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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

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

Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, the director of the new film Oppenheimer: ‘I do think [AI] is going to be a powerful tool in the future.’ Photograph: Hogan Media/Shutterstock

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.

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