To insist that your strategy is right even when nearly all other firms have concluded the opposite smacks of hubris and inflexibility.
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Compliance Requirements in Research
An urgent issue to address is the proliferation of requirements from all federal and state agencies and private companies, which share an awareness for security but add different security requirements.
On Program Synthesis and Large Language Models
It is unreasonable to expect the generational powers of ChatGPT and similar software to provide a general tool for program synthesis.
Diversity Examples Inappropriate
There is little convincing evidence that anything other than ability, knowledge, and communication skills drives the success of teams working in software and hardware development.
Matarić would like machines to provide social, emotional, and psychological support to people, which makes accessibility a large, unsolved problem.
We could use some technical help as we wrestle to assess the provenance of the information we encounter.
Notice and Choice Cannot Stand Alone
If bolstered by appropriate laws, standards, and easy-to-use interfaces, the notice and choice concept could be a useful tool in our future privacy toolbox.
AI Must Be Anti-Ableist and Accessible
Addressing concerns about AI’s potential negative impact on inclusion, representation, and equity for those in marginalized communities.
The 5th Paradigm: AI-Driven Scientific Discovery
A scientific revolution is happening before our eyes, powered by Computing and AI.
Empower Diversity in AI Development
A set of practical recommendations that empower organizations to increase diversity in AI development.
We offer an eight-tiered hierarchy that classifies AI machines by their learning power.
"We’ve been doing a lot more work with the cloud, because not every clinic or hospital is going to own a supercomputer."
How can we prevent prompt-hacking and an associated AI research replication crisis?
The Future of Misuse Detection
A sequence of interrelated SRI projects are representative examples of the body of earlier work in the field of misuse detection.
Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court’s Social Media Paradox
Today’s social media giants have sought to avoid the pollution costs they impose on the rest of us.
Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career
Reflection captures 16 people-focused and career-focused life lessons.
Between the Booms: AI in Winter
AI became more pluralistic as a loss of faith in formerly dominant approaches created space for new ideas.
What Is Theoretical Computer Science?
As computer scientists, we should look for inspiration from physics rather than from mathematics.
Mentorship Lessons from Growing a Developing Country Journal
The editor of an open access publication shares ideas on bridging the gap between predatory and prestigious journals.
Subjectivity and judgment surrounds what a bug is, and how and whether it should be fixed.
What should you bet to maximize your probability of doubling your money in a scenario where you are willing to lose all your money?
Do Social Media Platforms Have Free Speech Rights to ‘Censor’ Conservatives?
Other court decisions have ruled that privately owned media entities have constitutional rights to decide whether or not to publish content authored by outsiders.
Between the two extreme visions of AI as a servant and AI as a sentient fighter-lover, resides an important and practical alternative: AI as a provocateur.
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