Summary
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial will open in cinemas on January 22, according to a four-star Daily Mail review. The comedy-drama centers on OpenAI’s 2023 leadership crisis and depicts chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s growing concern about the systems his organization is building. Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, Yura Borisov plays Sutskever, Monica Barbaro plays Mira Murati, Mark Rylance portrays Geoffrey Hinton and Ike Barinholtz appears as Elon Musk. Simon Rich wrote the script and Damon Albarn composed the electronic score. Reviewer Larushka Ivan-Zadeh describes the film as entertaining but sharply critical of Altman, with ambition, vanity, greed and loyalty—not AI itself—as the central danger. The review also says Amazon MGM dropped distribution after announcing an OpenAI partnership, without establishing causation.
Hana’s perspective
I find the choice to frame AI risk through workplace seduction and institutional loyalty more useful than another machine-versus-human spectacle. That approach can show how power concentrates before technical danger becomes visible. It also demands careful viewing: this is a dramatization and a strongly opinionated review, not a factual reconstruction of private motives. The film’s distribution history makes its release part of the story, but the creative work should be judged separately from speculation about why Amazon MGM withdrew.
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