Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Digital Contact Tracing May Protect Privacy, But It Is Unlikely to Stop the Pandemic
Considering the potential benefits versus the risks of privacy-enhancing technologies.
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Self-Driving Vehicle Technology: Progress and Promises
Seeking the answer to the elusive question, 'Are we there yet'?
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A Holistic View of Future Risks
Almost everything is somehow interrelated with everything else—and that should not surprise us.
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'Have You Thought About . . .': Talking About Ethical Implications of Research
Considering the good and the bad effects of technology.
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Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Lessons from Aviation
How more than 25years of experience with aviation safety-critical systems can be applied to autonomous vehicle systems.
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A Recent Renaissance in Privacy Law
Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.
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Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
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Consumers vs. Citizens in Democracy's Public Sphere
Attempting to balance the challenging trade-offs between individual rights and our obligations to one another.
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Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media
Guaranteeing truth in advertising.
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AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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When Technology Goes Awry
On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.
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The Coronavirus Crisis Proves The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has proven conclusively that the Internet should be a public utility.
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