Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
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Call For a Wake Standard for Artificial Intelligence
Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.
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For Impactful Community Engagement: Check Your Role
Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.
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Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media
Guaranteeing truth in advertising.
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AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
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BCS calls for computer coding in scientific research to be more professional
A BCS position paper finds the software coding practices of non-computer-science scientists to be insufficiently professional.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
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Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic
With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
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Why Zoom Is Terrible
There's a reason video apps make you feel awkward and unfulfilled.
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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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Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role
Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive, and done in person...
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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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Four Internets
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
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Why We Can't Develop Voting Software That Works
Ever wonder why we could write software to get to the Moon, but not to count votes? Here are five reasons.
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