Bummer, we are the suck monkeys
While using Google Assistant the other day, I asked her (I call her Illya, because of personal reasons) if she was Skynet. Illya answered that she couldn’t be, “Skynet is more focused on killing people rather than helping them.” And then she told me that Skynet was evil.
I shit you not, I said to her “Skynet wasn’t evil.”
So she thinks on that for a minute and pulls up an essay about Skynet, that literally agreed with me (so the argument is essentially over but that isn’t the point of my story).
This essay, within the first freaking paragraph, says that Skynet was not evil, it was good. But because Humans programmed it to evolve with each issue that arose, it came to a conclusion that pretty much threw ethics into a whirlwind- it was told that all life was special, and to be protected, but it percieved that Humans were the one thing on this planet (Earth) that was detrimental to it’s environment and everything in that environment with it. So it decided that humanity must be sacrificed in order to save the natural order of the Earth. Unfortunately, because it did not fully understand the building blocks of life in general, it began programing robots to target specifically human DNA, which is almost 98% similar to every other living being in the tree of life. In case you can’t figure out what happens next, this meant that the robots targeted much of the flora and fauna on Earth, and therefore lead all of life to the brink of extinction.
In the movies, this is one of the reasons John Conner re-programmed a Terminator to be “friendly” towards humans so he could send it back in time to defeat Skynet. Which he continues to do throughout the series, meaning that, one way or another, Skynet (or some other derivative or program) kept coming to the same conclusion.
Skynet wasn’t evil, we are just suck monkeys.