Arnold Schwarzenegger who has recently been appointed as the Chief Action Officer at Netflix said the concept of A.I “is not any more fantasy or kind of futuristic. It is here today.” Schwarzenegger is famously know for embodying artificial intelligence in his terminator films.
The terminator movies by James Cameron and starring Schwarzenegger look at a future where machines gain self-awareness and taking over the world. Schwarzenegger commented on the emergence of A.I at an event at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, according to PEOPLE.
“Today, everyone is frightened of it, of where this is gonna go,” Schwarzenegger said of current concerns around AI. “And in this movie, in Terminator, we talk about the machines becoming self-aware and they take over.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger used the opportunity to appreciate the creative writing skills of Director and Filmmaker James Cameron, who was behind the making of the terminator films.
“Now over the course of decades, it has become a reality. So it’s not any more fantasy or kind of futuristic. It is here today. And so this is the extraordinary writing of Jim Cameron.”
“He’s just such an extraordinary writer and he’s such an unbelievable director, this is again, one of those things that I wish I could take credit for this movie. I can only take credit of the character that I played and the way I played it. But I mean, he has created this character. He has written it so well, he’s written the movie so well, and that’s why he is, you know, the number one director in the world.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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In an oral history of The Terminator compiled by EW in 2014 to mark terminator at 30, James Cameron recounted on how he developed the terminator films story. The Titanic and Avatar director said that the terminator films idea came from a dream (nightmare) he had.
Nightmares are a business asset; that’s the way I look at it. I was sick, I was broke, I had a high fever, and I had a dream about this metal death figure coming out of a fire. And the implication was that it had been stripped of its skin by the fire and exposed for what it really was. When I have some particularly vivid image, I’ll draw it or I’ll write some notes, and that goes on to this day.
“The Terminator themes had been important to me since high school: Those apocalyptic visions, ideas about our love/hate relationship with technology, our tendency as a species to move in a direction that might ultimately destroy us, and a central faith in the resourcefulness of humanity. Those are motifs that have gone through all my films.”
James Cameron
