Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano provides an update on the agency's work on'The Claman Countdown.' President Donald Trump's pick to head the nation's Social Security apparatus, Commissioner Frank Bisignano, told Fox News Digital that criticisms of the Trump administration's approach to Social Security are politically motivated and misleading. Democrats have expressed a wide range of concerns about Social Security under the current administration, including claims the Trump administration is making it more difficult for seniors and people with disabilities to access their benefits. The Trump administration's critics have also expressed concern that the president is seeking to privatize the program and is exaggerating fraud concerns to justify sweeping reforms. Democrats in Congress have gone as far as launching a "Social Security War Room" to coordinate their efforts to fight back.

I'll be talking about ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, and why I don't think we're doomed. I'll start by admitting that I'm a human. I've been using software and search engines while researching and writing this post. So what you are reading has been tarnished by technology's terrible taint. Looking at it another way, today's tech has helped me find facts and arrange my ideas. I also strongly suspect that using today's technology has affected how I write. If I'd lived in an earlier era -- mayhap composing with goose quills, iron gall ink and cotton paper -- I might be writing stuff like "The Dunwich Horror". And yes, mayhap is a real word; although it's not used much these days.1 "…As before, the sides of the road shewed a bruising indicative of the blasphemously stupendous bulk of the horror; whilst the conformation of the tracks seemed to argue a passage in two directions…." Even in Lovecraft's day, there was only one Lovecraft.2 I'll also admit to a bias.

Boston, United States - In 2015, I fell 25 feet (7.6 metres) from a Redwood tree and was in a coma for 10 days. I spent the rest of that year using an arm crutch and went through four months of outpatient rehabilitation. Nine months later, I had eye muscle surgery to correct double vision that resulted from damage to my occipital lobe. Five years later, I still suffer from fine motor deficits, balance issues, and have trouble with my memory and speech. My first application for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) - a government grant which provides health insurance and a monthly allotment of money for people with disabilities to live on - was filled out on my behalf by my parents. I have no recollection of it and my short-term memory is still impaired.

Doctors won't be spared, as cutting-edge robotics will do some jobs more precise than they can. An ... [ ] older doctor with shaky hands and less-than-perfect eyesight will easily be replaced by a robot who doesn't take off Wednesday to golf. Just because you turn the page on the calendar, it doesn't mean that things will be radically different. History shows that most major events unfold slowly and then happen all of a sudden. The start of 2020 will continue the current trends that we are witnessing right now.

The future job market will be radically different--almost alien--to what we have now. There are a waves of forces that will significantly change the way we work and the type of jobs we hold. The rapid ascension of sophisticated technology, global connectedness and a confluence of other factors will make the workforce of the future almost unrecognizable. The South by Southwest festival (SXSW), in addition to its music and film, is also a home for smart, distinguished people to come together and discuss important issues. This year, one of the panels will include talks about job design and the future of work and will offer a follow-up piece about their conclusions.

On this week's episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Annie Lowrey, a contributing editor at the Atlantic and the author of the new book Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World. It's about universal basic income--the idea that the government would give all its citizens checks every month. Versions of this proposal have caught on with people on the left as well as tech leaders in Silicon Valley and even some hardcore libertarians. Lowrey has written for many years now about economics, but Give People Money is both a reported work--she travels to Kenya, South Korea, and India to view their economic experiments--and a policy brief on what she believes can help alleviate some of the social and political discontent that has arisen from economic change and dislocation. Below is an edited excerpt from the show. In it, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of UBI, whether or not we should be skeptical that so many Silicon Valley titans have embraced the idea, and how to make the safety net less vulnerable to political attacks.

The advent of artificial intelligence and robotics creates new opportunities and risks, necessitating new forms of rule and regulation. Amongst the recommendations contained in Ms. Delvaux's report in this regard are the establishment of an EU agency for robotics and AI, an advisory code of conduct for robotics engineers and a new reporting structure to take account of robotics and AI for the purposes of taxation. Ms. Delvaux will discuss the EU's progress on these and other matters during her address. Mady Delvaux has been an MEP since 2014, and is a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. She has held the positions of Minister of Education, Minister of Social Security, Transport and Communication and State Secretary for Health, Social Security and Youth in the government of Luxembourg.

The services and benefits that clients receive are based largely on such reviews and assessments. The failure to perform accurate reviews and assessments in a timely manner can result in a client being denied access to services when they most need them. The typical scenario with regard to case review and assessment in social services situations involves a professional caseworker reviewing a client's file, conducting a phone or in-person interview if necessary, and making an assessment using the information obtained from the review and heuristics developed from experience. The caseworker is generally a professional who possesses expertise in the appropriate field. Some examples of fields where this expertise is found include medicine, mental health, and education.

According to an unsubstantiated report by equity research firm Baird, citing no evidence, the blame falls on the open-source server framework, Apache Struts. Could the root cause of the hack be a Struts security hole? If that's the case, is it the fault of Struts developers or Equifax's developers, system admins, and their management? The Apache Struts Project Management Committee said in a statement that while they're sorry Equifax "suffered from a security breach," they're not ready to take on the burden for this all-time security fiasco.

Making arguments like the poor "just don't want healthcare," Congressional Republicans are implementing their long-standing agenda to tear down America's social safety net. The GOP's stunningly myopic actions ignore the fact that a strong safety net is vital to helping workers weather upcoming labor market disruptions from automation in transportation and other sectors. Maya Rockeymoore (@mayarockeymoore) is founder and CEO of Global Policy Solutions LLC, a social change strategy firm and a certified B Corporation, and the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a 501c3 think tank and action organization dedicated to driving society toward inclusion. Automation can offer many advantages--increased safety, efficiency, convenience, and ecology are among them--but it also has the potential to eliminate human jobs. Tech sector observers and economists have been sounding the alarm about the threat of mass layoffs due to automation for several years.