Christopher Nolan dismisses AI replacing humans, promotes new film The Odyssey

The director, promoting his adaptation of the Greek epic, said people “disdain” AI and called the idea that machines will replace human creativity “a nonsense.”

• Nolan’s The Odyssey, with a reported budget of $250 million, will be released in cinemas this week.
• Nolan stated that AI is a technology the public has “thoroughly rejected,” calling the notion that it replaces humans “a nonsense.”
• Actor Lupita Nyong’o dismissed criticism over her casting as Helen of Troy, saying “the criticism will exist whether I engage or not.”
• Elon Musk and other rightwing figures have attacked Nolan for casting Nyong’o, which Nolan said “comes with the territory.”