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Using LLM-generated draft replies to support human experts in responding to stakeholder inquiries in maritime industry: a real-world case study of Industrial AI
Tita Alissa Bach, Aleksandar Babic, Narae Park et al.
Cogent Engineering · 2026-07-29
This real-world case study examines how LLM-generated draft replies can support human experts handling stakeholder inquiries in the maritime industry. Using mixed methods—observations, interviews, surveys, and text similarity analysis—the researchers found that LLM drafts improved efficiency, linguistic consistency, and time management, but frequently required manual adjustments for accuracy and relevance. Text similarity analyses showed only moderate alignment between drafts and final replies, underscoring the need for human oversight, while case handlers displayed a 'skeptical but curious' attitude toward adoption. The authors conclude that LLMs are not yet suitable for independent use in safety-critical maritime settings but can serve as valuable augmentative tools when combined with human expertise.
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Transforming thyroid disease education: AI and virtual technologies in residency training
Shujian Xu, Cui Zhao, Nannan Sun et al.
Frontiers in Endocrinology · 2026-07-29
This narrative review examines how artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies can improve residency training for thyroid disease specialists. Drawing on 42 studies published between 2015 and 2025, the authors find that AI tools enable real-time, objective assessment of ultrasound skills and support personalized learning, while VR platforms offer immersive, risk-free environments for practicing procedures such as thyroidectomy. Key challenges include data security concerns, limited anatomical fidelity and haptic feedback, high costs, and difficulties integrating these tools into existing curricula. The review concludes that AI and VR are valuable supplements to traditional training but must be implemented within a human-centered framework that preserves clinical and humanistic competence.
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Redesigning with Intelligence: Faculty Led Innovation in Nursing Curriculum Using Artificial Intelligence
Taylor Long, Nadine Wodwaski, Phillip Olla
International Journal of Nursing Education · 2026-07-29
This study compared AI-assisted versus manual nursing curriculum redesign, finding that using a customized ChatGPT-4 model reduced redesign time from approximately 41.6 hours to 2.9 hours—a 93% time savings. The AI tool was tailored to align with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's 2021 Essentials to support accreditation compliance. Qualitative themes from 25 faculty included reduced cognitive workload and interest in AI support, though findings may be affected by self-report and recall bias. The results suggest AI can meaningfully streamline accreditation-driven curriculum work and free faculty for other responsibilities.
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Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Industrial Support Business Processes through Low-Code Conversational AI: Evidence from a Workflow-Embedded Case Study
Paulo Peças, Diogo Pires, Diogo Jorge
International Journal of Mathematical Engineering and Management Sciences · 2026-07-29
This case study examines how two low-code conversational AI agents—ManuBot and MailBot—were embedded into industrial maintenance-support workflows to reduce administrative burden. MailBot cut supplier-email preparation time from 12–15 minutes down to 2–3 minutes per message, while ManuBot reduced maintenance-data retrieval and querying time by approximately 50%. Users also reported improved access to historical malfunction records and more structured communication routines. The findings suggest that task-specific, workflow-embedded AI agents can deliver measurable efficiency gains, though constraints such as incomplete ERP integration and uneven user readiness limit broader generalization.
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Digital infrastructure, innovation capacity, and AI technology adoption in EU manufacturing
Ruxandra Boghian
Economics of Innovation and New Technology · 2026-07-29
This study analyzes AI adoption across EU-27 manufacturing and service enterprises using Eurostat panel data from 2023 and 2025, finding that digital infrastructure (measured by the Digital Intensity Index) is the strongest predictor of AI uptake, with large firms consistently outpacing SMEs. Central and Eastern European countries lag behind Western Europe overall but are catching up fastest—Romania recorded a 223% increase—and statistical convergence tests confirm narrowing cross-country disparities in AI diffusion. The results carry direct implications for EU industrial policy, quality-management upgrading, and targeted AI-adoption programmes in lagging regions.
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Does Al Readiness Promote Financial Development? Evidence On Institutional Complementarity
Junjie Shu
Journal of Economics Finance and Management Studies · 2026-07-29
This study finds that national AI readiness—measured by the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index across 193 economies from 2020–2024—is associated with a 4.25-percentage-point increase in bank credit to the private sector as a share of GDP per one-standard-deviation rise in AI readiness. Crucially, this effect is conditional on institutional quality: the relationship is statistically insignificant in low-quality institutional environments but grows strongest where institutional quality is high. The authors identify formal entrepreneurship, labor productivity, and structural upgrading as positive transmission channels, and results hold across multiple robustness checks including GMM and instrumental-variable estimates. The findings suggest that AI readiness alone is insufficient to drive financial development without complementary institutional frameworks that ensure credibility, enforceability, and scalability.
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Safety design guidelines for clinician–AI interaction in computer-aided diagnosis systems using system-theoretic framework with explainability validation
Yuki Hagiwara, Katherine Fitch, Mario Trapp
Scientific Reports · 2026-07-29
This paper develops safety design guidelines for AI-assisted computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems by applying System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to identify critical hazards in clinician-AI collaboration, such as automation bias and misinterpretation of AI explanations. The authors translate identified unsafe control actions into actionable design guidelines emphasizing transparency, coherent explanations, and calibrated trust, then operationalize these within a safety-oriented GUI that integrates multiple explainability methods and interactive mechanisms. A novel evaluation approach uses consistency across multiple explanation methods as a quantitative indicator of potentially unreliable or ambiguous AI outputs. The work is relevant to healthcare AI safety and quality assurance, offering a unified framework for improving the reliability of AI-driven diagnostic systems.
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Artificial intelligence for pediatric fracture detection: impact on diagnostic revisions and patient recall rates in a tertiary emergency setting
Oliver Johannes Deffaa, J Pape, Dominik Schlösser et al.
BMC Emergency Medicine · 2026-07-29
This prospective study evaluated a commercial AI system (TechCare Kids) for pediatric fracture detection during out-of-hours emergency care at a tertiary hospital, enrolling 667 children aged 2–18 years. The AI achieved 95.1% accuracy, and diagnostic revision rates trended lower with AI support (5.7%) versus without (8.6%), but the difference was not statistically significant (risk ratio 0.66; 95% CI 0.37–1.19). No meaningful differences were found in therapeutic changes, senior consultation rates, diagnostic confidence, or emergency department length of stay. The authors conclude that the effect size is too small to justify a larger confirmatory trial for these outcomes in an academic setting.
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Supervisory XAI Toolkit: A privacy-preserving framework for independent regulatory auditing of artificial intelligence models in financial services
Andrew Moore, Samuel Allen
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews · 2026-07-29
This paper proposes a Supervisory Explainable AI (XAI) Toolkit that enables financial regulators to independently audit proprietary AI models—such as credit scoring, AML, and fraud detection systems—without requiring firms to disclose raw data or model weights. The toolkit combines differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, and trusted execution environments with a fairness and robustness metrics engine. An illustrative evaluation shows that firm-reported fairness metrics can materially overstate actual model fairness, and that a modest privacy budget is sufficient to recover most of the audit signal needed for supervisory decisions. The work has direct implications for closing information asymmetries between regulators and regulated firms and for advancing standardization in cross-border regulatory cooperation.
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Large language models in intelligent manufacturing and mechanical engineering: a review of robotics, fault diagnosis, design, and engineering knowledge workflows
Sherif Samy Sorour, Anwar Sahbel
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing · 2026-07-29
This review surveys how large language models (LLMs) are being applied across robotics, fault diagnosis, design, and manufacturing knowledge workflows. The authors find that LLMs are most valuable as semantic and coordination layers—helping engineers navigate documents, data sources, and software environments—rather than as replacements for simulation or numerical tools. The strongest results come from hybrid architectures combining LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, multimodal perception, and digital twins. Key limitations persist, including weak grounding in ambiguous settings, limited numerical reliability, and incomplete integration with trusted engineering software.
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Cost-Benefit Effects and Breakthrough Strategies of AIGC Digital Transformation for Small and Medium Hardware Manufacturing Enterprises
Dafeng Gong, Lili Shi, Wanle Chi
International Journal of Global Economics and Management · 2026-07-29
This study uses a two-way fixed-effects difference-in-differences model on 41 Wenzhou hardware SMEs (2021–2025) to quantify the causal effects of adopting generative AI (AIGC). Results show AIGC adoption cuts new product R&D cycles by 32.6%, lowers unit manufacturing costs by 18.3%, and raises total factor productivity by 14%, with gains most pronounced for medium-sized firms. However, adoption also imposes significant cost burdens—one-off equipment expenses equal to 11.37% of annual net profit, plus ongoing system and talent costs. The paper recommends lightweight SaaS subscriptions for firms and tiered government subsidies, shared AI platforms, and school-enterprise training programs to ease barriers for SME clusters.
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Education and training in low-dose CT lung cancer screening across Europe: a survey study
Rebecca Mura, Pamela Zolda, Roberta Eufrasia Ledda et al.
Insights into Imaging · 2026-07-29
This survey of 25 lung cancer screening (LCS) experts across 14 European countries finds a highly heterogeneous training landscape, with only 4 countries having established programmes and significant gaps in awareness of training needs. Experts rated competence in managing incidental findings, guideline-based nodule management, and basic knowledge of AI tools as the highest-priority competencies for professionals involved in LCS. The findings underscore the need for shared European curricula that strengthen both technical skills and structured communication training across radiologists, pulmonologists, and general practitioners.
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Yapay Zeka Eğitim Setlerinde Eser Niteliğinde Veri Kullanımı - Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. Karar İncelemesi
Fatma Zeynep Atalar
Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi · 2026-07-29
This Turkish law review article analyzes the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. case decided by the U.S. District Court for Delaware, focusing on whether copyright-protected legal data (Westlaw headnotes, key number system) used to train an AI system qualifies for fair use protection. The court found the materials met originality, fixation, and creative effort thresholds and rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense across all four statutory factors. The paper then compares U.S. fair use doctrine with Turkish copyright law (FSEK) exceptions and assesses whether existing frameworks adequately protect authors' economic rights when their works are used in AI training datasets, concluding with observations on future AI regulation.
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Perceived Artificial Intelligence Support and Reliance in Instructional Media Generation: A Survey of Malaysian ESL Teachers
Tai Jhe Ken, Mohammad Hafiz Zaini, Mohd Jasmy Abd Rahman
International Journal of Learning Teaching and Educational Research · 2026-07-29
This survey of 111 Malaysian ESL teachers finds that while educators report high perceived AI support for generating instructional media, their actual reliance on AI tools is only moderate. Teachers leaned more on AI for production tasks like creating visually engaging content than for higher-order pedagogical design tasks. Hierarchical regression showed perceived AI support positively predicted reliance, while more experienced teachers relied on AI less. The authors conclude that professional development should help teachers critically evaluate and maintain pedagogical control over AI-generated materials.
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Is a new world order taking shape in the age of AI? Mapping the global distribution of AI readiness and its implications for diplomacy and global order
Seyed‐Ali Sadegh‐Zadeh, Lucas Kello, Carissa Véliz et al.
Frontiers in Political Science · 2026-07-29
This study uses the 2023 Government AI Readiness Index across 193 countries, cross-referenced with four complementary data sources, to map how national AI capacity is distributed globally and how it relates to governance and diplomatic influence. The authors find strong convergence across indices (Cronbach's α = 0.93) and show that AI readiness is broadly distributed across regions rather than concentrated in a single power, suggesting a multi-regional configuration of capability. Causal effects remain statistically uncertain, so findings are framed as associations rather than drivers, but the paper argues governments should treat AI readiness—skills, infrastructure, data governance—as a foreign-policy priority and engage in inclusive global governance frameworks to prevent widening divides.
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The Unpriced Externality: Toward a Data and Attention ESG (DAESG) Framework for AI Governance
Maria Luz Madariaga
arXiv · 2026-07-29
This paper argues that AI and platform systems generate two unpriced externalities—attentional extraction via engagement-maximizing design and data-commons depletion through synthetic training data—analogous to unpriced carbon in environmental accounting. The authors propose a 'Data and Attention ESG' (DAESG) framework with three layers (disclosure, standards, and capital allocation) to enable financial governance actors to treat digital ecosystem extraction as a material and manageable risk. Evidence cited includes the European Commission's July 2026 preliminary finding that Meta breaches the Digital Services Act through addictive design, and documented model collapse from recursively generated synthetic data. The framework is positioned as distinct from existing Digital ESG literature, which focuses on how digitalization improves ESG performance rather than addressing extraction risks.
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Integrating AI Chatbots and Blockchain Smart Contracts: Enhancing Fintech Accessibility for Low-Digital-Literacy Workers
Ade Andri Hendriadi
Buana Information Technology and Computer Sciences (BIT and CS) · 2026-07-29
This study develops and validates a framework combining AI-powered chatbots with blockchain smart contracts to improve financial technology accessibility for low-digital-literacy vocational workers in Indonesia. Using a mixed-methods design with 618 workers and 86 focus group participants, the researchers found that AI chatbot personalization and smart contract automation each significantly predict adoption, together explaining 71.4% of adoption variance. Key measured outcomes include a 67% reduction in onboarding time, an 85% efficiency gain in automated salary disbursement, and 94% accuracy in credential verification. The findings offer evidence-based guidance for practitioners and policymakers seeking to build inclusive fintech systems for underserved worker populations.
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AI Adoption and Productivity in Firms
Bianca MAZAREANU
Business Administration Student Working Papers · 2026-07-29
This paper examines how AI adoption affects firm-level productivity across multiple industries, finding that companies integrating AI technologies generally experience higher productivity growth than non-adopters. The study identifies three key channels: AI-enabled automation of routine tasks, AI-driven data analytics improving decision-making, and AI fostering complementary innovations in products and business models. Productivity gains are largest when AI adoption is paired with organizational change, employee training, and investments in digital infrastructure. The findings carry implications for both managers and policymakers regarding workforce reskilling and institutional support for AI integration.
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Human-AI Collaboration Models for Scalable Enterprise Software Testing
Rejenish Kiran
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-07-29
This paper proposes two governance frameworks—the Human–AI Responsibility Allocation (HARA) Model and the AI Confidence-Based Escalation Framework (ACEF)—designed to structure how enterprises divide software testing tasks between AI systems and human experts. HARA assigns repetitive, computationally intensive tasks such as regression testing and anomaly detection to AI, while reserving strategic responsibilities like release readiness assessment and compliance oversight for humans; ACEF then operationalizes this split through a three-tier escalation mechanism driven by AI confidence scores, business criticality, and risk tolerance. Evaluated conceptually across regulated industries including insurance, financial services, and healthcare, the frameworks aim to improve testing efficiency, auditability, and regulatory compliance without sacrificing human accountability. The work provides a practical governance architecture for responsible AI adoption in enterprise quality assurance and continuous delivery.
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Algorithmic Governance in Financial Institutions
Northon Salomao de Oliveira
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-07-29
This paper by Northon Salomão de Oliveira identifies a critical governance gap in financial institutions where AI systems making consequential decisions—such as credit allocation, fraud detection, and risk classification—outpace legal frameworks built around human agency. Through comparative legal analysis across six jurisdictions (EU, US, UK, Singapore, China, and Brazil) and jurisprudential review of cases like the 2013 Knight Capital failure and the CJEU SCHUFA credit-scoring ruling, the author finds that regulators universally recognize AI-related risks but diverge sharply on liability allocation and enforceability. To address this, the paper proposes the Distributed Algorithmic Accountability Framework (DAAF), which shifts accountability upstream across the model lifecycle through design-stage documentation, continuous validation triggers, tiered supervisory access, and harmonized incident reporting based on statistical instability rather than realized harm. The framework aims to close enforcement-capacity asymmetries and reduce systemic vulnerabilities from correlated AI behavior across institutions during market stress.
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Autonomy Without Unbounded Authority From Causal Access to Governed Self-Revision
Karel Hrubec
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-07-29
This design note argues that an AI system's ability to represent and propose changes to its own organization does not justify granting it broader authority over the rules governing those changes. Grounded in a prior Maintenance-Loop pilot study, the authors distinguish three often-conflated properties—access, authority, and assurance—and propose a minimal governed revision lifecycle (Diagnose → Propose → Challenge → Authorize → Stage and Execute → Monitor → Retain or Roll Back) in which the proposing mechanism cannot unilaterally expand its own permissions, alter acceptance metrics, or disable oversight. The paper advances structural principles requiring that revision scope contract under uncertainty and that changes be evaluated by recovery-first and conjunctive criteria rather than average performance alone. The contribution matters for AI governance because it provides an empirically grounded boundary argument against conflating self-revision capability with self-revision authority.
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Artificial Intelligence and Green Technology Regulation: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Environmental Sustainability
Uttam Vir Singh
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-07-29
This paper examines the regulatory tension between AI's potential environmental benefits—such as climate modelling and sustainability optimisation—and its own ecological costs, including energy consumption, water usage, and electronic waste. Using the EU AI Act as a case study, the authors identify an 'instrumentation gap' between stated sustainability goals and actual regulatory mechanisms, arguing that current frameworks adopt an anthropocentric framing that neglects lifecycle and ecocentric concerns. The paper proposes a Lifecycle Governance Model incorporating environmental impact assessment, sustainability-by-design principles, and binding reporting obligations, and calls for a multi-level governance approach harmonising AI regulation with environmental law principles.
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Continuous assurance for AI-driven clinical decision support systems
Rami A. Al-Horani, Amanuel F. Tadesse
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026-07-29
This review paper examines the limitations of traditional audit and assurance frameworks when applied to adaptive and generative AI in Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS). The authors identify three paradigm shifts reshaping AI-CDSS audit: expanding scope from model-centric to ecosystem-level assurance, moving from post-hoc explainability to reasoning traceability, and shifting from static compliance toward resilience-oriented monitoring. To address persistent implementation gaps, the paper proposes the STRAICS framework (Socio-Technical Resilience Assurance for Intelligent Clinical Systems), which integrates technical robustness, human-machine interaction safeguards, adaptive governance, and transparency-by-design. The work has significant implications for how healthcare organizations and regulators ensure patient safety and regulatory compliance as clinical AI systems become more complex and adaptive.
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Human-centered digital ecosystem: safeguarding healthcare workers' sleep, ergonomics, and occupational health
Donghui Ren, 曲玉芳, Hui Sun
Frontiers in Public Health · 2026-07-29
This Perspective paper argues that healthcare worker fatigue, sleep disruption, and poorly integrated digital systems represent failures of work-system design rather than individual shortcomings, using Healthcare-Associated Infection surveillance as an illustrative example of high-burden administrative tasks. The authors propose a Human-Centered Digital Ecosystem that prioritizes adequate staffing, circadian-aligned scheduling, and protected recovery before introducing technology, with AI playing a strictly adjunctive role as a 'cognitive shield' to filter low-value information. Crucially, the paper contends that AI tools should only be introduced after major organizational risks are being addressed in parallel and must not delay or replace structural reforms such as increased hiring and fair compensation. Digital interventions should be evaluated not just on technical accuracy but on their effects on cognitive workload, after-hours work, recovery, and equitable distribution of work across occupational groups.
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Perlindungan Hukum Data Pribadi di Era Kecerdasan Buatan: Tantangan dan Prospek Regulasi di Indonesia
Muhammad Farhan Abdullah
Jurnal Hukum Administrasi Publik dan Negara · 2026-07-29
This normative legal study examines how Indonesia's Law Number 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection addresses—and falls short in governing—AI-driven data processing, automated decision-making, and oversight mechanisms. Using statutory, conceptual, and comparative legal methods, the authors identify gaps in the current framework relative to international regulatory developments. The study concludes that stronger legal policies, harmonized sectoral regulations, and AI-specific governance principles are needed to balance effective personal data protection with responsible technological innovation in Indonesia.
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