---
title: "Self-Owning Computers Can Beat ‘Skynet’"
description: "The Terminator film series gave us a harrowing vision of a future of total surveillance and conflict - one facilitated by artificial intelligence created by a war-waging state."
date: "2015-02-18"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Ross Marov"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ross"
url: "https://futurism.com/self-owning-computers-can-beat-skynet"
categories:
  - "Computers"
  - "Computing"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "robotics"
---

# Self-Owning Computers Can Beat ‘Skynet’

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- Self-driving cars are almost here - the future is coming.
- However, to prevent big corporations from dominating this sphere, self-driving cars should be decentralized, hence - the machines should own themselves
- But don't be scared! If the machine owns itself, it doesn't mean it has AI or is self-aware.