cs.CY · 2026-08-12 · No. 82

Computers and Society, 2026-08-12.

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

01 — The papers

4 entries
  1. 01

    Policy Convergence and Divergence Across National and Within Regional AI Strategies: A Policy Design Element Analysis

    Benjamin Faveri, Brie Bhasin

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    Governments worldwide have responded to the rapid expansion of AI by publishing national and regional AI strategies. Comparing national and regional AI strategies to identify their convergences and divergences can uncover their common practices, understand regional variations, and provide policy designers a comprehensive set of policy design elements for their ongoing AI strategy developments. Yet, existing work has not examined their...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.11006 · PDF

  2. 02

    The GenAI Catch-22: Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Norwegian Newsrooms During the 2025 Parliamentary Election

    Mari Reisjå, Anders Sundnes Løvlie

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    The increasing use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in journalism raises concerns about possible detrimental effects both on journalism and its democratic function. We explore these risks through a case study of GenAI in Norwegian Newsrooms during the 2025 parliamentary election campaign. Based on interviews with managers and journalists over a ten-month period, we analyse how ambitious visions fared in the face of technological...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10773 · PDF

  3. 03

    Smart Enough to Go Extinct? An Evolutionary Challenge to the Value of General Intelligence and Its Ethical Implications for AGI

    David Klotz

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) rests on a seemingly self-evident premise: that general intelligence, the kind of flexible, domain-general cognitive capacity exemplified by Homo sapiens, is extraordinarily valuable. This paper subjects this premise to critical scrutiny. We first present the intuitive case for the value of general intelligence before mounting an evolutionary challenge. We argue that, on evolutionary...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10730 · PDF

  4. 04

    Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope

    Nicola Fabiano

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it. Article 3(1) of the AI Act uses the capability to infer constitutively: it is the central feature separating the regulated category from conventional software. The GDPR never defines inference, yet governs it protectively: the consequences follow from the processing of personal data and from what the inference says about, or does to, a person,...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10601 · PDF

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