{"id":1023869,"date":"2026-07-27T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023869"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:16:43","slug":"for-some-so-called-skynet-day-came-too-close-to-sci-fi-after-a-rogue-agent-hacked-into-a-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/for-some-so-called-skynet-day-came-too-close-to-sci-fi-after-a-rogue-agent-hacked-into-a-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"For some, so-called Skynet Day came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>That system, \u201cSkynet,\u201d was solidly science fiction \u2014 and, for its day, pure speculation. But four decades after it appeared in \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d it looks more like a forecast of the \u201cunprecedented cyber incident\u201d in which a rogue artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse. That system, \u201cSkynet,\u201d was solidly science fiction \u2014 and, for its day, pure speculation. But four decades after it appeared in \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d it looks more like a forecast of the \u201cunprecedented cyber incident\u201d in which a rogue artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023870,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023869\/revisions\/1023870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}