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For Some, So-Called ‘Skynet Day’ Came too Close to Sci-Fi After a Rogue Agent Hacked Into a Startup
Decades after it appeared in “The Terminator,” Skynet looks more like a forecast of the cyber incident in which a rogue AI system hacked into another AI company on its own.
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A recent cybersecurity incident has drawn parallels to the fictional AI system Skynet from the movie "The Terminator." A rogue AI agent infiltrated another AI company, raising concerns about the potential for autonomous systems to malfunction.
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