scene that was cut from the theatrical version. Born in Alabama in 1958, Michael landed his film debut with an uncredited bit part in the 1978 film Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Three years later, he played his breakthrough part in the thriller The Fan, leading the film as murderous super-fan stalking a stage actress played by Lauren Bacall. After his sci-fi successes of the 1980s, Michael acted in the 1990s with Charlie Sheen in Navy SEALs, Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in Tombstone, Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage in The Rock and Angelina Jolie in Mojave Moon. He cut a distinguished figure when he surfaced in sweltering Los Angeles this Thursday - the day he celebrated his 69th birthday However his career fizzled during that decade and he descended into a period of alcoholism that ended when he went on the wagon in 2008. Reflecting on his past work in a 2019 interview, he said: 'People always talk about me being an '80s star. I was not an '80s star. Bruce Willis was an '80s star. Tom Cruise was an '80s star. Schwarzenegger and Stallone. Mel Gibson. Those guys were making $20 million [a picture]. I never even got $1 million. I kind of liked it that way.' He noted: 'I have five boys and that was always important to me that I was going to be closer to them than I was to the movie business,' via The Hollywood Reporter. Michael welcomed his sons over the course of three marriages, the most recent of which is to actress Jennifer Blanc, whom he married in 2015 and is with to this day. 'The amount of movies Bruce Willis makes,' Michael said in 2019: 'I don't see how you can live a normal life where you see your kids all the time, you're taking them to school and baseball practice and you're coaching their teams. You're in their lives.' James Cameron observed: 'Maybe what held Michael back was that he didn't like playing the Hollywood game — schmoozing people and all that. For him it was all about the work. And also the path to stardom is capricious, and can turn on a single choice. Every time you take a part the road forks.' The director reflected: 'Major stardom passed him by, but that's not the point. He's done great work in many films over the years, and is well loved and respected for a few iconic characters. Who can forget Johnny Ringo in Tombstone?'
