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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Who Killed the Robot Dog?
The robotic companion was once a dream of techno-utopianism, but has instead become a terrifying weapon
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It's Too Late for Meta to Win over Washington
Lawmakers are not interested in the company's proposed concessions
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Four AI Trends for 2022
Look for improvements to neural networks, strategic ethics, hiring practices, and even gastronomy
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Why You Should Care about Meta's Push into the Metaverse
The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the Internet
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AI Is Not A-OK
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says humans will need to find a way to coexist with artificial intelligence
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Meta's Andrew Bosworth on Moving Facebook to the Metaverse
'The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn't been attempted in a long time'
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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
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Wall Street Doesn't Care about the Facebook Leaks, but Mark Zuckerberg Does
Facebook's numbers are doing fine for now, but not its reputation
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Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental...
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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
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Instagram Isn't the Only Social Media That's Hurting Girls
Researchers and reporters have been documenting social media's harmful effects on kids prior to whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony
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Facebook Can't Be Saved
Whistleblower Frances Haugen told senators that Facebook shouldn't be broken up, but its problems are a direct consequence of its size.
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Losing Facebook Is Bad, but Losing WhatsApp Is Worse
What happens when you lose the encrypted messaging app everyone uses?
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Amazon Should Invent With Care
Amazon's spirit of invention is refreshing, but technologists must think through the consequences.
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Why Facebook Should Release the Facebook Files
The company's least-bad option might also do a lot of good
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What Social Media Needs to Learn from Traditional Media
The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did
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Yann LeCun Talks Research Beginnings and Recent Developments
Deep-learning pioneer discusses early days in image-processing and developments in self-supervised learning for computer vision
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Apple and Facebook Are Coming for Your Face Next
The face computer is coming—brace yourself
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What Is Facebook?
It's a question that's bedeviled the company's own executives for years
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