Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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America Is Being Held for Ransom, and It Needs to Fight Back
A comprehensive anti-ransomware strategy must make it tougher for criminal groups and their sponsors to carry out attacks
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What Social Media Needs to Learn from Traditional Media
The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did
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AI Futures: Fact and Fantasy
Three books offer varied perspectives on the ascendancy of artificial intelligence.
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Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants
Seeking to make Big Tech less central to the Internet.
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Who's Building the Foundation Models of the Future?
Curation, auditing, and evaluation of so-called 'foundation models' should not be left to the tech industry.
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The Imperative for Sustainable AI Systems
The impact of AI's massive carbon footprint is social, not just environmental
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Apple and Facebook Are Coming for Your Face Next
The face computer is coming—brace yourself
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What Is Facebook?
It's a question that's bedeviled the company's own executives for years
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Politics Will Be Poorer Without Angela Merkel's Scientific Approach
The departing German chancellor's support for science and rigour in policymaking has proved transformative—except on climate change.
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Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
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Machine Learning Won't Solve Natural Language Understanding
Data-driven approaches to NLU are psychologically, cognitively, and computationally implausible.
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The Third Revolution in Warfare
First there was gunpowder. Then nuclear weapons. Next: artificially intelligent weapons.
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The World Is Running Out of Microchips—Here's the Solution
Microchips are produced by a few large companies; an open-source design approach could end their dominance
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How Open Source Software Shapes AI Policy
And why it is largely absent from policy discussions on artificial intelligence
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Did DeepMind Just Take a Big Step Toward More Human-Like AI?
DeepMind researchers have created software agents that navigate a three-dimensional game world called XLand, where the agents learn from experience, by trial and...
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The Global Research Community Must Not Abandon Afghanistan
Vulnerable Afghan researchers need the international research community’s support
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Here's Why Tech Companies Are Suddenly Focused on Child Safety
Tech colossi are responding to shifting political winds and trying to preempt new, impending regulations
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Can We Handle the Truth about Cybersecurity?
Standardizing disclosure rules while ensuring transparency can strengthen our total cybersecurity landscape
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There's a Better Way to Stop Ransomware Attacks
Adopt and enforce regulations for the cryptocurrency industry that are equivalent to traditional banking
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