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Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino indicates he wasn’t surprised when Amazon MGM Studios dropped his new film “Artificial,” a biopic about Open AI founder Sam Altman.
Appearing on “Otto e Mezzo” on Italy’s La7 Attualità, host Lilli Gruber asked him why the film was perceived as dangerous. He responded:
“Unfortunately, I can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation. [But] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.”
Guadagnino then went on to cite an incident in 2003 when CBS canceled the broadcast of the mini-series “The Reagans” following a conservative backlash. The series eventually aired on Showtime.
Guadagnino then touched upon the broader debate about AI:
“To me, the issue isn’t artificial intelligence itself. I mean the application – or whatever we want to call it – the tool used to generate ‘products of knowledge’ or creative works, such as a research paper, a video, or an image. From one perspective, it’s a technological gadget – and not a particularly sophisticated one, at that – full of flaws, though it will likely improve over time.
What matters most to me is how people are completely changing the face, not just of society – in terms of consumption habits and how we interact with these tools – but the very face of the identity of a place like the United States and the entire world.
We shot part of the film in San Francisco – a wonderful city, one of the great, distinguished U.S. cities, Alfred Hitchcock’s city – a place of great beauty but also great despair, with so many homeless people, so many people living under the influence of fentanyl, while these wonderful, silent, self-driving cars glided past them. That, to me, is the perfect image to illustrate the theme. It is a disturbing image – more than just disturbing.”
MUBI is one of several distributors still circling the $40 million budget film starring Andrew Garfield as Altman and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk.
Source: Variety
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