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Estimating data center water use: Best practices and critical questions
Concerns are growing about the water use of data centers.Lessons from Trauma-Informed Training on Technology-Facilitated Abuse for Gender-Based Violence Advocates
Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is an emerging gendered public health crisis affecting millions of people across the globe.LearnAdapt Praxis: Controlled AI Assistance and Evidence Traces for Adult Workplace Learning
AI can help adults produce plausible workplace artefacts while leaving their independent reasoning difficult to inspect.ReLEAF: A Socio-Technical Framework Bridging Custodians and Researchers for Trustworthy Data Sharing
Growing volumes of educational real-world data (ERWD) are being collected across learning platforms and institutional systems.Same Performance, Different Process: Epistemic Ownership in AI-Mediated Education
Generative AI weakens the link between assessed performance and the cognitive processes that educational work is expected to reflect.Verifiable, Articulable, and Tacit Components of Preference
What makes a short story gripping; a news article newsworthy; or a math proof elegant?Peer Influence across Heterogeneous AI Models
When two AI agents disagree, who persuades whom?The Fragility of Trigger-Tag Mechanisms for Misuse Detection in Open-Weight LLMs
Open-weight language models can be downloaded, modified, and deployed beyond their developers' control, limiting the effectiveness of centrally enforced safeguards.A population-level assessment framework for flood-related wellbeing from public discourse in Ireland
\ textbf{Background.} Ireland's position on the eastern North Atlantic exposes it to moisture-laden westerlies and frequent low-pressure systems, generating abundant precipitation and substantial…The Plan Language of a Curriculum: A Formal Model and the Complexity of Degree Planning
We model an academic curriculum as a generator of a language of feasible study plans: prerequisites are monotone Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form, degree requirements are credit-threshold…Quantifying Ethereum Energy Consumption via Network Mapping
Ethereum's electricity use fell by about 99.95% after the move from proof of work to proof of stake.Still funded, no longer counted: how NIH's 2025 award reviews changed what the government counts as minority health research
Funders know their portfolios through software that classifies award text.Do Large Language Models Know Colombian Law? A Reliability Benchmark for the Colombian Legal System
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support legal practice, education, and research, yet their reliability in national legal systems outside the United States remains largely…Testing Large Language Model Agents on the Use of Biological Tools for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening Evasion
This report is a continuation of previous efforts to test the ability of large language model (LLM)-driven artificial intelligence (AI) agents to interface with AI-enabled biological tools (BTs).Can LLM Agents Select and Engage with Biological Tools?
Computational tools for biological research (biological tools, or BTs) are advancing rapidly in both quantity and demonstrated capability.Govern, Map, Measure, Absorb: The Legibility Trap in Public Sector Participatory AI Governance
Public sector agencies have adopted participatory design as a prominent procedural safeguard proposed against algorithmic harm.Behavioral History Outperforms Descriptions of the Person for LLM Synthetic Personas
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as synthetic personas representing survey respondents.Agent Reliability Profiles in Financial Services
AI agents can take actions.Representational Control over Self-Report & Behavior Coherence in LLM Risk-Taking
Self-report is an appealing low-cost probe of an LLM's dispositions, but recent work finds only selective agreement between what models report and how they behave.InvestigationWorlds: An Agentic Environment for Legal Investigation
We introduce InvestigationWorlds, an agentic environment for legal investigation.