Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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Futures of Digital Governance
Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.
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A Call to Action
Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.
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The Metaverse Will Require Computing Tech No One Knows How to Build
Experts believe building the metaverse will require nearly every kind of chip to be an order of magnitude more powerful than it is today
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Why a Safe Metaverse Is a Must
Virtual worlds need strong, enforceable rules to avoid the harassment and stalking common on social media platforms
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The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties
The search for a crypto use case continues
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The Strange Allure of the Blockchain
Are we too aggressively looking to replace the danger of unjust financial systems with wildly risky alternative currencies?
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Is Your Autonomous Vehicle as Smart as You Expected?
Suggesting a better route to evaluate autonomous vehicles' smartness.
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A Brave New World of Mediated Online Discourse
Is artificial intelligence up to the task of managing online discourse in social networks?
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Facebook's Unglamorous Mistakes
Facebook's little mistakes have big consequences, too, but only for us
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Individual AI, a New Technology that Will Change Our World?
Is the next version of AI a technological symbiosis of the human brain and the computer system?
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Save Social Media by Treating It like a City
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
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Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic
Turning believers into nonbelievers.
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Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
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The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
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Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
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Epic Versus Apple and the Future of App Stores
Seeking a more equitable way to govern and distribute the revenues generated by App-store marketplaces.
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