Kirk Lippold discusses the reported three U.S. strikes against Houthis in Yemen on'Your World.' Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis, and are now more regularly also defending against a new threat -- fast unmanned vessels that are fired at them through the water. While the Houthis have launched unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the past against Saudi coalition forces that have intervened in Yemen's civil war, they were used for the first time against U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Jan. 4. In the weeks since, the Navy has had to intercept and destroy multiple USVs. It's "more of an unknown threat that we don't have a lot of intel on, that could be extremely lethal -- an unmanned surface vessel," said Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, commander of Carrier Strike Group Two, of which the Eisenhower is the flagship. The Houthis "have ways of obviously controlling them just like they do the (unmanned aerial vehicles), and we have very little little fidelity as to all the stockpiles of what they have USV-wise," Miguez said.

The'Outnumbered' panel responds to the New York Times' defense of Biden's cognitive abilities as he celebrates his 80th birthday in office. President Joe Biden turned 80 on Nov. 20, 2022 -- and debate is ongoing, from a health perspective, about his advanced age and the capacity of individuals of that age to serve in the highest office in the land. Biden has surpassed former President Reagan as the oldest president to serve in the White House -- and the milestone has people wondering: Is there an age that is too old for someone to be president? "I think it's a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone's age, including mine," Biden himself told MSNBC in October. He added, "But I think the best way to make the judgment is to watch me."

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily lives was predicted in Hollywood movies decades ago and began to come true with Siri, Alexa and Smartphones. According to a white paper released recently by Mitchell International (the parent company of NAGS), artificial intelligence use in automotive claims is growing fast as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which made a transition to digital essential to decrease the spread of the virus from human to human. "As insurers embrace AI and its ability to improve the claims process, they are devoting a larger portion of their technology budgets to AI-enabled solutions. In fact, according to one report, 87% of carriers are now spending in excess of $5 million annually on these technologies, which is more than in the banking and retail sectors," Mitchell reported. Although new to the auto insurance industry, the science behind AI has existed for more than 50 years.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily lives was predicted in Hollywood movies decades ago and began to come true with Siri, Alexa and smartphones. According to a white paper released recently by Mitchell International, parent company of NAGS, artificial intelligence use in automotive claims is growing fast as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which made a transition to digital essential to decrease the spread of the virus from human to human. "As insurers embrace AI and its ability to improve the claims process, they are devoting a larger portion of their technology budgets to AI-enabled solutions. In fact, according to one report, 87% of carriers are now spending in excess of $5 million annually on these technologies, which is more than in the banking and retail sectors," Mitchell reported. Although new to the auto insurance industry, the science behind AI has existed for more than 50 years.

With a new generation quickly entering the modern workforce, it is never been more important for public-sector agencies to take a thoughtful, strategic approach to human capital management. It is hard to imagine a better time to start down that road, with state-of-the-art IT systems taking the guesswork out of human resources decisions and delivering a level of management insight that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. That technology is certainly the cornerstone of government's efforts to stay ahead of a rapidly shifting workforce. Yet it is worth remembering that this is not the first massive wave of transformation the U.S. public service has faced. We have been here before, and it is useful to draw insight and inspiration from another memorable moment when America had to surmount an overwhelming HR challenge to achieve a fundamentally important objective.

A recent McKinsey study suggests that 45 percent of on-the-job activities can be automated by deploying artificial intelligence. That includes file clerks, whose jobs can become 80 percent automated, or CEOs' jobs that can be 20 percent automated because AI systems radically simplify and target CEOs' reading of reports, risk detection or pattern recognition. There is understandable consternation about the unbridled power that machines may have over human decision-making. Elon Musk has called AI "our biggest existential threat." On the other side are enthusiasts eager for smart machines to improve our lives and the planet's health.

Peter Drucker was prescient about most things, but the computer wasn't one of them. "The computer ... is a moron," the management guru asserted in a McKinsey Quarterly article in 1967, calling the devices that now power our economy and our daily lives "the dumbest tool we have ever had." Drucker was hardly alone in underestimating the unfathomable pace of change in digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). AI builds on the computational power of vast neural networks sifting through massive digital data sets or "big data" to achieve outcomes analogous, often superior, to those produced by human learning and decision-making. Careers as varied as advertising, financial services, medicine, journalism, agriculture, national defense, environmental sciences, and the creative arts are being transformed by AI.

Peter Drucker was prescient about most things, but the computer wasn't one of them. "The computer ... is a moron," the management guru asserted in a McKinsey Quarterly article in 1967, calling the devices that now power our economy and our daily lives "the dumbest tool we have ever had." Drucker was hardly alone in underestimating the unfathomable pace of change in digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). AI builds on the computational power of vast neural networks sifting through massive digital data sets or "big data" to achieve outcomes analogous, often superior, to those produced by human learning and decision-making. Careers as varied as advertising, financial services, medicine, journalism, agriculture, national defense, environmental sciences, and the creative arts are being transformed by AI.

In it, the king of automation made some optimistic predictions about machines creating more jobs than they take away--in retrospect, very prescient. In 1940, the President of MIT, Karl Compton and President Franklin D. Roosevelt clashed over the question. As chronicled by the Times, the president of MIT didn't see a problem whereas the nation's president did. The same year a US senator suggested a tax on machines to offset the unemployment they may cause. "Who will have the last laugh in the gadget age -- man or machine?," asked Pulitzer Prize-winning AP writer Hal Boyle in 1949.