‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
The film 'Artificial', directed by Luca Guadagnino, provides a critical and unflattering portrayal of OpenAI's leadership and the broader AI industry. The movie, which features Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, explores the moral complexities and vanity surrounding the current AI boom.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing cultural backlash against Silicon Valley tech titans and the public's increasing skepticism toward AI development.
As OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, Russian actor Yuri Borisov clomps around, like a geeky Frankensteinian monster. As the controversial OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Andrew Garfield bounces and skips boyishly—a gait that Altman himself recently commended for its accuracy. And as Elon Musk, Ike Barinholtz puts on a loping swagger, commanding rooms of computer nerds like some sort of alpha gorilla (a semblance matched by his long, pouting faces, which call to mind those old Bored Ape NFTs).
During the movie’s post-premiere Q&A earlier this week at the New York Film Festival, Barinholtz wryly described his character as “a person who walks normally.” Such are the awkward saunters of the march of history in the making.
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