With Sora 2, We’re Climbing Higher on the Dystopia Scale
With Sora 2, We’re Climbing Higher on the Dystopia Scale  
Podcast: Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
Rating: Explicit Published On: Wed Oct 08 2025
Description: 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. From The Information: Why OpenAI Offered to Pay $500 Million For A Startup With Videogame Data For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters: The Leap from Maria Konnikova Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.