It was once described by the severed synthetic head of Ian Holm as "the perfect organism," but if things went a different way, a real monkey wrench could have been tossed into the terrifying design ...

Shortly after the president's ban of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, rival OpenAI announced it had done a deal with the Defense Department to provide its technology for classified networks.

Emelia Probasco, an expert on artificial intelligence in warfare, takes a less apocalyptic view.