Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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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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Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.
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GPT-4 Is Not Perfect, but Neither Are You
An interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman.
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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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Medical AI Is as Much Social as It Is Technological
Medical AI applications need to overcome transparency and trust issues.
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Large Language Models Will Change Programming…a Little
Hype has been a primary driver of the excitement around LLMs.
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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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Designing an Ethical Tech Developer
Studying how to improve teaching young people to ethically exercise the power of technology.
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Metrics for Success: Why and How to Evaluate Privacy Choice Usability
Assessing the usability of choice and consent mechanisms.
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A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
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A Map for Innovation
Innovation is less elusive with the right navigational map.
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With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era
We often judge the utility of a new technology on how well it deals with the problems of older ones.
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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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Self-Driving Cars Are Doing More Harm than Good
Promises that self-driving cars would revolutionize transportion continue to fall short.
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Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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ChatGPT Can Improve Education, not Threaten It
A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning it.
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Let Section 230 Stay
Removing immunity for algorithmic recommendations would make it nearly impossible for social media platforms as we know them to function.
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