Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How to Be Responsible in AI Publication
A white paper from Partnership on AI advises on navigating the risks of AI research and responsible publication.
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Caution Ahead: Navigating Risks to Freedoms Posed by AI
NSCAI commissioners and PCLOB members urge a task force to examine the challenges of using AI systems across federal agencies.
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Data Scientists' Important Role in Defeating COVID Vaccine Skepticism
Without a basic understanding of data measures and how they're computed, data-driven vaccine safety and effectiveness messages can become meaningless sound bites...
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Can Machines Control Our Brains?
Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but not close to anything resembling mind control.
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'Clearly AI Is Going to Win'
Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses listening to science, avoiding system noise, and the inevitability of AI over human intelligence.
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European AI Needs Strategic Leadership, Not Overregulation
EU regulation of AI could limit the use cases and innovation and put the EU in a technologically inferior position globally.
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Defining a Role for AI Ethics in National Security
Mariarosaria Taddeo, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, discusses...
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Stop the Emerging AI Cold War
Proliferating military artificial intelligence will leave the world less safe—so we must focus on ethics and global cooperation, argues Denise Garcia, vice-chair...
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Cooperative AI: Machines Must Learn to Find Common Ground
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
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CS Unplugged or Coding Classes?
Perhaps a more appropriate question is 'Why not both'?
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Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud
Speculators might make money on cryptocurrency, but the arguments for its usefulness fail completely.
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Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment
Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power — and can be as destructive as the real thing.
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Hackers Used to Be Humans. Soon, AIs Will Hack Humanity
To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity. Not for long.
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Google Has A Plan To 'Fix' Online Privacy. Everybody Hates It
Google recently decided to adopt a new way to track users, and says it's more private than cookies and nearly as effective for advertising. The rest of the Internet...
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Data Is Power
Data has become a critical source of power, yet remains largely ungoverned. Washington needs to craft new rules.
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Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy
The unregulated practice of data brokerage is incredibly dangerous and harmful, and policymakers can ignore it no longer.
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The Healing Power of Javascript
For some, code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world.
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Automation and the 'Winner Take Most' Effect
The threat that automation poses to humans has been greatly exaggerated, says Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and a senior fellow...
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