‘This is about AI dooming and decelerationist alarmism!” explains Hugo Van Yalk, a.k.a. “Souper,” when his buddy and entrepreneurial peer Jeff asks why he is being threatened with death by three of his supposed friends and billionaire peers.
If that one line sounds like too much Silicon Valley insider jargon, you haven’t run into half of it yet in Mountainhead. The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the four, Venis — a combination of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. He’s in luck, however, because the poorest of the billionaires, Jeff, has developed an AI-powered content moderator — “a censor,” denounced by the others — that could fix his broken product and restore the world to order.
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