Luca Guadagnino's new film Artificial premiered at the New York Film Festival as a satirical biopic of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The movie focuses on the dynamics of power. Specifically, it asks who holds it, who desires it, and the lengths individuals go to acquire it. During the premiere, Guadagnino stated that the concept of someone wanting to play God is very interesting to him.
The narrative of Artificial sticks closely to the factual events surrounding Altman's rise to power within the AI lab and his brief ouster from the organization. The film opens with a shot of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, which serves as a metaphor for building all-powerful AI systems.