Naperville wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 12:58 pm
silver & black wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 6:19 am
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Terminator series was just a precursor to what is going to happen. I'm glad I won't be here to see it.
I bet what will happen is AI will continue it's march toward becoming a huge part of every day life. In 2026 we just are not there, hardly anyone is using AI, but give it a few decades.
Wars will be fought. AI, robotics and drones will become intertwined with the military on land, at sea, and in space.
Policing, jails, and prisons will likewise become heavily dependent on robotics, drones, and AI. Hospitals will do likewise.
Many humans will start to have human-computer interfaces embed within their bodies.
Somewhere, in some country, something will catastrophically go wrong. Maybe hackers will take control of a country's systems. People will be slaughtered.
AI will eventually become sentient and take control.
You are half right but half wrong, in my opinion.
Here is where:
1 You start with an assumption that Sentient Thought can be generated either spontaneously or by human programming.
There is a fundamental law in Information Science that is as unbreakable as the Laws of Thermodynamics and Economics.
This law states that no system or thing can have greater complexity than that which created it.
Human beings cannot create sentient thought.
Sentient thought cannot spontaneously generate from bonding electrons or amino acids.
This destroys all hope of humans creating algorithms or codes or software or programs equal to or greater than human minds.
It also destroys materialist Evolution of particles to people and molecules to man, but that is another issue. It does not, however, prevent an Intelligent guided evolution.
Take Spyderco. Sal and Eric and their team are intelligent sentient humans using factory tools and machines to produce more machines (knives, sharpeners, etc). None of their products can or will ever be greater than them, the creators.
Nothing in nature is greater than the Creator Super Mind. This directly applies to AI.
So, no Sentient nachines.
But wait. Now, here is where you are right:
Once flexible, inexpensive, portable power sources can be miniaturized the plastic, ceramic, metallic, composite bodies AI robots will be used to compliment not replace humans.
AI can data mine very well and put data together but not sentiently.
Lawyers, nurses, doctors, police officers, medics, bakers, chefs, security guards, factory managers, CAD designers, Designers, Door people, nannies, teachers, and even porters and janitors will all still be needed.
Entertainment and sports players, too, will be wanted.
But AI mobile robots will work beside them for both good and not good reasons.
Correction Officers and prison, jail workers will all have jobs but robots will be in there, too.
Just imagine some foolish criminal who murders and rapes and beats on people trying to stick a prison shiv into a 7 foot tall fully flexible AI jail guard who is made from covalent carbon FRN and Magnacut steel and who has a cold fusion battery.
The robot would have to be guided by the correction officers but it could crush that murderer like he were a rotten potato.
The big danger is not Terminator. It will be the Beast controlling AI.
But we can get 3d printed Nano Native Chiefs before then I hope.
Companies and businesses will have robots watching their places and employees around the clock. Human guards and police and EMS and fire fighters will work with robots.
Manufacturing will be decentralized.
Mobile robots only if you get a compact power generator with equal or greater energy density to fossil fuels.
