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Christopher Nolan has drawn a dramatic comparison between the rapidly developing technology of artificial intelligence and his new movie about the creation of the atomic bomb.
In a conversation following a preview screening of Oppenheimer in New York, Nolan expressed his concern for the rapid rise in AI alongside other panellists, including Los Alamos National Laboratory director Dr Thom Mason, physicists Dr Carlo Rovelli and Dr Kip Thorne, plus author Kai Bird, who co-wrote American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which Nolan’s film is based on. Variety notes his concerns:
“The rise of companies in the last 15 years bandying words like algorithm — not knowing what they mean in any kind of meaningful, mathematical sense — these guys don’t know what an algorithm is,” Nolan shared at the screening. “People in my business talking about it, they just don’t want to take responsibility for whatever that algorithm does.”
“Applied to AI, that’s a terrifying possibility. Terrifying,” Nolan continued. “Not least because, AI systems will go into defensive infrastructure ultimately. They’ll be in charge of nuclear weapons. To say that that is a separate entity from the person wielding, programming, putting that AI to use, then we’re doomed. It has to be about accountability. We have to hold people accountable for what they do with the tools that they have.”
[source:variety]
