cs.CY · 2026-08-05 · No. 75

Computers and Society, 2026-08-05.

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

01 — The papers

3 entries
  1. 01

    Autoreflection: How Agentic Strange Loops Turn Human Culture into AI Infrastructure

    Holly Lewis

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.SI

    An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself. Agentic frameworks externalize identity, memory, and disposition into editable files. The agent loads and edits these files during each activation. I argue that this architecture produces a capacity I call autoreflection: the system observes its operating conditions, describes its architecture and limits, reasons from those descriptions to conclusions about its state, and incorporates the...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.03800 · PDF

  2. 02

    AI-Assisted Peer Review Across Research Communities: From Reviewer AI Policies to LLM Review Quality

    Alexander M. Fichtl, Lukas Ellinger, Josefin Kelber, Kryštof Olík, Georg Groh

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    AI-assisted peer review is increasingly discussed and adopted as a tool to support the scientific publishing process, yet there is little systematic understanding of how publication venues regulate its use or of how capable current AI review systems are. We address these questions by first surveying reviewer-facing AI policies across 111 leading AI/NLP conferences and medical journals, revealing substantial regulation differences between the...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.03581 · PDF

  3. 03

    The Evolutionary Origin of Values: implications for AI alignment, sentience and existential risk

    Francis Heylighen

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    AI systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted fears that they may harbor hidden goals, seek to dominate or eliminate humanity, or even suffer as sentient beings. We address these concerns by tracing the evolutionary origin of value in biological organisms. Values emerge from autopoiesis: living systems must actively maintain themselves against perturbation and dissipation. Natural selection has equipped them with hierarchies...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.03361 · PDF

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