Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Closing Our Digital Divides
Seeking a more efficient path to improved broadband Internet access.
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Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
How collaborative designs and community-based moderation could improve social media.
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Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health
MIT Professor Alexey Makarin, whose research was cited in Social Media and Youth Mental Health, a recent advisory report by the U.S. surgeon general, discusses...
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For a More Transparent Governance of Open Source
Seeking the best governance models for FOSS projects.
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Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
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Fragility in AIs Using Artificial Neural Networks
Suggesting ways to reduce fragility in AI systems that include artificial neural networks.
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
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Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
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A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
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Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
How a single Texas ruling could change the Web forever.
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These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.
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Apple's Challenge to Virtualization Software
Is it okay for security researchers to virtualize software to look for vulnerabilities?
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Why Robots Need to See
Cameras and vision-based perception will increasingly serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robots going forward.
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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
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