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Webb parents discuss school’s future, Medical care for detainees, Insanity plea in 2023 shooting spree · Austin Signal

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Parents from one of the failing
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middle schools put in the Austin
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School District at risk of a state
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takeover met with the superintendent
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this week to discuss their future,
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the questions they brought to that
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discussion, and what we know about
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the upcoming trial of a man accused
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of killing six people in 2023
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in a shooting spree that started in
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San Antonio and ended in Austin.
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Plus, a federal judge has ruled in
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UT Austin's favor in a court case
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that arose from the university's
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handling of pro-Palestine
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demonstrations a couple years ago.
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More about those stories coming up
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on today's show.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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It is a 9-2-5
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kind of day here at KUT and KUTX.
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We are going to chat with the
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executive producer of Austin City
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Limits and reflect on Dolly Parton's
0:53
appearance on the show a quarter of
0:55
a century ago.
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That and more, up next,
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right here on Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal.
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I'm your host Jerry Kikano.
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It is Friday, September 25th.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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This week's shooting of a man by an
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ICE officer in Austin has led to
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questions about the legal
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obligations of doctors and
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hospitals.
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28-Year-old Wilbur Garces Perez was
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shot in the back and taken to
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Delcetan Medical Center for
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treatment, but he and his lawyers
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have said they don't feel he
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received adequate care.
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Nearly one week later, he still has
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that bullet lodged in his back.
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KUT's Ben Philpott spoke live on
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Morning Edition today with our
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health care reporter Olivia Aldridge
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about these questions.
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All right, so let's start with what
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do Garces Perez and his lawyer
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say happened at Del Cidin?
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So they've said he spent around four
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hours at Delceiton before being
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discharged to a detention facility
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in Pearsall.
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And yes, that the bullet was not
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removed before he was discharged.
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While he was there, Garces Perez has
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said he doesn't feel that he was
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kept informed about his condition,
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that he frequently saw medical
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personnel stepping out to talk with
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agents, and that he told
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by someone that ICE was in a hurry
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to get him out.
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And then his lawyer, Kate Lincoln
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Goldfinch, said that she and Garces
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Perez's wife weren't allowed to
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visit him, nor were they given any
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information about his condition.
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And in fact, that security personnel
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told them no one by his name was
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even there.
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So they were worried about his
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conditions, and even if he was alive
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at that time, eventually the mayor
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showed up, Mayor Kirk Watson,
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and said that they would hear from a
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hospital attorney, and that attorney
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let them know that he'd been
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released.
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You and I talked about this a little
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bit yesterday and I wanted to jump
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on it real quickly.
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So the bullet is still in his back.
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You talked to some medical experts
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who talked a little about,
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you know, is that a red
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flag? Like, do you just let people
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leave an emergency room with a
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bullet in their back? What did you
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hear about that?
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Yeah, an ER physician and
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who's kind of an expert in caring
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for detained immigrants as well told
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me that it is actually not
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necessarily a red flag that he
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was discharged with the bullet still
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in his body as wild as that may
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sound.
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This happens not infrequently when,
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for instance, a bullet is close to
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the spine because surgery could be
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really dangerous. It could leave you
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paralyzed.
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It's also not uncommon for a patient
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to be stabilized and then referred
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to another specialist to decide if
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surgery is a good idea.
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So then beyond that, what is the
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hospital saying about the care that
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he received?
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Ascension Seaton, which owns and
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operates Dell Seaton did release a
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statement basically just saying we
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followed our policies regarding
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interactions with law enforcement
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and patient privacy here, but
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they declined to share what those
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policies are.
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So not a lot of detail.
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And of course, they can't share
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Garces Perez's private medical
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information due to privacy laws.
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So there are a lot of specifics that
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we just don't have at this point.
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You know, overall, what is a
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hospital's obligation in a situation
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like this?
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Because of a law known as EMTALA,
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hospitals in emergency rooms that
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receive Medicare funding are
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required to give stabilizing care
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to anyone that shows up with an
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emergency condition.
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They can't discharge them before
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that's happened.
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And that doesn't change because
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someone is in ICE custody.
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I did talk to some medical and legal
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experts about this, and
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again, they say we can't
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sure if there were any issues in the
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hospitals.
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On the hospital's end without being
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able to review those medical
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records.
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And his lawyer has said that they
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are in the process of
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trying to get those records.
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And again, as you said, stabilizing
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care, as surprising as it
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might sound to the rest of us,
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stabilizing care can include
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at times, depending on the situation
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that the bullet is left in.
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It can, it can.
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It's hard to know what the case was
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here, but that does happen.
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So now again, as of this morning,
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that bullet is still there, and
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Garces Perez says that he is still
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in pain and does not have access to
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pain medication.
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That's of course what we're hearing
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from him and his lawyer.
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Is there a concern in general that
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he's just not receiving the care
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that he needs?
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Yeah, I mean, DHS is saying, of
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course, basically nothing to see
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here, that he's getting good medical
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care. But there's been a lot of
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reporting about medical neglect in
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ICE detention facilities this year.
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The doctor I spoke to told me she
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would be worried about a patient in
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that setting who has had any kind
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of medical concern getting
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appropriate follow-up care.
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We do know that Garces Perez has
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been to another hospital since being
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taken to the detention center,
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received some morphine, although he
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says he's only gotten
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over-the-counter at the detention
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center.
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And Congressman Greg Kazar also said
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this week that Garces Perez
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has seen a specialist who has
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recommended surgery.
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Now, it's early in the morning, you
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haven't had a chance to make all
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your calls yet. Do you know of a
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next step, of a thing that's coming
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for him in this medical care?
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We don't know. I think the fact that
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we've heard that surgery is
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recommended means, you know,
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something could be coming.
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That was KUT's healthcare reporter
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Olivia Aldridge talking on Morning
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Edition with host Ben Philpott.
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Parents of two middle schools have
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three weeks to decide if they will
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sacrifice their schools to save the
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Austin Independent School District
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from a state takeover.
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To help answer any questions,
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Superintendent Matias Segura met
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with families at Webb Middle School
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on Thursday night.
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KUT's education reporter, Greta
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Diaz-Gonzalez-Vasquez was there.
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After Burnett and Webb middle
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schools got five consecutive
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F-ratings from the Texas Education
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Agency, Texas law says the
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state must intervene in the
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district.
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Education Commissioner Mike Morath
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could appoint a new superintendent
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at board of trustees.
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But there's a chance to avoid that
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if a majority of parents from the
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two middle schools ask the state to
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close their campuses.
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Superintendent Matias Segura
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explained to Parents Thursday that
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at this point, the
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He said their input would be heard
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if they asked to close the campuses.
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One of the only voices you have
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is the petition.
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I mean, that's really, in the day,
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one of the things that you have.
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Okay, but what if we don't want to
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sign the petition?
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That is you all's
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decision.
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Earlier this month, Mayor Kirk
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Watson urged parents to close their
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schools and said kids from both
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schools would be placed in a new
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campus currently under construction.
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Segura said he would not be involved
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in gathering signatures because the
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district is focused on improving
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academic outcomes.
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And whatever happens next, this year
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matters.
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But I can't, I'm not gonna sit here
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and tell you something that is
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untrue.
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Webb is going to go through a
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change. It will not be the
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same next year.
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And what I want to do is to protect
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our students, make sure they are
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educated and get the supports that
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they need and that your voice is in
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the process.
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Segura explained that even if a
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board of managers takes over,
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Webb could face big changes,
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changes that could include
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shuttering the campus anyways.
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Georgina Chavez, who has two girls
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at Webb, says it breaks her
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heart to know her options.
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She says a lot of parents don't have
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the right information to make a
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decision.
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Chavez says families have no
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idea that this is the last school
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year for Webb as they know it.
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Parents have until October 15th
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to gather signatures and submit a
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petition to the superintendent who
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would submit the petition to state.
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Segura is expected to meet with
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parents again on Monday at Burnett
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Middle School and online on
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Tuesday morning.
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I'm Greta Diaz Gonzalez Vazquez
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in Austin.
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A federal judge has ruled in favor
8:31
of UT Austin in a court case
8:32
stemming from the university's
8:34
handling of pro-Palestine
8:35
demonstrations in 2024.
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As KUT's Mo's Bouchel reports,
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the lawsuit brought by a former
8:41
student alleged the university had
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violated protesters' First Amendment
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rights.
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In 2024, campuses across
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the country filled with students
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opposed to Israeli actions
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in Gaza.
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At UT Austin, police shut down
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demonstrations and arrested over 100
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people, though most of those charges
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were quickly dropped.
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The First Amendment lawsuit was
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brought by Amir Kadoumi, a protest
9:04
organizer who was arrested
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and later suspended by UT.
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It alleged that the university's
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crackdown happened not to maintain
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safety, but because of what
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protesters were saying.
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In his ruling, U.S.
9:16
District Court Judge Robert Pittman
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found no evidence of free speech
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violation, finding that UT
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administration reasonably suspected
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the protests would disrupt campus.
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While he sided with UT on
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the First Amendment question, Judge
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Pittman did criticize the
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university's handling of the
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protests and said he understood
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why Kadoumi would suspect his
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rights had been violated.
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I'm Mose Buchel in Austin.
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A man accused of killing six people
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in 2023 in a shooting spree
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that started in San Antonio and
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ended in Austin is going to trial
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next month.
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As KUT's Andrew Weber reports,
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filings this week suggest he may
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enter an insanity plea.
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Shane James allegedly killed his
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parents in San Antonio before
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driving to Austin and fatally
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shooting four people.
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He's also accused of injuring two
10:03
police officers and a cyclist.
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He faces four counts of capital
10:07
murder, along with counts of
10:08
aggravated assault with a deadly
10:10
weapon, and attempted murder of
10:12
a police officer.
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His jury trial in Travis County is
10:14
set for next month, and his attorney
10:16
indicated this week that he will
10:18
use an insanity defense at trial.
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The accused shooter was deemed unfit
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to stand trial in October 2024.
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He was committed to a mental health
10:26
facility until July 2025.
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James pleaded not guilty on all
10:30
charges shortly after that.
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James previously served in the army
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and had a history of mental health
10:36
issues. The jury trial is scheduled
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to start October 26th in a Travis
10:40
County court.
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James also faces capital murder
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charges in Bexar County.
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I'm Andrew Weber in Austin.
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Lots of people are talking about it.
10:49
Some want to stay far, far
10:51
away from it, and for others, it's
10:52
already a part of their everyday
10:54
life.
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We're talking about artificial
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intelligence and especially
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generative AI.
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Texas Standard is gearing up for a
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special Digging Deeper into AI
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here in Texas.
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Joining us now is Laura Rice,
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managing editor at Texas Standard.
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Laura, thanks for talking with us.
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Absolutely happy to
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Okay, so we have been hearing a
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lot about AI on the radio So
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what did you want to learn
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specifically about how Texans are
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using AI?
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Really, I think, Jerry, what we
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wanted to do was examine this
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moment that feels like kind of a
11:24
turning point in history.
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I will admit readily that this
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is a fool's errand trying to do a
11:29
show about AI because not only
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is it affecting life
11:33
in so many different ways that it
11:35
would be impossible to explore
11:36
everything, but also It's
11:38
such a moving target, right?
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Like what we're talking about AI
11:41
today will be different than what we
11:43
are talking about literally
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tomorrow. It's moving that quickly.
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So we wanted to put something
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together that captures a moment,
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that captures perspectives, tries to
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answer some questions about what we
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think is a turning point, maybe a
11:54
pivotal moment in Texas.
11:56
When you take a little bit of time
11:57
to focus on a big topic like this,
11:59
how much work goes into putting
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something together like this?
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I'm glad you asked here.
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I mean, it's a lot because we're
12:04
still feeding the beast
12:06
quote-unquote, right, of the daily
12:07
program But you know, we're also
12:09
just just carving out a little bit
12:11
of time every day to kind of
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make this effort This has been
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something we started talking about
12:15
before the summer We we knew that
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data centers were a big thing We
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were thinking about KUT's big
12:20
project and our question was what
12:23
is all this infrastructure going to
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support?
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And so that's what we're digging
12:27
into in the program There are
12:29
questions that we have that we want
12:31
answers to and we assume, you know,
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our listeners do too.
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Absolutely, and you can hear the
12:35
entire special coming up on Monday,
12:37
but give us a little preview right
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now. Who are some of the people that
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you spoke with?
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A lot of Texans, so you'll hear a
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lot of regular Texas
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voices, a lot of Texas
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experts because there are people at
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our universities that are really
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pushing AI to its limits, testing
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that. We took a trip down to
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San Antonio where we met with some
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AI researchers working with robotics
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in their lab, but we also
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brought in some outside voices
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including Shaoran Sun
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who is studying how teenagers
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are reliant on AI
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companions.
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When their parents don't have time
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to have a lot of conversations with
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them or to spend time with them,
13:13
and they feel like they
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don't have many friends or their
13:17
friends are quote unquote busy,
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like don't wanna listen to them,
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that's usually what motivates them
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to use AI.
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Which brings up some really
13:25
interesting questions about
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developmental things that might
13:29
be happening with teenagers and
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whether they might have
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ungrounded expectations
13:35
for human relationships going
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forward based on these AI
13:38
companions.
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But we also asked some
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really big questions about
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AI consciousness,
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right? Which is this idea of we're
13:48
developing these incredible
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systems.
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Are they aware of themselves?
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That's something that Cameron Berg
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is studying.
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That's my goal, is in general to
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understand what's going on
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cognitively for these systems, if
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anything, and in particular, is it,
14:03
are these systems having any kind of
14:05
experience subjectively and how
14:06
would we even go about knowing such
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a thing?
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So we get a little bit woo woo,
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we get a little big grounded, we
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explore the what happens
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when you type in a query to
14:17
chat GPT or Gemini.
14:19
And we're also exploring some
14:21
of the really nice things about
14:23
it. I mean, AI has literally been
14:25
life changing for some people with
14:27
disabilities.
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And we take a deep dive into that,
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as well as the flip
14:32
side of that coin, which is privacy
14:34
issues.
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As you said, AI is an ever-changing
14:38
entity. It feels like every day we
14:39
learn something new.
14:41
So during this journey of making
14:43
this special episode, were you
14:44
surprised by anything?
14:45
Was there anything that really
14:46
jumped out to you that you didn't
14:47
expect to learn?
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Well, I think the AI consciousness
14:50
is a really big part of it.
14:53
And spoiler alert, there
14:54
are, there is evidence
14:56
that AI is more conscious than
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say this table that we're
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leaning on right here.
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It's not hugely conscious,
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but it's also changing quickly.
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Like we said, that moving target.
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So that's something that I was
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really excited to explore.
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And, and yeah, just about how
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regular everyday Texans feel about
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it. There's a lot of measured.
15:18
A measured anticipation about what's
15:20
happening, but then when you ask the
15:22
experts, they see this potential and
15:24
they some of them have
15:26
some some warning flags that we
15:27
should pay attention to.
15:28
All right. Well, you can hear those
15:30
experts and hear from Everyday
15:31
Texans on the Texas Standards
15:33
AI special that is airing Monday at
15:35
10 a.m. Right here on KUT.
15:37
And you can also listen on the TeXa
15:38
Standard podcast if you can't tune
15:40
in live.
15:41
We have been speaking with Texas
15:42
Standards' Laura Rice.
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Laura, thank you for your time.
15:44
Thank you.
15:45
And we're coming up on a break here
15:47
on Austin Signal, but we got more
15:49
coming up for you.
15:51
Thank you for tuning in right here,
15:53
on listener-supported public radio.
15:55
This is KUT News.
16:01
Welcome back, this is Austin
16:03
Signal.
16:04
It's been one month since the world
16:06
lost Dolly Parton and today KUT
16:08
and KUTX have been taking time to
16:10
honor both her music and her spirit.
16:12
Here to shine some light on one
16:13
particular visit Dolly made to
16:15
Austin is Terry Lacona, executive
16:16
producer of Austin City Limits.
16:18
Terry, thanks for being here.
16:19
Happy to be here.
16:21
Okay, well, Austin was lucky to
16:23
host Dolly a number of times over
16:24
the year, but Dolly didn't make it
16:26
to the Austin City limits stage
16:27
until 2000.
16:28
How long had you been working to
16:30
bring her to the stage?
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Oh, man, well, since, you know, ACL
16:33
started in 1974,
16:35
and back in those days,
16:37
Dolly didn't really tour a whole lot
16:39
on her own.
16:40
I mean, in her early days, she did
16:42
with Porter Wagoner when she'd been
16:43
here in the 60s.
16:45
And the only time she really came
16:47
through Austin after ACL
16:49
had been up and running was back
16:50
in the 90s when she played at Austin
16:52
Aquafest.
16:53
And that's a story in itself, it was
16:55
the end of Aquafes, and
16:57
we didn't have a chance to get Dolly
16:58
in the studio to do a show that
17:00
week. BUTT So she finally came
17:02
in 2000 after a
17:04
long stretch of trying hard
17:06
to get her here, and it was
17:08
a great tour. She was out on tour
17:09
with members of Nickel Creek, you
17:11
know, the Bluegrass Acoustic Band.
17:13
And so they were her backup and
17:15
it made for a totally different
17:16
show. Normally her live shows
17:18
were very Nashville-ish, even almost
17:20
Las Vegas-ish at times.
17:23
So with an acoustic band, it
17:24
really made it feel more Bluegrass-y
17:26
and Roots-y, which is where she's
17:27
from originally.
17:28
So that was on January 18th
17:30
There's some debate about the date.
17:32
Some people have it as December 5,
17:34
but I know that it was January 18
17:36
because it was the night before her
17:38
birthday.
17:39
So we were celebrating that at the
17:40
same time.
17:41
And I actually watched that
17:43
performance last night and it's
17:44
very, very striking.
17:46
And speaking of the Austin AquaFest,
17:48
I read a little bit about that and
17:50
the kind of debacle that it became,
17:52
but one columnist wrote that Dolly
17:54
Still was putting the show in
17:56
show business.
17:57
So when she made it to the ACL
17:58
stage, what do you remember
17:59
particularly about her
18:01
It was less of that showiness,
18:03
you know, because, like I said, it
18:05
was with an acoustic bluegrass band.
18:08
So although, of course, Dolly came
18:09
out in fringe and
18:11
sort of like a leather outfit
18:13
because it's Dolly,
18:15
but it was very down to earth, even
18:17
a little more down to Earth than you
18:18
would think of from Dolly Parton.
18:20
So, and she did some
18:22
new bluegrass songs that she was
18:24
promoting at the time.
18:25
Then of course, she did Coat of
18:27
Any Colors and she ended the show
18:28
with I Will Always Love You.
18:30
So of course she had the whole audience
18:31
in tears at that point.
18:33
And you know, I'll never forget
18:35
the words she said at
18:37
the end of the night, this might be
18:39
the most fun time I've ever had
18:40
doing TV.
18:42
And you now, she does a lot of
18:44
TV in her career, all those years
18:45
with Porter Wagoner, among many
18:47
other television shows she was on.
18:50
And I think she genuinely did
18:52
have a lot fun doing it.
18:54
But man, she was exactly the same
18:56
offstage as she was onstage
18:58
or anywhere. That was just her
18:59
personality.
19:00
There was no pretense, nothing fake
19:02
about her. It was really, the other
19:04
part was very genuine.
19:05
Had you met her before, prior to
19:07
that, 2000?
19:08
No, to be honest, I was the first
19:10
time I'd had a chance to actually
19:11
meet her in person.
19:13
A footnote to that story.
19:14
I saw her again two weeks later,
19:16
because as you may know, I'm one of
19:17
the producers of the Grammy Awards
19:18
show.
19:20
And although I forget exactly what
19:21
she was doing, she performed on the
19:23
Grammys that same year, which was
19:25
like a Sunday in early February.
19:27
So I remember finding where
19:30
she was in her dressing room right
19:31
before her Grammy Rehearsal
19:34
And I'm back there again, just to
19:35
say hello and to thank her once
19:37
again for having come to do Austin
19:38
City Limits.
19:40
And she said, oh honey, I was so
19:42
happy to be there.
19:43
And she gave me a big hug.
19:45
And I got to say, you never forget
19:47
a hug from Dolly Parton.
19:50
It is a special feeling.
19:52
I'm sure that you had expectations
19:53
of what it might be like to meet
19:55
her, did she meet every expectation,
19:57
exceed even?
19:58
I would say I see it.
19:59
I mean, you know, you just never
20:00
know what to expect when it comes
20:02
to any of the artists who come
20:03
through to do our show, because you
20:04
don't know if their persona is
20:06
the same offstage or backstage as it
20:08
is on the stage in front of the
20:10
cameras and so forth.
20:11
But again, like I said, in her case,
20:13
it's pretty much all the same.
20:15
It's that genuine.
20:16
So I just I didn't know
20:18
whether she was going to come across
20:20
as a diva in any way,
20:22
shape or form or have a long list of
20:25
special demands in the dressing room
20:27
afterwards and no, no, none of
20:29
that stuff.
20:29
Dolly came back to Austin a few
20:31
years ago for a SXSW performance.
20:33
Were you at that performance?
20:35
I was, and of course it was in our
20:37
venue at ACO Live.
20:39
And yeah, I tried to get her to come
20:41
back and to do the show again after
20:42
2000. But like I said, she didn't
20:44
really tour that much.
20:45
She stayed close to home in
20:46
Nashville and she just did special
20:48
things, not so much on the road.
20:50
Did she still have that same
20:52
swagger, that same personality 20
20:54
years on from her first ACO
20:55
performance?
20:57
Always.
20:58
I really don't think, I mean, again,
21:00
she was a genuine person, so there
21:02
were no other sides
21:04
to Dolly Parton, and
21:06
it really didn't change over time,
21:07
even right up until the end,
21:09
literally days before she passed.
21:11
She was still out there doing her
21:13
thing, meeting people and
21:15
making people feel good.
21:17
We have been speaking with Terry
21:18
Lacona, the executive producer
21:20
of Austin City Limits.
21:21
Terry, thank you for your time.
21:22
Bye, Terry. Thank you.
21:35
All right. It has been a very busy
21:36
week of news. So now we're going to
21:37
talk about some ways for you to get
21:39
out and relax yourself this weekend
21:41
for our Where the Art is
21:43
segment. We are joined by art beat
21:44
editor Stephanie Federico.
21:46
Welcome back, Steph.
21:47
Hi Jerry and happy 9 to 5
21:49
day!
21:49
Happy nine to five day to you.
21:51
The spirit is flowing here at KUT
21:52
and KUTX and we want
21:54
to continue to go with those good
21:56
vibes. So tell us what's happening
21:57
this weekend. What's the first item
21:58
on your list?
21:59
Well, it actually started last
22:00
night. It's the Big Queer Weekend.
22:03
There was a big red carpet last
22:04
night, it's a four-day celebration
22:05
of Austin's queer creative
22:07
community.
22:08
And it's presented by
22:10
the LGBT Chamber
22:13
of Commerce as well as Aglif,
22:16
that's LGBTQ Film
22:19
Festival, in collaboration
22:21
with South By.
22:22
There's films, there's filmmaker
22:23
Q&As, there is music, there's gonna
22:25
be a marketplace, there's drag
22:26
shows, there are arts.
22:28
It's an opportunity to connect
22:30
with queer folks from all over the
22:32
world and that's happening.
22:33
The films are over at Galaxy
22:35
Theater, there's stuff happening
22:37
at Drinks Backyard and over at Hotel
22:39
Indigo and that, like I said,
22:40
started last night and it runs
22:41
through Sunday.
22:43
Okay, I saw this story on
22:45
the KUT Artbeat from our intern,
22:46
Caroline McConnico, with some really
22:48
cool visuals and it sounds like
22:50
a really cool non-traditional
22:51
gallery experience.
22:53
Where is this taking place?
22:54
Yeah, this is the water work
22:56
exhibit. It's taking place tonight
22:58
and tomorrow at 830 at
23:00
the Seaholm Intake
23:02
Facility. This is this old facility
23:03
along Lady Bird Lake that used to
23:05
pump water into the power plant
23:07
over there.
23:09
Anyway, they're projecting these
23:10
videos and art onto the side
23:12
of the building. It looks super
23:14
cool. It's an art show that's
23:16
produced by the cultural nonprofit
23:17
Design Austin.
23:18
They partnered with the Trail
23:19
Conservancy.
23:20
And there's going to be art from 22
23:21
different artists that are going to
23:23
be projected on the building.
23:24
And the theme is transformation.
23:26
It looks super cool.
23:27
And if you have like a
23:29
kayak, a canoe, a boat, anything,
23:31
they recommend that you like view it
23:33
from the water from Ladybird Lake,
23:35
but there are also some viewing
23:36
spots over at Auditorium Shores
23:38
and the Fluger pedestrian
23:40
bridge.
23:41
Um, so it looks super.
23:43
It does really look cool if you can
23:45
enjoy some art from the water.
23:47
Why not do it?
23:48
Okay, so tell us now about still
23:50
here now.
23:51
What is that?
23:52
That's also happening tonight and
23:54
tomorrow at the Boyd Vance
23:56
Theater that's inside the Carver
23:58
Museum.
23:59
It is a dance show with the Andrea
24:01
Ariel Dance Theater.
24:02
They're premiering a new performance
24:04
called Still Here Now.
24:06
It's gonna bring together some
24:07
diverse Austin artists in an evening
24:09
of dance and live music and
24:11
storytelling.
24:12
And the idea is exploring identity
24:14
and how it's shaped by community,
24:16
memory and family.
24:18
Okay, only about 30 seconds left
24:19
here. This last event is something,
24:22
it's a continuation of something you
24:23
told us about a couple of weeks ago.
24:25
What is that?
24:25
Yeah, Gray Duck Gallery over on
24:28
Cesar Chavez Street is closing,
24:30
and we talked about this exhibit
24:32
from a multimedia artist
24:34
named Yuliya Lenina,
24:37
and she has the closing
24:39
exhibit there. But they're going to
24:40
have a wake party
24:43
on Saturday afternoon at like
24:45
five to eight.
24:46
So they're closing out the show.
24:48
They're going have this party.
24:49
They're closing.
24:49
And it's not one of these issues of
24:51
the rent is too high and they're
24:52
getting pushed out or anything like
24:53
that. Owner Jill Schroeder.
24:55
She's owned the gallery for the past
24:57
16 years or so.
24:58
She just decided to retire.
25:00
So this is a big last hurrah and
25:02
it should be really nice.
25:04
All right, just a few of the events
25:05
happening around town this weekend.
25:07
Thank you to our Art B editor,
25:09
Stephanie Federico. Appreciate you.
25:10
Thanks, Jerry.
25:11
And thank you out there for spending
25:13
the week with us.
25:14
It's been a busy one.
25:15
So keep up with what's going on here
25:16
at kut.org
25:18
slash signal.
25:20
Our signal team is Caroline Fial,
25:22
Alexandra Hart, Kristen Cabrera,
25:24
and I'm your host, Jerry Kihannel.
25:25
We'll be back on Monday.
25:26
Have a great weekend.