] The predictive infrastructure is "self-aware," a term
] made famous in the Terminator movies. To make the
] technology work, we humans must give up the notion of
] control, for better or worse.

This is the conclusion of an opinion article by Mark Willoughby. His thesis apppears to be that the IT systems we depend upon are too complex for manual human control to provide an acceptable level of management and security. The application of automation to these task will lead to self-aware systems.

Moving Toward Self-awareness - Computerworld