Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
From ACM Opinion
Stop the Blame Game to Achieve Research Integrity
Helping every scientist to improve is more effective than ferreting out a few frauds
From ACM Opinion
AI Reality Check
The limitations in getting machines to understand a world they don't live in
From ACM Opinion
How to Fix Facebook
Twelve leading experts share bold solutions to the company's urgent problems
From Communications of the ACM
Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
From ACM Opinion
An Insider's View of 'Algorithmic Warfare'
Artificial intelligence will change the nature of war, says a former U.S. deputy secretary of defense.
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AI Needs to Prevent Cyberattacks, Not Just Detect Them
AI should be enabling faster, automated, more ubiquitous prevention of cyberattacks
From ACM Opinion
Let Crypto Regulate Itself
What's needed is a self-regulatory organization for digital assets to promote ethical trading and governance
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New York, Miami, and the Future of Crypto Cities
Cities and the crypto community can gain a lot from a closer relationship
From ACM Opinion
The Turing Test Is Bad for Business
Technology should focus on the complementarity game, not the imitation game
From ACM Opinion
Teens and Social Media: The Question We're Not Asking
Should they be using these services at all?
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'Yeah, We're Spooked', Says Expert about AI's Potential Impact
Professor Stuart Russell says field of AI needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control
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AI and the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget and Acquisition
The intelligence community still faces basic hurdles as it moves to transition and integrate AI at speed and scale
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Why We Forgive Humans More Readily Than Machines
When things go wrong, flexible moral intuitions cause us to judge computers more severely
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Social Media Cos. Help African Governments Abuse 'Disinformation Laws'
Social media platforms alternate between ignoring disinformation and launching broad crackdowns on user speech
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Complexity Is Killing Software Developers
How to regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer
From ACM Opinion
The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
From ACM Opinion
Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
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Who Is Writing Our Digital Future, and Why It Matters?
The world is not built for everybody—we must make sure every voice is heard and every body seen
From ACM Opinion
Computer Science Education Is a Global Challenge
Analysis in the Brookings report shows a correlation between a country's economic position and implementation of computer science in schools.
From ACM Opinion