Communications of the ACM
Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
Have the big thinkers of tech lost their mojo?
From ACM Opinion
Antitrust Enforcers Are Not Going to Back Down
FTC Chair Lina Khan talks outlines her vision for the future of antitrust enforcement
From ACM Opinion
Open Source Intelligence
Averting strategic surprises requires uncovering secrets hidden in plain sight
From ACM Opinion
Efforts to Rein In Big Tech May Be Running Out of Time
Congressional bills aimed at the tech industry need to be addressed before political attention turns to midterms
From ACM Opinion
Facebook's Unglamorous Mistakes
Facebook's little mistakes have big consequences, too, but only for us
From ACM Opinion
Why Better AI May Depend on Fake Data
Synthetic data can provide AI with a broader education than real-world data, but challenges exist
From ACM Opinion
The Real Action for Tech Regulation Is Far from Washington, D.C.
Congress doesn't seem ready to take on privacy or competition, but states are refusing to wait around
From ACM Opinion
Why the FTC Attempt to Stop Tech 'Surveillance' Faces Long Odds
Lina Khan's FTC has experienced a series of delays in trying to enact new privacy rules
From ACM Opinion
Dems Will Probably Miss Chance to Shape Crypto Regulation
Both houses of Congress are back in session with a packed agenda, and way down on that priority list is regulating crypto
From ACM Opinion
I Am Therefore I Think
Scientists say social interaction is 'the dark matter of AI'
From ACM Opinion
The Dangers of Treating AI like a God
We should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says anthropologist Beth Singler
From ACM Opinion
Individual AI, a New Technology that Will Change Our World?
Is the next version of AI a technological symbiosis of the human brain and the computer system?
From ACM Opinion
Deep Learning Can't Be Trusted
Brain modeling pioneer Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better
From ACM Opinion
Crypto Means Freedom to Garry Kasparov
The chess grandmaster expects a basket of coins to replace the dollar within a decade.
From ACM Opinion
Save Social Media by Treating It like a City
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
From ACM Opinion