Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
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We Need a 911 for the Metaverse
Citizens of the metaverse deserve an industrywide standard for reporting abuse and harassment.
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What Stewart Brand Sees on the Horizon
Silicon Valley prophet thinks tech can clean itself up.
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Quantum Computing Has a Hype Problem
Quantum computing startups are all the rage, but it is unclear if they will be able to produce anything of use in the near future.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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How Compute and the Climate Go Hand-in-Hand
Data is critical to the success of all climate tech projects, whether to drive development or improve efficiency.
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Fixing AI's Bias Issues Requires More Than a 'Human in the Loop'
Organizations must account for the biases of their own workers to be able to combat AI blunders.
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Recognize Science's Unsung Global Pioneers to Alter Its Future
Modern science wasn't invented in Europe but came about as part of a global exchange.
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Congress's Antitrust Bills Have a Problem: The Happy Customer
Politicians must walk a fine line as they try to rein in Big Tech's self-preferencing tactics.
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Intel CEO Says Semiconductors Are Like Oil
Increasing production in U.S. can help to avoid global crises, says Gelsinger.
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Why You Haven't Heard about the Secret Cyberwar in Ukraine
Cyberwar has come, but the digital confrontation is playing out in the shadows.
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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Humans Should Be at the Center of AI
Human-centered AI aims to reduce fears of existential threats and increase benefits for users and society.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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Here's How AI Will Change Chip Design
Artificial intelligence's promise and potential for the semiconductor industry.
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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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Deepfake Luke Skywalker Should Scare Us
The power to create convincing deepfake icons could destabilize society
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Encourage Women in Tech to Protect against AI Bias
Need to ensure tech accurately reflects the structure of society
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Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
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Yoshua Bengio: 'I Have Rarely Been as Enthusiastic about a New Research Direction'
Yoshua Bengio gushes about GFlowNets, calling them "a new beast" for which the appropriate optimization algorithms are still making rapid progress
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Meta's Yann LeCun on His Vision for Human-level AI
Rather than try to replace natural intelligence, create AI that is compatible with human intelligence
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Security: The Lock and the Key to Blockchain's Future
For blockchain technology to fulfill its full potential, the security standard needs to mature
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Silicon Valley Enabled Russian State Propaganda, and Now It's Too Late
Facebook and YouTube could have limited the reach of RT and Sputnik years ago, but they didn't
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Europe Is in Danger of Using the Wrong Definition of AI
Some intelligent systems are at risk of being excluded from oversight in the EU's proposed legislation
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Why You Can't Rebuild Wikipedia with Crypto
Software engineer and Wikipedia editor talks about her Web3 skepticism
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The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force
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Intelligence and Comprehension
What does it mean to say a computer model 'understands'?
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Web3 Threatens to Segregate Our Online Lives
Governance tokens may seem like a way to moderate content, but they only give the appearance of democracy.
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Crypto and Technology for the People
Brown University professor Seny Kamara talks about the intersection between social responsibility and cryptography/technology
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What Are the Rules for Celebrities Promoting NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens are the next frontier of promotional content on social media, but right now, it's the Wild West.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.