60 Minutes
Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs
Season 54, Episode 4 · Aired 2021-10-10
Synopsis
Deepfakes – Bill Whitaker reports on the use of artificial intelligence to create deepfakes, a rapidly improving technology some experts say in the years to come will give anyone the ability to create special effects like a Hollywood studio. 1,000 Children – At least a thousand children taken from parents at the U.S. border three years ago remain separated, despite the seven-month effort by a U.S. government task force to reunify them. Sharyn Alfonsi speaks to the head of the task force and a family separated for four years. Deep Springs – Around two dozen of the world's brightest attend Deep Springs College, miles from the nearest town in the California desert, where students shoulder the responsibilities and challenges of life on a working ranch in addition to a full roster of academic work. Jon Wertheim reports.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 54
- S54E01 9.11 the FDNY
- S54E02 Take the Fight to the Night | Rep. Liz Cheney | King of the Deep
- S54E03 The Facebook Whistleblower | Unforgiven | The Final Act
- S54E05 Robert Gates | The Green River Drift | Whither Ye Olde English Pub
- S54E06 Prince V. Spy | Running Dry | Michael Keaton
- S54E07 Democracy Lost | A New Model | The Future Of Sapiens