Alex Gibney used a digital version of Elon Musk
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The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a God complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him.
Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14 following its premiere last week in Venice, Musk has already earned the ire of its subject. Given how severely it damns him, that’s hardly surprising.
Musk' review: the world's richest man is thrashed in the documentary directed by Alex Gibney, premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
What makes "Musk" such a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Alex Gibney's supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the form, is that it takes this flamboyant but in many ways elusive figure,
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok oversaw complete societal collapse within just four days of being but in charge of a simulated world. The experiment, conducted by US startup Emergence AI, tested how leading artificial intelligence models would cope if put in charge of a society.
Four hours is more than enough time to spend with Elon Musk, but Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk should’ve been more comprehensive.