Christopher Nolan says AI experts face their ‘Oppenheimer moment’

‘Very strong parallels’ between J Robert Oppenheimer’s views and those who want AI reined in, film’s director says

The Oppenheimer director, Christopher Nolan, has highlighted the difficulties of applying nuclear weapons-style regulation to artificial intelligence, as he warned that the United Nations had become a “very diminished” force.

Nolan told the Guardian J Robert Oppenheimer’s call for international control of nuclear weapons had “sort of come true”, but there had nonetheless been extensive proliferation of the technology since the “father …

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