A savage Terminator-like computer network could declare war on humanity, Britain's top robotics experts have admitted. The alarming claim emerged today as MPs held an otherwise run-of-the-mill hearing about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Parliament summoned two AI professors and two research directors to discuss how smart robots will change the economy. Labour MP Graham Stringer then stung them with the million-dollar question - whether The Terminator could come true. The 1984 classic and its sequels feature a computer system called Skynet that becomes "self-aware", takes control of America's nuclear weapons and rains a firestorm down upon the earth. Read more: Killer computers to create'artificial hell' for humanity by torturing unlucky victims FOREVER That may sound a bit extreme, but none of the four experts ruled it out.