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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What Does It Mean to Align AI with Human Values?
Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions requires understanding intelligence itself.
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Your Creativity Will Not Save Your Job from AI
Once considered capable only of unimaginative, routine work, the robots of today craft articles and create award-winning art.
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The New AI Writing Tool Might Teach Us the Value of Truth
AI literally does not care what is true.
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Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of AI Safety
This philosophy fuels the artificial intelligence research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity.
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The False Promise of America's CHIPS Act
It is doubtful that large subsidies and government management will keep U.S. chip makers on top.
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Three Key Takeaways from Meta's Galactica AI
We should look at Galactica's initial failure as another scientific experiment, one that can bring us one step closer to success.
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The 'End of Crypto'? Not So Fast
The trust lost in the FTX debacle will take years to rebuild, but it is certainly not the end of crypto.
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Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.
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Why Synthetic Data Is Key to Paving the Way for Smart Cities
Synthetic data helps in projects that place heavy demand on data.
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More Crypto Regulation Is Needed—Now
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must use the FTX collapse to get clear about the rules and regulations that govern the crypto ecosystem.
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights? A Lawyer's Response
Robots are hardware and software packages that lack a nature or any abilities outside of whatever their designers imagine.
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights?
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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How AI Is Generating a Tech Industry Upturn
We have a whole new era of exuberance on our hands.
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Fix Tech Staffing with Rightsizing, not Layoffs
With the latest downturn in the tech industry, analysts urge for rightsizing rather than laying off IT staff.
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Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce...
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Avoid Diluting Democracy by Algorithms
AI researchers tend to use the concepts of democracy and democratization in ways that are only loosely connected to their political and historical meanings.
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AI in Medicine Is Overhyped
AI models for healthcare that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest.
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
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