Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
From ACM Opinion
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.
From Communications of the ACM
Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
From Communications of the ACM
Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
From Communications of the ACM
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.
From Communications of the ACM
A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
From Communications of the ACM
A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
From ACM Opinion
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...
From ACM Opinion
What's Next for Quantum Computing?
Companies are moving away from setting qubit records in favor of practical hardware and long-term goals.
From ACM Opinion
Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics
Google research scientist Pete Florence discusses how robotics can benefit from dense visual representations, neural radiance fields, and large language models....
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Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.
From ACM Opinion
Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient discusses his career, collaborations, deep learning's promise, and directions for the field.
From ACM Opinion
Should Quantum Computing Be on IT’s Strategic Roadmap?
Quantum computing is far from being a mature technology, but now is the time to pencil it into IT strategic roadmaps.
From ACM Opinion
Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce...
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
From ACM Opinion
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.
From ACM Opinion
AI and ML Observability
Andy Dang, head of Engineering at WhyLabs, discusses observability and data ops for AI/ML applications and how that differs from traditional observability.
From Communications of the ACM
An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
From ACM Opinion