Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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When Technology Goes Awry
On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.
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The Coronavirus Crisis Proves The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has proven conclusively that the Internet should be a public utility.
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Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon
Balancing sustainability and science.
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Unsafe At Any Level
The U.S. NHTSA's levels of automation are a liability for automated vehicles.
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When Human-Computer Interaction Meets Community Citizen Science
Empowering communities through citizen science.
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Increasing Automation in Policing
Seeking the delicate balance between civil liberties and policing public safety.
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Public Entrepreneurship and Policy Engineering
Training the next generation of leader and problem solver.
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Multi-Device Digital Assistance
Increased availability of cloud services and ownership of multiple digital devices create unique opportunities for digital assistants to provide guidance across...
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How Might We Increase System Trustworthiness?
Summarizing some of the changes that seem increasingly necessary to address known system and network deficiencies and anticipate currently unknown vulnerabilities...
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The Cloud as an Innovation Platform for Software Development
How cloud computing became a platform.
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The Danger of Thinking We're All 'Addicted' to Tech
Telling ourselves that devices and platforms "hijack" our brains promotes passivity instead of empowerment.
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Big Tech's 'Innovations' That Aren't
Silicon Valley's giants are no longer producing better products and services. They're exploiting people.
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A Response to Fake News as a Response to Citizens United
How boundaries on speech could free the market for speech.
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Facebook's Calibra Is A Secret Weapon for Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency
Facebook's announcement of a new cryptocurrency, Libra, and the nonprofit association that will oversee it raises questions about the future of global banking and...
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Continuity and Change in Internet Law
The fundamentals of the field of Internet law have remained consistent, but details have evolved in response to technological innovation.
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