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  StrictlyVC Download · 14 Oct 2025 · 20 min

  The politics of AI: OpenAI’s Chris Lehane on AI’s promise and peril

  WithChris Lehane

  About this episode

  This week’s episode of StrictlyVC Download was recorded live at the Elevate Festival in Toronto. TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos sat down with Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, to discuss the company’s newly launched video generation tool Sora, the complexities of…

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