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Concerns with OpenAI’s Sora in Medicine

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Open AI’s Sora represents a ground-breaking innovation in AI that can generate lifelike and imaginative visual scenes based on text prompts. However, Sora has also produced some new concerns surrounding artificial video generation in medicine. While Sora is highly promising to enhance patient education, facilitate remote consultations and simulate surgical procedures, AI-generated videos also bring technical, legal, and ethical challenges. In this paper, we explore the clinical and ethical implications of Sora’s AI-generated videos in the field of medicine.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Ethan Waisberg

  2. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Joshua Ong

  3. Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Mouayad Masalkhi

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  5. The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  6. Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  7. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  8. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  9. Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  10. Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

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Waisberg, E., Ong, J., Masalkhi, M. et al. Concerns with OpenAI’s Sora in Medicine. Ann Biomed Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03505-0

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