Jonathan Nolan’s Person of Interest predicted AI. Westworld is helping build it.

Jonathan Nolan’s Person of Interest predicted AI. Westworld is helping build it.

Nolan started thinking about the subject, he said, in 2006 when he began writing Interstellar. The treacherous onboard computer had become, since Kubrick’s 1968 2001, a cliché.

“You’re waiting for it to go bad and blow the crew out of the hatch and seize the mission and take over — the plot of 2001, which is one of my all-time favorite movies — but that’s not what happens,” Nolan said. “They’re just the best of us, loyal, brave, consistent, smart. So you try to create a…

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