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What Oppenheimer Tells Us about AI | Naser Al Madi, PhD

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COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES

COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES It was Stephen Fry who said: ‘A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.’ With Oppenheimer, we are presented with a true story masterfully portrayed through the lens of Christopher Nolan. The story of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist, and director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, is a masterclass in storytelling and film. However, the reason I am writing about Oppenheimer today goes beyond the film’s excellent form, after all “art is not supposed to look nice, it is supposed to make you feel something.

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