Communications of the ACM
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Avoid Diluting Democracy by Algorithms
AI researchers tend to use the concepts of democracy and democratization in ways that are only loosely connected to their political and historical meanings.
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Breaking Patent Law
Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty.
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To Make AI Fair, Here's What Must Be Done
AI developers need to collaborate with social scientists and the people affected by its applications.
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How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
University of Michigan's Shobita Parthasarathy warns that software designed to summarize, translate, and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science....
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The Perils of Machine Learning in Designing New Chemicals and Materials
As ML tools become more broadly available when making new compounds and materials, the possibilities of misuse increase and must be guarded against.
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Human Autonomy in the Age of AI
Current AI policy recommendations differ on what the risks to human autonomy are
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Datasets
Retired and redacted datasets flagged as harmful or biased continue to rear their ugly heads
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Moving Towards Reproducible Machine Learning
Reporting machine learning-based research can help to improve transparency and reproducibility
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Computational Sustainability Meets Materials Science
Exploiting synergies between the disciplines advances both fields and can help establish a sustainable future.
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Governing AI Safety through Independent Audits
Governance of highly automated systems is critical to garner widespread public trust
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Large Language Models Associate Muslims with Violence
New approaches are needed to systematically reduce the harmful bias of language models in deployment.
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Google's AI Approach to Microchips Is Welcome—but Needs Care
Artificial intelligence can help the electronics industry to speed up chip design. But the gains must be shared equitably.
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How to Be Responsible in AI Publication
A white paper from Partnership on AI advises on navigating the risks of AI research and responsible publication.
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Defining a Role for AI Ethics in National Security
Mariarosaria Taddeo, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, discusses...
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Stop the Emerging AI Cold War
Proliferating military artificial intelligence will leave the world less safe—so we must focus on ethics and global cooperation, argues Denise Garcia, vice-chair...
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Cooperative AI: Machines Must Learn to Find Common Ground
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
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AI Pioneer: 'The Dangers of Abuse Are Very Real'
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.
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Robots on the Run
Young animals gallop across fields, climb trees and immediately find their feet with enviable grace after they fall.
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Technologies to Watch in 2019
Seven specialists forecast the developments that will push their fields forward in the year ahead.12