‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan says AI in movies comes with ‘liability’ like creating an atomic bomb

Christopher Nolan examines the construction of the atomic bomb in his new film “Oppenheimer,” which hits theaters later this month.

The famed British-American filmmaker recognized the impact artificial intelligence is currently having on the world, similar to the historical impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s initiation of the atomic bomb in the 1940s.

“A lot of the AI ​​researchers I talk to right now, see it as their — they call it the Oppenheimer moment,” Nolan told Fox News Digital of AI infiltrating the entertainment industry.

“Is it really about looking back at Oppenheimer’s history and saying, okay, what could have been done differently? What are the responsibilities of people who create technology that can go out and have unintended impacts?”

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“There’s a lot of fear in the film industry right now about how AI is going to impact things. The reality is that it’s already used and it’s been used for years, and it’s going to continue to develop. But a lot of paid attention needs to be paid to these issues, particularly around artists’ rights, copyrights and stuff like that,” the “Inception” director said of any discomfort surrounding AI.

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“I think that work, and the unions in particular, are doing it right now, and this will be of great help to us. Ultimately, it is a tool that must be seen as a tool and must not take over the concept of responsibility” , has explained.

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“We have to hold people accountable for how they use this tool,” he added.

The film, starring Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh, will premiere on July 21st.

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Nolan isn’t the first filmmaker to address the use of artificial intelligence in business.

Former actor and director Justine Bateman previously told Fox News Digital, “I think AI has no place in Hollywood. For me, technology should solve the problems that humans have.”

“Using ChatGPT or any software that uses AI to write screenplays, using it instead of a writer doesn’t solve a problem,” he continued. We have no shortage of writers. There is no shortage of actors. There is no shortage of directors. We don’t lack talented people.”

“It’s more complex than what I’m about to say, but basically you give it a bunch of information, you give it a task, and then based on the information it has, it gives you the result,” he says of AI programming. “It does the job you set it for. If you’re asking it to write a screenplay, what are you training it on? What are you feeding it? Other people’s scripts. This is plagiarism. Using it will have an incredible negative disastrous effect on the business of the show.”

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Steven Spielberg previously told Stephen Colbert his mixed thoughts on AI on ‘The Late Show.’

“I love everything that is created not by a computer, but by a human person. When a human person uses the medium of digital tools to express themselves, to say something, it’s fantastic,” he began.

However, the acclaimed director admitted that even the artificial intelligence makes him “very nervous”.

“You’re basically taking something that you’ve created and you’ve made, which is the computer, and you give the computer autonomy over your point of view and yourself as a human person.”