In the historical text known as Terminator 2: Judgment Day , it takes a T-800, a breakout, and an assault on the home of Miles Dyson to keep the AI Skynet from coming self-aware. For James Cameron , the man who wrote and directed T2 , all it really takes is a little bit of self-control.

“I think there’s a great deal of caution around generative AI. I think we as an industry need to be self-policing on this,” Cameron argued on Matthew Belloni podcast The Town . “I don’t see government regulation as an answer. That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.”

“I think the guilds should play a big role. I think the directors guild and the actors guild should play a big role in this just as they did,” he continued, pointing to the recent actors strikes that “definitely dro

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