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Metrics for Success
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Metrics for Success: Why and How to Evaluate Privacy Choice Usability

Assessing the usability of choice and consent mechanisms.

A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
From Communications of the ACM

A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations

Reconsidering liability shield considerations.

A Map for Innovation
From Communications of the ACM

A Map for Innovation

Innovation is less elusive with the right navigational map.

With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era
From ACM Opinion

With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era

We often judge the utility of a new technology on how well it deals with the problems of older ones.

Who Is Liable when AI Kills?
From ACM Opinion

Who Is Liable when AI Kills?

We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty artificial intelligence.

Self-Driving Cars Are Doing More Harm than Good
From ACM Opinion

Self-Driving Cars Are Doing More Harm than Good

Promises that self-driving cars would revolutionize transportion continue to fall short.

Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
From ACM Opinion

Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines

The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.

ChatGPT Can Improve Education, not Threaten It
From ACM Opinion

ChatGPT Can Improve Education, not Threaten It

A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning it.

Section 230 Has to Go
From ACM Opinion

Section 230 Has to Go

The Internet is a toxic waste dump.

Let Section 230 Stay
From ACM Opinion

Let Section 230 Stay

Removing immunity for algorithmic recommendations would make it nearly impossible for social media platforms as we know them to function.

Mr. President, Healthcare Has a Data Problem
From ACM Opinion

Mr. President, Healthcare Has a Data Problem

The U.S. healthcare system is plagued by inefficiencies, in part due to deficiencies of health data interoperability between electronic health records and other...

What Is Wrong with ChatGPT?
From ACM Opinion

What Is Wrong with ChatGPT?

AI is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience.

U.S. Science and Technology Offer Hope for the Future
From ACM Opinion

U.S. Science and Technology Offer Hope for the Future

The scientific advances announced in recent months are thrilling, capable of sustaining our economic and military competitiveness for decades to come.

Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity
From ACM Opinion

Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity

Why companies must build safety into tech products.

Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
From ACM Opinion

Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.

ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research
From ACM Opinion

ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research

Conversational AI is a game-changer for science; here's how to respond.

"Conversational" AI Is Really Bad at Conversations
From ACM Opinion

"Conversational" AI Is Really Bad at Conversations

Conversation without change is just a five-finger exercise.

Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'
From ACM Opinion

Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'

Deep learning pioneer says many research labs are using the same techniques and doing the same kind of work.

The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games
From ACM Opinion

The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games

In Shang-Hua Teng's work, theoretical and practical questions have long been intertwined. Now he's turning his focus to the impractical.

The Economy Is Down, but AI Is Hot
From ACM Opinion

The Economy Is Down, but AI Is Hot

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