James Cameron warns that a real terminator style apocalypse could be closer than we think

Director James Cameron It could be to exploit artificial intelligence to revolutionize visual effects, but it is also raising alarms on where this technology could lead us to be combined with weapons. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the Avatar AND Titanic The director shares his growing concern for the fact that the dark future has imagined The terminator It is no longer just science fiction.

“I think there is still the danger of a Terminator-Style apocalypse in which the IA is put together with weapons systems, even up to the level of nuclear weapons systems, angry

“Since the theater of operations is so quick, the decision-making windows are so fast, it would take super-intelligence to be able to process it, and perhaps we will be intelligent and we will keep a human being in the cycle.

“But humans were fallible and there have been many mistakes that put us on the brink of international accidents that could have led to nuclear war. So I don’t know.”

Cameron sees us to teem with the margins of something great, saying: “I feel as if we were at this cusp in human development in which you have the three existential threats: the climate and our general degradation of the natural world, nuclear weapons and super-intelligence”, he added.

“They are all manifested in some way and reaching the peak at the same time. Perhaps super-intelligence is the answer. I don’t know. I don’t foresee it, but it could be.”

The terminator Launched in 1984 and imagined a gloomy future in which an artificial intelligence defense system called Skynet lights humanity after becoming self -aware. With nuclear weapons and automated armies, it almost sweeps us away. It was science fiction then, but Cameron believes that we are approaching that reality.

Despite his warnings, Cameron is not completely deleting the IA. In fact, he is actively exploring how he can improve cinema. He joined the Board of Directors of Stability Ai in 2024 and sees a future in which the IA drastically accelerates production and cuts the VFX costs without cutting the work.

“If we want to continue seeing the type of movie that I have always loved and that I like to do and that I will go to see – Dunes, dunes: part twoOr one of my films or great heavy and heavy films of the effects-we have to understand how to cut the cost in half, “he explained prevalently.

“Now it is not a question of firing half of the staff and the effects of effects. It is about doubled their speed when completing a certain shot, so your cadence is faster and your productivity cycle is faster and the artists can go on and do other interesting things and then other interesting things, right? This is my type of vision for that.”

However, when it comes to storytelling, Cameron is not convinced that the IA can really replace human creativity. In a previous interview, he knocked down the idea of scripts written by the AI.

“I personally do not think that a disengaged mind that is only regurgging what the other incorporated minds have said – on the life they have had, on love, lies, fear, on mortality – and put everything together in a word salad and then regurgitated …

“I don’t think he will ever have something that will move an audience. You must be human to write it. I don’t know anyone who is even thinking of making a script to the.”

So, while Cameron is open to the use of AI as a creative tool, he is clearly tracing a line between innovation and annihilation. The technology could help make the successes more convenient, but if it makes its way in arms systems, we could be directly Terminator territory.

Take a look at Rolling Stone to read the complete interview with Cameron and listen more to his thoughts on artificial intelligence, cinema and our uncertain future.