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Responsible Algorithmization in the Public Sector: A “Natural Perspective” Based on Ethnographic Research in Regulation, Policing, and Healthcare
Albert Meijer, Lukas Lorenz, Isabelle Donatz-Fest et al.
Public Administration · 2026-09-11
This paper examines how algorithms are actually adopted in Dutch public-sector organizations across regulation, policing, and healthcare, using ethnographic fieldwork. It finds that algorithmization in practice is emergent, political, open, and fragmented—contrasting sharply with the rational, pre-structured frameworks promoted by bodies like the EU and OECD. The authors argue that existing responsible AI frameworks focus too heavily on passive responsibility (compliance with formal rules) and must also address active responsibility—how organizations navigate messy, real-world decision-making around algorithmic tools. The findings have direct implications for how governments design and govern AI policy in public institutions.
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Current Standards of Monitoring Models in Healthcare Settings
Alan Kay, Daljit Takher, Wenting Liu et al.
Advanced Intelligent Discovery · 2026-09-11
This paper examines the regulatory and operational gap between FDA-approved AI/ML clinical devices and the broader landscape of healthcare AI research, finding that only 3.4% of approved models have predetermined update plans. The authors argue that limited trust, verifiability, and inadequate monitoring frameworks are major barriers to broader clinical deployment of AI, particularly deep learning methods. They review current device monitoring frameworks and identify key challenges for implementing model monitoring in high-risk medical settings.
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Smart contracts and AI agents for secure last-mile pharmaceutical delivery through crowdsourcing
Kadim Lahcen Nadime, Doha Haidar, Rajaa Benabbou et al.
Discover Artificial Intelligence · 2026-09-11
This paper proposes a ledger-grounded AI agent architecture for crowdsourced pharmaceutical last-mile delivery, where blockchain smart contracts serve as the authoritative record for identity, assignments, and delivery evidence while AI agents handle forecasting, routing, carrier selection, and dispatch using verified on-chain data. Evaluated against simulated human-operated workflows across 1,600 orders, the agent-assisted system reduced route time by 25.0% and planning time by 78.6%, with improvements in urgent-order handling and proof completeness. The findings suggest that combining smart contracts with AI agents can enhance operational efficiency in pharmaceutical distribution without sacrificing traceability or accountability, though field validation remains needed.
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Intention to Use Generative AI for Vocational College Administration
Porntep Chooppawa, Potsirin Limpinan, Thada Jantakoon
World Journal of Education · 2026-09-11
This study surveyed 330 administrators at private vocational colleges in Thailand to identify what drives their intention to use and actual use of Generative AI in administrative tasks. Using an extended UTAUT model with trust, privacy concern, and institutional policy fit added, the research found that social influence, trust, privacy concern, and policy alignment were the key predictors of adoption intent, explaining 82.8% of the variance in behavioral intention and 76.1% in actual use behavior. Notably, traditional factors like perceived usefulness and ease of use were not significant, suggesting that governance and policy considerations outweigh technical perceptions in this context. The findings carry direct implications for institutional AI governance, policy design, and responsible AI implementation in vocational education.
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Competence, Career, and Compliance: An Integrated Framework Aligning Teacher AI Literacy with National Performance, UNESCO Standards, and Data-Protection Law in Thailand
Paritchaya Sarakan, Anucha Somabut, Lan Thi Nguyen et al.
Journal of Education and Training Studies · 2026-09-11
This paper develops an integrated framework aligning teacher AI literacy competencies with Thailand's national teacher performance and career systems, UNESCO's 2024 AI Competency Framework for Teachers, and the country's Personal Data Protection Act. Using policy document analysis and crosswalk synthesis, the authors produce an alignment matrix, developmental progression map, data-governance overlay, and phased implementation roadmap. An expert panel (n=5) rated the framework favorably (mean=4.68) with moderate inter-rater concordance (Kendall's W=0.42). The study argues that embedding AI literacy professional development within existing accountability and legal structures is more likely to achieve durable adoption than standalone training programs, and suggests the design logic may transfer to comparable jurisdictions.
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Video-to-report generation for cataract surgery using procedurally grounded vision–language models
Tao Yu, Kaikai Zhao, Vitalii Prudyus et al.
Communications Medicine · 2026-09-11
LensNarrate is a vision-language AI system that converts unedited cataract surgery videos into temporally structured operative reports with visual evidence. Tested on videos from European and Chinese hospitals, it achieved internal temporal frame accuracy of 83.2% and segmental F1@50 of 58.0%, substantially outperforming a retrieval baseline, though cross-site performance was lower. The system addresses the problem of retrospectively written operative reports that may miss short events or use inconsistent descriptions, and the authors identify cross-site variation and short-phase boundary localization as remaining challenges before clinical adoption.
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Justice by humans, assisted by AI
Asif Khan, Aftab Haider, Asif Salim
Oñati Socio-legal Series · 2026-09-11
Examining 47 statutes and judgments, 142 studies, and seven datasets across five jurisdictions from 2015–2025, this article identifies three systemic faults when AI tools—including machine learning, large language models, and online dispute resolution—are used in bail, sentencing, and legal pleadings: opacity of proprietary models, the substitution of statistical prediction for case-specific explanation, and the concentration of error risk on the least-resourced litigants. The authors propose a duty to explain AI-assisted decisions, pre-deployment legal impact assessments, and an audit standard for fair process, arguing that the goal is not to exclude AI from courts but to preserve human judgment at the center of adjudication. The paper is directly relevant to certification and policy frameworks governing AI in public legal institutions.
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ProofLayer: Control Coverage Screening for Government Cybersecurity Policies via Multi-LLM Orchestration
Devharsh Trivedi
Journal of Cybersecurity Digital Forensics and Jurisprudence · 2026-09-11
ProofLayer is a two-stage system that screens government cybersecurity policy documents against a 22-control catalogue crosswalked to NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, using keyword matching followed by LLM-based resolution. Evaluated on ten Maryland state and local government policy documents, the system finds a mean control coverage of 62.8% when documents are read in full, compared to 49.1% when truncated at fifteen pages—a gap that itself reveals how sensitive screening metrics are to extraction depth. The paper identifies notable failure modes including negation cues near matches (18.1% of covered pairs) and single-keyword dependencies, and honestly distinguishes what is measured from what is only described, declining to use model-generated labels as ground truth. This work matters for policy and quality-assurance practitioners who need transparent, auditable tools for assessing cybersecurity policy coverage at scale.
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Technostress and Productivity: Evidence from Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Workers
Fredrick Michael Ogore, Patrick Kanyi Wamuyu, Gerald Chegee
African Journal of Commercial Studies · 2026-09-11
This study of Kenya's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector finds that technostress significantly reduces worker productivity, with primary technostress factors negatively correlated with productivity (r = -0.403) and explaining 16.2% of variance. Technology insecurity—driven by fears of job displacement from automation and AI—was identified as the most severe stressor, followed by technology overload, complexity, invasion, and uncertainty. The findings call on BPO organizations to implement comprehensive, multi-dimensional mitigation strategies including transparent communication about AI plans, career development pathways, and reskilling programs. The study matters because it provides quantitative and qualitative evidence that AI-driven workplace change poses measurable mental health and performance risks for a large segment of knowledge workers in an emerging economy.
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Cognitive reshaping and resurgence of humanness: restructuring the medical education continuum in the era of generative AI
Ya Liu, Lutuo Han, Linlin Che et al.
Frontiers in Medicine · 2026-09-11
This narrative review examines how generative AI is reshaping medical education by introducing three cognitive vulnerabilities: deskilling among advanced learners, never-skilling in junior trainees who fail to build foundational mental models, and automation bias from uncritical reliance on AI outputs. The authors propose restructuring the full medical education continuum—undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education—to prioritize pathophysiological reasoning, human-AI collaboration, and deliberate reflection, while shifting assessment away from memory-based multiple-choice questions. The paper argues that medical education should cultivate 'augmented clinicians' with high AI literacy and humanistic competencies, framing the goal as ensuring AI enhances rather than displaces relational patient care.
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Artificial Intelligence Readiness in Emergency Medicine: Expert Consensus Opinion for Preparing the Workforce
Debadutta Dash, Joyce Macalalad, Donald L. Lum et al.
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open · 2026-09-11
This expert consensus opinion from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) AI Task Force, formally endorsed by the ACEP Board of Directors in 2025, addresses the gap between rapid AI adoption in emergency departments and clinicians' ability to safely evaluate and oversee these tools. The paper proposes three coordinated priorities: a standardized AI education framework spanning residency through continuing medical education, a structured three-stage clinician-led framework for vetting AI tools before deployment, and the creation of a national Emergency Medicine AI Advisory Council to provide shared terminology and best-practice guidance. Together, these recommendations aim to make AI integration in emergency medicine safe, equitable, and clinically effective across academic, community, and critical access settings.
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Rethinking AI in clinical decision support: a framework for reciprocal human-AI interaction
Colin Greengrass
Frontiers in Digital Health · 2026-09-11
This paper introduces BRACE (Bounded Reciprocal Adaptation for Clinician Engagement), a framework for AI-assisted clinical decision support that centers the clinician-AI interaction rather than AI model performance. The framework addresses risks of overreliance and skill degradation—including 'never-skilling,' deskilling, and mis-skilling—by making uncertainty visible, preserving clinicians' reasoning states, and bounding what the AI system may infer or modify about the clinician. The central hypothesis is that the amount of cognitive and metacognitive work preserved during AI-assisted encounters predicts independent clinical capability when AI is unavailable, evaluated through longitudinal within-clinician analyses. The work matters because it directly addresses how repeated AI use may erode clinicians' independent diagnostic reasoning, particularly for ambiguous cases.
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From DevOps to XOps: an agent-driven reference architecture for autonomous enterprise operations
Mete KÖSE, Ecir Uğur Küçüksille
Scientific Reports · 2026-09-11
This paper proposes XOps, a five-layer reference architecture that unifies fragmented enterprise ML operations (DataOps, MLOps, AIOps) under an agentic orchestration layer with Policy-as-Code governance. Two synthetic case studies evaluate the architecture: a self-healing payment gateway achieving 85.6% action consistency and 99.6% fault classification accuracy with no policy-violating actions executed, and a predictive-maintenance application maintaining R²=0.74 versus 0.29 for a static model. An indicative cost analysis suggests roughly 70% reduction in expected monthly operational costs, though the authors caution these results demonstrate feasibility rather than production-scale performance. The work is relevant to enterprise AI governance and autonomous operations management.
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Rethinking Human Capital Development in the Age of AI
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Frank Nagle
arXiv · 2026-09-11
This paper argues that nontraditional educational providers like LaunchCode and Per Scholas offer a model for adapting workforce training to an AI-driven labor market, where technical skills become obsolete more rapidly. The authors show that shortening the feedback loop between employer skill needs and training programs is central to effective human capital development. They use these two organizations as case studies to derive a roadmap that traditional educational institutions can adopt to scale similar innovations.
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Governing with Artificial Intelligence: Use, Ideology, and the Benefits and Risks of AI in State Government
Zachary Baum
arXiv · 2026-09-11
This study surveys U.S. state government professionals to understand how they perceive the benefits and risks of AI in government. It finds a striking asymmetry: frequent AI use strongly predicts perceived benefits, while political ideology—not usage—is the dominant predictor of perceived risk, with more conservative respondents seeing lower AI-related risks. These findings suggest that attitudes toward governmental AI adoption are shaped by distinct and separable factors depending on whether benefits or risks are being assessed. The results have direct implications for how AI policies are likely to be evaluated and adopted across differently ideologically-aligned state governments.
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Artificial Intelligence Integrity & Public Access: A Federal Legislative Framework
Terrance J. Chisolm
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This policy paper by Terrance J. Chisolm proposes a federal legislative framework called the Artificial Intelligence Integrity, Accountability, and Public Access Act of 2026, designed to govern AI at the federal level. The framework establishes four core principles: protecting people, preserving public access to AI, requiring evidence-based attribution when AI is alleged to cause serious harm, and maintaining accountability for humans and institutions that deploy or misuse AI. It proposes specific mechanisms including standards for AI incident attribution, privacy-protective forensic accountability for high-risk AI deployments, independent investigation of catastrophic AI incidents, and safeguards against fabricated AI-attribution evidence. The proposal explicitly rejects AI legal personhood and focuses instead on protecting evidence integrity while balancing innovation, competition, civil liberties, and safety.
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Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedic Trauma: A Narrative Review
Ashutosh Yadav, Pushpa ., Sachin Kumar
International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research · 2026-09-11
This narrative review synthesizes evidence on AI applications across the orthopaedic trauma care pathway, including fracture detection, classification, outcome prediction, operative support, and large language model tools. Pooled sensitivity and specificity for fracture detection on plain radiographs reached roughly 0.87–0.91, comparable to specialist clinicians, and clinician sensitivity rose to 0.97 when AI was used as an adjunct; however, fracture classification accuracy remained weaker (60–81%) and outcome-prediction models offered little improvement over conventional regression. Generative language models showed early promise for documentation and patient education but produced clinically relevant errors and did not reach resident-level performance. The authors conclude that while AI has achieved specialist-level accuracy for fracture detection, patient-level benefit has not been demonstrated, and call for representative multicentric datasets, external validation, and prospective clinical-impact trials, especially in low- and middle-income countries such as India.
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Implications of the new US AI framework in medicine
Antonis A. Armoundas
Communications Medicine · 2026-09-11
This policy analysis examines the March 2026 White House National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence and its implications for medical AI governance. The framework is described as pro-deployment and pro-infrastructure, relying on sector-specific oversight rather than a new central regulator, which may accelerate AI adoption in medicine by expanding data access and reducing infrastructure barriers. However, the authors identify a critical governance gap: clinically consequential AI tools that fall outside traditional FDA-regulated pathways remain largely unaddressed, leaving risks around transparency, clinical accountability, and protection of vulnerable populations unresolved. The paper concludes that stronger institutional accountability, consumer-protection mechanisms, and international interoperability are needed to keep pace with rapidly expanding medical AI.
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Clustering populations for holistic policymaking : promises and limits in British Columbia’s energy transition
Aloysio Kouzak Campos da Paz
cIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2026-09-11
This thesis develops an AI-based clustering framework—using PCA, k-means, and eta-squared—to group 147 British Columbia municipalities by barriers and enablers to residential and transportation electrification. Results consistently identified one cluster combining remoteness, lower education, smaller populations, and weaker institutional climate capacity, and another less-constrained cluster, suggesting differentiated policy instruments (e.g., regional training hubs and logistical support for remote areas versus income-differentiated rebates elsewhere). The study shows clustering can make policy targeting more holistic than single-variable approaches like latitude or income alone, but also flags that results are sensitive to methodological choices, cluster quality scores were lower than expected, and small communities were excluded due to data gaps. The authors caution that co-occurring barriers do not reveal causation, and that equity trade-offs in data coverage must be managed carefully.
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Safety Assurance Methodology for AI-Based Aerospace Systems - Replication package
Alberto Petrucci, Francesco Basciani, Patrizio Pelliccione
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This replication package documents AeroSafe, an ECSS-oriented assurance framework for AI and machine learning software in aerospace and other safety-critical systems. The package includes instruments, response data, and a 52-control catalogue validated across two practitioner review rounds, covering areas such as configuration management, data assurance, model verification, deployment, safety argumentation, and Independent Model Verification and Validation. Practitioner ratings from the second round indicate mean scores of 4.4 for understandability, 4.6 for coverage of expected ECSS-oriented AI/ML assurance obligations, and 4.2 for acceptable effort, suggesting the framework is perceived as clear and appropriately scoped. The materials support researchers and practitioners developing structured assurance approaches for AI-based critical systems, though the authors note the results reflect perceived usability rather than demonstrated defect-detection effectiveness or formal certification compliance.
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Displacement Without Redundancy: Ricardo's Machinery Chapter, the Acemoglu–Restrepo Task Model, and Four Years of Generative AI
Benjamin Frohman
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This paper reconstructs Ricardo's 1821 machinery argument and Acemoglu-Restrepo's task model to evaluate the first four years of generative AI's labor market effects. While aggregate U.S. employment (~163 million) and unemployment (4.1%) show no broad collapse, the paper identifies concentrated harm: workers aged 22–25 in highly AI-exposed occupations show employment roughly 19 percent below peers in less-exposed work, AI is the leading stated reason for announced U.S. job cuts for five consecutive months in 2026, and the BLS labor-share index has continued to fall. The paper argues that stable headline unemployment figures are the wrong lens—displacement without offsetting reinstatement of labor into new tasks remains the live economic concern, especially for early-career workers—and proposes two monitoring statistics (the canary residual and wage-fund conversion ratio) to track this margin going forward.
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A critical assessment of Nepal's digital data protection framework: Legal gaps and reform directions
Tul Bahadur Khadka
Humanities and Social Sciences Journal · 2026-09-11
This qualitative doctrinal study examines Nepal's fragmented legal framework for digital data protection, finding it inadequate for modern challenges including AI, cloud computing, and cross-border data transfers. Drawing on key informant interviews with legal and technology policy experts and comparative analysis of frameworks like the EU's GDPR, the authors identify critical gaps including the absence of an independent Data Protection Authority, weak private-sector obligations, and limited enforcement. The paper argues Nepal needs a comprehensive Digital Data Protection Act alongside institutional reform to protect citizens' informational privacy and sustain digital transformation.
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Safety Assurance Methodology for AI-Based Aerospace Systems - Replication package
Alberto Petrucci, Francesco Basciani, Patrizio Pelliccione
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This replication package documents the practitioner validation of AeroSafe, an assurance framework for AI/ML software in aerospace and other safety-critical systems, aligned with the ECSS standard and informed by AMLAS. The package includes instruments, response data, and a final 52-control catalogue validated across two rounds by small groups of practitioners (six and five participants respectively), covering areas such as data management, model verification, deployment, safety traceability, and Independent Model Verification and Validation. Results are descriptive: second-round participants rated the catalogue 4.4/5 for understandability, 4.6/5 for coverage of ECSS-oriented AI/ML assurance obligations, and 4.2/5 for acceptable effort, with no controls receiving a 'Unclear or unjustified' judgment. The work matters because it provides an openly available, structured assurance aid for certifying AI/ML systems in high-stakes aerospace contexts, though the authors note the results do not constitute certification or ECSS compliance.
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Displacement Without Redundancy: Ricardo's Machinery Chapter, the Acemoglu–Restrepo Task Model, and Four Years of Generative AI
Benjamin Frohman
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This paper argues that stable headline unemployment figures in the U.S. and other Western economies do not settle the deeper debate about AI-driven labor displacement. Drawing on Ricardo's 1821 'On Machinery' and the Acemoglu–Restrepo task model, it distinguishes between economy-wide job loss and narrower, structural displacement: payroll data through June 2026 show employment of workers aged 22–25 in highly AI-exposed occupations running roughly 19 percent below comparable peers in less-exposed roles, AI is cited as the leading reason for announced U.S. job cuts for five consecutive months in 2026, and the BLS labor-share index has continued to fall. The paper introduces two monitoring statistics—the 'canary residual' and the 'wage-fund conversion ratio'—to track whether automation is being offset by new-task creation, concluding that compensation is a contingent mechanism rather than a guaranteed law.
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Artificial Intelligence Integrity & Public Access: A Federal Legislative Framework
Terrance J. Chisolm
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-09-11
This policy paper proposes a federal legislative framework called the Artificial Intelligence Integrity, Accountability, and Public Access Act of 2026, developed by Terrance J. Chisolm. The framework establishes four core principles: protecting people, preserving public access to AI, requiring evidence-based attribution when AI is alleged to cause harm, and maintaining accountability for humans and institutions that deploy or misuse AI. It proposes standards for AI incident attribution, privacy-protective forensic accountability for high-risk deployments, independent investigation of catastrophic AI incidents, and safeguards against fabrication of AI-attribution evidence. The proposal explicitly does not grant AI legal personhood and seeks to balance safety, civil liberties, innovation, and competition in federal AI regulation.
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