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Simson Garfinkel

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Somerville, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: LinkedIn, arXiv, MIT Sloan Management Review, The MIT Press, WIRED Magazine, Communications of the ACM, Quartz, Slate, Flipboard, MIT Technology Review and
Covers:  Data science ethics.
Doesn't Cover: Blockchain.
Computer scientist & journalist, specializing in AI, privacy, ethics, big data, usability and security. My opinions here. ORCID 0000-0003-1294-2831

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Simson Garfinkel writes about the intersection of security, privacy, society and ethics for popular and academic audiences. His most recent book, Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (co-authored with Chris Hoofnagle) explores for a non-technical audience the defense, intelligence and commercial impact of quantum information science, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum cryptography. His previous book, THE COMPUTER BOOK (co-authored with Rachel Grunspan), presents an illustra…

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Reanimating ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot

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By Qiaoshi Lian, Zhiwen Ye, Li Cao, Simson Garfinkel
| Science Magazine Verified
References and Notes Books Information & Authors Metrics & Citations Check Access References Figures Tables Media Share Access the full article View all access options to continue reading this article. CHECK ACCESS References and Notes 1 R. Lane, A. Hay, A. Schwarz, D. M. Berry, J. Shrager, IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput. 47, 68 (2025). Crossref Web of Science Google Scholar 2 J. Weizenbaum, Commun. ACM 9, 36 (1966). Crossref Web of Science Google Scholar 3 J.
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Autonomous AI agents are acting without legal accountability, ACM council warns

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By Simson Garfinkel
| Compare the Cloud Verified
The report, from ACM's Technology Policy Council, examines agentic AI — software that plans and executes multi-step tasks, browses the web, modifies files, and sends messages without step-by-step human approval. A 2025 survey of more than 500 technology leaders found 48% were already deploying or adopting such systems.
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In Memoriam: Michael O. Rabin

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By Eugene H Spafford Verified, Simson Garfinkel
| Communications of the ACM Verified
“Theoretical ideas have a real-life impact,” said Michael Oser Rabin in a 2009 interview, and he spent nearly seven decades proving it. He died on April 14, 2026, in Jerusalem, Israel, at the age of 94. An ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate, his contributions touch nearly every aspect of computing. Michael Rabin was born September 1, 1931 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland).
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