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Multi-Agent Readiness Scoring Methodology in Bioinformatics Domain
Blagojche Gjorgjioski, Djansel Bukovec, Ivana Vichentijevikj et al.
Future Internet · 2026-08-02
This paper introduces MARS (Multi-Agent Readiness Score), a standardized framework for evaluating how ready bioinformatics large language models are for deployment in autonomous, multi-agent clinical and regulatory environments. Applied to 43 genomic LLMs, the study found a widespread readiness gap: most models fell into 'Not Suitable' or 'Research Prototype' tiers, lacking technical interfaces, structured communication schemas, and provenance tracking. The authors identify a 'competence-readiness gap' where biological predictive ability scales without corresponding improvements in engineering or regulatory utility. MARS incorporates compliance criteria from the EU AI Act, HL7 FHIR, HL7 CDA, and MyHealth@EU, offering a reproducible audit metric to guide system architecture for precision medicine workflows.
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Children’s Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Digital Safeguarding, Algorithmic Bias and the Right to a Future
Ana Žnidarec Čučković
IntechOpen eBooks · 2026-08-02
This chapter examines how AI and data-driven technologies create significant rights risks for children, including algorithmic profiling, behavioral manipulation, biometric surveillance in schools, and commercial data extraction. It analyzes how existing frameworks like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 25 are insufficient to address these harms, with particular focus on disproportionate impacts on marginalized children and Global South communities. The authors propose a rights-by-design framework and call for structural digital-economy regulation, mandatory algorithmic impact assessments, and participatory governance to protect children's rights—including a proposed 'right to a future' grounded in Articles 6, 8, and 12 of the UNCRC. The work is relevant to policy development around AI governance, child protection, and the legal architecture needed to safeguard children in AI-mediated environments.
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Adoption generativer KI in der Wissensarbeit: Die Rolle von beruflicher Autonomie, Arbeitsanforderungen, Tätigkeiten und Führungsverantwortung
Tim Komorowski, Thomas Süße
Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft · 2026-08-02
This German-language study examines which workplace conditions are associated with the adoption of generative AI among knowledge workers in corporate organization and strategy roles, using data from the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2024. Logistic regression models show that higher occupational autonomy is significantly associated with greater generative AI adoption, while also exploring the roles of job demands, work activities, and managerial responsibility. The findings reveal social inequalities in AI adoption and illuminate how digital transformation unfolds along specific work-related conditions. The authors argue the results can inform both workplace design decisions and policy or regulatory measures around AI.
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Creative Labor Displacement Anxiety in the Age of Generative AI
Deeksha S, Komal.S S
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research · 2026-08-02
This study surveyed 312 creative professionals across multiple sectors to examine what drives anxiety about AI-based job displacement. Using structural equation modelling, the researchers found that perceived threat from generative AI is the strongest predictor of displacement anxiety, while creative autonomy, trust in AI systems, and facilitating conditions reduce it. Social influence—peer narratives and public discourse—amplified anxiety. The findings suggest that human-centered AI deployment, ethical governance, and institutional support are needed to protect creative worker well-being and cultural value.
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Navigating codified, tacit and novel rules: Mapping the human-AI creativity frontier
Emmanuelle Walkowiak
Technovation · 2026-08-02
This paper maps the boundary between human and AI creativity by analyzing 593 tasks across 126 occupations in Australia's cultural and creative industries. Using GPT-4 to annotate task descriptions, the authors find that most tasks (86.3%) fall into a hybrid human-AI category, with only 2.7% facing likely AI replacement and 11.0% being AI-immune. Key mechanisms identified include a 'structured novelty effect' where AI autonomy is higher when defined cognitive rules combine with novel rule creation, and a 'tacit knowledge boundary' where tacit rules reduce AI autonomy feasibility, suggesting complementarity rather than substitution dominates creative work.
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Identity Before Autonomy: A Universal Framework for Persistent AI Actor Identity, Permanent Traceability, Delegation, Quality Assurance, and Accountable AI Operation
Pierre-Edward Procyk
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
AI-IDP is a proposed Canadian framework requiring that every AI agent have a persistent, tamper-evident identity before it may lawfully operate. The paper specifies 25 formal documents, 14 JSON schemas, and a reference implementation (AegisTrace) using cryptographic signatures and an append-only hash-chained ledger to ensure permanent traceability of AI actions and the human principals who authorized them. It maps current Canadian law (PIPEDA, Privacy Act, Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making) against proposed legislation (AIDA/Bill C-27) and the framework's own requirements, and includes a draft statute—the AI Actor Identity and Traceability Act. The work directly addresses accountability gaps across commercial, public-sector, and autonomous AI deployments, with impact analyses spanning business, HR, societal, and economic dimensions.
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Identity Before Autonomy: A Universal Framework for Persistent AI Actor Identity, Permanent Traceability, Delegation, Quality Assurance, and Accountable AI Operation
Pierre-Edward Procyk
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This paper introduces AI-IDP, a proposed Canadian framework for ensuring every AI agent has a persistent, verifiable identity tied to an auditable chain of authority and human principals. The framework includes 25 formal specification documents, 14 JSON schemas, and a reference implementation (AegisTrace) featuring Ed25519 signatures, an append-only hash-chained ledger, and 113 passing tests. The core principle—'no valid AI actor identity, no lawful agent operation'—aims to close the accountability gap in Canadian AI governance by making AI actions permanently traceable across all deployment contexts. The authors also provide a Canadian legal analysis distinguishing current law (PIPEDA, Privacy Act, Treasury Board Directive) from proposed legislation (AIDA/Bill C-27) and contribute a draft statute, the AI Actor Identity and Traceability Act.
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Privacy after Publicness: A Publicness-Inference-Power Theory of AI Governance
Lakshminarasimhan Santhanam
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research · 2026-08-02
This article introduces a Publicness-Inference-Power (PIP) theory of AI governance, arguing that existing privacy and AI regulatory frameworks fail to address how AI systems transform publicly available or voluntarily shared information into sensitive inferences, predictions, and consequential decisions. The author traces five linked stages—publicness, aggregation, inference, decision, and power—through which information acquires new meaning and generates institutional asymmetries that current rules cannot adequately address. Through comparative analysis of the EU GDPR, EU AI Act, India's DPDPA, California's CCPA, and international AI frameworks, the article finds that these regimes contain only fragments of an inference-oriented approach. The article proposes a shift from data-status governance to transformation-and-power governance, offering six theoretical propositions and an operational model built around inference registers, contextual-purpose boundaries, provenance, validation, contestability, and action controls.
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Artificial intelligence approach for predicting suicide-related behaviour in emergency departments
Tsholofelo Mokheleli, Tebogo Bokaba, Patrick Ndayizigamiye et al.
Scientific Reports · 2026-08-02
This study developed and evaluated five machine learning models to predict suicide-related behaviour within 30 days of emergency department presentation using routinely collected triage data. The best-performing model, LightGBM, achieved an AUROC of 0.88, a Recall of 0.79, and an F2-score of 0.41 on an independent test set, with SHAP analysis identifying prior psychiatric history, age, and physiological variables as key predictors. The authors argue the model could provide scalable, transparent decision support for clinician prioritisation and follow-up planning without replacing clinical judgment. External validation and prospective studies are noted as necessary next steps before deployment.
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From Local Effect to System Value: A Seven-Gate Method for Qualifying Safety Components in AI-Enabled Autonomous Systems Methods Manuscript v1.0 with Retrospective Demonstration
Karel Hrubec
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This paper proposes the Component Qualification Ladder (CQL), a seven-gate, non-compensatory protocol for determining whether a safety component in an AI-enabled autonomous system has demonstrated sufficient evidence to be integrated into a larger architecture. Rather than relying on isolated metrics like predictive accuracy or interpretability, CQL requires passing sequential gates covering measurement validity, local mechanism effect, marginal decision value, interaction safety, generalization, external validity, and qualified integration—with no earlier gate result compensating for a later failure. The central empirical requirement is a head-to-head comparison between a host system with and without the component, requiring meaningful benefit on primary outcomes and non-inferiority on all safety-critical outcomes. A retrospective demonstration using two components from a prior published study illustrates the method, with one component failing marginal-value and interaction-safety gates despite passing earlier ones, highlighting how the framework surfaces integration risks that isolated evaluations miss.
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The Current State and Future Trends of Automotive AI Safety Governance
Yongshou Ma
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This paper maps the global regulatory and governance landscape for automotive AI safety, surveying binding frameworks such as the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), UNECE R155/R156/R157, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and ISO/PAS 8800:2025, alongside internal AI governance practices disclosed by major OEMs including Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, BYD, NIO, and XPeng. It documents three simultaneous industry transitions—LLM-powered cabin assistants at scale, end-to-end neural driving stacks entering mass-market deployment, and cockpit-driving integration on unified SoCs—and argues these developments outpace existing deterministic safety frameworks. The paper proposes a forward-looking framework combining technical safeguards (explainability, formal verification, red-teaming), organizational safeguards (AI ethics committees, ISO/IEC 42001 management systems), and regulatory convergence across sectoral standards rather than a single prescriptive rulebook. The analysis is directly relevant to how AI safety standards are developed, how OEMs must demonstrate post-market AI assurance, and how certification and policy frameworks need to converge globally.
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The Current State and Future Trends of Automotive AI Safety Governance
Yongshou Ma
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This paper surveys the global regulatory and industry governance landscape for artificial intelligence embedded in road vehicles, covering frameworks from the EU AI Act and ISO/PAS 8800:2025 to internal OEM practices at companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, BYD, and NIO. It maps regulatory intensity across twelve jurisdictions, analyzes the 'agent-ization' of in-cabin, in-vehicle, and intelligent-driving AI, and identifies how end-to-end neural driving stacks and LLM-powered cabin assistants are outpacing existing safety standards like ISO 26262 and ISO 21448. The paper proposes a forward-looking framework combining technical safeguards (explainability, formal verification, red-teaming) with organizational safeguards (AI ethics committees, ISO/IEC 42001) and regulatory convergence. It argues that next-phase automotive AI safety will depend on the convergence of sectoral standards, internal AI management systems, and demonstrable post-market assurance rather than any single prescriptive rulebook.
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The Admissibility Protocol (AP-1): An Open Standard for Evaluating Numerical Admissibility in AI Systems
Marcus Rupp
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
AP-1 is an open, versioned protocol for evaluating whether numerical outputs from AI-assisted systems are 'admissible'—meaning independently reproducible, traceable to authoritative source data, and defensible under audit or regulatory scrutiny. Rather than judging outputs by apparent correctness alone, the protocol assesses the computational process that produced them across seven dimensions including determinism, provenance, refusal integrity, and adversarial resistance. It is model- and architecture-agnostic and targets high-stakes domains such as financial services, aerospace, medicine, and engineering where numerical evidence must be demonstrably correct. Version 1.3, currently a draft for public comment, introduces explicit operand provenance requirements and a four-class grading of invocation evidence, with empirical evidence drawn exclusively from large language model deployments in financial services.
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From Explainable AI to Auditable AI: Developing an Integrated Artificial Intelligence Auditability Framework (AIAF) for Assuring Artificial Intelligence Systems
Mthokozisi Hlatshwayo
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This conceptual paper introduces 'AI Auditability' as a distinct governance construct and proposes the Artificial Intelligence Auditability Framework (AIAF), designed to support continuous, evidence-based independent assurance of AI systems throughout their lifecycle. Drawing on governance theory, assurance theory, internal auditing, and socio-technical systems theory, the framework integrates eight governance dimensions including transparency, traceability, data integrity, risk and compliance, and independent assurance. The paper argues that the next evolution of AI governance moves beyond explainability and responsibility toward AI systems that are inherently auditable, introducing original contributions such as the AI Auditability Assessment Matrix (AIAM) and the principle of 'Evidence by Design.' The framework offers practical guidance for internal and external auditors, regulators, certification bodies, and boards of directors, and is intended as a foundation for future international standards on AI auditability.
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From Local Effect to System Value: A Seven-Gate Method for Qualifying Safety Components in AI-Enabled Autonomous Systems Methods Manuscript v1.0 with Retrospective Demonstration
Karel Hrubec
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
This paper proposes the Component Qualification Ladder (CQL), a seven-gate, non-compensatory protocol for determining whether a safety component genuinely improves an AI-enabled autonomous system rather than merely performing well in isolation. Each gate addresses a distinct claim—from measurement validity through external validity and qualified integration—and failure at any gate cannot be offset by success at others; weighted aggregate safety scores are explicitly prohibited from determining admission. The method requires comparing a versioned host system with and without the component, demanding meaningful benefit on at least one primary outcome and non-inferiority on all protected safety and operational outcomes. A retrospective demonstration using two components from a prior study found one failed marginal-value and interaction-safety gates despite passing earlier gates, illustrating how local predictive accuracy does not guarantee system-level value.
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The Admissibility Protocol (AP-1): An Open Standard for Evaluating Numerical Admissibility in AI Systems
Marcus Rupp
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-08-02
AP-1 is a draft open standard for evaluating whether numerical outputs from AI-assisted systems are admissible for operational, regulatory, or safety-critical use — meaning they can be independently reproduced, traced to authoritative sources, and defended under audit. The protocol defines seven evaluation dimensions covering accuracy, determinism, provenance, refusal integrity, adversarial resistance, conflicting input handling, and computation invocation, and distinguishes deterministic computation from probabilistic inference within AI systems. Rather than judging a numerical result by its apparent correctness, AP-1 assesses the computational process that produced it, arguing that a correct output does not alone establish that the required deterministic computation actually executed. The standard is model- and architecture-agnostic, applicable across financial services, aerospace, medicine, and engineering, though empirical evidence to date is drawn solely from large language model deployments in financial services by the protocol's own author.
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When Algorithms Meet Institutions: Evaluation Ecologies in Public Sector Machine Learning
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Helene Ratner, Chiara Carboni
Digital Society · 2026-08-01
This article introduces 'evaluation ecologies' as a framework for understanding how machine learning systems are assessed in public institutions, drawing on case studies from Danish schools and Dutch psychiatric clinics. The authors show that ML evaluation is not a purely technical process but an ongoing, contested interplay of technical metrics, legal frameworks, ethical norms, professional discretion, and political objectives. In Denmark, legal and ethical concerns shut down a technically robust algorithm, while in the Netherlands, perceived operational utility overrode professional skepticism. The findings argue that power, expertise, and accountability structures—not performance metrics alone—determine algorithmic outcomes in the public sector.
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Active learning for interactive prompt clarification in safety-critical programmable logic controller code generation
Ketut Adnyana, Andreas Schwung
Applied Soft Computing · 2026-08-01
This paper proposes IPC+AL, a method combining Interactive Prompt Clarification with Active Learning to govern LLM-based code generation for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in safety-critical industrial settings. The system quantifies specification ambiguity using entropy from multi-validator disagreement and applies a fail-closed gating policy that blocks code emission unless predefined safety and dialect checks pass. Feasibility studies on Batch Mixing and Robot Pick-and-Place scenarios show improved gate pass rates and expert-assessed artifact quality compared to standard prompting baselines. The authors position IPC+AL as an auditable pre-commissioning governance layer, explicitly noting it requires downstream compilation, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop validation, formal verification, and expert approval before deployment.
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Scientific Collaboration in the Age of <scp>AI</scp> Geopolitics: Governing Openness Under Strategic Competition
Xinyi Guo, Jinghan Zeng
Politics & Policy · 2026-08-01
This policy essay argues that governments should adopt 'managed openness' to navigate the tension between AI-driven geopolitical competition and the scientific interdependence that AI innovation requires. The framework rejects both unrestricted openness and wholesale technological decoupling, instead proposing proportionate, transparent safeguards that distinguish among types of research risk while preserving international cooperation on AI safety and governance. The authors contend that scientific intermediaries and targeted resilience-building can reconcile legitimate security concerns with the collaborative norms essential to global AI progress. The piece offers a pragmatic governance model relevant to science policymakers balancing national security and international scientific exchange.
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From compliance to claim: re-orienting the EU’s fundamental rights impact assessment for patient-centred AI in health
Antonio Pele, José Vida Fernández, Francisco Ortega et al.
AI and Ethics · 2026-08-01
This paper argues that the EU's current AI regulatory framework—including the AI Act, GDPR, Medical Device Regulation, and the European Health Data Space Regulation—is structured around system risk and market access rather than patient rights. The authors propose a 'rights-integrated constitutional framework' built on accountability, agency, and participation, using the right to health (ICESCR Article 12) as a central norm. Their core recommendation is to reorient the AI Act's fundamental-rights impact assessment (Article 27) into a patient-facing, contestable entitlement, giving individuals the right to be informed, access assessments, and challenge AI deployments. The paper situates this within an enforceability taxonomy, arguing that integrating existing legal entitlements—rather than creating new rights—offers a more effective path to patient-centred AI governance.
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Governing the Unseen: A Systematic Review of AI Literacy among Language Teachers in Higher Education
Yanyao Deng, Ferdi Çelık, Volkan Duran
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence · 2026-08-01
This systematic review synthesizes 32 empirical and conceptual studies (December 2022–March 2026) examining AI literacy among language teachers in higher education. It finds that AI literacy is largely framed through competency-based models, but critical and domain-specific dimensions remain underdeveloped, professional development is often unstructured, and assessment relies heavily on self-reporting with limited attention to ethical skills. Institutional governance structures—including clear policies, equitable resource access, and defined responsibilities—are largely absent, leaving AI literacy development dependent on individual effort and ad-hoc experimentation. The review concludes that sustainable and equitable AI literacy requires structural governance rather than individual upskilling alone.
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Ethical considerations for multimodal artificial intelligence in healthcare
Kristin Kostick-Quenet, Jennifer K. Wagner, Laura Y. Cabrera et al.
AI and Ethics · 2026-08-01
This perspective paper argues that multimodal AI (MMAI) in healthcare is ethically novel because it can combine heterogeneous data—images, speech, physiological signals, and text—to generate new synthetic data objects (e.g., inferred clinical images or notes) that enter medical records as if they were observed facts, without clear provenance. The authors contend that existing AI governance frameworks are inadequate because they focus on data protection rather than governing the inference and infrastructuring processes that produce these objects. To address this gap, they propose a four-part agenda: provenance labeling, evidence-building on emergent inference capacities, dynamic consent models, and privacy-preserving techniques. The paper matters for policy and certification because it calls for new governance structures to ensure accountability, contestability, and patient rights as MMAI becomes embedded in clinical and research infrastructures.
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AGI for Healthcare? A Call for Conceptual Discipline in the European Union
B. Stahl, D. Eke
Journal of Responsible Technology · 2026-08-01
This editorial critiques the European Commission's call for proposals on 'artificial general intelligence for healthcare,' arguing that the term AGI is conceptually problematic regardless of interpretation. If AGI merely means advanced AI, the contested label is unnecessary; if it refers to qualitatively novel AI with unpredictable capabilities, funding such work conflicts with the EU's established precautionary principle. The authors call for greater conceptual discipline in Horizon Europe and European AI policy, including scrutiny through the EU AI Act framework.
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Motivational and normative drivers of generative AI substitution in academic work: a mixed-methods study from Saudi higher education
Mazin Mansory, Zilal Meccawy
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) · 2026-08-01
This mixed-methods study of 249 undergraduates at a Saudi university examines what drives students to use generative AI to substitute for—rather than support—their own academic work. Using PLS-SEM, the researchers found that positive attitudes toward AI and moral rationalization strategies together explained 46% of the variance in substitution behavior, with the perceived clarity of institutional AI guidance significantly moderating the rationalization-to-substitution pathway. Qualitative interviews with students and instructors revealed that linguistic pressures, peer norms, and inconsistent faculty guidance further blurred the line between legitimate scaffolding and shortcutting. The findings point to the need for clearer, inclusive AI policies, process-oriented assessments, and culturally responsive academic integrity education in multilingual higher education contexts.
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The Scaling Paradox in Human-AI Collaboration
Anyan Qi, Mengxin Wang
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026-08-01
This paper develops an analytical model showing that the well-known performance gains from scaling AI systems do not automatically translate into better human-AI joint performance. When humans over-perceive AI capabilities, a 'scaling paradox' can emerge where larger AI actually reduces overall system performance and firm profits; when humans under-perceive AI capabilities, gains are slower than expected. The authors show that operational policies—such as cost internalization and perception alignment—can help firms manage these distortions, suggesting that managing the human-AI interface may be more valuable than simply investing in larger models.
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