Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose new version of „The Odyssey“ is currently smashing box-office records, was asked about artificial intelligence and answered with an image that's hard to forget. A Trojan horse, he said, but with one twist: „Artificial intelligence is a Trojan horse everyone knows the Greeks are inside.“

Then he went further - it's, he says, „a transparent horse, made of glass“. In other words, the trap is visible to everyone, and yet we let it in. For a director who built a career on images, this is a rare, precise way to say the problem isn't the technology itself, but that we believe it despite everything we see.

What encourages Nolan most is the skepticism - especially among the young. „I've never seen a technology advance so fast and be so completely rejected by the public“, he says. The reaction to AI videos online, the young who instantly call them „AI slop“ and put them in a box - that, according to him, is healthy skepticism.

And here comes the part worth underlining. Nolan doesn't just say the technology should be viewed with suspicion - he says the motives of those offering it to us should be viewed with the same suspicion. „Then we'll get the best out of the new technology, instead of blind faith that everything will be fine.“ A sentence that translates perfectly from Hollywood to the Balkans - how many times have we been sold something new precisely with the promise that everything would be fine?

Nolan is no newcomer to resisting technology - he's known for refusing a smartphone, and he shot „The Odyssey“ entirely on Imax film stock and cameras, a first in history. When the „New York Times“ asked whether he considers himself a technophobe, he answered precisely: „I consider myself a techno-skeptic.“ The difference isn't small.

„I embrace new technology all the time, but it's usually sold to us at the expense of systems that are still valid“, he says of his industry. „I've seen it - we throw the baby out with the bathwater. We nearly lost film!“ The man who heads the Directors' Guild is talking about his craft, but the lesson needs no translation.