From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
We are in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence, and it is time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.
The New York Times From ACM News | August 25, 2022
Are we too aggressively looking to replace the danger of unjust financial systems with wildly risky alternative currencies?
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2022
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says humans will need to find a way to coexist with artificial intelligence
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 15, 2021
Amazon's spirit of invention is refreshing, but technologists must think through the consequences.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 5, 2021
The streaming apps and devices we pay for aren't necessarily careful with our personal information.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2021
The rise of social media, Google, and online shopping and banking has made us far more exposed than back in the Internet’s infancy.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 15, 2021
What are your most important tech tools for reporting in Shanghai, especially with a government known for surveillance?
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2019
The average person would have to spend 76 working days reading all of the digital privacy policies they agree to in the span of a year. Reading Amazon's terms and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2019
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Li Yuan, a technology columnist in Hong Kong, discussed the tech she's...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2019
Personal technology was so awful this year that nobody would think you were paranoid if you dug a hole and buried your computer, phone and smart speaker under six...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2018
In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 5, 2018
Social media has played a key role in the recent rise of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, including three recent incidents—one in which a man...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2018
During the summer before the 2016 presidential election, John Seymour and Philip Tully, two researchers with ZeroFOX, a security company in Baltimore, unveiled...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 20, 2018
In his testimony before Congress this year, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, addressed concerns about the strategically disseminated misinformation...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2018