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‘Mountainhead’ Mines AI Anxieties at Just the Right Time
The new HBO movie couldn’t have picked a scarier time to mine our anxieties about AI and the moguls with the power to deploy it in pursuit of profit.
Then picture the movie’s script is derived from a large language model fed nothing but the entire run of the HBO series “Succession” and every article from the past six months written about the reigning tech titans of our time: Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman. But “Mountainhead” is also a triumph of timing of the comedic variety because while its plot might sound like a 21st-century spin on 1970s disaster movies, it also manages to be uproariously funny, a master class in satire anchored by a quartet of actors capable of delivering lines with deadpan perfection. Listening to them talk about their ability to fix the world as casually as they would be repairing a car will surely bring to mind Musk’s many public musings from the recently concluded DOGE phase of his career in which he convinced the current president to essentially hand over the keys to to the U.S. government.
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