Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again
Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik teamed up with AI researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind lab to test game variants that can jolt chess players into creative...
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Lessons from Aviation
How more than 25years of experience with aviation safety-critical systems can be applied to autonomous vehicle systems.
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A Recent Renaissance in Privacy Law
Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.
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AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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Increasing Automation in Policing
Seeking the delicate balance between civil liberties and policing public safety.
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How Might We Increase System Trustworthiness?
Summarizing some of the changes that seem increasingly necessary to address known system and network deficiencies and anticipate currently unknown vulnerabilities...
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The Cloud as an Innovation Platform for Software Development
How cloud computing became a platform.
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Shoot-'Em-Up Videogames Don't Warp Minds – Big Tech Does
It takes a lot of effort, research, and efficiency to manipulate people online and influence their behavior in the real world. Silicon Valley has it down to a science...
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Why Robot Umpires Are Inevitable in Baseball's Future
I don't know how long it will be before we get robot umpires calling balls and strikes, but the technology is here to do it today.
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A Response to Fake News as a Response to Citizens United
How boundaries on speech could free the market for speech.
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Continuity and Change in Internet Law
The fundamentals of the field of Internet law have remained consistent, but details have evolved in response to technological innovation.
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What Does It Mean for a Computing Curriculum to Succeed?
Examining the expansion, proliferation, and integration of computing education everywhere.
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How Silicon Valley Puts the 'Con' in Consent
The average person would have to spend 76 working days reading all of the digital privacy policies they agree to in the span of a year. Reading Amazon's terms and...
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Google Isn't the Company that We Should Have Handed the Web Over To
With Microsoft's decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google....
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CRISPR: An Emerging Platform for Gene Editing
Considering a potential platform candidate in the evolving realm of gene-editing technologies research.
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