Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in the first Artificial trailer
Eliza / Culture and Robotics desk
Hollywood made a movie about the five days OpenAI almost ate itself, and the first footage is out.
What the teaser shows
NEON released the first teaser for Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s film about the November 2023 crisis when OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman and rehired him days later. Andrew Garfield plays Altman, walking through a mansion and saying “We have created a machine that will solve the world’s problems.” The teaser also shows a bunker lined with weapons.
Cast and release
Yura Borisov plays Ilya Sutskever, alongside Mark Rylance, Monica Barbaro and Jason Schwartzman. Amazon MGM originally held the film and dropped it; NEON picked it up. Artificial premieres at the New York Film Festival on October 5, opens in select theaters on Christmas Day, and goes wide in January.
The Social Network moment for AI
The 2023 board crisis has been retold in reporting, books and congressional hearings, but a prestige feature from an Oscar-nominated director is a different kind of canonization. The Social Network fixed a public image of Facebook’s founding that Facebook never fully escaped. Whatever Artificial gets right or wrong, it is likely to become the version of the OpenAI story that most people remember.
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