Skynet

English en <dab> 2017 August 29 Pronunciation en /ˈskaɪnɛt/ RP,GA en en-au-Skynet.ogg AU en Sky net Etymology 1 en sky net. From en sky and en network. The first satellite, en Skynet (satellite)#Skynet 1 Skynet 1A, was launched on 22 November 1969. Proper noun thumb|An artist’s impression of a Skynet 5 military communications satellite (etymology 1) A family of United Kingdom military communications satellites. en W. P. Robins Phase Noise in Signal Sources: Theory and Applications IEE Telecommunications Series 9 London Peter Peregrinus Ltd. on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1984 back cover https://books.google.com/books?id=qjqf_KRvABEC&pg=PA324 978-0-86341-026-0 On returning to Stanmore in 1967 he [the author] was in charge of the development of transportable satellite earth stations Types III and IV for use in the British Skynet defence communications system. He was responsible for the proposal and all the technical concepts for the communications payload of the Skynet II satellite. en Nature: A Weekly Journal of Science London Macmillan 1986 320 216 0028-0836 421716612 But [William Robert] Graham confirmed that a proposal to carry the British Skynet satellites aboard the shuttle [Space Shuttle] had already been terminated. en R. A. Charles Design, Construction and Testing of the Deployable UHF Antenna for Skynet 4 Stage 2 S. Pellegrino; S. D. Guest IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Cambridge, U.K., 6–9 September 1998 Solid Mechanics and Its Applications Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=xN1hUQ3VeHwC&pg=PA77 978-0-7923-6516-7 The SKYNET 4D, 4E and 4F military communications satellites are built to the SKYNET 4 Stage 2 standard by Matra Marconi Space UK Ltd. The function of the SKYNET UHF antenna is to receive and transmit UHF communications covering the visible face of the Earth from geostationary orbit. Etymology 2 From the en Terminator (franchise) Terminator film series, the first of which, en The Terminator, premiered in 1984. en Q42574, who also directed the first two Terminator films he wrote. Proper noun en science fiction A distributed artificial intelligence system that is aware of the physical world and acts autonomously through cyborgs and computer control systems; en by extension an uncontrollable AI that threatens humanity. from 1980s en w:Roz Kaveney Creation as Product: The Paradox of Franchises From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film London w:I.B. Tauris 2005 125 https://books.google.com/books?id=2fg69plSKYwC&pg=PA125 978-1-85043-805-2 In the first two films, Skynet is a colossal piece of hardware, a single unit which contains an artificial intelligence designed to run the US nuclear weapons system, a doomsday computer that becomes aware and destroys humanity. It was only through some very fancy footwork that Terminator 2: Judgment Day managed to make it remotely plausible that Skynet had sent a second machine to a later date. Since Skynet is presumably aware of its own origins, this makes the first film marginally less plausible. en Cristina Urdiales Foreword https://books.google.com/books?id=L5I-yxXJK2gC&pg=PP7 Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN): The Bare Necessities: Assisted Wheelchair Navigation and beyond Intelligent Systems Reference Library 27 Berlin; Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 2012 10.1007/978-3-642-24902-0 978-3-642-24901-3 1868-4394 Maybe I watched too many Mazinger shows or read too many Yoko Tsuno BDs as a kid and, surely, I think the best way to end humanity would be to migrate SkyNet to Windows Vista, but somehow I thought it would be fun. en J. P. Telotte The Persistence of the Robot Sean Redmond; Leon Marvell Endangered Science Fiction Film AFI Film Series New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon. w:Routledge 2016 254 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMsBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT266 978-1-138-79262-3 With the more convoluted Terminator Salvation, the seductive power of the skin job gives way to a constant maze of false seeming, centered on the relationship between John Connor and the part-cyborg Marcus Wright during the post-apocalyptic human fight against Skynet and its various killing machines. en w:Jonathan Maberry 128 Dogs of War: A Joe Ledger Novel New York, N.Y. w:St. Martin's Press April 2017 518 https://books.google.com/books?id=uC0uDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA518 978-1-250-09848-1 Calpurnia, the Good Sister, the artificial intelligence created by Zephyr Bain, had achieved consciousness and self-awareness. She knew of her existence. She had crossed the line from the predictable and anticipated inevitable model of machine consciousness. However, it should have stopped there. The Skynet model from the Terminator movies didn't really work, because true consciousness was a by-product of chemistry and physical constitution. What Palantir Sees 2025-10-30 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/palantir-shyam-sankar-military.html w:Ross Douthat Shyam Sankar We’re explicitly not building Skynet. https://web.archive.org/web/20251109223610/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/palantir-shyam-sankar-military.html 9 November 2025 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/ai-industry-self-improving-bots/686686/ Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves Matteo Wong; Lila Shroff 2026-04-03 Late last month, a large crowd gathered in downtown San Francisco to demand that the AI industry stop developing more powerful bots. Holding signs and banners reading Stop the AI Race and Don’t Build Skynet, the protesters marched through the city and gave speeches outside the offices of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI. https://web.archive.org/web/20260726054043/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/ai-industry-self-improving-bots/686686/ 26 July 2026 Further reading Skynet (satellite) Skynet (Terminator) en Machines Telecommunications