Imagine If Joe Biden's AI Executive Order Were Inspired by 'The Terminator'

Science fiction, for decades, has been about predicting the future--and warning against it. Even as Star Trek envisioned the wonders of flip phones and iPads, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash warned of the dystopian nature of the metaverse. Throughout 2023, as artificial intelligence has creeped its way into every corner of public, private, and creative life, it's been easy to see the lessons sci-fi tried to teach. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was a bot who worked in harmony with organic beings; Hal 9000, in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, (spoiler) goes all murder-y to save its own life. Too often, it seems like the minds pushing AI watched too much Trek and not enough Kubrick.