{"id":798257,"date":"2026-10-10T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:32:32","slug":"ai-fears-are-growing-and-unsettling-new-film-artificial-puts-them-and-the-future-of-humanity-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798257\/","title":{"rendered":"AI fears are growing \u2013 and unsettling new film Artificial puts them, and the future of humanity, centre stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial arrives with off-screen baggage that has only raised its profile. Amazon MGM Studios developed and financed the film, but in June announced<\/a> that they would not release it. The timing raised eyebrows because, four months before that, Amazon invested $50m in a partnership with Open AI, where Altman is CEO. Amazon’s only comment has been its statement, “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio.” Guadagnino said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, “The concept of a conflict of interest is a very important, let’s say, elephant in the room here.” And a Vanity Fair<\/a> interview asked Altman whether he had spoken to Amazon or its head, Jeff Bezos, about dropping the film. He said, “I did not and I don’t know of anyone else who did.” In the end, Neon bought the film and will release it in cinemas in December in the US and January in the UK, well-timed to latch onto its current Oscar buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial arrives with off-screen baggage that has only raised its profile. Amazon MGM Studios developed and financed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}