Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.
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Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission urgently needs to regulate automated hiring systems.
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You Can't Regulate What You Don't Understand
Why AI regulations should begin with mandated disclosures.
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AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
If we are lucky, new technologies will only cause brief confusion.
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The Case for Big Action to Regulate AI
Why the topic of regulating artificial intelligence ignite such a visceral reaction.
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Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects
Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.
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Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
Reaching out across computer science research communities.
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NSF on Chien's Grand Challenge for Sustainability
This Viewpoint focuses on ways the computing community can contribute broadly to environmental sustainability and identifies NSF Directorate for Computer and Information...
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Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Perfectly safe algorithmic systems are not possible, but safer systems are.
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Designing an Ethical Tech Developer
Studying how to improve teaching young people to ethically exercise the power of technology.
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Who Is Liable when AI Kills?
We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty artificial intelligence.
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The Battle Over Women's Data
In a post-Roe world, bodily autonomy must include control over personal data.
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U.K. Online Safety Bill Is Doomed to Fail
Draft legislation suffers from mission creep, internal contradictions, and a dire lack of clear definitions.
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An Analysis of Black Faculty in CS Research Departments
Exploring Black faculty at computer science research departments where Ph.D. programs exist.
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Four Ways to Add Active Learning to Computing Courses
How active-learning techniques can benefit students in computing courses.
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Can AI Invent?
Recent patent applications for two inventions that are claimed to have been made by an AI are bringing these questions to the fore.
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego, believes technology can make the world a better place — and she knows in 2022, that makes her a bit...
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