Garfield Stars in OpenAI Film 'Artificial', Exploring AI Safety Concerns

has premiered at the London Film Festival, shedding light on the conception and growth of the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT. The film, which unfolds over two decades, chronicles the conception and growth of the company. This includes Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring in 2023.

"reports suggest the reason I was drawn to it was just pure curiosity and fear and really trying to understand as deeply as possible the people who are ushering us into this next phase of the world,said Garfield.There's a sense of courage and imagination and resilience these people at the top of these companies must have. The ability to withstand so much criticism and such a microscopic lens on them as people.

And it's important that we do that because we need to know who's in power and who's creating our new world."

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Garfield plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the film. Which stars Russian Oscar-nominee Yura Borisov as OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The film also stars Ike Barinholtz as Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Monica Barbaro as OpenAI's former technology chief Mira Murati.

was shot in 2025 and comes at a time of mounting concerns triggered by recent incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic that have sparked fears rogue AI systems may slip beyond human control.

, portrayed in the film by Mark Rylance.

noting that it's so fascinating making a film like this when the topic is so relevant right now, said Barbaro. We'd be on set, watching two people argue with each other on Twitter, who we were portraying in this movie. It was really wild to have that experience.

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It's exciting and it's also really daunting because you want to be truthful, but the truth seems to change every month.

Garfield, who also starred in 2010's Facebook origin filmThe Social Networknoting that, did not contact or meet with Altman in preparation for the role.I don'"It's know Sam and I have a lot of compassion for a person who's my age, almost, and there's a movie being made about him",Garfield said.It's not him. However, it's an idea of what this story is and his part in it.

OpenAI did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Altman said he was not expecting anaccurate depiction.