A whole three decades ago, the 1984 flick The Terminator introduced the then novel idea of an artificial intelligence (AI) program that could become sentient and go rogue, to devastating effect.
The military defence network AI known as Skynet eventually came to the conclusion that humanity was the source of all the world’s ills and ended up launching a nuclear attack that would kill billions of people, an apocalyptic event that became known in the movie franchise as Judgement Day.
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