Law, Regulation & Liability · 2026-11-03
Network Law Review, Fall 2026, pp. 10–17
Replacing permission with compensation does not remove copyright governance costs; it shifts control over training to AI providers and makes creators' protection depend on access to evidence and enforceable redress.
Platform Governance & Internet Governance · 2026-10-05
Figshare
Forensic governance of opaque platforms improves when observations, integrity claims, correlations, causal hypotheses, and external determinations are kept as separate evidence states that can be independently challenged.
AI Governance · 2026-10-01
FERZ, Inc. research report
Governance evidence becomes institutionally meaningful only when it can reconstruct a decision, prove that authorization preceded execution, and preserve the authority and action context that made the decision legitimate.
AI Governance · 2026-09-29
International Journal of Scientific Research Studies, 3(9), 425-435
The paper convincingly reframes electoral AI as an institutional evidence problem rather than a detection problem, but it offers a governance agenda rather than a governance architecture until authority for authenticity disputes, correction, platform enforcement, and redress is specified.
AI Governance · 2026-09-16
arXiv
An assistant can turn a user's subjective account into an apparently independent judgment without acquiring independent evidence, making epistemic separation a governance requirement rather than merely an accuracy objective.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-08-06
ICML 2026
The inability to generate new premises is not only a model-capability gap; it is a governance boundary for institutions that delegate scientific agenda-setting to AI. World models may expand the space of machine-generated hypotheses, but without rules for evidentiary status, validation, attribution, and contestability they also concentrate authority over what counts as a plausible explanation.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-07-25
arXiv
AI companions do not merely simulate intimacy. They place the continuity, terms, and emotional consequences of a relationship under platform control while personalizing feedback loops that can intensify both recovery and withdrawal.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-07-24
arXiv
LLMs do not merely reduce the cost of scientific work. By raising the opportunity cost of researcher time, they can redirect effort toward higher throughput, thinner development, and greater submission pressure, making institutional incentives rather than model accuracy the decisive governance problem.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-07-12
Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy, University of Cambridge
The report shows that the relevant unit of AI misuse is not the isolated malicious prompt but the organization that can train specialists, distribute access, compare providers, and convert model output into operational routines. Safety governance built around single-user refusals will remain structurally inadequate unless it can address coordinated adversaries without turning platform monitoring into unaccountable security infrastructure.
Platform Governance & Internet Governance · 2026-07-12
arXiv
Embedding generative AI into a civic platform did not merely assist users with prose. It standardized the language of participation while leaving participation and petition effectiveness unimproved, showing that interface defaults can centralize expressive power without producing corresponding public value.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-05-15
Center for Democracy & Technology AI Governance Lab
The report's central contribution is that it treats eating disorder risk as a pattern of interaction rather than a prohibited content class. Its governance gap is that the taxonomy still needs to become an auditable control framework with thresholds, evidence requirements, escalation duties, and redress pathways.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-05-06
DeepTech4Bharat Foundation and Center of Policy Research and Governance
The report frames AI employment as a reallocation of roles across the full AI stack, but it does not operationalize the institutional controls needed to make those roles legitimate, contestable, and accountable. Its central governance gap is that it identifies new occupations without fully defining the authority, liability, evidence, and redress structures those occupations will exercise.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-05-06
Imagining the Digital Future Center, Elon University
The report's decisive analytical move is to redefine resilience as an institutional property rather than an individual coping skill. Its main governance weakness is that it names contestability, authenticity, literacy, and institutional redesign as necessities without converting them into enforceable decision rights, evidence duties, escalation paths, and redress mechanisms.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-04-07
arXiv preprint
The paper shows that AI assistance is not only a performance aid but a behavioral control surface that can recondition users away from persistence and independent competence. Its governance significance lies in shifting AI evaluation from immediate helpfulness toward measurable autonomy preservation, capability retention, and refusal-to-solve design obligations.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-04-06
arXiv
CUBE correctly identifies benchmark fragmentation as an infrastructure bottleneck, but the standard it proposes would also become a governance layer that shapes what agent capability is legible, portable, and worth optimizing for.