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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Information: 'I' vs. 'We' vs. 'They'
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
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Can AI Improve Road Safety Now?
Well before self-driving cars become a reality, there are simpler approaches that can make roads much safer.
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Why It Is So Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased
Competing notions of fairness exist, and sometimes they are totally incompatible with each other.
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Can Open Source Sustain Itself without Losing Its Soul?
What it means to be an open source contributor or maintainer has changed in recent years.
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How Ukraine Has Defended Itself against Cyber Attacks
As in Ukraine, U.S. organizations should work with U.S. cybersecurity agencies to prepare for and prevent attacks.
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The Missing Voices in Natural Language Processing
Who and what is being represented in the data and development of NLP models?
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Our Human Future in an Age of AI
What does it mean to be human in an age where AI agents make decisions that shape human actions?
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The Future of AI in Games
Making artificial intelligence a tool of freedom and creativity for everyone.
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Hugs to Boring Tech
Don't underestimate the tech that makes your eyes glaze over—it holds us all up.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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We Need a 911 for the Metaverse
Citizens of the metaverse deserve an industrywide standard for reporting abuse and harassment.
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What Stewart Brand Sees on the Horizon
Silicon Valley prophet thinks tech can clean itself up.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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How Compute and the Climate Go Hand-in-Hand
Data is critical to the success of all climate tech projects, whether to drive development or improve efficiency.
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Fixing AI's Bias Issues Requires More Than a 'Human in the Loop'
Organizations must account for the biases of their own workers to be able to combat AI blunders.
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Recognize Science's Unsung Global Pioneers to Alter Its Future
Modern science wasn't invented in Europe but came about as part of a global exchange.
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Congress's Antitrust Bills Have a Problem: The Happy Customer
Politicians must walk a fine line as they try to rein in Big Tech's self-preferencing tactics.
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