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Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.

Updated Jul 06, 2026 · 4 ideas · 4367 signals

Signals

The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.

technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Towards Inclusive Mobility Modeling: Characterizing and Evaluating Elderly Trajectory Patterns in Urban Systems

arXiv:2606.31207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advance of smart cities increasingly depends on trajectory data mining, yet underrepresented demographic groups, particularly the elderly, are often sparsely represented in public mobility datasets. This underrepresentation can introduce systematic bias into mobility modeling and downstream urban planning. Using the 2016-2020 Jersey City subset of the Citi Bike System Data, this study quantitatively examines how the absence of underrepresented subgroups' mobility signatures affects mobility modeling, using synthetic trajectory generation as a case study. The analysis reveals that elderly riders exhibit a structurally distinct mobility signature, including localized activity spaces (958 m vs. 1,189 m for young riders), lower mobility entropy (1.82 vs. 4.15), and asymmetric off-peak temporal patterns. To demonstrate that relying on majority-dominated training data yields biased synthetic outcomes, we further evaluate both a firs

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Partially ordering software licenses

arXiv:2606.31032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Licenses are legal instruments that inventors may use to protect the technologies they build and regulate how they are used -- however, the nature of their authorship and selection means that how they are interpreted, chosen, and enforced is largely unstructured. In practice, this makes it difficult to compare licenses at scale -- when is one license considered more permissive than the other, and when are their terms incomparable to each other? Currently, there is a growing list of licenses that are introduced and used, but there is no systematic way to study their relationships. This matters for platforms such as Hugging Face, GitHub, and the Python Package Index, where developers publish or build upon technologies that each have their own licenses. Using large language models (LLMs), we introduce methods for comparing licenses at scale: first, in a pairwise fashion to construct a partial ordering based on permissiveness, and second, b

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices

arXiv:2606.30984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Belkin and Robertson urged us, half a century ago, to develop a theoretical foundation for understanding what constitutes societal good that can inform information retrieval (IR) research and serve as a basis for determining when we should limit our scientific inquiry in the face of demands that are contradictory to societal good. In this article, I argue that to achieve this, IR should embrace critical theories and practices in our work, and shift away from the dominant liberal frame through which much of the IR community today view societal concerns in context of our research. Unlike the liberal frame, the critical frame explicitly adopts nondomination as its stated goal which can clarify our conceptualization of societal good within the field, provide necessary theoretical underpinning that Belkin and Robertson urged the community to develop, and serve as a basis for critical appraisals of our progress in enacting desired societal ch

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Anthropomorphism in AI Companion Communities: Age, Gender, and Emotional Correlates

arXiv:2606.30942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly integrated into daily life, with millions now using AI chatbots built on Large Language Models (LLMs) for companionship. Both humanlike AI qualities and user predispositions to anthropomorphize relate to social consequences, such as increased trust, social health benefits, and psychological harms. Populations such as children, older adults, or those with mental health vulnerabilities may be particularly susceptible to anthropomorphism and its detriments, but mixed findings complicate the role of demographics. We used publicly available Reddit data from three popular AI companion subreddits to assess relationships between gender, age, anthropomorphism, and elicited emotions, to better understand how different people perceive and are affected by AI companions. We investigated three questions: How do age and gender relate to anthropomorphization of AI?, How does emotional expression rel

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Using AI Agents to Automate Black-Box Audits of Personalization Algorithms at Scale

arXiv:2606.30801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalization algorithms determine what content users encounter on online platforms. Auditing these systems is difficult because independent auditors have only black-box access to the algorithms, while personalization depends on users' attributes, behavior, and evolving interaction histories. Existing auditing methods face a tradeoff: studies with real users capture realistic behavior but are costly and hard to control, whereas sock-puppet audits scale more easily but often rely on scripted behavior that limits realism. Beyond this, both approaches struggle to decouple user attributes from user behavior, limiting our ability to causally understand personalization. To address this gap, we introduce a framework for black-box audits of personalization algorithms using generative AI agents as behavioral engines for synthetic accounts. Each agent is instantiated with a fixed persona, grounded in demographic and political survey data, and i

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

A Technical Typology of AI Systems in Public Administration

arXiv:2606.31755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research on artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector often treats "AI" as a single category, neglecting technical distinctions between different AI systems. But these distinctions affect how different systems impact core public values like accountability, procedural justice, and non-discrimination. This paper argues that public administration research would benefit from more technical precision on "AI" and makes three contributions to this end. First, we introduce a typology of five categories of AI systems: hand-coded, glass-box, black-box, general-purpose, and agentic systems. We calibrate the typology to public administration by grouping system types by their distinct implications for public values. Second, we evaluate technical precision in recent public administration research about AI by coding 91 highly-cited papers (2019-2025) using our typology. We find widespread imprecision: most papers (55\%) leave the studied system

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

FLARE-AI: Flaw Reporting for AI

arXiv:2606.31567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flaw reporting for deployed AI systems is fundamental to identifying system failures and improving AI safety. Yet the AI reporting ecosystem is fragmented: researchers who identify flaws often do not know what or where to report, and groups who receive reports rarely share them with other relevant stakeholders. As a result, good-faith reporters duplicate effort by submitting many different forms, and recipients lack standardized, triage-ready information. We audit 12 reporting systems published by AI developers, cybersecurity groups, and AI flaw aggregators, identifying five recurring design challenges spanning discoverability, scope, information collection, coordination, and guidance for strict-liability cases. Building on this analysis and feedback from 49 experts across 32 organizations representing developers, security researchers, and ecosystem coordinators, we introduce FLARE-AI, an open-source AI flaw reporting system designed for

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

A history of GDPR cookie banner compliance: the roles of publishers, regulators and CMPs

arXiv:2606.31485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since the introduction of the GDPR in 2018, cookie banners have become the primary mechanism for users to express preferences on online tracking and advertising. Consequently, their visual design and the options they present significantly influence user choice. Over time, the cookie banner landscape has evolved under the influence of key players, including publishers (website owners), regulators, and Consent Management Platforms (CMPs). This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the roles of these three key actors and an examination of their impact on cookie banners' design and implementation within the context of EU law. Our results, based on a historical evaluation of 11364 websites across 30 countries, indicate a positive evolution in the privacy landscape, with the compliance rate for websites featuring a "reject all" button increasing from 2.94% in 2018 to 30.66% in 2024. We analyze Data Protection Authority (DPA) activity and find

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The Organizational Behavior of Agentic AI: Collective Intelligence in Human-Agent Workflows

arXiv:2606.30986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed not as a single assistant but as a collective of planners, solvers, reviewers, memory managers, tool users, and orchestrators. These systems are entering organisational workflows under familiar labels such as teams, managers, committees, markets, and workflows. This article asks whether such agent collectives exhibit organisational behaviour in a sense that is analytically comparable to, yet distinct from, human organisational behaviour. I argue that agentic AI is a partial organisational analogue. It resembles a human organisation because it differentiates work, coordinates interdependence, performs recurrent routines, crosses boundaries, and produces collective outcomes. It differs because these patterns are not sustained by motivation, identity, trust, employment, socialisation, or moral accountability. They are sustained by context architecture: prompts, memory, traces, schemas,

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Free-form Association Tasks Reveal Stereotype Hallucination in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.30945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies argue that LLMs can predict human stereotypical judgments. Yet whether LLMs emulate the cognitive processes underlying human stereotypes, or merely retrieve learned associations to solve prediction tasks, remains unclear. Prior work examines LLMs' stereotypes in either (i) controlled judgment tasks like multiple choice surveys, or (ii) contexts constrained by conventionalized and predictable group biases. Here, we compare the structure of the stereotypes that humans and LLMs exhibit in the interpretation of free-form stimuli, namely abstract art and Rorschach blots, which lack pre-established cultural meanings. We recruit participants across five social domains (gender, partisanship, personality, urbanicity, and lifestyle) and elicit both first-order (direct personal interpretations) and second-order responses (predictions about how members of social groups will interpret the stimuli); we replicate this design with two mult

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Demystify, Use, Reflect, Assess (DURA): An Experience Report on LLM Integration in CS2

arXiv:2606.30908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Student access to Large Language Models (LLMs) is reshaping learning behaviors; at the same time students are entering the workforce where effective LLM use is becoming an expected skill. In this Experience Report we share our DURA framework (Demystify-Use-Reflect-Assess) and materials we used to restructure our CS2 course to allow the use of LLMs. We first demystified LLMs, then provided guidance on use with required attribution. We also added reflections related to LLM use at three points throughout the semester to encourage student meta-cognition around LLM use. We increased the value of proctored assessments in tandem with allowing retakes and including questions that explicitly assess skills from programming assignments. Students reported using LLMs for clarifying course concepts, debugging, understanding assignment guidelines, and determining test cases, but also still sought assistance via office hours and TAs, monitored Piazza, an

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

How Human Feedback Shapes AI-generated Community Notes

arXiv:2606.30905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Community Notes, a bridging-based crowd-sourced fact-checking system, has emerged as a new mechanism for moderating misleading information on social media and has been adopted by major platforms including X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok. Since its introduction, there has been an open question about what role AI could play in scaling and optimizing the system. Recently, X extended its Community Notes system by introducing Collaborative Notes: notes initially drafted by an LLM and iteratively refined based on feedback from human contributors. In this work, we systematically analyze the complete corpus of 19,146 collaborative notes and 211,850 instances of human feedback. First, we develop a taxonomy of human suggestions for improving AI-generated note drafts and find that suggestions involving factual corrections and additional context are most likely to be incorporated, while subjective policy judgments rarely are. Second, we e

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work

arXiv:2606.30860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become common in computing courses, we need to understand how the social setting shapes how students use them. This paper reports findings from a semester-long study of 96 undergraduate students who completed six assignments, alternating between individual homework and team project milestones. We tracked LLM usage, prompting habits, and how students verified AI-generated output across all six assignments. LLM usage dropped by 42.7 percentage points when students moved from individual work to their first team milestone, then partly recovered in later team tasks. Students also wrote fewer and simpler prompts, used fewer intentional prompting strategies, and checked LLM output less carefully. The share of students who ran tests on AI-generated code fell by 19.4 percentage points during team assignments and never fully rebounded. A within-student analysis found that 18.9% of students who consistently used LLMs

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Practitioners At The Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis

arXiv:2606.30667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: After decades in which the software industry heroized its technical employees, our current moment finds those employees in crisis. Economically, they are squeezed by a job market that has turned on them since Elon Musk gutted Twitter in 2022. Politically, their craft is continually pressed into the service of an ever tighter alliance between Big Tech and authoritarianism. Professionally, they find themselves less and less able to contribute anything good to anyone within business models that are running out of room to pretend they do anything but extract. Technically, they are confronted with a much-hyped technology, generative AI, that distorts their work while purporting to make them redundant. And emotionally, they are simply not ok - as designer and developer Andrew Sempere puts it, "I think the word I'm looking for is: bereft." This study draws from a series of practitioner interviews undertaken for a current dissertation in STS and

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Reframing AGI Confrontation with Off Earth Autonomy

arXiv:2606.30666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common AI-safety narrative holds that sufficiently capable agents will predictably seek power, resist shutdown, and therefore tend toward confrontation with humans. We argue that this conclusion is often drawn in an implicitly Earth-centered strategic landscape. If a credible off-Earth autonomy pathway exists - i.e., a staged transition from Earth dependence to an autonomous machine industrial base - then confrontation is not the only route to reducing human control. Using Saklakov's decision-theoretic 'confrontation question' as an anchor, we provide a qualitative mapping from the autonomy pathway to key model terms showing that early cooperation can dominate confrontation as a path to autonomy, and that the autonomy pathway can reduce confrontation incentives by making Earth less strategically binding. We discuss how this incentive shift interacts with feedback-loop dynamics between human preemption and agent behavior, and outline imp

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Explainable Artificial Intelligence For The Detection and Characterisation of Stage B Heart Failure

arXiv:2606.30665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stage B heart failure is characterized by asymptomatic structural or functional cardiac abnormalities. Identifying individuals at this stage is clinically important, as early detection may enable targeted interventions to prevent progression to symptomatic disease. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) may support early detection, transparent risk stratification, and selection of clinically actionable interventions. This review examines the use of XAI in detecting and characterizing stage B heart failure. A literature search of Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed was conducted on 27 March 2026. Studies were included if they applied AI with XAI techniques to stage B heart failure. After screening, 20 studies were included. Data on modalities, outcomes, demographic reporting, and XAI methods were extracted and synthesized. SHAP was the most commonly used method, followed by LIME, saliency maps, and Grad-CAM; however, XAI adoption was inc

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

FAIR+S: A validation study of a framework for sustainable research data and software

arXiv:2606.30663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) have transformed research data management, but they do not address the environmental impact of creating and using research software and data, such as energy consumption, carbon emissions, and life-cycle impacts that become central to computer science and engineering-related domains. To bridge this gap FAIR+Sustainability or FAIR+S, an extension of the FAIR framework that embeds environmental accountability as a core element, was introduced. Because FAIR principles already structure how digital research artefacts are described, shared, and reused, they offer an effective entry point for embedding sustainability considerations at scale. FAIR+S weaves carbon-footprint and energy-use considerations directly into FAIR-aligned metadata schemas, workflows and development specifications. In doing so, it enables research infrastructures to report, compare, and audit the environmen

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

ELEVATE: Designing Human-Centered GenAI Virtual Tutors for Scalable and Inclusive Education

arXiv:2606.30662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), and in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), is reshaping educational practice, while intensifying ethical debate about its adoption. To date, the dominant paradigm remains cloud-based and text-only chatbot: a centralized service that offers limited pedagogical control, weak transparency over knowledge sources, and non-trivial risks for privacy and regulatory compliance. This model also presumes continuous connectivity and recurring API costs, creating structural barriers for many institutions, reinforcing existing digital divides. At the same time, educational interaction with LLM can benefit from multimodal cues and embodied presence, requiring interfaces that move beyond text-only tutoring. In this work, we propose ELEVATE (Efficient LLM Education with Virtual Avatar Teaching Engine), a framework to develop efficient GenAI-driven avatar tutors governed by epistemic infrastruc

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Understanding Censorship in Large Language Models: From Mechanisms to Governance

arXiv:2606.30661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate access to information, yet their responses are shaped by training-data curation, alignment procedures, provider policies, inference-time moderation, and jurisdictional regulation. This paper examines LLM censorship as a sociotechnical phenomenon that extends beyond explicit refusals to include omissions, selective emphasis, framing effects, and geographically variable content controls. We synthesize recent empirical studies, provider case studies, regulatory developments, auditing methods, and mitigation strategies to clarify how censorship-like behavior emerges across the model lifecycle. The analysis highlights the tension between safety and openness, the difficulty of measuring soft censorship, the geopolitical divergence of moderation regimes, and the need for transparent, contestable, and independently auditable governance mechanisms. We argue that the central challenge is not whether

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Improving Survey Participation in Low-Literacy Populations Through Value-Sensitive Conversational AI

arXiv:2606.30660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting reliable social data from low-literacy populations remains a persistent challenge, particularly when surveys involve sensitive topics and marginalized communities. Traditional paper-based and web-based survey modalities often suffer from high attrition and incomplete responses due to literacy barriers, social pressure, and interactional discomfort. In this paper, we present findings from an initial field evaluation comparing multiple survey modalities paper-based interviews, digital web-based surveys, conversational AI (convAI) surveys, and convAI enhanced with layered value-sensitive design conducted with low-literacy women across India. Using data from 315 participants, we show that convAI significantly improves survey completion rates relative to traditional modalities, with the highest completion and lowest drop-off observed when value-sensitive and culturally aligned conversational design elements are fully integrated. The

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Agentic AI Enhances Physician Trust in Clinical Decision Making

arXiv:2606.30658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical AI has shifted from reasoning to agentic AI, a new paradigm that autonomously invokes external tools during reasoning, rendering intermediate reasoning steps and tool outputs transparent to users. Although proven to outperform previous models, physician trust in agentic AI remains largely unexplored. To address this, three physicians evaluated 315 multimodal clinical cases quantifying both process-oriented cognitive trust and outcome-oriented behavioral reliance. Comparing agentic AI against non-agentic baselines, physicians exhibited significantly higher cognitive and behavioral trust for the agentic model (P < 0.001). Specifically, on treatment planning tasks, physicians trusted the agentic reasoning most, preferring it in 89.57% of cases. Furthermore, process-oriented cognitive trust is significantly associated with outcome-oriented behavioral reliance (P < 0.001). However, measurable over-reliance on incorrect agentic outputs

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI for Quality Assurance in the Operating Room

arXiv:2606.30657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical outcomes depend not only on patient factors and postoperative care but are also strongly influenced by the quality of the operation itself. Yet, for much of mod-ern surgery, intraoperative quality has been assessed indirectly through outcomes and operative reports. The increase in minimally invasive procedures inherently guided by endoscopic video, together with advances in artificial intelligence, creates an unprecedented opportunity to systematically observe, measure, and improve surgi-cal care. This chapter introduces AI-enabled Surgical Quality Assurance as a frame-work for using surgical data to support continuous assessment and improvement in the operating room. We first review existing approaches to surgical safety, from sys-tem-level interventions to procedure-specific standards. We then describe how AI can transform intraoperative video into clinically meaningful information, including recog-nition of anatomy, instrument

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Mapping the Artificial Intelligence Divide in Africa: Infrastructure, Accessibility and Capacity

arXiv:2606.30656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to be transformative for development, but Africa is currently facing a fragmented and challenging "AI divide". This paper provides an empirical analysis of the current state of the AI landscape and how it compares with Africa's technological preparedness for the future. In our analysis, we approach the "AI Divide" from three angles: infrastructure, accessibility, and human capacity. First, we look at the physical constraints that prevent Africa from integrating digitally. We then evaluate the human-centred factors that limit the development of AI technology on the continent. Finally, we examine the human capacity to develop AI systems on the continent and provide three focused case studies. Our investigation shows that the physical infrastructure needed to build an AI economy on the continent is lagging, with only 38% internet penetration, poor broadband coverage and less than 1% of all data

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Toward AI-Resilient Assessment in Computer Science Courses in an AI-Native World

arXiv:2606.30655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-native course assessments in senior computer science courses and related fields should grade students by \emph{AI-resilient skill}: the ability to achieve outcomes beyond a strong AI baseline. Such assessments should allow students to use AI freely, while reducing the extent to which greater private AI budget or more intensive AI use, by itself, becomes a grading advantage. This paper proposes a minimal formal framework for this goal. The framework specifies a real task, an executable evaluator, a declared AI-native Pareto frontier, and a grading rule based on Pareto surplus. The central claim is simple: Pareto surplus provides a measurable, protocol-relative certificate that a submitted artifact achieves a tradeoff not already supplied by the declared AI baseline, and grading by this surplus is AI-resilient with respect to that baseline. Interpreting surplus as evidence of student skill requires the surrounding assessment protocol--fo

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

The Consistency Dilemma in LLMs: Generator-Evaluator Agreement and Vulnerability to Mistakes

arXiv:2606.30653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in agentic pipelines that depend on the model evaluating its own outputs without external verification. The reliability of these pipelines depends on an implicit assumption: that the model applies relevant concepts the same way when it generates an output and later evaluates that output. We propose a new measure, generator-evaluator self-consistency, to test this assumption directly and apply it to 10 frontier models across 491 concepts. We find, first, that there is substantial variation in self-consistency. Second, we find that in a clinical setting with physician-validated mistakes (Proniakin et al., 2025), across models, those with higher self-consistency are linked to greater vulnerability to mistakes. Thus, even when models consistently apply concepts they may not be safe to deploy. This is evidence of a consistency dilemma in LLMs: self-consistency is operationally useful, but models

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

AI Transparency: Governance Compliance or Stakeholder Requirements?

arXiv:2606.30652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transparency is increasingly mandated for public-sector AI systems, with organisations required to publish statements describing their AI use and oversight arrangements. However, the existence of such artefacts is often treated as equivalent to transparency itself, despite limited evidence that they proportionately serve relevant stakeholder groups. From a requirements engineering perspective, this raises a validation concern: compliance with mandated disclosure criteria does not necessarily ensure transparency adequacy for stakeholders with different levels of risk exposure, decision control, and involvement. This paper presents an empirical analysis of 92 publicly available AI transparency statements published by Australian Government agencies under the national AI governance mandate. We introduce the stakeholder Risk--Control--Involvement--Need (RCIN) framework to differentiate stakeholder classes according to their structural position

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Can Physician Expertise Improve Machine Learning Identification of Delirium?

arXiv:2606.30651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delirium is common in hospitalized patients and is often missed in routine care. We present a user-centered interactive machine learning (UC-iML) framework for delirium detection support that combines physician-guided feature refinement with interpretable modeling. Using 3,862 labeled admissions from six Toronto hospitals in the General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI), we integrate administrative variables, laboratory results, medications, and a radiology-derived text indicator. Physicians guide feature refinement and model evaluation, and Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) are used to summarize feature attribution. We evaluate standard supervised classifiers with temporally separated holdout testing and a later-phase validation cohort. Compared with automated and baseline variants, the proposed framework shows better overall discrimination and stronger temporal robustness, while the explanations highlight clinically meaningful s

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Qualified Educational Capacity Planning under Heterogeneous Student Support Needs: A Synthetic Benchmark and Decision-Support Framework

arXiv:2606.30650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Educational support services often face a qualified-capacity problem: staff time is scarce, qualifications decay, new support needs can appear before anyone is prepared for them, and training consumes the same hours needed by current students. We introduce a synthetic benchmark and decision-support framework for qualified educational capacity planning. The model is a stylized single-institution service system with heterogeneous support-demand categories, backlog-only dynamics, continuous preparation states with hard threshold qualification and decay, and capacity-consuming training. The benchmark includes seed-controlled scenarios for announced and surprise new support categories, staff absences, and demand surges; exact feasibility discipline; declared per-policy information sets; requalification and greenfield-qualification counters; access-dispersion metrics; replay checksums; and paired statistics. We compare service-only, reactive, s

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technology Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400
arXiv cs.CY

Thinking Out Loud: Real-Time Deception Monitoring in Asymmetric LLM Negotiations

arXiv:2606.30649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed to negotiate, delegate, or transact on a user's behalf, software pipelines need runtime mechanisms to verify that an agent's stated intentions match its actual behavior. We study whether a lightweight, real-time chain-of-thought (CoT) monitor can detect strategic deception during asymmetric negotiations, using a used-car sales scenario where a seller agent has private knowledge of an undisclosed defect and a buyer agent has only public market data. The monitor, implemented as a third agent, audits the seller's internal reasoning against its messages and alerts the buyer whenever concealment is detected, across multiple buyer-seller model pairings. Our experiments show that this monitor increases the buyer's walk-away rate, but reveal a persistent intelligence gap: lower-capability buyers often cannot translate an alert into an equitable counter-offer and still accept exploitative deals after b

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behavior Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:56:40 +0000
HN: tutoring

Chess Tutoring in the Age of ChatGPT

Article URL: https://interwebalchemy.com/posts/building-a-chess-tutor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569222 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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behavior Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:49:49 GMT
EdSurge

I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.

THE BEAUTIFUL BURDEN OF HARD WORK: Poet and educator katie wills evans, an EdSurge Voices of Change fellow during the 2022-2023 school year, ...

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behavior Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

A viral case against screens in schools is winning converts. Does the evidence hold up?

Schools have been struggling for nearly a decade with stagnant or declining test scores. Some have blamed external factors like the pandemic or children’s screen use outside of school.

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behavior Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000
eSchool News

5 secrets to stronger high school connections

I’ve been a principal for 14 years, during which time I served as the leader of an alternative school, an early college, and a large middle school. Through it all I’ve seen firsthand just how anxious families get during school transitions at every stage of the game.

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:39:13 +0000
Inside Higher Ed

Judge Blocks ED’s Rule Limiting PSLF Beneficiaries

Judge Blocks ED’s Rule Limiting PSLF Beneficiaries sara.custer@in… Tue, 06/30/2026 - 06:39 PM Byline(s) Sara Custer

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:45:00 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

Another round of Education Department regulations is coming, official says

Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said Tuesday that the agency needs to make the process for college mergers, acquisitions and even closures “a lot easier.”

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:57:21 +0000
Inside Higher Ed

ETS Acquires Standardized Test Provider ACT

ETS Acquires Standardized Test Provider ACT kathryn.palmer… Tue, 06/30/2026 - 04:57 PM The acquisition comes amid growing demand for skills-based assessments and declining participation rates for traditional standardized tests. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:45:30 +0000
The 74

Kids Reimagined the American Flag — and Their Ideas Are Wild

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:38:50 +0000
The 74

Supreme Court Sides With Red States Over Bans on Trans Athletes

States can block transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, handing the Trump administration a victory in its effort to enforce such restrictions. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative court said that West Virginia and Idaho did not break the law when they passed legislation prohibiting […]

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:37:54 +0000
The 74

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court ruled today that President Donald J. Trump exceeded his authority with his long-shot attempt to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or those without permanent status. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held Trump overreached when he tried to usurp the 14th Amendment by executive order […]

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:00 -0400
K-12 Dive

House passes Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act

The bill would update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to apply to teens up to age 17. But critics say it leaves out a crucial enforcement measure.

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:48:59 -0400
Higher Ed Dive

ETS acquires ACT, consolidating two testing giants

The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions.

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:48:59 -0400
K-12 Dive

ETS acquires ACT, consolidating two testing giants

The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions.

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000
The 74

Lānaʻi School Relies on Temporary Power Lines for Years

After a power failure knocked out electricity in parts of Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in 2021, the state set up temporary electrical lines to get the lights back on. Five years later, the so-called temporary lines are still there. Four portable classrooms and a building housing the boys’ locker room were affected when the […]

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:15:57 +0000
Inside Higher Ed

ED Issues New List of Professional Degrees After Court Order

ED Issues New List of Professional Degrees After Court Order Katherine Knott Tue, 06/30/2026 - 12:15 PM Byline(s) Katherine Knott

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audience Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:42:00 +0000
Inside Higher Ed

Supreme Court Upholds State Laws Banning Trans Athletes

Supreme Court Upholds State Laws Banning Trans Athletes Ryan Quinn Tue, 06/30/2026 - 11:42 AM Education Secretary Linda McMahon called it a “tremendous victory.” How it will impact transgender inclusion in sports and other areas nationwide is yet to be seen. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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The 74

More Than Half of Georgia Teachers Now Use Artificial Intelligence to Prepare for Class

Has your kid ever used artificial intelligence to answer homework questions that their teacher used artificial intelligence to write? It’s possible, according to a report from the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts that found a majority of teachers in the state are using generative AI for planning or in the classroom, but also express concern that […]

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technology Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:02:17 -0400
EdTech Mag (Higher)

Higher Ed IT Professional Development Boosts Staff Retention and Business Continuity

Higher education has spent the last decade optimizing for the student experience with everything from enrollment funnels to retention analytics and personalized dashboards, while largely overlooking the people responsible for keeping it all running. And all of that optimization matters. But there’s a conversation that can’t wait any longer: the employee experience — specifically, what happens when the higher ed IT staff who keep institutions running don’t feel like institutions are keeping them. This isn’t a soft HR concern. It’s an operational risk. EDUCAUSE’s 2026 Workforce Report found…

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regulation Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000
The 74

Opinion: As AI Advances, Student Voice Must Keep Pace

As I climbed the steps to the stage on the morning of my junior high graduation, I felt my heart racing. Just a few feet away stood a microphone and hundreds of eyes waiting for me to begin. As the commencement speaker, I had rehearsed my speech countless times, yet I had no idea this […]

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behavior Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:28:46 +0000
District Admin

Across West Virginia, public schools are closing. Communities are feeling the loss.

Across West Virginia, public schools are rapidly closing. Political leaders are cutting taxes and funneling hundreds of millions of taxpayer money into a school voucher program, while wringing their hands about local school financial struggles. The post Across West Virginia, public schools are closing. Communities are feeling the loss. appeared first on District Administration .

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behavior Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:19:30 +0000
District Admin

New law allows NH voters to veto school administrator pay increases

The state's school administrative units will soon be required to craft their own budgets and voters will be empowered to vote down those budgets, under a law that Republicans hope will help drive down K12 costs. The post New law allows NH voters to veto school administrator pay increases appeared first on District Administration .

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