By Miles Klee
Publication Date: 2026-03-27 11:00:00
It’s not easy to get an interview with Sam Altman – just ask Adam Bhala Lough, the filmmaker behind the current documentary Deepfaking by Sam Altman.
Lough originally planned a post about the potential and dangers of AI, which would focus on a conversation with the OpenAI CEO. But after his requests were ignored for months, he decided instead to commission a chatbot that mimicked Altman’s speech patterns and mimicked his facial expressions using a digital avatar.
However, the real Altman championed the new feature The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocalypticistwhich hits theaters on March 27th. So did Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google’s DeepMind Technologies. (Although the filmmakers said they requested interviews with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s Elon Musk, neither showed up.)
It’s an impressive level of access for co-director and documentary protagonist Daniel Roher, whose 2022 documentary Navalny,…
