2024-11-25
42 分钟As contempt for cancel culture and self-censorship on college campuses continues to drive a political divide across the country, correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on a new start-up university, the University of Austin, in Austin, Texas. Labeled by some as an “anti-woke university,” Wertheim speaks to the founders, students, and advisors, about how they believe they’re disrupting modern academia by fostering debate and ideological openness in their classrooms. As chatbots continue to evolve, Lesley Stahl reports from Nairobi, Kenya, on the growing market of “humans in the loop” – workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. Stahl speaks with digital workers who have spent hours in front of screens teaching and improving AI, but complain of poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Correspondent Bill Whitaker cruises through Espanola, New Mexico, a town that’s a hub of lowrider culture: vintage American automobiles with vibrant paint jobs and street-scraping suspensions. He meets a community of “cruisers” who are turning their hobby’s bad-boy reputation on its head, paving a new route as activists and community servants, and claiming a place as custodians of Hispanic culture and champions of fine art. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Join Wondery plus in the Wondery app Today across America, everyone has an opinion on wokeness.
Nowhere more than on our college campuses.
Politics should be studied at a university.
It shouldn't be the operating system of university.
In Texas.
One new university is prioritizing open debate to reset the marketplace of ideas.
If our universities are screwed up, and I believe they are, then that will screw up America as a whole quite quickly.
Tonight, meet the people who sort, label and sift through reams of data to make artificial intelligence run smoothly for American tech companies.
Jobs that are often farmed out to developing countries with conditions that have been likened to sweatshops with computers instead of sewing machines.
It's terrible to see just how many American companies are just doing wrong here.
And it's something that they wouldn't do at home.
You gotta have your siren.
You gotta have your siren.
Espanola, New Mexico calls itself the lowrider capital of the world.
And when we were there, we watched a candy colored caravan of cars strutting their stuff.
Whether they hopped to the sky or sat ever so low to the ground, each lowrider we saw seemed to say, here I am.
It's sleek, it's classic, it's beautiful, it's kind of mean.
I'm Leslie Stahl.
I'm Bill Whitaker.