The real AI threat is the human relationships we lose along the way

In the first of many possible timelines, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed protector T-800 tells Sarah Connor that Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 29, 1997, and began removing human control over the nation’s strategic defense systems. It then instigates a nuclear exchange with Russia, delivering Judgement Day.

In the second Terminator movie, Sarah Connor and her son John Connor blow up the corporate lab responsible for creating Skynet, thus preventing the 1997 Judgment Day. But in the third Terminator movie, set in 2003, Skynet returns with yet another Terminator sent back in time to kill people close to John Connor, and (spoiler alert) the movie ends with Skynet again taking over the military and initiating nuclear war.

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