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Accepting AI’s Suggestions Is Harder When You Think
Even with technology designed to avoid biases and deception, the sum of AI-human decision making can be less than the sum of its parts.
Experts tracked hacked funds across 12 different blockchains, while law enforcement agencies globally coordinated the efforts.
AI Risks for Democracy, the Economy, and Civil Rights
AI technology that amplifies false and misleading information increases instability in demcracy, experts say.
The TikTok Ban and Its Consequences
The Supreme Court’s unsigned opinion upholding the TikTok ban sidesteps almost all of the major legal issues in the case.
The State of Digital Accessibility
One way to advance accessibility is to ensure that people with disabilities are represented at all levels in the industry—from end-user testers, to developers, to corporate leaders.
The Importance of Distrust in Trusting Digital Worker Chatbots
While trust is essential to promote human interaction with AI-powered digital workers, distrust may also play a role.
Universities Take Strategic Steps in the Face of Uncertain Funding
The impact of changes in federal funding is a top concern for many university computer science programs.
Fulfilling the Growing Power Requirements of AI Datacenters
Nuclear energy checks many of the boxes sought for a modern power source.
Knowing alternatives is insufficient; it is also important to prevent the system from performing business as usual.
The UGC Overload: Scaling Content Moderation for Massive Datasets
AI and ML have a role to play in moderating user-generated content in real time to keep sites safe, civilized, and legally compliant.
Barto, Sutton Announced as ACM 2024 A.M. Turing Award Recipients
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement […]
Researchers are tuning in on ways to turn down the volume with fabrics and materials that buffer, baffle, and block sound waves.
Buckle up, because what’s coming next is unlikely to look like what came before.
Prevalence and Prevention of Large Language Model Use in Crowd Work
LLMs may be particularly harmful in crowd work when the goal is to capture the diversity of human preferences, behaviors, or opinions.
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human)
After 40,000 years of making tools for computing and reasoning, it is time for Homo Ratiocinator to live up to its traditional name, Homo Sapiens.
The Sustainability Gap for Computing: Quo Vadis?
A reformulated IPAT model provides insight for computer system engineers to consider computing's environmental impact.
Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
Does the U.S. Geological Survey need to change its adamant position that it is impossible to accurately predict when an earthquake will occur?
The Evolution of Computer Science at the University Level
Interdisciplinary approaches that blend computer science with other fields of study have been increasing at universities and in popularity with students.
How Software Bugs led to ‘One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice’ in British History
Bad coding and bad testing characterize the software that led to wrongful convictions, financial ruin, and four suicides.
Initiatives created for the 2023 UbiComp/ISWC conference illustrate what can and should be done to support the needs of a diverse, increasingly global computing community.
The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.
Shape the Future of Computing
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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