We could use some technical help as we wrestle to assess the provenance of the information we encounter.
Vinton G. Cerf
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There is a critical need for better software design, development, test, and propagation processes.
We have entered a period in which computation is the principal animating factor in modern society.
On the Difference between Security and Safety
Safe networking requires us to be skeptical of messages that try to stampede us into action without enough forethought.
Thoughts on AI Interoperability
While the core transport protocols of the Internet are binary in character, one could imagine a more text-oriented exchange protocol for inter-ML systems.
Validating Factual Personal Information
What properties would be useful to realize in a system intended to keep personal information, where it is needed, up to date?
The role of ACM members, as professionals in the computing realm, makes them candidates for the provision of expert testimony in both criminal and civil judicial proceedings.
The barriers to information generation and sharing have plummeted; information consumers can choose among billions of potential sources. This is information at scale.
"Write a 700-word obituary for Vint Cerf." I tried this "prompting" text on a publicly available chatbot. The output? There was a considerable degree of invented but false statements about my life and work.
As the inventor of Ethernet, now ubiquitous in so many forms, Bob Metcalfe, the Turing Award Laureate for 2022, has earned the right to speak about connectivity.
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