OpenAI’s latest announcement is its most dangerous AI innovation yet

When Sam Altman was asked about the GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, the CEO said OpenAI had other products to release before then. The text-to-video Sora service might be one of them, a product that OpenAI will release publicly this year.

We already knew about Sora when Altman addressed those GPT-5 questions. What we weren't familiar with was the new Voice Engine AI tool that OpenAI announced. It's an AI program that lets you clone a voice with a sample that's just 15 seconds long.

That's an incredible achievement with seemingly limitless utility. For example, people losing their voice might use it to talk to others in their regular voice. Movie studios could rely on Voice Engine to dub films and TV shows using the actor's actual voice.

While all that sounds great, Voice Engine might also do a lot of harm once it's released publicly, and I see no way OpenAI can prevent abuse.

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