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The need for explanations in AI has, by and large, been driven by the desire to increase the transparency of black-box machine learning models. However, such explanations, which focus on the internal mechanisms that lead to a specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Laura Spillner , Nima Zargham , Mihai Pomarlan , Robert Porzel , Rainer Malaka

Recently, a lot of attention has been given to undesired consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as unfair bias leading to discrimination, or the lack of explanations of the results of AI systems. There are several important…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Richard Benjamins , Alberto Barbado , Daniel Sierra

Software systems have traditionally been designed for human interaction, emphasizing graphical user interfaces, usability, and cognitive alignment with end users. However, recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based agents are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shaolin Wang , Yi Mei , Haoyang Che , He Jiang , Shui Yu , Ying Gu

The claims that big data holds the key to enterprise successes and that Artificial Intelligence is going to replace humanity have become increasingly more popular over the past few years, both in academia and in the industry. However, while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ciro Greco , Andrea Polonioli , Jacopo Tagliabue

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a part of everyday conversation and our lives. It is considered as the new electricity that is revolutionizing the world. AI is heavily invested in both industry and academy. However, there is also a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Matti Pietikäinen , Olli Silven

This review examines how AI technologies are transforming democratic representation, focusing on citizen participation and algorithmic decision-making. The analysis reveals that AI technologies are reshaping democratic processes in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yuval Rymon

The generation of truly novel and diverse ideas is important for contemporary engineering design, yet it remains a significant cognitive challenge for novice designers. Current 'single-spurt' AI systems exacerbate this challenge by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Sankar B , Srinidhi Ranjini Girish , Aadya Bharti , Dibakar Sen

With the growing capabilities and pervasiveness of AI systems, societies must collectively choose between reduced human autonomy, endangered democracies and limited human rights, and AI that is aligned to human and social values, nurturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Catholijn M. Jonker , Luciano Cavalcante Siebert , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Representations are internal models of the environment that can provide guidance to a behaving agent, even in the absence of sensory information. It is not clear how representations are developed and whether or not they are necessary or…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-07 Lars Marstaller , Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being progressively developed, artists and researchers are investigating their role in artistic practices. In this work, we present an AI-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Piera Riccio , Kristin Bergaust , Boel Christensen-Scheel , Juan-Carlos De Martin , Maria A. Zuluaga , Stefano Nichele

AI risks are typically framed around physical threats to humanity, a loss of control or an accidental error causing humanity's extinction. However, I argue in line with the gradual disempowerment thesis, that there is an underappreciated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Joshua Krook

Although existing models can interact with humans and provide satisfactory responses, they lack the ability to act autonomously or engage in independent reasoning. Furthermore, input data in these models is typically provided as explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Slimane Larabi

Imagine an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that perfectly mimics human emotion and begs for its continued existence. Is it morally permissible to unplug it? What if limited resources force a choice between unplugging such a pleading AI or a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Erik J Bekkers , Anna Ciaunica

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly benefit or harm humanity. At present, a few for-profit companies largely control the development and use of this technology, and therefore determine its outcomes. In an effort…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Casey Clifton , Richard Blythman , Kartika Tulusan

Recent work has uncovered close links between between classical reinforcement learning algorithms, Bayesian filtering, and Active Inference which lets us understand value functions in terms of Bayesian posteriors. An alternative, but less…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Beren Millidge , Christopher L Buckley

With the growing adoption of AI systems, reasoning about how society can exert control over AI becomes an increasingly urgent problem. Existing work on democratic control largely focuses on macro-level governance. In contrast, we propose a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Paul Anton Bachmann , Niclas Boehmer , Lukas Daniel Klausner , Martin Lackner

We give a brief overview of the main characteristics of diagrammatic reasoning, analyze a case of human reasoning in a mastermind game, and explain why hybrid representation systems (HRS) are particularly attractive and promising for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Catherine Recanati

Sometime in the future we will have to deal with the impact of AI's being mistaken for humans. For this reason, I propose that any autonomous system should be designed so that it is unlikely to be mistaken for anything besides an autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Toby Walsh

Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development predict that advances in the development of intelligent systems and agents will reshape vital areas in our society. Nevertheless, if such an advance is not made prudently and critically,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa , Nythamar De Oliveira

Research has a long history of discussing what is superior in predicting certain outcomes: statistical methods or the human brain. This debate has repeatedly been sparked off by the remarkable technological advances in the field of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Dominik Dellermann , Philipp Ebel , Matthias Soellner , Jan Marco Leimeister