Is AI a friend or a foe to industry?
Back in 1984, we marvelled at the special effects that brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to the big screen in Terminator as a time travelling cyborg, out to kill Sarah Connor, future mother of the leader of the resistance (John Connor) against the machines in the future, before he could be conceived. August 29 1997 would come to be known as Judgement Day, when a military network of computers – Skynet – gained artifical consciousness. Panicked operators would try to deactivate it, which Skynet would perceive as a threat, and initiate a nuclear strike against Russia to trigger a global nuclear war, all but wiping out civilisation. The remaining humans would form a resistance, led by John Connor, taking the fight to the machines with the goal of toppling Skynet.
