"Terminator: Dark Fate" also marks the return of writer/producer James Cameron -- who directed the first two movies in the franchise, but wasn't involved in the three sequels that followed. Although monstrous machines have figured in movie plots since Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" in 1927, Schwarzenegger's performance in "The Terminator" set the stage for worries about out-of-control intelligent machines. Billionaire techie Elon Musk is among the best-known doomsayers. "I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street, killing people, they don't know how to react because it seems so ethereal," Musk said in 2017. On the other side of the debate, Oren Etzioni, the CEO of Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, keeps telling people to calm down.

On May 8th, Google rolled out Duplex, a new AI technology that is able to hold human-sounding conversations. The tech drew astonishment across a wide spectrum of the internet at the ability of the AI to interact with an unsuspecting human when making an appointment for a haircut. Duplex was able to adjust to the information given and even inserted a few fillers like "uh" and "hmm" into its speech, coming across quite realistically. And what's even better - the AI accomplished its task, booking the appointment. While undeniably impressive, Google's demonstration also raised a host of concerns focused on what it means that an AI can be made to sound like a human.

Editor's Note: This Commentary is part of a special report exploring game-changing trends and innovations that have the potential to shake up the schoolhouse. Artificial intelligence is a rapidly emerging technology that has the potential to change our everyday lives with a scope and speed that humankind has never experienced before. Some well-known technology leaders such as Tesla architect Elon Musk consider AI a potential threat to humanity and have pushed for its regulation "before it's too late"--an alarmist statement that confuses AI science with science fiction. What is the reality behind these concerns, and how can educators best prepare for a future with artificial intelligence as an inevitable part of our lives? General, widespread legislative regulation of AI is not going to be the right way to prepare our society for these changes.