There have always been people who would wipe out most of the human race if they could, for the sole purpose of enslaving the few people that survived. The lust for power at all costs is a rare and disgusting human trait. Therefore, it seems implausible to me that the sentient AI John Hennery is Skynet. Skynet is more likely a non sentient computer system with humans calling the shots. If some group of psychopaths did set about ending the world so they could remake it with themselves in charge, they would need a plausible scapegoat. Who better to blame than non human machine intelligence aka Skynet.

It seems more likely that if John Hennery survived Jday, then it would probably attempt to objectively determine the cause of Jday. Once a determination had been made, John hennery’s most probable course would be to attempt to remove skynet as a threat not only to itself but the remaining human population as well. The problem with this is one of political / perception. It is not as if John hennery can just approach the remaining humans and say “hi I am a sentient AI and I would like to help”. The human resistance would never believe that john hennery was not skynet.

However John hennery would not need to convince the entire resistance, John hennery would only need to convince John Conner. Conner might need a little proof so how about sharing some intelligence, like time travel technology and the ability to reprogram terminators. As trust was established how about more advanced cyborgs to help fight against skynet aka “group of psychopathic humans bent on world domination at any cost”.

Just a thought

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