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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The Indigo Cyberattack Is a Warning of Things to Come
Those handling state secrets or critical infrastructure seem to fare no better than a bookstore chain.
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AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
If we are lucky, new technologies will only cause brief confusion.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
From ACM Opinion
The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Will AI Help Us to Work Less?
The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story.
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Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
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Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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GPT-4 Is Not Perfect, but Neither Are You
An interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman.
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Medical AI Is as Much Social as It Is Technological
Medical AI applications need to overcome transparency and trust issues.
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Large Language Models Will Change Programming…a Little
Hype has been a primary driver of the excitement around LLMs.
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A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
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A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
From ACM Opinion
With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era
We often judge the utility of a new technology on how well it deals with the problems of older ones.
From ACM Opinion
Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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Mr. President, Healthcare Has a Data Problem
The U.S. healthcare system is plagued by inefficiencies, in part due to deficiencies of health data interoperability between electronic health records and other...
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.
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ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science; here's how to respond.
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"Conversational" AI Is Really Bad at Conversations
Conversation without change is just a five-finger exercise.
From ACM Opinion