Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention. ...
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Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.
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Why Zoom Is Terrible
There's a reason video apps make you feel awkward and unfulfilled.
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Machine Learning Engineers Will Not Exist In 10 Years.
The landscape is evolving quickly.
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The First Modern Pandemic
Bill Gates considers the scientific advances needed to stop COVID-19.
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When Technology Goes Awry
On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.
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Contactless Sociability and Hybrid Communities of Place
What will the world be like after the COVID-19 crisis? A contactless sociality solves problems using the digital network and physical proximity.
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How to (Carefully) Use Tech to Contain the Coronavirus
The United States can learn from other countries to track the pandemic while still protecting privacy.
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The Role of Robotics in Managing Public Health and Infectious Diseases
As the COVID-19 epidemic escalates, robots have the potential to be deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food, measuring vital signs, and assisting...
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Should Government Halt the Use of Facial-Recognition Technology?
Critics say false positives are far higher for some groups of people than for others, but supporters of the technology says the actual numbers involved are tiny...
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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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Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
In "Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot", we present Meena, a 2.6-billion-parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.
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Why Connected Cars May Never Come
John Paré tells the story of his first trip in an autonomous vehicle.
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Virtual Reality Has An Accessibility Problem
Virtual reality has been touted as an "empathy machine" that lets users see what it's like to have a disability—but people with disabilities often can't use it....
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Google and Amazon Make Us Worse People
The narrowing of choice online all but forces us into decisions driven by impulse and necessity, eroding our values and conscience over time.
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When Human-Computer Interaction Meets Community Citizen Science
Empowering communities through citizen science.
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We're Banning Facial Recognition. We're Missing the Point.
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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