Andrew Garfield stopped using ChatGPT after playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in upcoming film
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10 Sep, 2026
Andrew Garfield plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial — but off screen, he’s quit ChatGPT.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Garfield revealed that the role left him uneasy enough to delete his ChatGPT account — and that this isn’t the first time a character has changed how he interacts with technology.
“It’s the same thing that happened to me when I did The Social Network, which was, I got off Facebook immediately,” he told Kimmel, who’d asked whether making the film left him nervous about technology. “Yeah, I got off my ChatGPT immediately.”
Garfield played Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin in the 2010 film — a role that, by his own account, left the same mark.
“The more you know, the more you realise we’re careening into some very unknown territory,” he said.
The actor touched upon the widespread uncertainty around rapid developments in the sphere of Artificial Intelligence and how it may impact people’s lives and jobs.
“What I suppose is good and transparent is they’re like, ‘Yeah, no, we kind of don’t know who’s going to lose their jobs and how we’re going to create an economy that works for ordinary people but we’re going to find out and I promise you it’s going to be awesome,’” he said.
Artificial is set to premiere at the 64th New York <a href="https://cinemamix360.com/2026/09/10/american-black-film-festival-2027-opens-oscar-qualifying-short-film-submissions/" title="American Black Film Festival 2027 Opens Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Submissions”>Film Festival this October.
