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No Tokenizer, Still a Gap: Cross-Lingual Fairness of Homoglyph and Invisible-Character Watermarking
Homoglyph and invisible-character watermarks are edit-based watermarks.Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Exploratory Analysis of Urban Vehicle Theft
Vehicle theft is a persistent urban problem with large economic and social costs.CogArena: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents on Interactive Behavioral Experiments
Claims about the cognitive capabilities of large language models are typically tested by translating behavioral paradigms into text prompts, bypassing the visual interfaces and time pressure through…Counting by the Book: Verifying Alaska's Ranked-Choice Elections
We present Alaska's ranked-choice elections as a case study in Formally Verified Democracy, a program to establish election results through formally checked proofs.Governed Sovereign RAG for Public Administration: Tripartite Epistemic Routing, Facet-Guided Clarification, and Deterministic Numeric Verification in Citizen Services
Deploying conversational assistants at government service desks faces a tension between regulatory certainty (zero tolerance for invented fees), data sovereignty prohibiting commercial clouds, and…The uneven rise of AI-generated web content
In less than five years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically reshaped the public-facing web.Whether Is Not When: Separating Occurrence from Timing in Polymarket Prices
Prices formed by Web users on Polymarket, a blockchain-based prediction market, are now cited in the news and in a U.S.Edhivo: An AI-Native Platform for Scalable Assessment and Instant Feedback in Higher Education
Scaling assessment in higher education faces two intertwined bottlenecks: the cognitive burden of authoring assessments and the inability to semantically evaluate open-ended responses, which…Algorithmic Monoculture in Machine Learning-based Site-Specific Fertilizer Recommendation
Machine learning recommendations are often evaluated one model at a time, despite deployment across interconnected decision makers.Conditional Values: The Contingent Foundations of Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence
How do broader values shape whether people judge artificial intelligence (AI) as good or bad for humanity?Uneven Use, Similar Trust Generative AI in Denmark and Romania
Generative AI (GenAI) has spread unevenly across Europe, and it is unclear whether higher use brings higher trust.Neighborhood Deprivation Shapes Post-Flood Population Losses in Pune and Bandung
Disaster research in high-income settings shows that better-resourced communities see population inflows and faster recovery, while disadvantaged communities suffer prolonged population loss.Penny for Your Prompts: A Measurement Study of Contextual Leakage in AI Chat Platforms
AI chatbot platforms have become one of the most popular web interfaces users interact with online, routinely receiving personal and intimate information shared under an expectation of privacy.Extending the W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary to Cover the German Health Data Use Act - Lessons Learned
Finding, sharing, and reusing data requires common interoperable vocabularies to adequately describe machine-actionable data policies.Responsible Quantum Machine Learning for Medical Imaging: A Fairness Audit Across Sensitive Subgroups
Quantum machine learning (QML) is increasingly explored for medical classification, yet its behaviour under subgroup-aware fairness criteria remains understudied.Improving Group Deliberation through AI-Guided Self-Reflection
As AI systems increasingly mediate human communication, identifying conditions under which they augment collective sense-making is a critical challenge.Counterfactual assessment of social media interventions by separating exposure from engagement
Social media interventions are usually evaluated in individual-level experiments, which are costly to scale and often miss collective effects.Making Sense of Audience Change: Causal Attribution and Boundary Management on Xiaohongshu
Recommendation-driven platforms can reshape not only what users see, but also who becomes visible and how community boundaries are negotiated.From Needs Assessment to Legal-Digital Empowerment: A Community-Based Framework for Indigenous Enterprises in Higher Education Extension Programs
IPOs contribute significantly to local economies, cultural preservation, and sustainable livelihoods within their ancestral communities.Infrastructure and its Discontents: Contestations of Power in Canada's AI Governance Scaffold
This paper develops a critical theoretical framework for understanding national Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies through the lens of "Governance as Infrastructure.