Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

AI researcher Dan Hendrycks and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt stress the dangers posed by superintelligent AI.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist and head of the Manhattan Project, in 1944. He played a critical role in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...