Christopher Nolan, director of the new film adaptation of "The Odyssey," has described artificial intelligence as a "Trojan horse" whose dangers are so obvious that the public isn't being fooled by it. Speaking to YouTube interviewer Hugo Travers, Nolan said he finds it "pretty encouraging" that scepticism towards AI, particularly among young people, remains so widespread despite the technology's rapid advance—a rare case, he noted, of a fast-developing technology being so thoroughly rejected by the public.

Nolan expanded on the Trojan horse metaphor by calling AI "a transparent horse, it's made of glass," arguing that healthy scepticism towards both the technology and the motives of those promoting it is essential to getting genuine benefit from it. He pointed to young people coining the term "AI slop" as evidence of this instinctive distrust. The director, who is president of the Directors Guild of America, has previously secured generative AI protections in the union's latest contract, and has long positioned himself as a "techno-sceptic" rather than a technophobe—citing his commitment to shooting "The Odyssey" entirely on Imax film as an example of resisting technological change he sees as unproven or premature.