- 669
- Episodes
- 594
- Transcribed
- 37
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About The Source
The Source is a daily, one-hour call-in talk program that gives listeners in San Antonio the opportunity to call and connect with our in-studio guests and city-wide audience.The Source seeks to give life, context and breadth to the events and issues affecting San Antonio by bringing newsmakers and experts to the public, and highlighting the people being affected by the news of the day.The show is hosted by veteran journalist David Martin Davies.Tune in to The Source for insightful discussion and analysis on topics that matter to residents of the Alamo City.Contribute to the conversation:Call or text during the live show at 833-877-8255.Leave a voicemail at 210 615-8982 anytime. Submissions may be played on-air.Email comments to thesource@tpr.org.
- Publisher
- David Martin Davies
- Category
- government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 26 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
594 of 669 episodes have a transcript.
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is A.I. replacing democracy? Historian Jill Lepore warns of a dangerous transformation
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Is A.I. replacing democracy? Historian Jill Lepore warns of a dangerous transformation
Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, it was 2015, 2016 when Facebook was involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal during the Brexit and Donald Trump election in 2016. Its response to that was to establish its own so-called Supreme Court. Sam Altman of OpenAI has said he thinks an AI president would be better than a human president. President, Anthropic, earlier this year released a constitution for Claude, written by Claude. So, you know, we could think about these, you know, these three, a constitution, a president, a Supreme Court, right? Those words sound familiar to us, but we know what those institutions are, and they are not things that corporations have and can create. […]
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- Jill Lepore
- Gina Ortiz Jones
- Jesse Salame
- Nathan Johnson
- Gina Hinojosa
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- YouTube views
- 1,761,457
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 37 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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