It's Monday, December 8th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What Today, a show that welcomes the new overlords of college football.
Indiana University?
On today's show,
the long-standing hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns in the US is in jeopardy.
And what rights do babies born in the US 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.
It doesn't hurt that the biggest backers of AI also happen to run the biggest companies on earth and also happen 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 banned state-level regulations on artificial intelligence.