It's Monday, December 8th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what today? The show that

welcomes the new overlords of college football. Indiana University?

On today's show, the longstanding hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns in the U.S. is in jeopardy.

And what rights do babies born in the U.S. have anyway? We'll find out.

Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments for ending birthright citizenship.

But let's start with artificial intelligence.

Just a few years ago, the promise of AI was largely hypothetical.

It was either going to save the universe or kill us all, and nothing in between.

But now it's pretty much everywhere.

You may have asked an AI chatbot to help you write an email to your landlord this morning,

while your boss used an AI program to maybe decide if you have a job next year.

And the Trump administration

has gone all in on the promise of artificial intelligence, even though, as we learned in October,

it's not quite clear if President Donald Trump knows what AI is. Everybody wants AI because it's

it's the new internet, it's to do everything. It's one of the biggest things that you've ever seen. So everyone wants it here. I mean, the only problem is if you don't get it. It doesn't hurt that the biggest backers of AI also happen to run the biggest companies on Earth and also happened to have given Trump's presidential campaign, inaugural committee, and even his fancy new ballroom millions of dollars. So it stands to reason that the

White House has tried to do the AI tech barons a favor and ban state-level regulations on

artificial intelligence. But those attempts, both in the budget deal passed earlier this year,

and in the National Defense Spending Bill, have failed. Because it turns out that while Trump and his

billionaire friends love AI,

a lot of Republicans don't. Republicans like Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who told right-wing

pundit Steve Bannon back in September that the AI tech overlords were using America's

working class for their own gain. They're using AI to shorten the lifespans of working people

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