Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Mobile-App Privacy Nutrition Labels Missing Key Ingredients for Success
Android and iOS privacy labels confuse developers and end users.
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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
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Video Game Players Avoid Gay Characters
A study of gamer behavior finds they shy away from gay characters, regardless of their strengths.
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AI Should Supercharge Workers, not Compete with Them
The economy could get a boost if machine-learning engineers switched from copying human abilities to augmenting them.
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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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A Common-Sense Test for AI Could Lead to Smarter Machines
Injecting common sense into AI could mean big things for humans.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Demos
One way to examine the relationship between AI and democracy is to turn the attention toward the very basic unit common to all forms of democracy: the people.
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What's Your Placebo?
The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.
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Storytelling and Science
Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.
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Data Platforms and Network Effects
How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.
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We've Got Misinformation All Wrong
We must accept that misinformation is not one problem, but a whole set of problems.
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Democratization of AI Could Prevent the Great Resignation
To guard against the effect of the Great Resignation, enterprises need to reassess their training programs.
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AI Needs Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries
For humanity's brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists.
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How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind
Humanity is not prepared for artificial superintelligence right now.
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Blowing Up the Internet...to Protect Kids Online
Framed as a bill to protect kids online, the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act would radically reshape the Internet—and harm both kids and adults.
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We Need to Talk About How Good AI Is Getting
We are in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence, and it is time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.
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Software Can Do Better than 'Male,' 'Female,' and 'Other'
Providing more-expansive gender options is not a difficult coding problem.
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Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket
Toward new research directions in computer science.
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