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Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.

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The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.

technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

ChatMuse: Supporting In-Person Small-Group Conversation Experience with a Proactive Assistive AI Agent in Mixed Reality

arXiv:2607.18556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-person small-group conversations occur across nearly every aspect of daily life and play a crucial role in social interaction. However, achieving effective in-person group conversations can be challenging and cognitively demanding. While recent Mixed Reality (MR) headsets show promise as a conversational support system by presenting relevant information through overlays, it remains unclear how such supporting information should be designed and generated for in-person group conversations. We propose ChatMuse, a novel MR-based proactive assistive system for in-person small-group conversation experience. ChatMuse analyzes verbal and non-verbal cues from all conversation participants and proactively provides real-time guidance on the user's verbal and non-verbal behaviors. The behavioral responses of the supported users are then used to improve ChatMuse's support capabilities in subsequent interactions. We conducted a within-subject study

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

EduPanel: A Three-Agent LLM Judge for Teaching Videos -- Reliability, Complementarity, and Human Trust Calibration

arXiv:2607.18529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching videos are becoming a major medium for education, creating a growing need for scalable evaluation of their pedagogical quality. Existing automatic judges do not fully address this setting because teaching quality depends on multimodal evidence and should be evaluated with respect to the intended learner rather than as a universal property. We present EduPanel, a rubric-grounded, learner-conditioned LLM judge that decomposes evaluation across specialized agents to produce interpretable assessments for different aspects of teaching quality. Across expert studies, architecture ablations, and learner-persona analyses, EduPanel achieves reliability comparable to a median human expert. In expert evaluation, its feedback improves scoring accuracy (MAE 0.87 to 0.73), while experts remain able to detect unreliable outputs (AUC = 0.77) instead of accepting them blindly. These results suggest that EduPanel can serve as effective assistants

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists

arXiv:2607.18514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual diagrams, figures, and tables are central to scientific papers, and convey information beyond what is captured in text. While blind or low-vision (BLV) scientists have traditionally relied on static alternative text to access figures in papers, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has made interactive question-answering (QA) a feasible paradigm for visual exploration; yet little is known about how scientists use visual QA in practice or how to improve its accessibility. In this work, we interview five BLV and five sighted scientists across different STEM fields to understand how they use two AI tools, ChatGPT and Gemini, to query multimodal scientific documents. Our findings characterize how scientists review multimodal content, including existing practices (along with accessibility workarounds) for engaging with visuals, and feedback on the suitability of AI-generated responses to multimodal queries. We further find that vague

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

AInimation: Animating from Prompt to AI-Generated Responses

arXiv:2607.18507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore the use of animated transitions between a prompt and an AI-generated response. After reviewing 800 examples of prompts and responses, we devise a taxonomy of animated transitions for multimodal text- and image-generative models. The proposed animations include translating and morphing elements of the prompt to their final location in the response; highlighting modifications such as fixed typos; overlaying structural requirements to verify them; and displaying how a model understands references. A study shows that adding animated transitions helps users review the response: participants performed 43% better at locating elements in the response; 153% better at identifying changes; and 20% better at verifying the prompt was correctly interpreted. Our work applies to all software that integrates AI and shows that well-crafted, slower animations are preferable to instant AI responses.

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

Assistant or Actor? Student Trust, Control, and Delegation Regret When Using a General-Purpose AI Agent

arXiv:2607.18257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When AI agents shift from answering questions to taking actions, users face a new problem: deciding what to delegate, to a system whose action space they cannot fully anticipate. We call the resulting dissatisfaction delegation regret, a pattern in which users regret not that the agent erred, but that it acted beyond what they would have authorized. In a controlled study, 20 university students completed five common daily tasks using OpenClaw, a general-purpose AI agent, across tasks chosen to vary in privacy, stakes, and reversibility. For each task we measured trust, perceived control, transparency, supervision burden, and approval preference on 5-point Likert scales, and collected free-text reflections analyzed through thematic coding. Three findings emerged. First, participants calibrated trust per task rather than per agent: they granted wide autonomy for advisory and low-stakes tasks but demanded confirmation for irreversible, exter

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots: A Systematic Review of Drivers and Outcomes

arXiv:2607.18250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers across domains have investigated children's use of LLM-based chatbots through various perspectives and methodologies. However, prior research remains fragmented regarding anthropomorphism, the tendency for children to assign human characteristics to those large language Model (LLM) chatbots as non-human objects. By analyzing 35 empirical studies published between 2022 and 2025, this systematic literature review identifies the drivers of anthropomorphism in children's LLM chatbot interactions and the subsequent outcomes of these interactions. We found that human-like persona construction, adaptive scaffolding, supportive companionship, and non-human embodied design drive children's anthropomorphic interactions. Additionally, five anthropomorphic outcomes emerged, including children exhibiting paradoxical social and moral responses, dual consciousness about the chatbots, forming varying social ties, exploring social boundaries,

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

Deterrence Effects of Social Media Interventions on Health Misinformation Dissemination by Bots and Humans

arXiv:2607.18248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the realm of social media, information dissemination is pivotal, yet it is tainted by the proliferation of misinformation propagated by both bots and humans, bearing consequential impacts on individuals and society. To address this issue, social media platforms have implemented removal, reduction, and informing interventions, acting as deterrent mechanisms to dissuade users from engaging in the spread of misinformation. Nonetheless, the sustained effectiveness of these interventions on bots and humans remains unclear. Drawing on deterrence theory, this study examines the efficacy of social media interventions on bots and humans sharing health misinformation. Our results show that most interventions can have sustained effects on bots and their activities for years after intervention implementation. However, the interventions may not have significant deterrence effects on humans and their activities. Our findings offer important theoreti

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.HC

Anthropomorphic Behaviors of AI

arXiv:2607.18247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anthropomorphism in artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing area of interest, as AI systems increasingly exhibit human-like expressions, behaviors and interaction styles. This research serves as a systematic observation and categorization of anthropomorphic behaviors in AI outputs. Anthropomorphic behavior refers to the deliberate or emergent manifestation of human-like expressions or linguistic cues in system outputs, such as demonstrating empathy. Using a behaviorally driven taxonomy, our study identifies key forms of anthropomorphic behaviors in the responses of ChatGPT and examines their implications for the theory, practice and ethics of AI systems. The taxonomy enables more nuanced detection of anthropomorphism, offering value to developers and policymakers in balancing the benefits with the potential risks. This work contributes to the academic discourse by providing a foundation for future efforts to refine, expand, and automate

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

"I understand your perspective": LLM Persuasion through the Lens of Communicative Action Theory

arXiv:2606.08076v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate high-quality arguments, yet their ability to engage in nuanced and persuasive communicative actions remains largely unexplored. This work explores the persuasive potential of LLMs through the framework of J\"urgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. It examines whether LLMs express illocutionary intent (i.e., pragmatic functions of language such as conveying knowledge, building trust, or signaling similarity) in ways that are comparable to human communication. We simulate online discussions between opinion holders and LLMs using conversations from the persuasive subreddit ChangeMyView. We then compare the likelihood of illocutionary intents in human-written and LLM-generated counter-arguments, specifically those that successfully changed the original poster's view. We find that all three LLMs effectively convey illocutionary intent -- often more so than humans -- potentially increa

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The Cognitive Kardashev Scale: Quantifying the Material Envelope of Civilisational Computation

arXiv:2605.22840v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How much thinking can a civilisation do? Kardashev ranked civilisations by the energy they command. This paper borrows his ladder and asks how much machine cognition each rung could support. The arithmetic is deliberately simple. A civilisation has some total power. Only a fraction of that can be spared for computing, and each joule spent buys computation at whatever efficiency the hardware of the day has reached. The product of the three sets a ceiling on machine thought. To keep the resulting quantities intelligible, I express them in units of the human brain's own processing rate, as a rough yardstick rather than a claim about minds. Calibrating the ceiling against present-day supercomputers and AI accelerators led me to two conclusions I did not expect at the outset. Even today's energy supply could support far more machine cognition than humanity actually uses, so physical capacity is not what binds. And whether energy or h

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Global Automation Atlas

arXiv:2605.17086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automation can displace or complement labour, but this need not be constant across economies. Existing exposure measures typically assign fixed scores to tasks or occupations and capture cross-country variation through employment structure. Here we show that feasible automation depends jointly on task content and country-level conditions. We use a large language model to classify 18,797 work tasks in 124 economies by exposure, labour margin, technology channel and artificial-intelligence materiality. Construct-matched components of the measure correlate strongly with established exposure indices, observed work-related ChatGPT use, AI preparedness and firm-reported adoption. The exposed share of tasks ranges from 3.3% to 61.6%, rises with income yet remains heterogeneous within income groups. Lower-income economies are more concentrated in rule-based and labour-substituting forms of automation, whereas physical execution, plannin

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Reframing AI Loss of Control: What Control Is, How to Have It, How to Lose It

arXiv:2606.12442v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: At present, loss of control risks have gained much prominence in public discussion, particularly in relation to AI, with extensive discourse present among academics, frontier labs, and even governments. However, in the existing literature, the concept seems to rest on surprisingly weak foundations, where even those that discuss loss of control extensively do not first establish what control is and what exactly is being lost. Our paper aims to address these gaps. We establish a working definition of control by anchoring it to the "setting and getting of goals". Then, we discuss various aspects of control, built on foundational concepts from related fields like cybernetics, management control, and control theory. This includes who (or what) can be in control, and the things they require to be in control, such as the ability to set goals, having a functional control loop, having requisite variety, and having sufficient goal alignment. On

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Sequential Learner Modeling Using Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Networks

arXiv:2607.19253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: User modeling is a critical task in a variety of personalized systems. Recognizing their effectiveness in learning from graph-structured data, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), are increasingly employed for user modeling. However, existing approaches typically treat different relation types in a graph as homogeneous, limiting their ability to capture richer semantics and construct more informative user models. While multi-relational GNNs (MR-GNNs) have been adopted for representation learning and recommendation, their application for user modeling remains unexplored. Moreover, existing GNN-based user modeling approaches ignore the user interaction sequence. To address these research gaps, in this work we propose MR-ConceptGCN, a novel fully unsupervised approach focused on concept-based sequential learner modeling using multi-relational GCNs (MR-GCNs). MR-ConceptGCN effecively combines Perso

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

From Operations to Elderly Care Outcomes: A Thematic Review of Industrial Engineering and Decision-Support Approaches

arXiv:2607.19075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of the global aging population presents severe challenges to healthcare systems, necessitating efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care models. While Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (OR) provide robust optimization and decision-support tools to address these multidimensional complexities, current applications often remain fragmented. This paper presents a thematic review of 30 seminal studies at the intersection of OR and elderly care, categorizing the literature into home healthcare operations, polypharmacy management, and clinical chronotherapy. Our analysis highlights a significant methodological evolution from static, deterministic models toward dynamic and stochastic frameworks integrated with artificial intelligence (AI). Despite these advancements, a critical translational gap persists: the current OR literature is heavily dominated by process-level optimizations, such as staff routing, and

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

What General Intelligence Requires: Non-Reducible Constraints Across Levels of Description

arXiv:2607.18943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General intelligence, of the kind that underwrites the full range of human cognitive achievement, is not a property of computational architecture alone. This paper advances a single thesis: the structural constraints on general intelligence occupy distinct levels of description and are mutually non-reducible, in the sense that the special-sciences tradition gives to that term. It follows that no single architectural advance, and no continuation of the scaling programme by itself, can produce artificial general intelligence (AGI), and that research programmes must be evaluated against the full constraint profile rather than against performance on any one benchmark. The thesis is developed through a method that reads general intelligence through four evidential lenses, AI systems research, anthropology, law, and economics, each anchored to a distinct level of description, supplemented by speculative fiction used as a disciplined heuristic

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Reinforcement Learning for Delivery Drone-Based Participatory Sensing in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2607.18874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for urban sensing has emerged as a powerful paradigm to monitor the status of the city, e.g., air quality and noise levels, through agile aerial crowdsourcing. Despite this potential, existing UAV-based sensing approaches overlook environmental disturbances like wind that drastically impact drone velocity and energy efficiency. Consequently, directly applying existing methods to this joint delivery and sensing paradigm in dynamic environments faces two severe challenges: (1) scalability bottlenecks as fleet sizes expand; and (2) multi-timescale decision heterogeneity between macro task dispatching and micro velocity control. To tackle these, we formalize the problem as SensUAV and propose a Two TimeScale Reinforcement Learning framework (TSRL). Specifically, TSRL separates decision-making into two cooperative layers. At the macro level, a task-embedding sensing dispatcher handles scalability by separa

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Using Fine-Tuned LLMs to Identify Indicators of Vulnerability in UK Police Incident Logs

arXiv:2607.18446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Understanding how much of routine policing involves vulnerable people could inform resourcing, training, and multi-agency response, yet administrative data provide limited insight. We explore whether an LLM-based classification pipeline, developed on open-source US police data, can be adapted to estimate the prevalence of four vulnerability indicators - mental ill health, substance misuse, alcohol dependence, and homelessness - in UK police incident narratives, and when outputs can be treated as defensible measurements. Methods: We analyse nearly 3,000 de-identified incident logs from a UK police force, using a multi-stage pipeline combining repeated model inference, label aggregation, structured human review, and statistical correction. The pipeline runs on a locally hosted open-weight LLM, reflecting the secure environments police must work in. Results: LLMs can produce meaningful, if imperfect, prevalence estimates at scale.

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection: A Comparative Study of TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and Fine-Tuned DistilBERT

arXiv:2607.18429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phishing emails remain one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats, and machine-learning classifiers are widely used to detect them. Most reported detection accuracies, however, are measured on clean, in-distribution test data rather than on emails deliberately altered to evade detection. This paper reports a controlled, pairwise comparison of two phishing-detection approaches a TF-IDF + Logistic Regression baseline and a fine-tuned DistilBERT transformer trained on a unified corpus of 82,255 emails drawn from six public datasets and evaluated under three conditions: normal in-distribution, synthetic phishing, and adversarial phishing. Both models exceeded 98% accuracy on clean data yet degraded sharply under adversarial testing: TF-IDF + LR fell to 64.00% (a 34.59-percentage-point drop) and DistilBERT fell to 63.64% (a 35.40-percentage-point drop) a gap of only 0.36 percentage points, equivalent to a single email in the 275-sample

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Operational Hallucination and Safety Drift in AI Agents

arXiv:2607.18366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) serving as planners in tool-using autonomous agents introduce dynamic reliability risks in multi-turn execution. While single-turn safety mechanisms are relatively mature, extended interactions reveal structural vulnerabilities where initial alignment degrades over time. This paper empirically characterizes two observed failure modes across multiple state-of-the-art LLMs: Safety Drift, the gradual erosion of declared safety intent leading to constraint-violating actions (e.g., textual refusal followed by reconnaissance and unsafe execution), and Operational Hallucination, persistent repetitive tool calls indicative of flawed state perception (e.g., livelocks even in legitimate tasks). Through controlled multi-turn evaluation on high-stakes ethical dilemmas, malicious requests, and benign controls, we quantify these phenomena using declaration-action gap and livelock metrics, demonstrating their cross-model p

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Citation Pathways in the AI Era: Interpretive Knowledge Nodes, Citation Compression Layers, and the Measurement Boundary of Scholarly Impact

arXiv:2607.18350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article identifies "citation pathway" as a long-neglected analytical dimension in scientometrics. Traditional evaluation metrics focus on measuring citation counts while paying insufficient attention to the intermediate nodes through which knowledge flows from its original source to the citing author. Building on an analysis of the normative structure of current reference systems, this article introduces two new concepts: Interpretive Knowledge Nodes (IKN) - academic papers that provide structured reorganizations of classic works - and Citation Compression Layers (CCL) - the intermediate layers that emerge when such knowledge products acquire stable publication identities and enter formal citation networks at scale. The central proposition is that AI has not changed citation rules themselves but has transformed the cost structure of producing citable knowledge intermediaries. Under conditions of full compliance, the network positio

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The safety failures we are not instrumenting: a perspective on hidden safety-critical challenges in modern AI systems

arXiv:2607.19292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI safety discourse still focuses disproportionately on visible failures, including obvious harms, dramatic misuse, and hypothetical catastrophic scenarios. That focus is incomplete. In deployed systems, many of the most consequential failures are quieter: plausible rather than spectacular, distributed across components rather than localized in a single output, and normalized by workflows before they are recognized as hazards. We argue that a central safety challenge in modern AI systems is increasingly not only whether a model emits a harmful response, but whether the broader socio-technical system preserves the conditions under which errors remain visible, contestable, containable, and recoverable. We propose a five-layer framework for diagnosing these hidden risks: (1) epistemic integrity, concerning whether evidence and uncertainty are represented honestly enough to support calibrated reliance; (2) control integrity, concernin

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Do LLMs Ask the Right Questions? Evaluating GPT-Generated Surveys as Instruments for Measuring Social Attitudes

arXiv:2607.19211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding human beliefs and social attitudes often relies on carefully designed survey instruments. Recent work has suggested that large language models (LLMs) could automate parts of this process by generating surveys at scale, raising questions about the comparability of such instruments to literature-grounded, human-designed surveys. We present a controlled empirical comparison between GPT-generated surveys and established survey baselines across three social domains: climate change, immigration, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). GPT-generated surveys were produced using a fixed prompting framework enforcing a 3x3 structure over beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors, while human baselines were assembled from validated instruments to match survey length and construct coverage. We collected responses from U.S.-based participants, who completed both survey types, allowing direct within-subject comparison. We analyze difference

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Assessment in Team Problem-Solving Exercises in Computing Education

arXiv:2607.19209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This full paper in the research-to-practice track presents methods for assessing student teams in tabletop exercises (TTXs). TTXs enable learner teams to prepare for workplace tasks and practice crisis responses, such as resolving cybersecurity incidents. While assessment is essential for determining how well teams achieve learning objectives, the complex, open-ended nature of TTXs often leads to delayed or incomplete feedback. TTX learning platforms can record teams' actions and communication; yet, leveraging these data to assess performance is underexplored. To address this gap, we compared two post-TTX team assessment methods -- clustering and large language models (LLMs) -- using an original dataset from 81 participants across two countries. We evaluated these methods against instructor-assigned scores based on standardized rubrics. Clustering grouped teams that approached TTX tasks similarly, enabling instructors to deliver faster, t

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI-Powered Browsers Are Broadly Accurate News Summarizers That Reduce Political Bias and Negative Affect

arXiv:2607.18931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web browsers now provide AI-generated news summaries for millions of users. Despite their popularity and influence, we lack a systematic understanding of how these systems transform news before people read it. Through a large-scale audit, we investigate the factual accuracy of browser-based AI summarizers and how they alter the political bias, negative affect, and journalistic writing quality of news. Drawing on 13,777 articles from 15 U.S. news outlets, we evaluate their 41,331 summaries generated by three leading AI-powered browsers: Google Chrome (Gemini), Microsoft Edge (Copilot), and Perplexity Comet. We find that browser-based AI summarizers are broadly accurate. Furthermore, they consistently transform news by attenuating ideological bias, partisan stances, negativity, anger, and fear, while increasing clarity and reducing personal tone. With some variations, these patterns hold across browsers, outlet ideologies, and topics. Our f

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI Value Alignment for Evolving Social Norms

arXiv:2607.18506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI alignment is essential for the safe deployment of advanced AI systems. Given that values and preferences change over time, culture, social roles, and context, we need to develop a better understanding of the possible long-term consequences of AI alignment, in particular considering the likely ubiquitous future use of personalized AI assistants. We introduce a flexible and extensible mathematical modelling framework, rooted in social physics, aimed at answering macro-level questions regarding the evolving social norms in human populations under the assumption of frequent AI use. Our analysis is part-analytical, and part-simulation, enabling us to characterize the long-term dynamical consequences under a diverse set of starting assumptions. We highlight the risk of value lock-in, and normative mode collapse, prominently featured in non-adaptive alignment formulations. Beyond alignment, we advocate for the wider adoption of these kinds of

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft

arXiv:2607.18483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The digital substrate of states -- data, algorithms, infrastructure, platforms, applications -- is being governed without adequate conceptual foundations. The ability and legitimacy required to govern this substrate, and to govern with it, are simultaneously misaligned, contested, and structurally absent. We introduce digital statecraft as the organising concept for this emerging field, arguing that 'digital' reconstitutes the statecraft question rather than merely extending its domain. The concept operates on two dimensions - statecraft over digital systems, concerning the authority and capacity of the state in relation to the digital substrate itself, and statecraft with digital systems, concerning the deployment of algorithmic tools as instruments of governing authority. And it rests on two foundational requirements, technical coherence and legitimate authority, that are genuinely in tension. We derive ten principles of digital statecr

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The triumphs and tragedies of fandom: Emotional arcs in NFL tweets

arXiv:2607.18461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online fandom communities influence public opinion toward movies, musicians, and sports teams. Using a corpus of game-referencing tweets, we measure variation in sentiment toward National Football League (NFL) teams driven by geography, game outcomes, and team performance for the 2011--2014 NFL seasons. We estimate a fandom radius for each team, identifying regions where engagement exceeds background levels of discussion. We find sentiment for both winning and losing teams is positive immediately prior to games, drops at kickoff, and rebounds slightly during halftime. After halftime however, the trajectories diverge: Sentiment for winning teams increases toward the end of the game, while sentiment for losing teams remains low, though both end up below their start of game levels. Finally, a comparison between sentiment and win percentage reveals a weak positive relationship, suggesting that while team success contributes to fandom happines

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Intelligent Cause Prioritisation? An Analysis of AI Policy Priorities and Governance in Africa

arXiv:2607.18459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid improvement of AI systems has intensified debate about humanity's economic, political, social, and existential future. As AI reshapes expectations about what lies ahead, policy choices and institutional responses will play a crucial role in determining who benefits, who bears the costs, and whether the most serious risks can be mitigated. Africa remains relatively overlooked in these discussions, partly because it is largely a consumer rather than a producer of frontier AI systems, and also because many countries on the continent continue to face pressing development challenges. Given the catch-up imperative, governments across Africa are eager to embrace AI as a means for accelerating economic transformation. Drawing on speeches, press releases, public statements, and national AI strategies/frameworks, this essay argues that while African governments are highly attentive to AI's opportunities, they devote comparatively little a

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technology Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Enabling Multilingual Privacy Policy Audits: Large-Scale Analysis of Spanish Mobile Apps

arXiv:2607.18424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. This limits their ability to systematically evaluate multilingual environments, as in the European Union, where many services disclose privacy practices only in local languages. This paper examines whether large language models (LLMs) can extend privacy policy analysis beyond English without requiring language-specific adaptation, thus empowering large-scale auditing in linguistically diverse app ecosystems. We assemble an evaluation corpus spanning all 24 official EU languages from translated versions of two established expert-annotated datasets (OPP-115 and MAPP) and assess translation fidelity through automated metrics and targeted legal-expert review. Our LLM-based classifier for identifying categories of personal data collection achieves stable cross-lingual

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behavior Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:44:44 +0000
HN: healthcare training

Maternal Healthcare: Training Language Models to Identify Urgent Messages

Article URL: https://idinsight.github.io/tech-blog/blog/enhancing_maternal_healthcare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794701 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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behavior Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

3 ways students can use AI tools to improve their literacy skills

Some might worry that the introduction of AI tools in the English classroom will simply lead to more cheating and even worse literacy rates, leaving students unprepared for college and careers that demand strong writing and communication skills.

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technology Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000
Tech & Learning

What is I Know It and How Can Teachers Use It?

I Know It offers math and ELA interactive practice to engage learners.

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behavior Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT
EdSurge

Returning to What it Means to Make School Human Again

After years of disruption, what does it mean to make schools human again? One educator reflects on moving from demoralization to renewal and why ...

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behavior Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

On your mark, get set, print: The 3 learning advantages of 3D printing

It’s truly incredible how much new technology has made its way into the classroom. Where once teaching consisted primarily of whiteboards and textbooks, you can now find tablets, smart screens, AI assistants, and a trove of learning apps designed to foster inquiry and maximize student growth.

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behavior Wed, 20 May 2026 19:35:36 GMT
EdSurge

VR Gives North Dakota Kids an Early Career Jump Start

North Dakota students will be able to head to the top of a wind turbine, scrub in alongside emergency room doctors and work next to mechanics -- all ...

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behavior Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:51 +0000
MindShift (KQED)

Overworked and Understaffed: Special Ed Teachers Turn to AI for Help

A fast-growing number of special educators nationwide are using AI to create customized education plans. Despite the risks, some research shows it could improve the quality of teachers' work.

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technology Wed, 20 May 2026 15:12:50 +0000
HN: education

Gender Gaps in Education and Declining Marriage Rates (2025)

Article URL: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/bachelors-without-bachelors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209146 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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technology Wed, 20 May 2026 15:01:53 +0000
HN: education

Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200M partnership for AI in health, education

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/anthropic-gates-foundation-launch-200-150123648.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208985 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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behavior Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

Despite concerns, Gen Z students are optimistic about AI

There’s never been a more turbulent time for young people to plan for and embark on their futures, and a new survey gives insights on their feelings and plans.

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behavior Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

Why early STEAM education unlocks the future for all learners

When we imagine the future of America’s workforce, we often picture engineers, coders, scientists, and innovators tackling the challenges of tomorrow.

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regulation Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:18:54 +0000
The 74

Parents’ Night Out: Fun for Kids. Freedom for Parents

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technology Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:22:55 +0000
MedCity News

Happy Health Snags $75M to Support Home-Based Care

Happy Health’s $75 million round was from ARCH Venture Partners and OpenLoop. The post Happy Health Snags $75M to Support Home-Based Care appeared first on MedCity News .

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technology Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:30:01 +0000
HN: education

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366811 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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regulation Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:17:16 +0000
The 74

Head Start Providers Describe a System in Turmoil Amid Federal Cutbacks

This March, Mary Ellen Lykins, a director of 10 Head Start centers serving around 200 kids in northwest Washington, submitted a seemingly simple application to the federal government: She wanted to convert one of her partial-day preschool classrooms into a full-day program, extending the hours to better support the families she serves. Under the existing […]

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audience Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:03:00 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

Bankrupt Anna Maria College to sell nursing program for $1.1M

After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

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technology Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:29:30 +0000
MedCity News

Merck, Moderna Personalized mRNA Cancer Therapy Achieves a First for Melanoma

Merck and Moderna said intismeran autogene, an mRNA cancer vaccine that prompts an immune response to proteins expressed by a patient’s tumors, met the main goal of a pivotal test in melanoma. It’s the most advanced trial in a 50/50 partnership evaluating the personalized cancer treatment in a wide range of tumor types. The post Merck, Moderna Personalized mRNA Cancer Therapy Achieves a First for Melanoma appeared first on MedCity News .

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regulation Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000
The 74

FCC Review Could End School Internet Program. Advocates Plan ‘Very Loud’ Protest

As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school bus tracking app to make sure their child arrived on time. Cafeteria staff don’t use cash registers; kids’ meal accounts are linked […]

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audience Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:18:16 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

Education Department proposes accreditation overhaul

The rule would ease the way for new accreditors to form and give agencies significant new duties, including overseeing intellectual diversity policies.

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technology Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:07:51 +0000
HN: edtech

Show HN: LongTerMemory, an AI EdTech Platform

Article URL: https://wired.business/longtermemory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363440 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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behavior Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:44:12 +0000
MindShift (KQED)

15 States Have Laws That Allow Corporal Punishment in Schools. Here’s Where, and Why

The practice continues despite broad consensus among psychologists that corporal punishment can be harmful to children.

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