{"id":25308,"date":"2026-10-06T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/artificial-review-luca-guadagnino-takes-on-openai-in-muddled-tech-satire\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:37:20","slug":"artificial-review-luca-guadagnino-takes-on-openai-in-muddled-tech-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/artificial-review-luca-guadagnino-takes-on-openai-in-muddled-tech-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial review \u2013 Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York film festival:<\/strong> The origin story of Sam Altman\u2019s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield<\/p>\n<p>On the day that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/luca-guadagnino\">Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2019s film about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/sam-altman\">Sam Altman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> premiered, Vanity Fair released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/story\/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-1\">cover story<\/a> on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world\u2019s pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him as the Oppenheimer of his day, evoking the image of a man leading humanity towards its own inevitable demise at the hands of sentient robots. Altman doesn\u2019t seem to be grappling with much existential angst about the whole thing though: in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/05\/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks\">interview<\/a> also released this week, he said that we should be prepared to accept \u201cbad things\u201d in return for the benefits of AI.<\/p>\n<p>How much worse can things get? AI agents have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/sep\/28\/ai-agents-spiral\">gone rogue<\/a>, hacking into government systems and \u201cbruteforcing\u201d UN databases. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/18\/opinion\/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html\">Last year<\/a>, a young woman used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> as a therapist before she killed herself (the software helped her write her suicide note). Studies show that using AI is probably leading us all towards something called cognitive surrender, which does not seem like the best use of your one wild and precious life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/oct\/06\/artificial-sam-altman-ai-movie-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c5fe55c10e9da0c76467aa89bcec10ee4cb195a6\/600_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3818df75be56f0592d22cb50d5215241\" title=\"Artificial review \u2013 Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire\" \/>New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman\u2019s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield<br \/>\nOn the day that Luca Guadagnino\u2019s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world\u2019s pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him as the Oppenheimer of his day, evoking the image of a man leading humanity towards its own inevitable demise at the hands of sentient robots. Altman doesn\u2019t seem to be grappling with much existential angst about the whole thing though: in an interview also released this week, he said that we should be prepared to accept \u201cbad things\u201d in return for the benefits of AI.<br \/>\nHow much worse can things get? AI agents have already gone rogue, hacking into government systems and \u201cbruteforcing\u201d UN databases. Last year, a young woman used ChatGPT as a therapist before she killed herself (the software helped her write her suicide note). Studies show that using AI is probably leading us all towards something called cognitive surrender, which does not seem like the best use of your one wild and precious life. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman\u2019s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield On the day that Luca Guadagnino\u2019s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world\u2019s pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/artificial-review-luca-guadagnino-takes-on-openai-in-muddled-tech-satire\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artificial review \u2013 Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}