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With Sora 2, We’re Climbing Higher on the Dystopia Scale
Season 1 · Episode 77

With Sora 2, We’re Climbing Higher on the Dystopia Scale

Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova · Pushkin Industries

October 8, 202544m 30sExplicit

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Show Notes

Nate and Maria discuss how and when the government shutdown is most likely to end. Then, they turn to OpenAI’s newest release: Sora 2, an AI video generation app that allows users to create a video from a text prompt. As Maria struggles to think of some possible positive uses for this app, Nate considers what its release tells us about Open AI's goals for the future.

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