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Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
Everything. Everywhere. All at Once: AI Policy When Congress Returns
Here is a quick take on what to look for in Washington and on the broader AI Policy landscape when Congress returns in September.
Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven’t Earned Their Stripes
Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.
Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes
The best way to guard against becoming a target of social engineering is to familiarize yourself with the strategies, psychological hooks, and technological means that attackers employ.
Machine Learning: The Road to Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning, as it is practiced, has little, if anything to do with AI and the more encompassing endeavor that we call Cognitive Science.
Optical Vectors Beam Multi-Bits
The technique works by modulating the vector-quality factor, instead of the amplitude of a laser.
Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.
ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen’s Perceptions
Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.
Giving Users More than They Can Handle
Are Microsoft's artificial intelligence files creating security issues for customers?
Quantifying artificial intelligence's capacity for creativity requires an understanding of what creativity is.
Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship
Interns, full-time members, and affiliates of a Microsoft Research team focused on accessibility report on the experiences of virtual interns in 2020 navigating the challenges of working remotely.
Teaching the FATE Community about Privacy
Jason Hong finds many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy.
The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence
Looking for ways to cut the release of greenhouse gases attributable to AI use, at a time that usage is very likely to grow.
Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots
Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.
Technical Perspective: Pandemics, Remote Work, and Accessibility
"Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship," by Kelly Mack et al., provides guidance on how to make remote work and meetings work better for everyone.
Improving Computing Education Research through Valuing Design
Exploring alternatives to existing research systems and methods.
AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation
Trust and trustworthiness are central to how ethics helps society survive and thrive.
SI and Binary Prefixes: Clearing the Confusion
Considering the emergence of non-standard acceptance of SI prefixes.
Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery
Enabling researchers to leverage systems to overcome the limits of human cognitive capacity.
GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO2
It has become clear that AI's carbon emissions, lifecycle carbon, and other negative environmental impacts are growing explosively.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
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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