Source: CounterPunch
by John Kendall Hawkins
“Terminator 2: Judgment Day gave us intelligence as hunter. Ex Machina gave us intelligence as deceiver. Transcendence gave us intelligence as god. Surveillance, then persuasion, then something close to apotheosis. The films did not plan this arc together, but placed end to end they map the territory we now live in with an accuracy that ought to make us uneasy.” (07/16/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/16/the-god-in-the-machine-comes-with-an-owner/