cs.CY · 2026-07-31 · No. 70

Computers and Society, 2026-07-31.

2 new papers in cs.CY. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    Asymmetric Communication: Large Language Models and Language Games

    Enzo Fenoglio

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    Contemporary AI discourse attributes to language models properties they cannot bear: general intelligence as substrate-independent cognition, hallucination as cognitive failure, agency as autonomous goal-pursuit, sentience as emergent inner life, alignment as goal synchronization. This paper argues that these are instances of a single category mistake--properties constituted within human communicative practice are projected onto the machine...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28137 · PDF

  2. 02

    Scaling, Lock-In, and Proxy Compliance: A Political Economy of Responsible AI

    Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.GT · econ.TH

    AI accountability at scale is an institutional problem: who can observe, verify, and change deployed systems. We develop a sequential political-economy model in which an AI vendor chooses auditability and substantive mitigation, a deployer monitors after adoption while facing switching costs, and enforcement depends on verifiable evidence. Anticipating the deployer's monitoring response, the vendor may stop at an observable procurement floor...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28023 · PDF

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