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This position paper argues that agentic AI systems should be designed and evaluated as \emph{marginal token allocation economies} rather than as text generators priced by the unit. We follow a single request -- a developer asking a coding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Siqi Zhu

There is a substantial and ever-growing corpus of evidence and literature exploring the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on society, politics, and humanity as a whole. A separate, parallel body of work has explored…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Benjamin S. Bucknall , Shiri Dori-Hacohen

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises transformative benefits but also presents significant risks. We develop an approach to address the risk of harms consequential enough to significantly harm humanity. We identify four areas of…

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector is best understood as a continuation and intensification of long standing rationalization and bureaucratization processes. Drawing on Weber, we take the core of these processes to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jakob Mokander , Ralph Schroeder

Humanity is progressing towards automated product development, a trend that promises faster creation of better products and thus the acceleration of technological progress. However, increasing reliance on non-human agents for this process…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jan Göpfert , Jann M. Weinand , Patrick Kuckertz , Noah Pflugradt , Jochen Linßen

Using a model in which agents compete to develop a potentially dangerous new technology (AI), we study how changes in the pricing of factors of production (computational resources) affect agents' strategies, particularly their spending on…

General Economics · Economics 2023-02-23 Mckay Jensen , Nicholas Emery-Xu , Robert Trager

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in recent years, yet its rapid expansion brings overlooked environmental and ethical challenges. This review explores four critical areas where AI's impact extends beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jenis Winsta

Debates about artificial intelligence capabilities and risks are often conducted without quantitative grounding. This paper applies the methodology of MacKay (2009) -- who reframed energy policy as arithmetic -- to the economy of AI…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-10 Alec Litowitz , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

The convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the emergence of AI-based tokens, which are cryptographic assets designed to power decentralized AI platforms and services. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rischan Mafrur

This paper provides policy recommendations to reduce extinction risks from advanced artificial intelligence (AI). First, we briefly provide background information about extinction risks from AI. Second, we argue that voluntary commitments…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Andrea Miotti

AI safety and alignment research has predominantly been focused on methods for safeguarding individual AI systems, resting on the assumption of an eventual emergence of a monolithic Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The alternative AGI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nenad Tomašev , Matija Franklin , Julian Jacobs , Sébastien Krier , Simon Osindero

Generative AI has unleashed the power of content generation and it has also unwittingly opened the pandora box of realistic deepfake causing a number of social hazards and harm to businesses and personal reputation. The investigation &…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Prasanna Kumar

Generative and agentic artificial intelligence is entering financial markets faster than existing governance can adapt. Current model-risk frameworks assume static, well-specified algorithms and one-time validations; large language models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Eren Kurshan , Tucker Balch , David Byrd

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping the global financial landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance customer engagement, automate complex workflows, and extract actionable insights from vast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bikash Saha , Nanda Rani , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Traditionally, AI has been modeled within economics as a technology that impacts payoffs by reducing costs or refining information for human agents. Our position is that, in light of recent advances in generative AI, it is increasingly…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-04 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology that has the potential to transform many aspects of society, including the economy, healthcare, and transportation. This article synthesizes recent research literature on the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chandregowda Pachegowda

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to a wide range of predictions about its long-term impact on humanity. A central focus is the potential emergence of transformative AI (TAI), eventually capable of outperforming…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-24 Jakub Growiec , Klaus Prettner

If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a competitive task-based model, demand…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-24 Brett Hemenway Falk , Gerry Tsoukalas

We propose a new model for regulation to achieve AI safety: global regulatory markets. We first sketch the model in general terms and provide an overview of the costs and benefits of this approach. We then demonstrate how the model might…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jack Clark , Gillian K. Hadfield

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly, and companies are shifting their focus to developing generalist AI systems that can autonomously act and pursue goals. Increases in capabilities and autonomy may soon massively amplify…