Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Talking Software Obsolescence
An interview with Ross John Anderson, professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
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Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects
Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.
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Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
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Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
Reaching out across computer science research communities.
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NSF on Chien's Grand Challenge for Sustainability
This Viewpoint focuses on ways the computing community can contribute broadly to environmental sustainability and identifies NSF Directorate for Computer and Information...
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Banning ChatGPT Will Do More Harm than Good
A high school senior argues that generative AI can help reshape education for the better.
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What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?
Large language models seem startlingly intelligent, but what is really happening under the hood?
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The Mounting Human and Environmental Costs of Generative AI
Planetary impacts, escalating financial costs, and labor exploitation all factor.
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AI Is about to Change Your Job–and Not for the Better
Artificial intelligence is not the issue; the underlying socioeconomic system needs to change.
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ChatGPT in Healthcare Could Be a Huge Liability
ChatGPT could have dangerous implications for the field if it is not used with the proper context.
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT
Publishers that seize the opportunity to build on these tools to serve their international communities can engage with audiences that were previously inaccessible...
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Five Questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson
Former AnitaB.org president/CEO discusses AI, diversity in tech, and much more.
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Will AI Help Us to Work Less?
The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story.
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AI Expert Weighs In on the Rise of Chatbots
Products like ChatGPT will never be truly ready to go unless we have a working AI technology that supports continuous life-long learning.
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