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Beyond Authentication: A Three-Pillar Evidentiary Framework for Deepfake Evidence in Court of law
Pournima Inamdar
Journal of Intelligent Decision Making and Information Science · 2026-08-14
This paper argues that existing evidentiary authentication rules in the US, UK, and India are inadequate to handle AI-generated deepfakes in criminal proceedings, as current standards were designed for an era when media manipulation left detectable forensic traces. The authors identify two key risks: admitting fabricated deepfake evidence and wrongly excluding authentic media via false deepfake claims (the 'liar's dividend'). To address these gaps, they propose a three-pillar framework consisting of a burden-shifting authentication protocol, judicial notice of AI generative capability, and a provenance-first doctrine using cryptographic content credentials. The paper concludes with legislative and procedural reform recommendations across all three jurisdictions.
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A hybrid intelligence approach to qualitative data analysis combining manual and AI coding with mixed methods analyses of reliability and validity
Julia Boettinger, Christal Bürgel, Anne Bartsch
Quality & Quantity · 2026-08-14
This methodological study compared manual qualitative data analysis (QDA) of 164 interviews (752,388 words) with AI coding under two prompting conditions, assessing reliability and validity through mixed methods. While quantitative inter-coder agreement was low and AI substantially overcoded segments, qualitative analysis showed that AI with collaborative prompt engineering correctly identified most relevant segments and even caught content missed by human coders. The authors conclude AI coding should not replace manual coding but can complement it through a hybrid intelligence approach that combines prompt engineering, quantitative validation, and qualitative validation to augment overall reliability and validity.
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Acceptance of Generative AI for Supporting Innovative Learning in Vocational Education
Ponprom Chooppawa, Potsirin Limpinan, Thada Jantakoon
World Journal of Education · 2026-08-14
This study surveyed 544 private vocational education instructors in Thailand to identify what drives their acceptance of Generative AI for innovative teaching. Using PLS-SEM and an integrated theoretical model combining TAM, UTAUT, the Information Systems Success Model, and trust perspectives, the authors found that social influence and trust were the strongest predictors of instructors' intention to use Generative AI, while behavioral intention had the strongest effect on actual innovative pedagogy behavior. The model explained 62.2% of variance in behavioral intention and 51.7% in innovative pedagogy behavior. The findings offer practical guidance for policymakers and administrators on building high-quality AI systems, institutional support, and professional development to integrate Generative AI responsibly in vocational education.
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Grounding Health AI: Architecture and Evaluation of a Domain-Expert Metabolic Health Agent
Alon Diament, Gal Sapir, Maria Gorodetski et al.
medRxiv · 2026-08-14
This paper presents the HPP Personal Health Agent (PHA), a metabolic health AI system designed to prevent the hallucination of clinical metrics that general-purpose language models routinely produce when generating health reports. The system grounds outputs in four layers: a deep-phenotyped cohort of 13,000+ participants, 21 domain-expert computational tools, declarative behavioral constraints, and 21 automated evaluations covering 8 failure-mode categories. In a 210-report evaluation matrix, the full system raised a form/provenance score from 0.37 to 0.91 on its primary use case, with tools driving numerical accuracy from ~14% to ~90% of reported metrics correct, while declarative skills added gains in citations, completeness, and structure. The authors argue that trustworthy domain-specialized health AI is fundamentally a systems design problem requiring cohort data, expert tools, and eval-driven development working together.
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A Review of the TITAN Guideline: Advancing Transparency and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Use in Medical Research and Scholarly Publishing
Arzoo Nazir, Shah Zeb
Electronic Journal of Medical Research · 2026-08-14
This paper reviews the TITAN guidelines, a framework designed to standardize how artificial intelligence use is reported in medical research and scholarly publishing. The guidelines distinguish between minor AI uses (e.g., language assistance) and substantive applications (e.g., research design, data analysis, or interpretation), while affirming that human researchers retain accountability for AI-generated outputs. TITAN is described as technology-neutral and flexible enough to accommodate emerging systems including multimodal and agentic AI. The authors argue that coordinated adoption by journals and research communities is needed to improve transparency, reproducibility, and scientific integrity.
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A multi-layer social-theoretical framework for AI ethics
Mohammed Fakrudeen, Jim Otieno
AI and Ethics · 2026-08-14
This paper introduces the Multi-Layer Social-Theoretical AI Ethics Framework (MLST-AEF), a structured tool for translating high-level AI ethics principles into context-sensitive operational assessments. The framework combines normative ethical reasoning, stakeholder analysis, institutional context evaluation, and bias and power auditing across four analytical layers, integrated with a configurable scoring mechanism. An illustrative application to facial-recognition technology in UAE policing reveals tensions between public-safety benefits and concerns around rights, fairness, surveillance, and contestability, yielding a mixed ethical profile supporting conditional rather than unconditional deployment. The MLST-AEF is designed to make ethical trade-offs, stakeholder disagreements, and weighting assumptions explicit while preserving human judgement in decision-making.
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Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Policing in the Indian Criminal Justice System: Methods, Applications and Constitutional Concerns
Sreehari V S
Journal of Intelligent Decision Making and Information Science · 2026-08-14
This paper examines the adoption of AI-driven predictive policing tools in India—including crime-mapping platforms, facial recognition, and forensic AI—comparing India's trajectory to that of the US, UK, and China. The authors evaluate these deployments against India's constitutional guarantees of privacy, equality, and fair trial, finding that the absence of dedicated legislation risks entrenching caste and communal bias while undermining due process. The paper proposes legislative, institutional, and technical safeguards to create an accountable framework for algorithmic law enforcement in India.
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Artificial Intelligence-Driven Workforce Optimization: An Operational Research Framework for Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Decision-Making
Dr. Alok Kumar Bhargava
Journal of Intelligent Decision Making and Information Science · 2026-08-14
This paper proposes an integrated AI–Operational Research framework that combines machine learning models, explainable AI (SHAP), and Mixed Integer Linear Programming to help organizations predict and reduce employee attrition. Analyzing 16,189 employee records, Random Forest delivered the best predictive performance, and SHAP identified key drivers of attrition. A subsequent optimization model showed that targeting a small proportion of high-risk employees can mitigate a substantial share of overall attrition risk within resource constraints, offering organizations a practical, data-driven approach to strategic workforce planning.
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Valid Compliance Evidence for Fleets of Autonomous Robots: Independent Conformance Monitoring under Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 and Directive (EU) 2024/2853
Marco Galli
arXiv · 2026-08-14
This paper specifies a formal component called the Independent Conformance Monitor (ICM) designed to produce legally valid compliance evidence for fleets of autonomous and humanoid mobile robots operating under three current EU regulations, including the new Machinery Regulation and AI Act. The authors derive eleven normative requirements, each traceable to a specific legal obligation or physical constraint, and provide third-party-executable conformance procedures. Key findings include three closed-form constraints covering response time (placing the monitor outside any reaction loop), calibration bounds (replacing averaging), and a startup-transient vulnerability that can silently disable a check while leaving a conforming-looking record. The work addresses a critical gap: no published type C safety standard yet covers dynamically stable industrial mobile robots, yet the cited regulations impose defined legal consequences for missing behavioral evidence.
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When algorithms don’t care: physiotherapy and the post-professional turn
David Nicholls
Physiotherapy Theory and Practice · 2026-08-14
This theoretical paper argues that physiotherapy is entering a 'post-professional era' driven by three converging forces: the commodification of health under late capitalism, political challenges to professional authority, and AI-enabled digital disruption. Drawing on Deleuzian theory and updated with a proposed concept of a 'society of indifference,' the paper contends that predictive algorithms—illustrated through the case of Flok Health, described as the UK's first AI physiotherapy clinic—can autonomously assess, diagnose, treat, and discharge patients, threatening not just physiotherapists' tasks but their agency. The paper raises the concern that if the institutional infrastructure supporting professional physiotherapy is dismantled, populations' rehabilitation needs may go unmet when algorithms and individual choice prove insufficient. It concludes by urging physiotherapy to articulate the enduring human 'intensities' of physical therapy practice rather than simply defend professional territory.
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The Vigilant Public: Awareness, Skepticism, and Perceived Democratic Impact of AI-Generated Deepfakes Among Indian Voters
Shubham Bhatia
arXiv · 2026-08-14
This survey study of 404 Indian voters examines how awareness of AI-generated political deepfakes and cheapfakes shapes voter attitudes and behavior. The study finds near-universal AI awareness (99.5%) but lower recognition of specific terms like 'deepfake' (85.6%), with respondents strongly agreeing that AI-generated media undermines political trustworthiness (58.4% vs. 31.2%) and reporting heightened personal caution in decision-making (70.8% agreement). A notable third-person effect emerges: respondents feel personally resilient to AI influence while acknowledging broader societal harms to trust and public dialogue (69.8–73.0% agreement). The authors argue these findings have direct implications for platform labeling policies, media literacy programs, and electoral regulation.
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Research ethics and publication policies in journals using the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) academic publishing platform: a content analysis of 181 journals
Jaemin Chung, Eun Jee Lee, Hyejin Lee
Science Editing · 2026-08-14
This content analysis of 181 journals hosted on South Korea's KISTI academic publishing platform found that research ethics and publication policy disclosure is incomplete and uneven, with journals disclosing an average of 8.29 out of 15 identified policy areas. Traditional policies like copyright and duplicate publication were widely disclosed, but emerging governance areas were rare—only 5 journals had an AI policy and 29 had a data sharing policy. The study concludes that standardized policy templates and platform-supported guidance are needed to strengthen publication governance, particularly around AI and data sharing.
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From Adoption to Continuance: A Longitudinal Qualitative Exploration of University EFL Teachers’ Motivation for Continued Use of GenAI Based on Self-Determination Theory
Chunhua Mao, Yonghong Zeng
Behavioral Sciences · 2026-08-14
This longitudinal qualitative study tracked 15 university EFL teachers over one year to examine how their motivation to keep using generative AI evolved, using Self-Determination Theory as a framework. Findings show motivation shifted from external regulation toward value identification and professional identity integration, with both need satisfaction and need frustration playing roles—frustration can act as a catalyst for long-term continued use through iterative reflection. The study concludes that sustained GenAI use among teachers is as much a process of professional growth as it is technology adoption, with implications for teacher professional development, GenAI design, and education policy.
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Is employment anxiety among vocal music students associated with AI replacement concerns? The roles of AI anxiety and vocal-performance replacement perception
Kehang Li, Yuheng Zhang, Wen Ji
Frontiers in Psychology · 2026-08-14
This cross-sectional study of 392 vocal music students and early-career graduates in China found that broad AI anxiety was strongly associated with employment anxiety (r=0.678), while a more specific belief that AI will replace vocal performance showed a much weaker association (r=0.277) and explained no additional variance in hierarchical regression models. Greater perceived clarity about career direction was negatively associated with employment anxiety. The findings suggest that among this group, generalized psychological distress about AI—rather than domain-specific replacement concerns—is the primary driver of employment anxiety, though the study cannot establish causal direction.
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Special article—EchoPeer: a standardized framework for assessing echocardiography reports in the era of artificial intelligence: a recommendation from the Korean Society of Echocardiography AI and Future Strategy Committee
SungA Bae, Inki Moon, Jiesuck Park et al.
Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging · 2026-08-14
EchoPeer is a three-step standardized scoring framework developed by the Korean Society of Echocardiography to evaluate echocardiography reports produced by both human readers and AI systems. The framework includes a safety gate for life-threatening omissions or hallucinations, a 25-item precision score across four anatomical domains, and a quality score assessing clinical utility. When applied to 30 echocardiography cases interpreted by 11 human readers at three training levels, all EchoPeer scores increased monotonically with expertise, demonstrating the framework's ability to discriminate clinical competence. The authors position EchoPeer as a clinically grounded foundation for evaluating AI-generated echocardiography reports as AI advances toward full-report generation.
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Why aren’t we using AI in eye clinics? A systematic review of barriers and solutions in AI-based fundus image diagnostics for ocular diseases
Tehmina Shehryar, Anum Abdul Salam, Santhoshi Varada et al.
International Journal of Ophthalmology · 2026-08-14
This systematic review of 34 studies (2018–2025) examines why AI-based fundus image diagnostics for eye diseases like diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration—despite frequently exceeding 90% accuracy—remain largely absent from clinical practice. The authors identify three core barriers: poor integration into clinical workflows, lack of transparency in AI decision-making, and limited generalizability across diverse patient populations. The review proposes actionable pathways to close this 'last-mile gap' between research performance and real-world deployment, aiming for equitable and scalable AI in global vision care.
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Explainable artificial intelligence in accounting and financial auditing: a systematic review
Iván Patricio Arias González, Gabriela Joseth Serrano-Torres, EDUARDO RAMIRO DAVALOS MAYORGA et al.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026-08-14
This systematic review analyzes 85 primary studies on Explainable AI (XAI) in accounting and financial auditing, following the PRISMA protocol with sources from Scopus and Web of Science. The review finds that XAI is primarily applied to fraud detection, credit assessment, financial auditing, and decision-support, with SHAP and LIME being the dominant techniques. While these tools improve transparency and trust among auditors and regulators, persistent challenges include computational cost, data quality, explanation stability, and regulatory adaptation. The findings highlight the need for stronger integration of XAI into auditing processes to meet compliance and oversight demands.
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Lived Experiences and Challenges of Public Secondary Teachers in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching Science: Basis for Training Design
Michelle V. Conag
International Journal of Sustainable and Integrated Studies · 2026-08-14
This qualitative phenomenological study examined how eight public secondary science teachers in the Philippines experienced and navigated AI integration in their classrooms. Teachers reported using AI tools for lesson planning, material development, assessment, and student engagement, while facing barriers including unstable internet, inadequate devices, insufficient training, and concerns about academic dishonesty and student overreliance. The findings were used to develop a school-based AI integration training design aimed at strengthening teacher capacity and promoting responsible, context-responsive AI use. The study concludes that AI can improve instructional quality when used as a support tool rather than a teacher replacement, and recommends sustained professional development and clearer institutional guidelines.
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Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Skill-Aligned Job Posting Generation: A Multi-Domain Comparative Evaluation
Alexandros Adam, Konstantinos Georgiou, Lefteris Angelis
Businesses · 2026-08-14
This paper benchmarks ten generative AI models on the task of creating job postings aligned to specific skill sets across three occupational domains (Finance, Healthcare, and Craft trades), evaluating 3,000 synthetic postings using five text-quality metrics. No single model outperformed the others across all metrics and domains, and all models tended to emphasize explicit skills over the broader contextual information found in real job postings. Performance varied significantly depending on the occupational domain, suggesting HR practitioners must carefully match their AI tool choice to their specific hiring context. The findings provide practical guidance for organizations selecting generative AI tools for recruitment, though the authors note that real-world outcomes like time-to-hire were not measured.
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A Five-Layer Reference Architecture for First-Party Enterprise Knowledge Graphs with GraphRAG Integration and Governance Controls
Asheesh Pandey
AI Engineering · 2026-08-14
This paper proposes a five-layer reference architecture for building enterprise knowledge graphs from proprietary organizational data and integrating them with GraphRAG (Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems. Drawing on real-world applications in manufacturing, healthcare, and professional networks, it reports that GraphRAG achieves up to 70–80% query time reduction and approximately 85% fewer hallucinations compared to standard RAG. Key adoption barriers identified include heavy manual effort in ontology engineering, entity resolution accuracy of only 73–94% across industries, and 3–5× higher computational costs for GraphRAG. The framework offers practitioners a structured blueprint for designing, evaluating, and governing AI systems built on first-party data assets.
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Crafting work with AI: human–AI collaborative job crafting, human–AI fit, and employee job performance
Jun Bao, Qiutong Wang, Yiting Pan et al.
Frontiers in Psychology · 2026-08-14
Drawing on sociotechnical systems theory, this study uses three-wave survey data from 485 employees and their supervisors to show that when employees actively craft their jobs in collaboration with AI tools, they achieve better human–AI fit, which in turn leads to higher job performance. Inclusive HR practices further strengthen this chain by reinforcing the alignment between employees and AI systems. The findings offer practical guidance for organizations aiming to boost performance through structured human–AI collaboration.
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Human-centric AI governance in the European Union. Accountability, fundamental rights, and institutional resilience in public administration
Andreea Nicoleta Dragomir, Iulia Bulea, Lucian Ioan Tarnu
Frontiers in Political Science · 2026-08-14
This policy review argues that formal compliance with EU law (the AI Act, GDPR, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights) is insufficient to ensure accountable AI governance in public administration. The authors develop a six-dimension framework—covering legal anchoring, accountable discretion, fundamental rights by design, meaningful human oversight, contestability, and institutional resilience—and show through comparative Member State analysis that common EU rules can produce unequal protections where public bodies differ in technical expertise and audit capacity. The paper contends that accountability must trace the full chain of algorithmic influence, not just formal decision-making, and offers actor-specific recommendations on procurement, auditability, transparency, and post-deployment monitoring. It concludes that AI-enabled public administration is legitimate only where authorities can understand, justify, correct, and democratically control the systems they deploy.
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Transforming work or eroding social capital? How reliance on artificial intelligence drives workplace involution
Ruochen Huang
Frontiers in Psychology · 2026-08-14
This study investigates a potential dark side of AI adoption in workplaces, finding that employee reliance on AI is associated with 'workplace involution'—an escalating, inefficient form of competition with diminishing returns—primarily through a sequential mediation pathway involving heightened performance expectations and increased anxiety. Using structural equation modeling on survey data from employees in China, the authors show that AI reliance does not directly drive involutionary behavior, but rather does so indirectly by amplifying perceptions of external evaluative pressure and internal psychological stress. The findings highlight unintended social consequences of AI integration, including erosion of workplace social capital and employee wellbeing, particularly in digitally enabled, highly competitive organizational settings. The authors call for organizations to communicate realistic performance expectations and protect employee wellbeing when deploying AI.
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Dual pathways of generative AI use: role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee-AI collaboration
Qiannan Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Dong Shan
Frontiers in Psychology · 2026-08-14
This survey study of 541 employees at Chinese high-technology firms finds that generative AI use simultaneously creates role ambiguity (a hindrance to collaboration) and boosts role breadth self-efficacy (an enabler of collaboration), with AI literacy moderating both pathways. Employees with higher AI literacy experience less ambiguity and greater self-efficacy when using GenAI, ultimately supporting better human-AI collaboration and job performance. The findings suggest organizations should clarify role boundaries, build employee self-efficacy, and invest in systematic AI literacy training to maximize the benefits of GenAI adoption.
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Motor, Cognitive, or Corpus? What Survives Cross-Lingual Transfer in Speech-Based Parkinsons Disease Detection
Serli Kopar, Sam Gijsen, Abner Hernandez et al.
arXiv · 2026-08-13
This paper investigates whether self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models for Parkinson's disease (PD) detection are capturing genuine disease-related signals or dataset-specific artifacts. Using a layer-wise analysis of nine SSL backbones with logistic regression probes across three languages, the authors find that the optimal representation layer depends primarily on the source dataset rather than the model architecture, and that classifiers trained to detect PD assign similarly high probabilities to both PD and dementia speech—indicating the transferred signal lacks pathological specificity. These findings reveal critical limitations in current speech-based PD detection approaches and suggest such models are not yet reliable enough for clinical deployment.
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