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While Elon Musk attempts to rival The Odyssey with an AI-generated take, Christopher Nolan sees how the historical epic serves as a metaphor for the public’s distrust in the tech.
The 2x Oscar winning director recently agreed with a comparison of artificial intelligence to a Trojan horse “made of glass,” acknowledging the similarities to Greeks presenting the horse to Troy as a gift during the Trojan War, only to use it to sneak inside the city and win the war.
“I think AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside,” said Nolan on the Hugo Décrypte YouTube, adding: “It’s a transparent horse, it’s made of glass. Everybody can see what’s going on inside of there.”
Noting how AI has “taken over Wall Street” in recent years, Nolan praised Gen Z for its “very healthy skepticism” of the technology’s rapid growth.
“I’ve never seen a technology advancing so rapidly, so completely rejected by the public. Everybody’s suspicion of it is so extreme, particularly young people,” he explained. “The reaction to AI videos online and people my children’s age immediately calling it ‘AI slop’ and coining that term and just putting it in a box, which I think is a very healthy skepticism, because technology is always going to give us great gifts, as you say, but it has to be viewed with skepticism.
“The motives of the people giving it to us also have to be viewed with skepticism. That’s when we’ll get the best out of a new technology, rather than just blind faith that everything’s going to be great. It’s actually pretty encouraging to see young people in particular being so suspicious of it,” added Nolan.
Meanwhile, Musk has continued his bitter crusade on Nolan’s summer blockbuster, declaring that X’s AI tool Grok Imagine “will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer” by the end of the year. Musk and his ilk have recently made a stink about the ethnicity of some of the adaptation’s cast, which Nolan has also dismissed as “irrelevant.”
The use of AI in Hollywood continues to be a hot-button topic in recent years. SAG-AFTRA has endorsed the Trump administration’s AI policy framework, which calls for Congress to enact legislation that includes parental controls, intellectual property rights protection, First Amendment protections, expanding AI workforce development, allowing data centers to generate their own power and removing legal barriers that limit AI innovation.
Last month, Trump signed an executive order for voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30-day review period before their release.
