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Resist and Update: Counterfactual Report Coordinates for Incentive-Compatible LLMs
Aligned language models routinely misreport under non-evidential incentive pressure: they agree with a confident user or overstate certainty even when their internal belief is unchanged. We cast this as a failure of internal incentive-compatibility (IC) and present a method for learning and certifying counterfactual report mediators that hold a model's reports to a causal contract: invariant to forbidden influences (pressure, prestige, restyling) and responsive to licensed ones (genuine evidence
FormalAnalyticGeo: A Neural-Symbolic Based Framework for Multimodal Analytic Geometry Problem Generation
Math reasoning has achieved significant progress with the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), however analytic geometry remains largely underexplored, primarily due to the scarcity of annotated samples. Existing diagram generation approaches struggle with analytic geometry: template methods cannot handle constraint-driven layouts, and generative models lack the geometric precision to render annotated conic curves correctly. We present FormalAnalyticGeo, a scalable fram
Sensing the properties of virtual objects without physical feedback
People who have interacted with simulated worlds and simulated objects in extended reality (XR) often have a sense that they can 'feel' the objects being simulated despite them not being physical. Our sense of touch is essential for how we 'feel' the physical world, however, there is an open question as to what it means to 'feel' virtual objects when interacting with them in immersive digital environments. In prior research, we have reported that participants often describe a subjective experien
AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up
At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak just like Albert Einstein or mathematician John Nash. The ...
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.
‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule
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Marketing students explore the future of AI with industry collaboration
This collaboration with Into-it has been particularly cutting edge, and this group of students really dove in and accomplished a lot. Dr Heather Kappes, Associate Professor (Education) of Management ...
E-Satisfaction and risk perception in government mobile banking applications: A sentiment analysis of user reviews
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Ceren Cubukcu Cerasi, Yavuz Selim Balcioglu, Zeynep Behrin Guven Aydin
Outsider innovation in digital investor communities: How meme coordination reshapes market participation
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Lennart Ante
What motivates generation Z in Vietnam to continue using e-bikes? A comprehensive multi-method investigation
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Long Hai Duong, Ching-Fu Chen, Choong-Ki Lee, V.G. Girish
Perceived organized crime risk, R&D investment, and Technical efficiency: Evidence from Italian firms
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Antonio Fabio Forgione, Carlo Migliardo, Marco Spadaro
ViHoRec: A Quality-Controlled Vietnamese Hotel Recommendation Dataset and Cold-Start Benchmark
Recommender-system research for Vietnamese remains limited by the absence of a public, well-documented hotel interaction resource. Building such a resource is challenging for three reasons: cross-platform hotel names must be reconciled before interactions are comparable; quality must be audited with reproducible metrics rather than ad hoc cleaning; and public release must preserve privacy while remaining benchmarkable under realistic cold-start conditions. We introduce ViHoRec, a quality-control
Narrating the AI Act: Policy narratives on artificial intelligence, their construction, and evolution within the European Parliament
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 3 Author(s): Anne Goldmann, Sandra Plümer
Managerial resistance to digital workplace surveillance in a local government authority
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 3 Author(s): Oliver George Kayas, Efpraxia D. Zamani
Robust and effective multi-agent path execution with timing uncertainty
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 358 Author(s): Yihao Liu, Xueyan Tang, Wentong Cai, Jingning Li
Generating and grounding prescriptive knowledge: Improving design research and policy practice
Publication date: Available online 18 June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly Author(s): Yiwei Gong, Marijn Janssen
Planning with uncertainty: symmetries, policy inference, and solution compression
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 358 Author(s): Frederico Messa, André Grahl Pereira
Dashboards as boundary objects: Shaping data-policy boundaries in complex policy domains
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Wybren van Rij
Contractual control of real-time data: China's Senpu case and digital infrastructure access policy
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Fengliang Jin
Exploring the influence of missing data imputation in group fairness metrics
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 357 Author(s): Arthur Dantas Mangussi, Ricardo Cardoso Pereira, Miriam Seoane Santos, Ana Carolina Lorena, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Pedro Henriques Abreu
From the fringes to the mainstream: How narrative work intertwines novel institutional roles and digital policy advocacy
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Eleunthia Wong Ellinger, Anna Fahlgård Lahache, Magnus Mähring
Institutionalized digital resilience: Controlled openness and cross-layer governance in Malaysia's response to techno-geopolitical rivalry
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Qing Lu
Balancing innovation and safeguards for public legitimacy: A typology of sentiment toward AI regulation in the EU and US
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Lukas Hermanns, Konrad Degen, Timm Teubner
From connectivity expansion to intelligent ecosystems: The 5G value conversion gap and the transition toward AI-native 6G
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Khuong Vu
How rationale and process transparency shape perceived legitimacy in AI-assisted decisions: Experimental evidence from China and the United States
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Shangrui Wang, Yuanmeng Zhang, Zhenming Huang, Zheng Liang
Chinese Parents’ Love: The ICT governance logic behind Chinese video game policies
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Zitao Chen, Yuqi Wang, Jing Wang
Does digitalization really reduce environmental pressure? Evidence from emerging economies on the digital environmental paradox
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Seyit Ali Micoogullari, Ibrahim Cutcu, Erdal Alancioglu, Sifa Ozkan
Artificial intelligence in policymaking: Mapping integration gaps across the public policy cycle
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Martin Lnenicka, Antoine Clarinval, Anastasija Nikiforova, Daniel Rudmark, Mariusz Luterek, Dimitris Symeonidis, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
When the future feels solastalgic: Understanding how anticipatory solastalgia predicts pro-environmental intentions
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Futures, Volume 183 Author(s): Junpeng Chen, Liuna Geng
Digital technologies and sexual behavior outcomes: Evidence on fertility and HIV from developing countries
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Louis de Berquin Eyike Mbongo, Paul Omang Ombolo Messono, Alexandre Turpin Iroume A Bouebe
AI-enabled innovation and firm growth in the Asia–Pacific region: Multilevel and experimental evidence on regulatory climate
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Zhuzhou Liu, Zhe Weng, Shichao Yu
Reduced perceived discretion, diminished felt accountability, and ineffective gender representation: The impact of AI on street-level bureaucracy
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Shangrui Wang, Yuanmeng Zhang, Yiming Xiao, Zheng Liang
Artificial intelligence in strategic foresight: Evidence from a longitudinal case at Siemens Professional Education
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Futures, Volume 183 Author(s): René Rohrbeck, Stephan Szuppa, Julia Schmidt
The exhaustion principle in copyright and modern digital markets
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Bronwyn E. Howell, Petrus H. Potgieter
Robots and sectoral FDI: Why automation attracts technology-driven but not resource-driven investment in OECD countries
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Brahim Bergougui
The global legislative ICT transparency index
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Jamil Civitarese, Gregory Michener, Octavio Amorim Neto
Next-generation strategic foresight for responsible AI governance and technology policy: Introducing the Archer Model
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Futures, Volume 182 Author(s): Katalin FEHER, Fenwick McKelvey, Lindsay Rodgers, Robert N. Marinov
Robots and post-retirement labor supply: Evidence from China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Mengxuan Wu, Weiwei Zheng, Wei Wang
Beyond subsidies: Digital governance, market validation, and the pathway to sustainable development goals-aligned green transformation
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Junlin He, Wee-Yeap Lau, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Kok-Haur Ng
Using behavioral science to improve compliance in government records management: Evidence from a large field experiment
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Vincent Hopkins, Christine Kormos