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Dilemma of the Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Landscape
Navigating the complex and varying AI regulatory landscape.
We Need to Focus on How Our Data Is Used, Not Just How It Is Shared
Toward better understanding of the different ways data circulates between users and platforms.
Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
How collaborative designs and community-based moderation could improve social media.
To Regulate Tech, Nullify Click-Through Contracts
It is time to cut the Gordian knot and nullify, legislatively, all click-through agreements.
How Many Ways Can You Teach a Robot?
ACM Prize recipient Pieter Abbeel is working to help robots learn, and learn to improve.
Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots
Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.
Improving Computing Education Research through Valuing Design
Exploring alternatives to existing research systems and methods.
AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation
Trust and trustworthiness are central to how ethics helps society survive and thrive.
For a More Transparent Governance of Open Source
Seeking the best governance models for FOSS projects.
SI and Binary Prefixes: Clearing the Confusion
Considering the emergence of non-standard acceptance of SI prefixes.
Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO2
It has become clear that AI's carbon emissions, lifecycle carbon, and other negative environmental impacts are growing explosively.
"Write a 700-word obituary for Vint Cerf." I tried this "prompting" text on a publicly available chatbot. The output? There was a considerable degree of invented but false statements about my life and work.
L-Space and Large Language Models
Design fiction is an approach to understanding and speculating about alternate futures. This column is a piece of such speculative fiction, set in 2025.
Legal Challenges to Generative AI, Part I
Questioning the legality of using in-copyright works for training data and producing outputs derived from copyrighted training data.
Learning to Live with Privacy-Preserving Analytics
Seeking to close the gap between research and real-world applications of PPAs.
Fragility in AIs Using Artificial Neural Networks
Suggesting ways to reduce fragility in AI systems that include artificial neural networks.
Lost in Afghanistan: Can the World Take ICT4D Seriously?
Seeking to maximize the value of information and communication technologies for development research.
Revisiting ACM’s Open-Conference Principle
I would like to see the ACM Presidential Task Force on "Open Science" develop a detailed set of guiding principles for conference-site selection. Principles, however, must be translated to concrete decisions in the context of a messy reality.
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