During a panel following a preview screening of his new movie, Christopher Nolan said AI creators are facing their 'Oppenheimer moment'.
The panel, moderated by "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd, included Nolan, Los Alamos National Laboratory director Dr. Thom Mason, physicists Dr. Carlo Rovelli and Dr. Kip Thorne, and author Kai Bird, who co-wrote the book Nolan's film is based on, 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer'.
"Applied to AI, that's a terrifying possibility. Terrifying," he 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.
"When I talk to the leading researchers in the field of AI right now, for example, they literally refer to this — right now — as their Oppenheimer moment," the director continued. "They’re looking to history to say, ‘What are the responsibilities for scientists developing new technologies that may have unintended consequences?'"
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