Hey, welcome to this week in football, where your interactive at this during the Program Helps drive our conversation. With waj he is our cohost and bringing all the feedback. The president has been talking about the community program. No surprise it comes up in the state of the union. You tweeted in stories about commune tie college here is accucapnt trial version pam we have this, hussein here will congress support president obama . He says no. Number one because its obama. Number two its education not foreign. Because its not the military, its smart. And well see that debate play out. Here say question everybody is asking, how much does free really cost . The president s new proposal to give students two free years of Community College will actually cost you about 60 billion over 10 years. Supporters argue that the accucapnt trial version promise of a better future, higher life tiff earning and spending and a more educated society will create a return on that investment. The critics, on the other hand, say the program looks really good at a glance, but it could do things like increase University Tuition and do nothing really to change graduation rates. Joining us from williamsburg, virginia is David Feldman author of why does college cost so much . Hes also the chair of the Economics Department at the college of william and marry and bone holmes, at student at accucapnt trial version Montgomery College. David, the president plan would include two years of free Community College for students who qualify. Who do you think the plan is targeting . Well, that depends on how its actually constructed. And the details havent been fully released. My what i am hearing is that this would be an entitlement program. It would not be means tested available to any student attending a Community College regardless of their family income. And thats one of the reasons accucapnt trial version for the extra costs. Although i must say that 6 billion a year is a mouse of a budget item. Well, it might be a mouse of a budget item if, you know, there is some metric that can be used that says to tax taxpayers this will pay off s there any sort of evidence based, i dont know what call it, an evidence based project of this sort where people could look at it and say yeah this will be worth this investment. 60 billion is 60 billion thats a lot of money. Yeah. If you want to understand the social pay off to going to accucapnt trial version college. This is one of the easiest things to find all you have to do is go online and look at the Research Done by the college board. The social pay off to getting a an Associates Degree or certificate is one of the best investments that a country can make a fouryear did degree pay off is equally good. We still have a substantial number of students, high school graduates, millions of them, actually who have the have what it takes to succeed in college who do not seek out a college degree. And often thats because they accucapnt trial version dont understand the system. Its complex and they dont have the financial wherewithal to forego moving directly in to the labor market. We have seen a tremendous increase in the percentage of students that go to college but if you actually look at who is not going surprisingly large number of students with very good test scores and very good grades actually are not going. David and lisa we asked the community what do you think about president obamas plan, it costs a lot of money, 9 million americans can be effected. Two years of free Community College access. accucapnt trial version a high nation with income equality this can only be a good thing. Jessica says we got a great video comment from chris who went to Community College and now hes at yale. Give him a listen. I had the opportunity to attend Community College for free through a state program for two years and it completely changed my life. I had to pay my own way through school and my mom didnt go to college. So this experience had a tremendous impact. I went onto pursue additional education and now i work in accucapnt trial version higher ed ed so i believe that people should get to have the same kind of life changing experience that i did. You are all sports journalism and major at Montgomery College what do you think about this plan . First of automatic thank you for having me. I think all in all its a great plan, i can see why other financial concerns could come in to play. Through personal experience, Community College really is an important its an imperative stepping stone because mentors are aplenty here. Whereas at a Larger University accucapnt trial version you have lecture halls of hundreds of students and smaller classes with 30 students at Montgomery College where i am i can connect and build mentors and networking as well. Are you convinced that higher rates of admission are going to equate to higher rates of graduation . We know that we have a lot of kids going to college. Certainly not all of those are graduated. No. And thats one of the u. S. fundamental problems now is the disconnect between going and completing. Let me actually raise some of accucapnt trial version the unintendedded consequences of this program. One of those unintendedded consequences is that it may lead to a shift how big i dont know, a shift from students moving from fouryear schools to 2year schools. There is a growing body of evidence that it tells us students have what it takes to succeed at a fouryear program but start at a twoyear program. Have lower chances of graduating if they start at a 4year program straightaway thats one of the unintended consequences, on the other hand, for students who otherwise wouldnt have gone at all and who might have moved accucapnt trial version instead in to some largely deadened job the opportunity to go to a twoyear program and earn an Associates Degree or certificate, can be as you have already heard a lifechanging experience that benefits both student and the society by increasing that persons income tremendously over the course of their lifetime. And that translates in to tax base. We have someone who works at a Community College i see the potential in some students. But there are too many who abuse the system. And, ben, you are at Community College right now. accucapnt trial version what do you think about that statement . Do you think there are too many who abuse the system, dont make the most of it. A lot of people are very cautious about giving this much money to Community Colleges who arent really investing in their students and their future. Whats your thoughts . Well, i have played both sides of that coin to be honest with you. For example, i am not as good at math as i am say english and i have had to take a prerex sit math course a few times and what happened was they had me reappeal and appeal to take the accucapnt trial version course again and i asked why is that . And they said because your education is subsidized by the college, whereas International Student or a student from out of county because its county paid pays twice as much, so in that sense a students might abuse the system. Overruled, youve really got opportunities that you wouldnt get at a fouryear university. I can speak first happened to those as well. I was the editor and chief in Montgomery College for the student newspaper, i can guarantee that wouldnt happen at a fouryear university, accucapnt trial version certainly not as quickly and i was able to work at cbs radio as an internship and met that person through Montgomery College and that wouldnt have happened at the four year other. David speaking of abusing the system and maybe its not an abuse, but in effect of giving people two years of free education, a lot of Community Colleges already have notoriously had i drop out rates, then you are giving a student a free pass for would two years they have very little skin in the game, doesnt that lower the barrier for them dropping out because they have very little to lose . accucapnt trial version i dont know what the evidence is on the skin in the game effect. I have heard that claim many times. If there is any skin in the game effect its negative, i would imagine that it would be dominated tremendously by the sit preliminary advertise and appeal in the program in bringing in to the Higher Education system a much larger fraction shun of the bunch of students who could benefit from it. So i am not particularly persuaded its a significant issue. If and when policy makers accucapnt trial version move forward on this, what should they concern themselves with . I know what they will concern themselves with in the currents congas its configured one of the potential losers are the forprofit institutions. And that is going to set off alarm bells in washington. At least on one side of the aisle. If you look at the amount of borrowing that students do in order to go to forprofit institutions Something Like half of the students who go to a forprofit institution wind up with 40,000 in debtor more. Thats a 4year program. accucapnt trial version but for 2year programs the percentage who winds up with 10,000 or more in debt is very large. And the percentage who wind up with no debt at all for two years, is well over happen. So anything that has the potential to shift public money away from for profits is likely to get some push back. David we asked our community will congress support the plan . Here is what they said we have about 20 seconds, you are talking to congress, whats your pitch to them about this plan . My pitch to them is simply that college is to accelerate your life and desired field and accucapnt trial version make a solid future, foundation, and if you are dealing with these Student Loans then we are all just going in circles here, someone is paying someone else and the universities would be fine because as it pertain to his here, maryland, university of maryland excuse me, if you get 60 credits where the Community College and on that, you are guaranteed admission you are still paying maryland a significant am of money. Ben holmes, David Feldman thank you so much for joining us. A growing number of popular websites with millions of members offer a suggestive accucapnt trial version solution for cashstrapped co coeds, coming up next sugar babies and sugar daddies arranged relationship between collegeaged women who need money to cover expenses and older men that give them a quote, unquote allowance. But it all just sugarcoated prostitution . S welcome back. Students determined to get a College Education usually find a way, whether its working multiple jobs, living with friends or going to school at night. But popular websites are pushing a tantalizing solution. Jump starting your future begins with choosing the right education. Here at sugar baby university, you can gain the person connections you need to go from entry level to corner office. One site that has more than 3 million users features provocative images of quote unquote, sugar babies, serving as a marketplace to connect College Coeds with generous benefactors. These relationships can be quite lucrative. The students get quote unquote, allowances that they say average 3,000 a month. Critics call this nothing less than thinlyveiled prostitution. Is it . Or is this nostrings attached transactional relationship just the latest iterations of the hookup culture . Joining us is tess wood, she was a sugar baby after graduating college. And for new york, chloe angel a pop culture and politics writer and senior columnist of the website feministing. So tess, you graduated from princeton in 2011. Most people would assume that you had plenty of opportunities with an ivy league degree. Why did you decide to become a sugar baby . Thats a good question. Honestly, at that point in my life thats the skill that i felt that i had to sell. I guess it speaks to myself image and also speaks to i think a lot the plight of a lot of people graduating from college i graduated from college, i have this degree, now what . Everyone told me there would be a job waiting and there isnt. So this was a financiallybased decision for you . Absolutely. Okay. So if you would have been let me ask you this. What other jobs did you explore before deciding to be a sugar baby in terms of making money out of school . I just didnt really think there were that many options for me. Most of the people i knew that had jobs out of school had done interninternships every year to work up to getting the jobs, a lot were financed, a lot engineering and things like that that were shortly clearly delineate the paths and i majored in psychology so i expected that i would have to go to grad school if i were going to use my degree so i just sort of like most people i think we liberal arts did he degree felt like, well, i am not sure what to do. I didnt really know what to look for everybody. And when you decided to get in to this, did you note what you were getting in to . The sites like seeking arrangements they use things as the words gentlemen advisers that these men are going to be mentors. Did you and do you think other young women take that part of it seriously . I didnt personally. I didnt really know i didnt really i wasnt really thinking like i didnt really think they had much to offer me. Other than money . Exactly. I am going to be trading my time for money i mayas well do it in a way think i might enjoy. All right chloe angel gotta get you in here. What is this . Give us your take on sugar babies and sugar daddies what are we really talking about here . I think what we are talking about is frankly nothing new. For centuries people have been sub. Ing or creating income supplementalling or doing work that we all this. The internet has facilitated that kind of work. To me the more interesting question is not is this thinlyveiled prostitution, the more interesting question is what are the structures and culture that his lead us to this point. This is the natural consequence of stagnating wages. Of a financial crisis that happened a couple of years before something someone like tess or i graduated. The bounce back and recovery that create ahead a lot of lowwage gorges deadend jobs the kind we were talking about in the previous segment. Not to mention the fact that women get paid far less for doing the same women as men. Its a natural consequence of a cluster of factors that result in this kind of work, some people call sex work being the most viable option for our community. The community at this agrees with clowely. Marty does he says mentioned women are doing it for their student dead and williams says tess, how do you respond to that . Honestly, yeah, of course its practices pro s tuesday its a transactional relationship thats the definition of prostitution. First of all how is it different from all the transactional relationships we have in our lives now. I guess i dont see how its any bars than any other job every job sucks in some way. I dont know. Its just fun that i people are like this is especially bad. And i dont really see how. Tess, what do you think. [speaking at the same time] its being promoted as something em powering for women. A way to go to school, a way to not have debt. Its a way to jump start your career. I dont really believe in the word em powering. I would agree with tess that that word is often use to cover all manner of sin. We can hold these two ideas in our heads tame. It can be a way for not just well by the way people of all genders to have access to a College Education it also consider this also being degrade, sad disempowering all the things that people are twitter are saying. We do all of us an enormous disservice when we talk about this experience. Tess experience will be different from all of the other people who have done this kind of work. And i also think tess makes a really good point this is we are talking about a transactional relationship. And another thing that the internet and Online Dating sites in particular have done has i think, clarified for a lot of people that dating is economics there is a market. When we talk about the dating market, we are talking about a market and now some of us might not be on seeking seekingarrangement. Com. But those of you on okay cupid. Teupbldzer high dine, carat dating. We all recognize this is a market. There are economics at work. And any straight man who has ever gone on a series of dates and been expected to pay for every single one of them. We are talking economics here. This is not just about well, stephen makes the point asia says. This is a fascinating mix of post feminist bravado with unexampled self framed as empowerment. Isnt that what we do every single day in our culture. Like i just think its like, yeah, america has a complex about sex we know this. Its clearly coming through in this particular type of transaction. The same way everybody has feelings about porn its not surprising. I dont think its based in anything other than our own convictions and issues with sex as a culture. All right tess wood, chloe angel, thank you so much for joining us, still ahead Artificial Intelligence is progressing so quickly that some of the brightest minds in science and technology warn it could be the down fall of mankind if we are not careful. The hidden dangers of machines that learn. Sunday night. 140 World Leaders will take the podium. Get the full story. There is real disunity in the security council. About issues that impact your world. Infectious diseases are a major threat to health. The week ahead. Sunday 8 30 eastern. Only on al jazeera america. Welcome back. We cents i dozens of inventors and scientists including prominent figures like steven hawking and he lon musk signs an open letter warning of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence running amuck if you have seen terminator, i robot, 2001 a space odyssey. You are experiencing a car accident. I dont know what you are talking about hal. I know that you and frank were planning to disconnect me. And i am afraid thats something that i cannot allow to happen. Whats crazy is, its the movies but some of it doesnt seem that far fetched anymore. No, this is real stuff almost. We have siri. We depend on siri what if it becomes like sky net and takes control of our lives what will happen . It will be bad. I have things in my house that learn, evening my thermostat. This is why i dont have an iphone, but i love apple. Yeah. Yeah. [ laughter ] joining us from oregon is Thomas Dietrich the president for the association of advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Thomas, we are looking at terminator and i robot could any of this stuff really happen . No. I dont think the kind of scenarios that hollywood likes toe vent are likely to happen at all. I think its always amusing that not only are these vicious devious robots that want to take over the world but they also want to have Human Emotions as well i am not worried at all about siri wanting to take over the world. No. [ laughter ] but i do think there are some more practical down to earth problems. Well, you know, youve got guys like he lon musk elon musk saying this is akin to dancing with the delve. We are dealing with something that we dont really have the proper tools in place to control. Is there any truth that . Well, i think there are some very far out kind of Science Fiction scenarios that we cannot totally rule out. If could be that if we build automated scientist computers that they could somehow discover some new kind of physics that would allow computers to become more powerful and you could have some crazy thing like that. I think the actual dangers of Artificial Intelligence are really arising from our interest in saying having them drive our cars. Or having them operate our battlefield weapons. Making ethical decisions. Those are the cases we could really have problems. We asked our community about this and said whats your response and they said we asked will this negatively affect humans, dragon says only if we cant coexist and live here san interesting question me, who determines when the development of a. I. Has reached, quote unquote full capacity. A human. Whats your take on that, thomas . Well, i dont know what it means to have full capacity. I mean, from the very start of Building Computers we built them because they could do some things better than we could like add, subtract, calculate trajectories. Now they help us find our way in a city we have never visited before. But they are not taking over. They are not actually in control of anything right now. We are just using them as tools as assistants, now the game may change somewhat in when we put them in charge of our cars. But again they will have a very narrow job stay in the lane, dont crash in to the car in front of you stop appropriately. They dont have any other goal in life exempt to drive the car to the destination. Speaking of goals zip the way we are Programming Computers different now instead of with commands we are getting them to seek out certain goals . Well, that is i think the difference between Traditional Software and Artificial Intelligence software is that you can express your goal at a much higher level. And so, you might Say Something to your car like get me to the airport as quickly as possible and we dont wants that car to say lets go 300 miles an hour, run over any pedestrians we happen to run in to on the way because our driver told us, our boss told us get there as quickly as possible. We dont want to create the sourcerrers apprentice. We do not indeed. We are out of time. Well keep our fingers crossed that a. I. Progresses responsible. Thanks to all of our guests. Until next name waj and i will see on you line. This is al jazerra. Hello and well Development News hour. 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