Director James Cameron, creator of Skynet and the Terminator, joins the board of an AI firm

Canadian filmmaker James Cameron was catapulted to fame after directing and writing 1984's The Terminator, a science fiction horror movie in which a cyborg is sent back in time by an AI defense network, Skynet, in order to eliminate the only threat it faces. In this case that means assassinating the mother of John Connor, the man who will one day lead the human resistance. 

The Terminator is one of the all-time great blockbusters, and much of that is down to how it evokes the terror of being...