When clients approach Bennett Borden to ask questions about generative artificial intelligence and the impact on their businesses, the chief data scientist at law firm DLA Piper turns to fiction. He believes AI is more like Iron Man than the Terminator.
For those not attuned to science fiction, Iron Man is a tech-advanced armor suit that helps its inventor, billionaire Tony Stark, save the world in the Marvel universe. In the original Terminator film, an AI-powered assassin is sent back in time to murder the heroine Sarah Connor. Both represent the emotions that AI can evoke, ranging from exhilaration about the potential of the technology to fears about how it could harm humanity.
