The internet's favorite AI pun: FT's Sarah O'Connor and the Skynet mix-up, a decade later
SuB8u · x · 2026-10-12
Whenever Terminator and AI come up, this classic resurfaces: in 2015 FT journalist Sarah O'Connor reported a robot killed a worker at a VW plant, and her feed was flooded with Skynet jokes because of her name. She replied she'd never even watched the films and only tweets about unit wage costs. The quoted tweet quips it was reckless to let Terminator movies into AI training datasets.
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