Skynet Becomes Self Aware

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Skynet Becomes Self Aware Our world has becoming more technological advance every year. Technologies have made our life much easier. We have evolved and grew much stronger due to this technology. Every time a new technology is being introduce it tells us all the good and new features in it, but they never tell us the bad side or the side effect of the technology. Rumors have been said that in April 21, 2011 the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet will become self-aware and turn against its creators. Skynet is the fictional computer network owned by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation featured as the never-seen villain of The Terminator film series. If Skynet does become self aware the human race can be all wiped out. Our country today fears terrorism, but I believe that Skynet being self aware should be our biggest fear because it can cause more impact to us compare to terrorism. The creation of Skynet started in the mid 1990s when America felt that they needed a combat link, a focal point that would search for, detect, evaluate, and respond to any threat to national security or national territories. The project was completed in 1997 which took about 5 and half years to complete. When Skynet was brought online, it began to grow mentally at an exponential rate. After, Skynet become to grow as it absorbed any and all data’s, testing its own limits, trying to expand, activating defensive systems for no reason and shutting them back down. This is when the design team became worried about Skynet because it ignored and rejected their command. The creation of Skynet can post a new threat not just United States but to all the countries. In the movie Terminator, things that Skynet can do were showed and how its goal is to exterminate the human race, “There was a war. A few years from now. Nuclear war. The whole thing. All this … everything ... is
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