Christopher Nolan: ‘Very strong parallels’ between Oppenheimer and scientists worried about AI

Clear similarities 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 of the atomic bomb" led the Manhattan project in the second world war.