How Is Sam Altman Portrayed in Artificial? Not Well
The film 'Artificial' explores the origins of the AI industry, focusing on the professional relationship between Ilya Sutskever and Sam Altman. The movie portrays the rise of OpenAI through a critical lens, highlighting the tension between safety and aggressive technological expansion.
Why it matters
It reflects growing public and cultural scrutiny of the ethics and power dynamics within the AI industry and its leadership.
“Aggressive technocapitalism wins, safety dies" is a long name for a movie and a short logline for a film, yet the phrase might accurately be used for both when it comes to Artificial. Luca Guadagnino brought his latest and by far most-topical movie to a world-premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival Monday evening, the first stop of what has already seemed like an unusually long journey. Ditched by Amazon MGM Studios after its parent company’s $50 billion investment in OpenAI , the film, as it turns out, would be non-grata at a large tech firm even if it never signed on for that 5 percent equity stake in Sam Altman ‘s company.
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