The Brian Lehrer Show

Will Oremus, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the uproar over the warnings of potential threats to humanity from unregulated AI, then Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talks about possible government actions to prevent disaster from the purposeful or inadvertent consequences of AI harm.
Photo: A person holds an iPhone displaying icons for Copilot, Gemini, Meta AI, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity and Doubao in a folder titled "Artificial Intelligence" on September 15, 2026, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.(Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

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Daniel Fienberg, chief television critic at The Hollywood Reporter, talks about the big winners, losers, and memorable events from the Emmy Awards.
Photo: Mariska Hargitay attends the blue carpet rollout for the 78th Emmy Awards at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, September 10, 2026. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, explains what you need to know about fall vaccines, including flu, Covid and RSV, plus discusses the news that there is a new Legionnaires' cluster in The Bronx.
Photo: 12 years and older New Yorkers got vaccinated at the St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Bronx of New York City, United States on June 13, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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From street parking to attending concerts, seems like everything requires an app nowadays. And not everyone has a smartphone, a data plan, or the patience for a glitchy download. Listeners share the moments an app got in the way of something that used to be simple.

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Stephen Fowler, political reporter with NPR's Washington desk, and Lisa Lerer, national political reporter for The New York Times, talk about the politics of the midterm elections, after Republicans held a convention.
Photo: President Donald Trump greets supporters at the 2026 Republican National Convention on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Tex. (Joel Angel Juárez/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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