Sunday, October 18, 2026

Category: AI

Position: Current Model Cards Are Insufficient for Downstream Governance of Open-Weight Foundation Models

Haley

arXiv:2608.18086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growth of open-weight foundation models (OWFMs) has prompted the AI community to re-evaluate strategies for effective downstream governance. Although model cards have been widely adopted as transparency artifacts in model repositories, existing frameworks often fail to adequately inform downstream developers and users about the distinct safety challenges posed by…

Position: Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests

Haley

arXiv:2608.18081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial agentic systems increasingly operate as behavioral systems by interacting with dynamic environments, pursuing goals, and adapting over time. Yet, current evaluation methods largely focus on performance outcomes, not the underlying behavioral processes that produce them. This paper argues that AI agents must be evaluated like other behavioral systems: through…

Large Language Models in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Innovations, and Ethical Challenges

Haley

arXiv:2608.18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a review on the applications of large language models (LLMs) in health, e.g., social media analysis, clinical conversational agents, therapy support tools, prompt engineering, multimodal learning, and ethical considerations. We integrate findings from interdisciplinary studies utilizing diverse data sources such as social media posts, electronic medical records, and…

Position: Profiling Game Worlds by Transition Complexity

Haley

arXiv:2608.18079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Game world modeling (GWM) and reinforcement learning (RL) are often confounded because research papers rarely quantify how difficult the underlying transition prediction problem is at the declared interface (pixels/tokens/latents with finite history). We propose the Transition Complexity Profile (TCP): a small, reproducible set of metrics that characterizes an environment's (or…

Position: Collusion Risks Among AI Reasoning Agents Justify Certification Requirements for Making Market Decisions

Haley

arXiv:2608.18078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that AI agents with chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities are predisposed to exhibit collusive behavior and should be required to obtain behavioral certification before making decisions that affect economic markets. This is because integrating these agents into society could collapse the legal evidentiary distinction between competition and collusion…

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Jerrell

Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried…

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

Jerrell

Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple connections. The airline can consider potentially hundreds of variables to price each of these journeys: demand, season, time of day, current events, global markets, and competitor airline activity to name…

The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground

Jerrell

There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everything from large trucks to planes to steelmaking. It’s often hailed as a climate solution because when burned, it produces water…

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