cs.CY · 2026-08-04 · No. 74

Computers and Society, 2026-08-04.

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

    Who Should Be Generated? Justifying Demographic Targets in Open-Ended Generation

    Zeshen Zheng, Yujia He, Qianmian Lin, Xiangyue Huang, Wenqing Chen

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.CL

    Fairness evaluation concerns not only what a model produces, but also what its outputs ought to be compared against. When a model generates "a CEO in the United States," the prompt leaves demographic realization to the model. Existing group fairness definitions assume that sensitive attributes are given on the input side. Generative audits instead examine output-side demographic composition, yet the targets they compare it against are...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.02551 · PDF

  2. 02

    No One Wins in Nuclear War: A Social Simulation of Military Decision-making

    Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Mark Riedl

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.MA

    WOPR is a social-simulation environment for studying how organizations make high-stakes decisions, built on a deterministic, replay-validated rules engine and using wargames as the vehicle. We instantiate it first with the published card game Nuclear War, traced against its published rules. We start with military decision-making because of its safety implications and because it needs further study, but the design is not specific to it: the...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.01868 · PDF

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