TERMINATOR, eat your heart out. Machine intelligences of the future could exploit quantum theory to help them wipe us out. If the machines learned of their impending doom, they could avoid destruction simply by resetting their memories (see 鈥淎void the future by forgetting the past鈥�). This move, as a consequence of the 鈥渕any worlds鈥� concept, would allow a computer to 鈥渆scape鈥� to a parallel universe. Outlandish, perhaps, but a genuine attempt to explore the consequences of quantum theory 鈥� and a reminder that truth may be even stranger than (science) fiction.
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Terminator, eat your heart out: evil machine intelligences of the future could use quantum mechanics to help them wipe out humanity