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Consumers vs. Citizens in Democracy's Public Sphere

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Attempting to balance the challenging trade-offs between individual rights and our obligations to one another.

Allison Stanger | July 1, 2020

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A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans

A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention. ... The New York Times
From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2020

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Why Google's Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

Quantum computing is the first computing paradigm since Turing expected to change the fundamental scaling behavior of algorithms, making certain tasks feasible... The New York Times
From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2019