‘Mountainhead’ Mines AI Anxieties at Just the Right Time

Imagine a future that may or may not be too far from now in which an AI video generator is capable of cranking out an entire movie.

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. Maybe a dash of Peter Thiel.

And then for the prompt intended to bring this to life,…