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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Filmmaker James Cameron. (credit: James Cameron \/ Stability AI<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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On Tuesday, Stability AI announced<\/a> that renowned filmmaker James Cameron\u2014of Terminator<\/em> and Skynet fame\u2014has joined its board of directors. Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion<\/a> series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images based on text descriptions.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve spent my career seeking out emerging technologies that push the very boundaries of what\u2019s possible, all in the service of telling incredible stories,” said Cameron in a statement. “I was at the forefront of CGI over three decades ago, and I\u2019ve stayed on the cutting edge since. Now, the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave.”<\/p>\n

Cameron is perhaps best known as the director behind blockbusters like Avatar<\/em>, Titanic<\/em>, and Aliens<\/em>, but in AI circles, he may be most relevant for the co-creation of the character Skynet<\/a>, a fictional AI system that triggers nuclear Armageddon and dominates humanity in the Terminator<\/em> media franchise. Similar fears of AI taking over the world<\/a> have since jumped into reality and recently sparked attempts to regulate existential risk from AI systems through measures like SB-1047<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Filmmaker James Cameron. (credit: James Cameron \/ Stability AI) On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron\u2014of Terminator and Skynet fame\u2014has joined its board of directors. 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