Hollywood Takes On Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman as AI Anxiety Grows
A cluster of tech-CEO films arrives this fall: Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning" (Oct. 9) on Zuckerberg and Facebook's societal damage, Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk" (Oct. 16), and Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial" (Dec. 25), which revisits the five days in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired and rehired by OpenAI. Netflix is also releasing "AI Gone Wild," about the Hugging Face cyberattack, plus the FTX true-crime series "The Altruists." CNBC frames the slate as arriving amid rising public concern about AI and its leaders.
These films push debates over AI and Big Tech leadership into mainstream culture, which can shape public perception of companies like OpenAI and Meta.
Hollywood is unleashing a handful of movies this fall, pulling the curtain back to shine a light on some of the big names in tech: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes; and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Plenty of movies have tackled themes of techno-pessimism and dug into the deep well of science fiction. Remember 2001: A Space Odyssey? Blade Runner? M3GAN? But apocalyptic threats and human-versus-machine scenarios feel much more prescient in 2026.
What’s changed is that there seems to be an appetite for Big Tech to get its comeuppance. The movies being released are real stories about the scandals and scammers affecting our daily lives.
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