Communications of the ACM
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The New AI Writing Tool Might Teach Us the Value of Truth
AI literally does not care what is true.
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Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.
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More Crypto Regulation Is Needed—Now
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must use the FTX collapse to get clear about the rules and regulations that govern the crypto ecosystem.
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights? A Lawyer's Response
Robots are hardware and software packages that lack a nature or any abilities outside of whatever their designers imagine.
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The Computer Scientist Who Is Boosting Privacy on the Internet
Harry Halpin has helped create a new kind of network that might enable more private Internet conversations.
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Intelligent Futures in Task Assistance
Applying lessons learned developing and deploying task management software.
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What Must All Post-Secondary Students Learn about Computing?
Expanding students' understanding of computing's potential.
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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
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Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
A conversation with Joel Lehman, machine-learning scientist formerly of OpenAI and Uber AI Labs.
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What's Your Placebo?
The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.
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Storytelling and Science
Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.
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We've Got Misinformation All Wrong
We must accept that misinformation is not one problem, but a whole set of problems.
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The Pope's AI Adviser on Ensuring Algorithms Respect Human Dignity
Franciscan monk Paolo Benanti is the brains behind the Rome Call, a pact aimed at making sure AI is developed with ethics in mind.
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How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind
Humanity is not prepared for artificial superintelligence right now.
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I Was There When: AI Helped Create a Vaccine
An interview with Dave Johnson, chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Moderna.
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Blowing Up the Internet...to Protect Kids Online
Framed as a bill to protect kids online, the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act would radically reshape the Internet—and harm both kids and adults.
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Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket
Toward new research directions in computer science.
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The Atlas Milestone
Celebrating virtual memory, which has made such a difference in how we approach programming, memory management, and secure computing.
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These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.
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