Also, our next #ACMBookClub is coming up in May! To celebrate the #AAPIMonth, we’ll be reading User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant. The online discussion will be led by the book’s co-author Cliff Kuang.
Scan QR code to register today.
#UX #design #technology
Thank you all for reading Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans with us and showing up at our online celebration with author Melanie Mitchell!
If you missed the conversation, you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOf...
The ACM framework covers 7 strategic dimensions: sovereignty, privacy/security, cost, economic development, resource capability, national context fit, and the evolving cost landscape. Read it: www.acm.org/binaries/con...
Capability debt
Waiting to build domestic AI capacity creates "capability debt." Compute costs may fall, but hands-on expertise, data pipelines, and institutional know-how must be accumulated over time. Delay raises future costs.
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Should governments build their own AI or buy from Big Tech? A new @ACM Technology Policy Council framework gives decision-makers a structured answer — and it's more nuanced than either side admits.#AIGovernance #TechPolicy #DigitalSovereignty 🧵
7/ Read ACM's session read-out from New Delhi:
www.acm.org/public-polic...
Panelists: ACM President Yannis Ioannidis; TPC Chairs Virginia Dignum & Jeanna Matthews; Dame Wendy Hall; Merve Hickok; Sara Hooker; Neha Kumar; Jibu Elias; and more.
Move from should to must.
Voluntary norms have limits when no one faces consequences. Global South voices, diverse leadership, and civil society aren't cosmetic in AI governance — they're causal to whether the resulting ethics can be trusted.
What if an AI system works exactly as designed — and still causes harm? At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, ACM's Technology Policy Council pushed the field to expand what "AI safety" actually means. 🧵
What we covered at the AI Impact Summit-
the penne opticon
This sounds a lot like problems facing academic publishing.
Missed #HRI2026? Check out the latest and hottest research in the field of Human-Robot Interaction presented at this year's conference! buff.ly/JY882Mf
Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.
Register here:
virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Welcome to the latest #AdvancesInComputing!
In this edition:
- 👨💻 Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI
- 🔐 From Distributed Intelligence to Verifiable Responsibility
- ⚙️ Computing After Carbon
and more.
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AI transcription tools are generating text that was never spoken. One tool used in 7M+ patient visits. Doctors can't detect fabrications — audio is deleted for privacy. @acmpolicy on ASR hallucinations. #AIPolicy #HealthIT
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Voice-to-text AI is in hospitals, courtrooms, hiring platforms & cars. But accuracy gaps across speaker groups raise serious equity concerns. New #TechBrief examines what policymakers need to know. 🧵 #ASR #AIPolicy #AIPolicy #HealthIT dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.acm.org/binaries/con...
Brandeis framing
Justice Brandeis called states "laboratories of democracy" in 1932. Many are already testing AI sandboxes, transparency rules & public-private partnerships. Congress should build on that — not preempt it. #AIPolicy
A federal AI framework is necessary. But a moratorium on state AI regulation would backfire. @acmpolicy's new op-ed explains why — and what Congress should do instead. 🧵 #AIPolicy #TechPolicy
This was an interesting read. I particularly liked the point that free speech should be an instrumental value, rather than its own goal. Echoes of Popper’s paradox of tolerance.
Researchers in Europe are attempting to develop soft robotic artificial hearts that overcome the infection, clotting, and rejection risks of today’s technologies.
Learn more: buff.ly/3rX4ZPT
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