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.
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...
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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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...
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 🧵
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 🧵
1/ Seven computing & data science orgs just told OMB the same thing: withdraw this rule. Here's why they're worried. 🧵
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
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
🧵 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.
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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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. 🧵
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.
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.
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
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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Compliance complexity is a competitiveness issue. If copyright rules get too costly to navigate, Europe risks strengthening dominant non-EU platforms while squeezing its own start-ups, researchers, and SMEs. #AIpolicy #Copyright bit.ly/4eqfMAO
Comments in Response to Consultation on Review of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive
The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) provides objective, technical feedback to European Union policymakers to bridge the gap between legal text and system architecture. Their…
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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...
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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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...
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. 🧵
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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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. 🧵
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...
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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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
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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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. ⬇️
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
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...
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...
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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La IA agéntica plantea riesgos sistémicos que la Ley de IA de la UE solo aborda en parte. ACM Europe TPC publica su análisis en español. 🧵 [URL] www.acm.org/public-polic... #IAPolítica #GobernanzaIA #AIAct #LeyIA #IAAgéntica #PolíticaTecnológica #GobernanzaDigital #ResponsableIA
Systemic Risks Associated with Agentic AI: A Policy Brief
Agentic AI — the new paradigm for creating autonomous systems capable of perceiving, reasoning, learning, and acting towards goals using large language models (LLMs) with minimal human oversight —…
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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
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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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...
