
You're probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you're in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there's an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants." The second implausibility is that such a technologically-advanced AI would deploy a brute-force attack by humanoid robots to commit its omnicide a more plausible and efficient method would be to use germ warfare or, if feasible, nanotechnology. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we're in trouble. The first implausibility is that, according to Hawking, "The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence. In contrast, other scholars, such as physicist Stephen Hawking, have held that future AI could indeed pose an existential risk, but that the Terminator films are nonetheless implausible in two distinct ways. BBC reporter Sam Shead has stated that "unfortunately, there have been numerous instances of using stills from the Terminator films in stories about relatively incremental breakthroughs" and that the films generate "misplaced fears of uncontrollable, all-powerful AI". Some AI researchers, such as Yoshua Bengio, have complained that films such as Terminator "paint a picture which is really not coherent with the current understanding of how AI systems are built today and in the foreseeable future". Many of these negative portrayals (and a few of the positive portrayals) involve an AI seizing control from its creators. There are many positive portrayals of AI in fiction, such as Isaac Asimov's Bicentennial Man and Lt. See also: Artificial intelligence in fiction
