When James Cameron’s vision of a warring world of terminators first flickered onto cinema screens in 1984, the end of civilisation was brought about by a rogue computer system called Skynet. It resonated with global anxieties about the Cold War, technological dependency and the burgeoning role of computers, but was largely consigned to the world of Hollywood make-believe.
Forty-two years later, fiction is far closer to reality. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threats to blacklist Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” if it doesn’t open its artificial intelligence models for unrestricted military use signals a new, unrestrained chapter in the global AI arms race.
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