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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laurie Kellman and Lindsey Bahr

For some, so-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup

OpenAI - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

To be fair, James Cameron did warn us.

Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse.

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