Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication. By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage ...

Since the rise of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies gained widespread popularity, impacting ...

In our reconceptualization, we call these “GenAI-assisted fantasies”: creative applications of GenAI to help us to imagine impossible or very implausible worlds. And instead of seeing the unrealities ...

Yet in a crude analogy, the same general sort of thing is plausible in the digital world of encrypted data. Computer ...