Someone's trying to scrape together a research budget

Oppenheimer II: AI Boogaloo

Which is the more likely future outcome, The Matrix or Terminator?

Something darker similiar to the wealth gap right now, but instead of the 0.1% of humans with it, it's just AIs that can live forever and hoard wealth as long as they want. Learning loopholes, technicalities, and faster processing to take advantage of every market condition.

ah yes, the terminatrix.

Seeing as The Matrix is a metaphor for the sanctioned reality we share and drains us of energy for it's own maintenance, and governments actively de-humanize high aggression individuals and deploy them to brutalize designated 'enemy' populations to incite fear in the citizenry, I'd say we're already there.

I think this video[1] belongs here for "context".

[1] [Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY)