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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The United Nations General Assembly is in full swing this week. What do you think will drive the narrative this week? A safe bet... AI Governance. Check out our recommendations here: www.acm.org/public-polic... #AI #UN

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voting system security is not optional. ACM's comments to the Election Assistance Commission on Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0: voting infrastructure must be auditable, observable, and resistant to attack. www.acm.org/binaries/con... #TechPolicy #AI #Voting

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Facial recognition is being deployed faster than we can articulate the harms. ACM published principles for responsible facial recognition in 2021. This technology can help and surveil. The principles ask: if you use it, understand the real tradeoffs. www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Agentic systems make decisions faster than humans can audit them. ACM Europe's policy brief on systemic risks from agentic AI asks the hard questions: what oversight actually works when the system operates autonomously? #AI #Agentic Read the brief. www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI can write a patch in seconds. A human maintainer still has to decide whether to accept it. That gap is the open source story of the next five years. New ACM TechBrief 🧵 dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The frontier AI competition isn't won by the biggest computers. It's won by the most trustworthy systems. ACM Europe just released a policy brief reframing Europe's AI strategy—and it's a direct challenge to the "arms race" narrative. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1/ Consumers accept AI system outputs without any further fact-checking more than 90% of the time. The FTC cites that number in its policy statement on accuracy in AI systems. ACM's US Technology Policy Committee agrees the problem is real — and says the diagnosis is wrong.

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Africa needs an estimated 700 additional data centers beyond the roughly 150 already concentrated in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria. That scale makes the choices made now, on energy, water, and equitable access, consequential well beyond this decade. www.acm.org/public-polic...

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Written Submission on the Human Rights Implications of Data Centre and Digital Infrastructure Expansion in South Africa

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) welcomes the initiative of the South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) in calling for public submissions on the human rights…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Europe's draft cybersecurity standard for AI systems, prEN 18282, correctly identifies attack surfaces unique to AI: training data, model weights, prompts, and connected tools. ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee recommends six strengthening measures. www.acm.org/public-polic...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

1/ Europe is finalizing its cybersecurity standard for AI systems (prEN 18282). ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee reviewed the draft and recommends 6 improvements. Thread 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/ Africa needs ~700 more data centers. South Africa already hosts the continent's most developed market. ACM just told the South African Human Rights Commission: this is a human rights question, not only an infrastructure one. Thread 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1/ Seven computing & data science orgs just told OMB the same thing: withdraw this rule. Here's why they're worried. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In computer science, conferences aren't a nice-to-have; they are the primary venue for peer-reviewed publication. OMB's proposal to require pre-approval for conference attendance at grant-submission time is impractical: researchers don't know which conferences they'll submit to a priori. #TechPolicy

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Peer review works. Over 50 years, 30–50% of US economic growth has come from computer science — largely driven by government-funded academic research reviewed by qualified scientists. Adding political review to grant decisions won't advance US interests; it will introduce uncertainty. #TechPolicy

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🧵 ACM's US Technology Policy Committee has filed its response to OMB's proposed overhaul of the rules governing federal grants. The verdict: the changes would harm research and innovation.

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A sweeping OMB proposal would overhaul the rules governing every federal grant — including how NSF & other agencies fund research. USTPC is preparing a response ahead of the July 13 comment deadline. Read the rule 👇 www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-10817

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The EU's draft standard for AI risk management- prEN 18228-just wrapped up public consultation. It's the harmonised standard meant to show high-risk AI systems meet Article 9 of the EU AI Act. ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee has filed its comments. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1/ 🧵 How do you label AI-generated content so people actually notice—and so the label survives editing and reposting? ACM Europe TPC has responded to the EU's draft guidelines on AI Act Article 50 transparency through a technical-feasibility lens.

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

1/ 🧵 The EU is reviewing its 2019 Copyright Directive for the age of generative AI. ACM Europe TPC's response: protecting creators and enabling responsible innovation aren't opposing goals. A well-designed framework can do both.

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A disclosure that nobody perceives isn't disclosure. Habituation turns one-time AI signage into noise—' technically present but cognitively invisible.' ACM's Europe Tech Policy calls for persistent, verifiable AI labels over assumptions about user attention. #ResponsibleAI

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Response To The Consultation On Draft Guidelines On Transparency Obligations Under Article 50 Of The Ai Act

Europe TPC supports the European Commission's intent to refine the obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act in order to promote trust, accountability, and integrity in the information ecosystem.…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee has responded to the @EU_Commission's targeted consultation on its draft guidelines for classifying high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act. A technical read on where the draft needs sharpening. 🧵 www.acm.org/public-polic...

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Response To The Consultation On Draft Guidelines On Transparency Obligations Under Article 50 Of The Ai Act

The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) provides technical feedback on the European Commission's draft guidelines for high-risk AI system classification, aiming to ensure practical…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What counts as a "substantial modification" to an AI system? For enterprise MLOps, the answer matters enormously. ACM urges the European Commission to clarify that routine retraining and data-refresh cycles don't trigger a full new conformity assessment. #AIAct #AIpolicy www.acm.org/public-polic...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1/7 AI has crossed a threshold. Agentic AI doesn't just generate content — it takes actions on your behalf: browsing, executing code, sending messages, managing files. A new ACM TechBrief examines the policy gap this creates. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For #WorldEnvironmentDay, ACM's Policy recomendations to make computing more environmentally friendly: - ACM TechBrief: Computing and Climate Change bit.ly/43MyRH5 - Climate and Energy Policies of the European Green Deal bit.ly/49EhcEZ - Toward Environmentally Equitable AI bit.ly/3PLrxIC

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

1/7 The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules sound solid in theory. But can they actually be enforced? @acmpolicy.bsky.social Europe TPC says the draft guidelines have a technical problem. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Los responsables políticos deberían planificar la integración de estrategias avanzadas en el marco legal, en particular para hacer frente a los intensos picos de carga generados por el entrenamiento de grandes modelos de IA o la gestión de volúmenes de inferencia masivos. www.acm.org/public-polic...

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Informe Sobre Políticas Para Impulsar La Transformación Digital De Europa

La Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) es la sociedad profesional más antigua del mundo compuesta por personas involucradas en todos los aspectos de la informática. Anualmente otorga el Premio…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

La UE exige reportes de consumo energético a centros de datos, pero no fija límites vinculantes de eficiencia. Singapur: EUE ≤ 1,3. Australia: 1,4. California y China: 1,5. La UE: sin objetivo. #PolíticaTecnológica #IAResponsable acm.org/public-policy/europe-tpc/acm-data-center-final-spanish

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Informe Sobre Políticas Para Impulsar La Transformación Digital De Europa

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

1/7 🧵 NEW from @ACMPolicy: USTPC calls for an immediate halt to mass federal data consolidation efforts — merging income, health, benefits & immigration data across dozens of agencies into unified personal profiles. Here's why this matters. ⬇️

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

EU data center sustainability framework proposing five recommendations: binding PUE targets, broader reporting coverage, stronger water-management obligations, renewable energy quotas, and long-term planning buff.ly/Ou1fGHv

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As more states pass AI safety laws surrounding the use of chatbots, especially use by minors, we stand by our statement on the unethical development of these apps: www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The EU AI Act includes climate disclosure rules for AI — but ACM's Europe TPC finds five critical gaps that could leave AI's largest environmental impacts unaccounted. #EUAIAct #AIPolicy #GreenAI #AIClimate #ResponsibleAI #DigitalGovernance #Sustainability #TechPolicy www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Singapore's SEA-LION and Switzerland's Apertus show a consistent pattern: pretraining from scratch is rarely the right starting point for governments. Adapting open-source models using national data and post-training alignment achieves sovereign control. www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

AI systems can now autonomously complete 32-step enterprise cyberattacks. @acmpolicy's Europe Tech Policy Committee warns EU oversight may not be keeping pace. New analysis 🧵 acm.org/public-policy/europe-tpc/calibrating-oversight-agentic-frontier-models-04272026

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Calibrating Oversight for Agentic Frontier Models

The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (ETPC) submits this analysis to assess how the EU Digital Omnibus package put forward by the European Commission (COM(2025)0837), including the AI-specific…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

6/ ACM ETPC supports the overall direction — but resilience requires specificity. Clearer definitions, standardized reporting, and concrete timelines will determine whether this directive actually delivers. www.acm.org/public-polic...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Removing small DNS providers from EU cybersecurity law sounds like smart deregulation. @acmpolicy's Europe Tech Policy Committee warns it could create a "security vacuum." New consultation response 🧵 www.acm.org/public-polic...

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ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee’s response to a consultation on the recently adopted EC proposal

Europe TPC supports amending Directive (EU) 2022/2555, given the pace of change in the cybersecurity threat landscape and major developments since 2022 that have enabled more advanced threats and…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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Calibrating Oversight for Agentic Frontier Models

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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.

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AI Safety Is More Than a Technical Problem

When engineers talk about AI safety, they tend to picture model robustness, stress tests, red teams, benchmark scores, and edge cases that break a pipeline. But what about the cases where the…

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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. 🧵

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Three years since ACM USTPC published its 13 principles for generative AI. The landscape has changed: agentic systems, reasoning models, the EU AI Act rolling out, and synthetic data everywhere. Where do these principles still hold? Full document: www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

What we covered at the AI Impact Summit-

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Headline 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 🧵

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 15/04/2026

Congratulations to Ricardo Baeza-Yates on receiving the 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award! He is recognized for his pioneering contributions to algorithms and information retrieval and his leadership in fostering a vibrant transnational research community across Latin America. awards.acm.org/barroso

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The Monthly TechNews Policy Digest is out and covers 200+ articles, 8 domains, and 30+ countries. We keep up with policy updates so you don't have to. www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-...

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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....

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ACM TechBrief: Automated Speech Recognition

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