Article: Bitcoin’s Underlying Incentives
Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar (March 2018). "Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 3, Pages 46-53.
Article: Building a Smart City: Lessons from Barcelona
Mila GascĂł-Hernandez , (April 2018). "Building a Smart City: Lessons from Barcelona". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 4, Pages 28-31.
Article: Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment
Stephen B. Wicker, (April 2018). "Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 4, Pages 28-31.
Article: Internet Freedom in West Africa
Richard R. Brooks, et al (May 2018). "Internet Freedom in West Africa: Technical Support for Journalists and Democracy Advocates," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 5, Pages 72-82.
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This brings us into the realm of "free speech" — by and for whom — and to what degree — is machine generated "speech" free?
“our ability to understand people…is fundamentally about imagining their point of view & inferring what they intend to communicate….So when we encounter seemingly coherent text coming from a machine…we reflexively imagine that a mind produced the words” https://t.co/cb0NHJPR2K
Looks to be a fascinating and important paper! My hypothesis is that all harms, historic and ongoing, leave imprints, and how we collectively deal with them is necessary for moving forward. My guess is that some if not all of your findings will be generalizable. Thank you!
🤔When an algorithm causes harm, is discontinuing it enough to address its harms?
💡Our #FAccT2022 paper introduces the concept of the _The Algorithmic Imprint_ to show how algorithmic harms can persist long after it’s discontinued
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