WIRED review: Luca Guadagnino's Artificial spares no one at OpenAI
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-07
WIRED reviews Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI comedy-drama Artificial (NYFF premiere, released by Neon): Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman (whose bouncy gait Altman himself praised as accurate), Yuri Borisov plays Ilya Sutskever, and Ike Barinholtz plays Elon Musk.
- AmazonMGM originally held the film but dropped it after Amazon's $50 billion OpenAI deal; Neon picked it up.
- The film is almost completely unflattering, depicting Altman and the drivers of the AI boom as vain, reckless, and insufferably boring.
- At the premiere Q&A, Barinholtz described his character as "a person who walks normally" — a nod to the industry's awkward saunters. The review reads the film as contemptuous of AI's creators while warning of their recklessness.
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