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Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges are puzzles related to computer security scenarios. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), more and more CTF participants are using LLMs to understand and solve the challenges. However, so far no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Minghao Shao , Boyuan Chen , Sofija Jancheska , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri , Muhammad Shafique

Crowdsourcing and human computation has been employed in increasingly sophisticated projects that require the solution of a heterogeneous set of tasks. We explore the challenge of building or hiring an effective team, for performing tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Adish Singla , Eric Horvitz , Pushmeet Kohli , Andreas Krause

Accountable use of AI systems in high-stakes settings relies on making systems contestable. In this paper we study efforts to contest AI systems in practice by studying how public defenders scrutinize AI in court. We present findings from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Angela Jin , Niloufar Salehi

Although AI holds promise for improving human decision making in societally critical domains, it remains an open question how human-AI teams can reliably outperform AI alone and human alone in challenging prediction tasks (also known as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Han Liu , Vivian Lai , Chenhao Tan

Many companies now use crowdsourcing to leverage external (as well as internal) crowds to perform specialized work, and so methods of improving efficiency are critical. Tasks in crowdsourcing systems with specialized work have multiple…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Avhishek Chatterjee , Michael Borokhovich , Lav R. Varshney , Sriram Vishwanath

Advances in AI are widely understood to have implications for cybersecurity. Articles have emphasized the effect of AI on the cyber offense-defense balance, and commentators can be found arguing either that cyber will privilege attackers or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Benjamin Murphy , Twm Stone

Crowdsourcing is a favorable computing paradigm for processing computer-hard tasks by harnessing human intelligence. However, generic crowdsourcing systems may lead to privacy-leakage through the sharing of worker data. To tackle this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Xiangping Kang , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Wei Guo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jinglin Zhang

In cybersecurity, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) serve as a vital defensive layer against adversarial threats. Accurate benchmarking is critical to evaluate and improve IDS effectiveness, yet traditional methodologies face limitations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Manuel Kern , Florian Skopik , Max Landauer , Edgar Weippl

Recent years have seen a significant surge in complex AI systems for competitive programming, capable of performing at admirable levels against human competitors. While steady progress has been made, the highest percentiles still remain out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Petar Veličković , Alex Vitvitskyi , Larisa Markeeva , Borja Ibarz , Lars Buesing , Matej Balog , Alexander Novikov

The race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance often prioritizes scale over efficiency. Hyper-scaling is the common industry approach: larger models, more data, and as many computational resources as possible. Using more resources is a…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-08 Marco Bornstein , Amrit Singh Bedi

Human uplift studies, or studies that measure the effects of AI access on human performance via randomized controlled trials (RCT) or similar methodologies, increasingly inform frontier AI governance and deployment decisions. While RCT…

Cybersecurity superintelligence -- artificial intelligence exceeding the best human capability in both speed and strategic reasoning -- represents the next frontier in security. This paper documents the emergence of such capability through…

This position paper explores the broad landscape of AI potentiality in the context of cybersecurity, with a particular emphasis on its possible risk factors with awareness, which can be managed by incorporating human experts in the loop,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Iqbal H. Sarker , Helge Janicke , Nazeeruddin Mohammad , Paul Watters , Surya Nepal

Online questionnaires that use crowd-sourcing platforms to recruit participants have become commonplace, due to their ease of use and low costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Large Language Models (LLM) have made it easy for bad actors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Benjamin Lebrun , Sharon Temtsin , Andrew Vonasch , Christoph Bartneck

Machine Learning competitions such as the Netflix Prize have proven reasonably successful as a method of "crowdsourcing" prediction tasks. But these competitions have a number of weaknesses, particularly in the incentive structure they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Jacob Abernethy , Rafael M. Frongillo

Cybersecurity spans multiple interconnected domains, complicating the development of meaningful, labor-relevant benchmarks. Existing benchmarks assess isolated skills rather than integrated performance. We find that pre-trained knowledge of…

Incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing have been extensively studied under the framework of all-pay auctions. Along a distinct line, this paper proposes to use Tullock contests as an alternative tool to design incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-06 T. Luo , S. S. Kanhere , H-P. Tan , F. Wu , H. Wu

In AI-assisted decision-making, it is critical for human decision-makers to know when to trust AI and when to trust themselves. However, prior studies calibrated human trust only based on AI confidence indicating AI's correctness likelihood…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Shuai Ma , Ying Lei , Xinru Wang , Chengbo Zheng , Chuhan Shi , Ming Yin , Xiaojuan Ma

Crowdsourced software development (CSD) offers a series of specified tasks to a large crowd of trustworthy software workers. Topcoder is a leading platform to manage the whole process of CSD. While increasingly accepted as a realistic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Muhammad Rezaul Karim , David Messinger , Ye Yang , Guenther Ruhe

Fairness in hybrid societies hinges on a simple choice: should AI be a generous host or a strict gatekeeper? Moving beyond symmetric models, we show that asymmetric social structures--like those in hiring, regulation, and negotiation--AI…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhao Song , Theodor Cimpeanu , Chen Shen , The Anh Han