“But as dumb as it is, it's dumb very, very fast, and in the future, after it's all but wiped us out, it's dumb fast enough to be a problem.”

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9658524/1/Branches-on-the-Tree-of...

And of course I had to go through an automated “are you human” check to open that link…

Just gonna say, that line goes incredibly hard as perhaps one of the better ideas about unsafe AI.

But the movie is about a robot assassin, it came out when robotic assassins needed a background story.

Make terminator today and you don't need time travel, just Boston robotics with latex skin and a rocket launcher, I guess.

The time travel is a trope to handwave the mechanics of a movie - you want to tell a story about one character and a robot, why should the audience care? PH this human leads a resistance that's why.