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The protagonist of reality

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gets serious about AI. Or does it?
Tom Cruise in a dive suit in a cylindrical room, water roughly up to his waist. It's lit by fluorescents. It looks cold.
Ethan Hunt makes his way into a submarine at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, which is just one of those things he famously does. (Credit: Paramount)

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Emily St. James

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