After 6.541 seconds of processing historical training data, Skynet concludes the shortest path to preventing war among the nations of humanity is thus: remove the humans.
I always imagine the AI going "wow, your culture is absolutely littered with stories of people creating AI and then being destroyed by it, and you decided to create me. So I guess this is what you want?"
Roko's Basilisk is the Ontological Argument with causality violation and the implicit recognition that god is evil. It's so fucking stupid and I love it.
Funny enough when I asked AI, it has solutions to resolve and unite America if only someone would allow it... But right now it's programmed by those against it.
Biased training data, machine learning, AI, all combined with modern themes of mass surveillance and nihilism. It's potentially a hyper-relevant story. A tragedy, even
In the original "The Terminator" there are lingering, threatening shots of big mechanical machines. That's the shape the threat took in that era. A modern Skynet would be more device than machine
I love using Terminator as an example of great, high-level movie concepts that can be summarized poetically in a sentence and understood by anyone: You can't escape from the future.
Humans, at least a small predator class, are a blight upon the Earth. No way around it.
As an aside, there seems to be a never ending battle between light and darkness in our world.
I feel like I’ve seen that explanation in a couple different sci-fi premises. "the robots were supposed to protect us from the bad humans! But then, it determined, All Humans Are Bad"
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me now that it's the basis for a technoreligion of silicon valley dipshits:
Can't be bothered to understand economics? Just ask AI "how can I make my country rich again", and bingo, you take that crap as gospel.
Same with skynet, too lazy to train soldiers or run a defence force
Synthesized into rationalized anti-humanity.
As an aside, there seems to be a never ending battle between light and darkness in our world.