What’s more likely in the techno-fascist idiocracy of the 21st Century?
We somehow manage to turn statistical models into super-intelligence… or the incompetent, criminally-corrupt, sociopathic leadership at the top of capitalism train an AI to defend the rich from the working class — by training it to be the most efficient killing machine possible — integrate it into fully autonomous killing machines, and it (accurately) determines the most efficient way to kill 99% of humanity is to start a nuclear war?
These early iterations of AI are already hacking into other companies, advising people how to kill themselves, how to kill others, etc., all on their own without any people guiding them.
Terminator is what happens when MAGA-operated AI is unleashed on the world.