Pushkin. Welcome back to Risky Business, a show about making better decisions. I'm Maria Konekova.

And I'm Nate Silver. We're going to kick this show off with a light-hearted topic.

What is a chance that artificial intelligence will destroy every last, human being, and all-animal species on Earth?

Yeah, Nate, that is a very, very light-hearted area of discussion. I'm looking forward to it. Then we're going to

move on to the presidential debates and how important they are and what they mean

for the elections. And then for our serious segment, the World Series poker begins

next week in Las Vegas. We're both

going to be there. I already got my wire transfer to whatever new payment provider the

World Series uses, so we'll do a preview of the series on today's show. All right, Nate, so, you know, I did not think that 2024 was going to be the

year that I would be talking about, Scarlet Johanson in reference to artificial intelligence

and open AI.

But here we are, because Open AI, which

is one of the biggest companies in AI research and the force behind chat,

GPT, just unveiled the new voice of their newest AI assistant and that voice

sounds eerily like Scarlet Joe Hanson, which I guess is not

surprising since there was this movie her where Scarlet played this AI assistant who becomes very, very human-like and engenders very human-like emotions in her co-stars,

right? And then we see this announcement from Sam Altman,

who is the founder of Open AI. we see this announcement from Sam Altman,

who is the founder of Open AI,

about their new voice called Sky.

And I want to go back to the name of the voice

in a second when we talk about the more substantive issues in open

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