Smartphones, sensors, and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how the data is created and used.
Nature From ACM Opinion | July 14, 2021
New approaches are needed to systematically reduce the harmful bias of language models in deployment.
Nature Machine Intelligence From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2021
Artificial intelligence can help the electronics industry to speed up chip design. But the gains must be shared equitably.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2021
To predict how society and political systems might actually respond to warming, upgrade integrated assessment models.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2021
In the wake of COVID-19, a pandemic treaty could be a way to agree on data access before the next emergency strikes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2021
Collaborations between theorists and experimentalists are crucial for accelerating research.Nature Computational Science From ACM Opinion | June 1, 2021
A white paper from Partnership on AI advises on navigating the risks of AI research and responsible publication.
Nature Machine Intelligence From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2021
Mariarosaria Taddeo, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, discusses...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2021
Proliferating military artificial intelligence will leave the world less safe—so we must focus on ethics and global cooperation, argues Denise Garcia, vice-chair...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2021
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2021
Nature talks to Peter Shor 25 years after he showed how to make quantum computations feasible — and how they could endanger our data.
Nature From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2020
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2019
Results from the United States' midterm elections are still pouring in, but a handful of candidates with backgrounds in science or technology have already nabbed...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2018
Late in 2016, then-US President Barack Obama mused in an interview with The New Yorker magazine that he had probably been elected because his campaign had begun...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2018
Alan Turing's crucial unscrambling of German messages in the Second World War was a tour de force of codebreaking.
Nature From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become "he said" or "he wrote."
Nature From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2018
A pre-eminent twentieth-century physicist and a Nobel laureate: Richard Feynman was certainly those. He was also much more.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2018