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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Microsoft's Chris Young on Bringing AI to Main Street
Christopher Young, Microsoft's top strategy executive, views non-tech customers as artificial intelligence's big untapped market.
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The Infrapolitics of Algorithmic Resistance
Exploring the complex interactions between humans and machines governed by algorithms.
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Machine Learning Sensors
A design paradigm for the future of intelligent sensors.
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On Being a University's First Chief AI Officer
Western University has created a top-level AI role, appointing Mark Daley as its first chief artificial intelligence officer.
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Generative AI as a New Innovation Platform
Considering the stability and longevity of a potential new foundational technology.
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Dilemma of the Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Landscape
Navigating the complex and varying AI regulatory landscape.
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Fragility in AIs Using Artificial Neural Networks
Suggesting ways to reduce fragility in AI systems that include artificial neural networks.
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There Is Little Evidence for Today's AI Alarmism
Over time, we will have a much better sense of which AI areas require significant regulatory intervention and which do not.
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Who Should Make the Rules that Govern AI?
One question for Laura Weidinger and Iason Gabriel, research scientists at Google DeepMind.
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
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Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission urgently needs to regulate automated hiring systems.
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When AI Thinks You Are Dead
AI hallucinations can be amusing, but the consequences for society could be dangerous.
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Why Conscious AI Is a Bad Idea
Our minds have not evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.
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You Can't Regulate What You Don't Understand
Why AI regulations should begin with mandated disclosures.
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AI Is Not Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon
Artificial intelligence does not understand how humans read well enough to design type on its own.
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AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
If we are lucky, new technologies will only cause brief confusion.
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There Is No AI
There are ways of controlling the new technology, but first we have to stop mythologizing it.
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AI Not Yet Intelligent Enough to Be a Trusted Research Aid
An attempt to use ChatGPT for scholarly research proves uncovers errors and frustration.
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