Communications of the ACM
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Software Can Do Better than 'Male,' 'Female,' and 'Other'
Providing more-expansive gender options is not a difficult coding problem.
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Why Can't Tech Fix Its Gender Problem?
A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer may bring change.
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It Is Okay to Opt out of the Crypto Revolution
The crypto industry is investing heavily in getting more people to buy in, but that does not mean you have to.
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AI Is Creating a New Colonial World Order
Artificial intelligence is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.
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Russia Is Risking the Creation of an Irreversible 'Splinternet'
If Russia disconnects—or is booted—from the Internet's governing bodies, the Internet may never be the same.
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Innovation Is Slowing Down—and Big Tech Is to Blame
The great IT revolution is preventing, not promoting, economic dynamism
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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
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What's Missing from the Push to Diversify Tech?
Focusing on hiring pipelines or career pathways alone won't solve tech's diversity and inclusion problems.
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Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased
Women in computing have been silenced more often than they've been listened to
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Taxing Digital Advertising Could Help Break Up Big Tech
A novel approach to rein in the largest technology companies, encourage competition and innovation, and help democracy
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Why the Most Controversial U.S. Internet Law Is Worth Saving
Donald Trump and Joe Biden both want to throw out Section 230. Here's why America should fix it instead. By Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center...
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The Field of Natural Language Processing is Chasing the Wrong Goal
Researchers are too focused on whether AI systems can ace tests of dubious value. They should be testing whether systems grasp how the world works.
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Here’s One Way to Make Daily Covid-19 Testing Feasible on a Mass Scale
Pooling tests with the help of machine learning can allow us to safely reopen without a vaccine.
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How to Know if Artificial Intelligence is About to Destroy Civilization
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
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AI Researchers Need to Stop Hiding the Climate Toll of Their Work
Researchers are sounding the alarm about the surprisingly large carbon footprint of the computations required for deep learning.
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Here Are 10 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
An international team of 22 big name AI researchers have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save the planet and humanity from imminent...
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