Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
From ACM Opinion
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.
From ACM Opinion
How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind
Humanity is not prepared for artificial superintelligence right now.
From ACM Opinion
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.
From ACM News
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.
From ACM Opinion
Software Can Do Better than 'Male,' 'Female,' and 'Other'
Providing more-expansive gender options is not a difficult coding problem.
From Communications of the ACM
Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket
Toward new research directions in computer science.
From Communications of the ACM
The Atlas Milestone
Celebrating virtual memory, which has made such a difference in how we approach programming, memory management, and secure computing.
From ACM Opinion
Recent Dip in Chip Demand Will Not Doom CHIPS-Plus Act
However, critics still have plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the subsidies.
From ACM Opinion
The U.S. Needs Its Own Chips
Regardless of what happens between Taiwan and China, the U.S. needs to be prepared.
From ACM Opinion
Can Neural Networks Learn Better than Human Neurons?
When AI programmers stop trying to copy the human neuron, neural networks make much better progress.
From ACM Opinion
Why Can't Tech Fix Its Gender Problem?
A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer may bring change.
From ACM Opinion
Meta's Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
Chat between a teen and her mom about an alleged abortion helped police build their case.
From ACM Opinion
Virtual Reality Stinks Because It Does Not Smell
For VR to feel truly immersive, it needs to start stinking it up.
From ACM Opinion
There Are Too Few Women in Computer Science and Engineering
The problem is not disinterest; it is the culture of these fields and how they exclude women and girls.
From ACM Opinion
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations, but do we want what the machines tell us we want?
From ACM Opinion
The CHIPS Act Will Not Solve the Chip Shortage
The U.S. is betting billions to spur semiconductor manufacturing.
From ACM Opinion
Artificial Creativity?
Models such as DALL-E dissociate ideation from implementation, but do we care?
From ACM Opinion