Tootfinder

'When the road disappears into uncertainty, divergent thinkers and polymaths become indispensable. They see new trails where others see only trees. They reframe the problem, question inherited assumptions and bring together knowledge from across various disciplines. In times of systemic shocks, it’s not expertise in one field that saves us but the ability to connect the dots across many. This is the kind of competence needed now because everything is linked and disruption moves fast. '

The concept of laziness puts the burden entirely on the individual and it ignores that there are systemic barriers and there are inequalities that mean that everybody experiences the world in a different way. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-1…

Improve Retinal Artery/Vein Classification via Channel Couplin
Shuang Zeng, Chee Hong Lee, Kaiwen Li, Boxu Xie, Ourui Fu, Hangzhou He, Lei Zhu, Yanye Lu, Fangxiao Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03738

Improve Retinal Artery/Vein Classification via Channel Couplin
Retinal vessel segmentation plays a vital role in analyzing fundus images for the diagnosis of systemic and ocular diseases. Building on this, classifying segmented vessels into arteries and veins (A/V) further enables the extraction of clinically relevant features such as vessel width, diameter and tortuosity, which are essential for detecting conditions like diabetic and hypertensive retinopathy. However, manual segmentation and classification are time-consuming, costly and inconsistent. With…

Systemic Constraints of Undecidability
Seth Bulin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01036 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01036

Systemic Constraints of Undecidability
This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a closure principle: any subsystem that participates functionally in the computation of an undecidable system inherits its undecidability. This result positions undecidability as a pervasive constraint on prediction, modeling, and epistemic access in both natural …

Systemic change > Life hacks

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Catastrophic Liability: Managing Systemic Risks in Frontier AI Development
As artificial intelligence systems grow more capable and autonomous, frontier AI development poses potential systemic risks that could affect society at a massive scale. Current practices at many AI labs developing these systems lack sufficient transparency around safety measures, testing procedures, and governance structures. This opacity makes it challenging to verify safety claims or establish appropriate liability when harm occurs. Drawing on liability frameworks from nuclear energy, aviati…

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Advanced simulation paradigm of human behaviour unveils complex financial systemic projection
The high-order complexity of human behaviour is likely the root cause of extreme difficulty in financial market projections. We consider that behavioural simulation can unveil systemic dynamics to support analysis. Simulating diverse human groups must account for the behavioural heterogeneity, especially in finance. To address the fidelity of simulated agents, on the basis of agent-based modeling, we propose a new paradigm of behavioural simulation where each agent is supported and driven by a …

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Global Balance and Systemic Risk in Financial Correlation Networks
The global balance index is used in the network literature to quantify how balanced a signed network is. In this paper we show that the global balance index of financial correlation networks can be used as a systemic risk measure. We define the global balance index of a network starting from a diffusive process that describes how the information spreads across nodes in a network, providing an alternative derivation to the usual combinatorial one. The steady state of this process is the solution…

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason, Roberta Tripodi, Marco Chiaberge, Stefan Schuldt, Chris J. Willott, Yechi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01372

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
We report the detection of Ly$α$ in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad Ly$α$ emission (FWHM $= 1540 \pm 260$ km/s) near the systemic velocity, which suggests a large ionizing bubble considering that the universe is almost fully neutral at the redshift. Through Ly$α$ line-shape modeling assuming a Stromgren sphere, we find a large bubble radius, $R_b = 1.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ pMpc, and a mod…

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Shriphani Palakodety
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02027 https://

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers (ULIs) underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are fundamentally incompatible with the AI era and must be phased out. We articulate a threat model grounded in modern AI capabilities and show that traditional safeguards such as redaction, consent, and access c…

I like Cory's thread. Just like with bikes, fighting systemic issues requires personal choices AND mass mobilization. Personal choices, like getting a cargo bike* instead of an SUV to transport your kids around, help normalize it and influence others (who see you riding with your kid and realize that they can do that too). And then organizing, getting all of your neighbors together to push for safe bike infrastructure, which is particularly effective at the local level.

Tibetan #Buddhism and systemic abuses : Slovenian media report that EBU-member ‘Shenpen Rinpoche’ was arrested in #France

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Aasish Kumar Sharma, Dimitar Kyosev, Julian Kunkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00233 https://…

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems, offering powerful tools for innovation. Yet its rapid integration raises urgent ethical concerns related to data ownership, privacy, and systemic bias. Issues like opaque decision-making, misleading outputs, and unfair treatment in high-stakes domains underscore the need for transparent and accountable AI systems. This article addresses these challenges by proposing a modular ethical assess…

Judgment as Coordination: A Joint Systems View of Visualization Design Practice
Paul C. Parsons, Arran Ridley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01209 https://

Judgment as Coordination: A Joint Systems View of Visualization Design Practice
Professional visualization design has become an increasingly important area of inquiry, yet much of the field's discourse remains anchored in researcher-centered contexts. Studies of design practice often focus on individual designers' decisions and reflections, offering limited insight into the collaborative and systemic dimensions of professional work. In this paper, we propose a systems-level reframing of design judgment grounded in the coordination and adaptation that sustain progress amid …

The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act, after criticism from some companies about lack of clarity (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Evolution and determinants of firm-level systemic risk in local production networks
Anna Mancini, Bal\'azs Lengyel, Riccardo Di Clemente, Giulio Cimini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21426

Evolution and determinants of firm-level systemic risk in local production networks
Recent crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions have exposed vulnerabilities and caused disruptions of supply chains, leading to product shortages, increased costs, and economic instability. This has prompted increasing efforts to assess systemic risk, namely the effects of firm disruptions on entire economies. However, the ability of firms to react to crises by rewiring their supply links has been largely overlooked, limiting our understanding of production networks resilien…

"How women are confronting climate change by challenging the systems that created it"
#Women #Climate #ClimateChange

How women are confronting climate change by challenging the systems that created it
A growing global movement led by women is linking environmental harm with gender-based violence and inequality, calling for systemic change beyond traditional climate solutions.Katie Surma reports for Inside Climate News.In short:Ecofeminist leaders argue that climate change, environmental destructi...

Monsters are very real.
But they never emerge in a vacuum.
This piece by @… is nearly perfect in explaining why.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/sys

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-false-dichotomy-of-systemic-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"We can conclude that the brain has the capacity to distinguish virtual infectious patterns,
become activated,
and link this activation to a downstream response,
⭐️ resulting in systemic immunity,"
wrote Camilla Jandus, co-author of the study paper
https://www.

Human immune system reacts to the mere sight of infection
Researchers monitored brain activity when people were shown images of sick-looking avatars via VR. The brain appeared to spark an immune response.

Revisiting the Proper Motions of M31 and M33 Using Massive Supergiant Stars with Gaia DR3
Hao Wu, Yang Huang, Huawei Zhang, Qikang Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01127 https://…

Revisiting the Proper Motions of M31 and M33 Using Massive Supergiant Stars with Gaia DR3
The proper motions (PMs) of M31 and M33 are key to understanding the Local Group's dynamical evolution. However, measurement discrepancies between Gaia blue and red samples, regarding whether the transverse velocity is remarkable, introduce significant ambiguity. In this work, we remeasure the systemic PMs of M31 and M33 using massive supergiant stars from Gaia Data Release 3. Clean disk tracers are selected via color-color diagrams, with foreground contaminants removed through kinematic and as…

Computing, Complexity and Degrowth : Systemic Considerations for Digital De-escalation
Valentin Girard, Maud Rio, Romain Couillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19070 https://

Computing, Complexity and Degrowth : Systemic Considerations for Digital De-escalation
Research on digital degrowth predominantly critiques digital expansion or presents alternative digital practices. Yet, analyzing the link between digital technologies and complexity is crucial to overcome systemic obstacles hindering digital de-escalation. This article presents the different types of links between complexity and computing observed in the literature: the infrastructural complexity inherent in digital technologies, the socio-political complexity induced by them, and finally, the …

A Practical Guide to Interpretable Role-Based Clustering in Multi-Layer Financial Networks
Christian Franssen, Iman van Lelyveld, Bernd Heidergott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00600

A Practical Guide to Interpretable Role-Based Clustering in Multi-Layer Financial Networks
Understanding the functional roles of financial institutions within interconnected markets is critical for effective supervision, systemic risk assessment, and resolution planning. We propose an interpretable role-based clustering approach for multi-layer financial networks, designed to identify the functional positions of institutions across different market segments. Our method follows a general clustering framework defined by proximity measures, cluster evaluation criteria, and algorithm sel…

I should really write that blog post about Schrödinger's Snake — explaining the hypervigilance as a woman in tech that comes from not knowing which men are safe, and which rare few are venomous
And the associated Schrödinger's Microaggression phenomenon, when we can't know whether we were treated this way because of systemic oppression or for some mundane reason

"Inequity, precarity, and disparity: Exploring systemic and institutional barriers in open access publishing" https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006251353385

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Sam Osian, Arpan Dutta, Sahil Bhandari, Iain E. Buchan, Dan W. Joyce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20786

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, issued by coroners in England and Wales, flag systemic hazards that may lead to further loss of life. Analysis of these reports has previously been constrained by the manual effort required to identify and code relevant cases. In 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a national thematic review of child-suicide PFD reports ($\leq$ 18 years), identifying 37 cases from January 2015 to November 2023 - a process based entirely on manual c…

Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.

Increasing Systemic Resilience to Socioeconomic Challenges: Modeling the Dynamics of Liquidity Flows and Systemic Risks Using Navier-Stokes Equations
Davit Gondauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05287

Increasing Systemic Resilience to Socioeconomic Challenges: Modeling the Dynamics of Liquidity Flows and Systemic Risks Using Navier-Stokes Equations
Modern economic systems face unprecedented socioeconomic challenges, making systemic resilience and effective liquidity flow management essential. Traditional models such as CAPM, VaR, and GARCH often fail to reflect real market fluctuations and extreme events. This study develops and validates an innovative mathematical model based on the Navier-Stokes equations, aimed at the quantitative assessment, forecasting, and simulation of liquidity flows and systemic risks. The model incorporates 13 m…

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-say-israel-based-human-rights-groups

Cooperation as Black Box: Conceptual Fluctuation and Diagnostic Tools for Misalignment in MAS
Shayak Nandi, Fernanda M. Eliott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22876

Cooperation as Black Box: Conceptual Fluctuation and Diagnostic Tools for Misalignment in MAS
Misalignment in multi-agent systems (MAS) is often treated as a technical failure; yet many such failures originate upstream, during the conceptual design phase, where semantic ambiguity and normative projection take place. This paper identifies a foundational source of interpretive misalignment in MAS: the systemic conflation of cooperation and coordination, and the moral overreading that follows. Using the Rabbit-Duck illusion, we illustrate how perspective-dependent readings of agent behavio…

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Gabriela Ar\'anguiz-Dias, Grace Ra Kim, Lana Saadeddin, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02064

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
As industry reports claim agentic AI systems deliver double-digit productivity gains and multi-trillion dollar economic potential, the validity of these claims has become critical for investment decisions, regulatory policy, and responsible technology adoption. However, this paper demonstrates that current evaluation practices for agentic AI systems exhibit a systemic imbalance that calls into question prevailing industry productivity claims. Our systematic review of 84 papers (2023--2025) reve…

"you need to make it cheap and easy for people to make the switch. If it’s expensive, most people won’t do it. If it’s difficult or inconvenient, then forget it."
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-false-dichotomy-of-systemic-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Contagious McKean--Vlasov problems with common noise: from smooth to singular feedback through hitting times
We consider a family of McKean--Vlasov equations arising as the large particle limit of a system of interacting particles on the positive half-line with common noise and feedback. Such systems are motivated by structural models for systemic risk with contagion. This contagious interaction is such that when a particle hits zero, the impact is to move all the others toward the origin through a kernel which smooths the impact over time. We study a rescaling of the impact kernel under which it conv…

The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a “systemic” way for the first time.
BBC News deputy global director Fiona Crack told Press Gazette the use of AI in the launch of BBC News Polska was designed to help bring the BBC’s coverage of stories of global interest such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to new audiences in a “slimline and efficient” way.

Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a "systemic" way for the first time.

In #Großbritannien drohen einkommensschwache #Hausbesitzer in #Hochwassergebieten zu „Klimagefangenen“ zu werden.
Laut einer neuen Analyse steigen ihre

Low-income homeowners in flood zones risk becoming 'climate prisoners'
Climate change-related flooding poses growing systemic threats to the British residential property market, insurance sector and mortgage lending system, academics have warned.

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Reality Check: A New Evaluation Ecosystem Is Necessary to Understand AI's Real World Effects
Conventional AI evaluation approaches concentrated within the AI stack exhibit systemic limitations for exploring, navigating and resolving the human and societal factors that play out in real world deployment such as in education, finance, healthcare, and employment sectors. AI capability evaluations can capture detail about first-order effects, such as whether immediate system outputs are accurate, or contain toxic, biased or stereotypical content, but AI's second-order effects, i.e. any long…

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
Fallou Niakh, Arthur Charpentier, Caroline Hillairet, Philipp Ratz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18895

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
We consider an economy composed of different risk profile regions wishing to be hedged against a disaster risk using multi-region catastrophe insurance. Such catastrophic events inherently have a systemic component; we consider situations where the insurer faces a non-zero probability of insolvency. To protect the regions against the risk of the insurer's default, we introduce a public-private partnership between the government and the insurer. When a disaster generates losses exceeding the tot…

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

An 11,000-Study Open-Access Dataset of Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Images of Brain Metastases
Saahil Chadha, David Weiss, Anastasia Janas, Divya Ramakrishnan, Thomas Hager, Klara Osenberg, Klara Willms, Joshua Zhu, Veronica Chiang, Spyridon Bakas, Nazanin Maleki, Durga V. Sritharan, Sven Schoenherr, Malte Westerhoff, Matthew Zawalich, Melissa Davis, Ajay Malhotra, Khaled Bousabarah, Cornelius Deuschl, MingDe Lin, Sanjay Aneja, Mariam S. Aboian

An 11,000-Study Open-Access Dataset of Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Images of Brain Metastases
Brain metastases are a common complication of systemic cancer, affecting over 20% of patients with primary malignancies. Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosing patients, tracking disease progression, assessing therapeutic response, and guiding treatment selection. However, the manual review of longitudinal imaging is time-intensive, especially for patients with multifocal disease. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to streamline image evaluation…

From its outset, Trump 2.0 has been grounded on systemic illegality and unilateral executive actions,
a course of (mis)conduct the administration has succeeded in pursuing because of pliant GOP majorities in Congress the Supreme Court.
It’s all but certain that the administration’s authoritarian conduct will grow in scope and intensity over the succeeding months,
in no small part because the GOP reconciliation bill will hand over a staggering $170 billion to the Department…

The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

Multi-Scale Network Dynamics and Systemic Risk: A Model Context Protocol Approach to Financial Markets
Avishek Bhandari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08065 https://

Multi-Scale Network Dynamics and Systemic Risk: A Model Context Protocol Approach to Financial Markets
This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing systemic risk in financial markets through multi-scale network dynamics using Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agent communication. We develop an integrated approach that combines transfer entropy networks, agent-based modeling, and wavelet decomposition to capture information flows across temporal scales implemented in the MCPFM (Model Context Protocol Financial Markets) R package. Our methodology enables heterogeneous financial agents incl…

Informing AI Risk Assessment with News Media: Analyzing National and Political Variation in the Coverage of AI Risks
Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23718

Informing AI Risk Assessment with News Media: Analyzing National and Political Variation in the Coverage of AI Risks
Risk-based approaches to AI governance often center the technological artifact as the primary focus of risk assessments, overlooking systemic risks that emerge from the complex interaction between AI systems and society. One potential source to incorporate more societal context into these approaches is the news media, as it embeds and reflects complex interactions between AI systems, human stakeholders, and the larger society. News media is influential in terms of which AI risks are emphasized …

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
Faruque Ahamed, Md Ataur Rahman Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20340 https://arxiv.…

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
This study constructs an Aggregate Financial Stability Index (AFSI) for Bangladesh to evaluate the systemic health and resilience of the countrys financial system during the period from 2016 to 2024. The index incorporates 19 macrofinancial indicators across four key sectors Real Sector, Financial and Monetary Sector, Fiscal Sector and External Sector. Using a normalized scoring approach and equal weighting scheme, sub-indices were aggregated to form a comprehensive measure of financial stabili…

Targeting Melanoma-Specific Tyrosinase: Cyclic Peptide Disrupts Actin Dynamics for Precision Apoptosis Induction
Ruoyang Zhao, Xiaowei Wang, Jiajia Hu, Qingqing Sun, Xinmin Zhao, Jun Guo, Feng Zhang, Min Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06534

Targeting Melanoma-Specific Tyrosinase: Cyclic Peptide Disrupts Actin Dynamics for Precision Apoptosis Induction
Melanoma is an aggressive and highly metastatic cancer that exhibits stubborn resistance to conventional therapies, highlighting the need for novel treatments. Existing therapeutic strategies often suffer from systemic toxicity, poor efficacy and fast-gained drug resistance. In this study, we designed a cyclic peptide system (c-RGDKYQ) that takes the advantage of the overexpression of tyrosinase in melanoma cells to trigger enzyme-mediated oxidation and self-assembly. The assembled peptide nano…

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From Individual Experience to Collective Evidence: A Reporting-Based Framework for Identifying Systemic Harms
When an individual reports a negative interaction with some system, how can their personal experience be contextualized within broader patterns of system behavior? We study the reporting database problem, where individual reports of adverse events arrive sequentially, and are aggregated over time. In this work, our goal is to identify whether there are subgroups--defined by any combination of relevant features--that are disproportionately likely to experience harmful interactions with the syste…

The Galactic Bulge exploration V.: The secular spherical and X-shaped Milky Way bulge
Z. Prudil, V. P. Debattista, L. Beraldo e Silva, S. R. Anderson, S. Gough-Kelly, A. Kunder, M. Rejkuba, O. Gerhard, R. F. G. Wyse, A. J. Koch-Hansen, R. M. Rich, A. Savino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19074…

The Galactic Bulge exploration V.: The secular spherical and X-shaped Milky Way bulge
In this work, we derive systemic velocities and subsequently orbits for 8456 RR~Lyrae stars. We identify interlopers from other Milky Way (MW) structures, which amount to 22 percent of the total sample. Most interlopers are associated with the halo, with the remainder linked to the Galactic disk. We confirm the previously reported lag in the rotation curve of bulge RR~Lyrae stars regardless of the removal of interlopers. Metal-rich RR~Lyrae stars' rotation patterns are consistent with that of n…

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

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Reality Check: A New Evaluation Ecosystem Is Necessary to Understand AI's Real World Effects
Conventional AI evaluation approaches concentrated within the AI stack exhibit systemic limitations for exploring, navigating and resolving the human and societal factors that play out in real world deployment such as in education, finance, healthcare, and employment sectors. AI capability evaluations can capture detail about first-order effects, such as whether immediate system outputs are accurate, or contain toxic, biased or stereotypical content, but AI's second-order effects, i.e. any long…

Financial Regulation and AI: A Faustian Bargain?
Christopher Clayton, Antonio Coppola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18747 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18747

Financial Regulation and AI: A Faustian Bargain?
We examine whether and how granular, real-time predictive models should be integrated into central banks' macroprudential toolkit. First, we develop a tractable framework that formalizes the tradeoff regulators face when choosing between implementing models that forecast systemic risk accurately but have uncertain causal content and models with the opposite profile. We derive the regulator's optimal policy in a setting in which private portfolios react endogenously to the regulator's model choi…

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invests in candidates who reflect our generation and its values
matching them with the resources they need to run strong campaigns,
win, and change the face of power.
Think EMILYs List for young, progressive courageous candidates.
Leaders We Deserve invests in young people, knocks down these barriers, and elects more young people to office.

About Us | Leaders We Deserve
Young Progressive candidates face systemic barriers. At every level of government, the average politician is older than the average American. Our political system is stacked against young people – in favor of those who are older, …

It bothers me that so many LLM/genAI applications seem to be all about "now that we have new tool X, what can we do with it" while completely ignoring the question "for problem Y, what is the best tool for the job?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly for developers where we have strong evidence of poor ethics (e.g., uncritically using big-brand LLMs), I suspect that many of the people behind these systems care more about the exhiliration of using new tech and the prestige it might bring them than any of the problems they might claim to solve (if they even bother to identify such things at all). Turns out that's a great way to cause a lot of harm in the world, since you likely won't do a good job of measuring outcomes (if you even bother to do so) and you especially won't carefully look for systemic biases or ways your system might unintentionally hurt/exclude people. You also won't be concerned about whether your system ends up displacing efforts that would have led to better solutions.
#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM

An S-shaped filament formed due to Cloud-Cloud Collision in molecular cloud G178.28-00.61
Tianwei Zhang, Tie Liu, Yuefang Wu, Linjing Feng, Sihan Jiao, Derek Ward-Thompson, Alessio Traficante, Helen J Fraser, James Di Francesco, Doug Johnstone, Paul F. Goldsmith, Yasuo Doi, Xunchuan Liu, Chang Won Lee, Fengwei Xu, Ram K. Yadav, Glenn J White, Leonardo Bronfman, Yi-Jehng Kuan, Kee-Tae Kim, Donghui Quan

An S-shaped filament formed due to Cloud-Cloud Collision in molecular cloud G178.28-00.61
We present compelling observational evidence supporting G178.28-00.61 as an early-stage candidate for Cloud-Cloud Collision (CCC), with indications of the formation of an S-shaped filament, evenly-separated dense cores, and young star clusters. The observations of CO molecular line emission demonstrate the existence of two interacting molecular clouds with systemic velocities of 0.8 km/s and -1.2 km/s, respectively. The convergence zone of these two clouds reveals an S-shaped filament in the JC…

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Marcelo S. Tedesco, Gonzalo Marquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11405 https://

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Persistent economic competition is often justified as a mechanism of innovation, efficiency, and welfare maximization. Yet empirical evidence across disciplines reveals that competition systematically generates fragility, inequality, and ecological degradation, emergent outcomes not of isolated failures but of underlying systemic dynamics. This work reconceptualizes economic ecosystems as real complex adaptive systems, structurally isomorphic with biological and social ecosystems. Integrating c…

JWST reveals cosmic ray dominated chemistry in the local ULIRG IRAS 07251$-$0248
G. Speranza, M. Pereira-Santaella, M. Ag\'undez, E. Gonz\'alez-Alfonso, I. Garc\'ia-Bernete, J. R. Goicoechea, M. Imanishi, D. Rigopoulou, M. G. Santa-Maria, N. Thatte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17390

JWST reveals cosmic ray dominated chemistry in the local ULIRG IRAS 07251$-$0248
We analyze the ro-vibrational absorption bands of various molecular cations (HCO$^+$, HCNH$^+$, and N$_2$H$^+$) and neutral species (HCN, HNC, and HC$_3$N) detected in the JWST/MIRI MRS spectrum (4.9-27.9 $μ$m) of the local ultra luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) IRAS~07251$-$0248. We find that the molecular absorptions are blueshifted by 160 km s$^{-1}$ relative to the systemic velocity of the target. Using local thermal equilibrium (LTE) excitation models, we derive rotational temperatures ($…

The Safety Gap Toolkit: Evaluating Hidden Dangers of Open-Source Models
Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Dillon Bowen, Adam Gleave, Chris Cundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11544

The Safety Gap Toolkit: Evaluating Hidden Dangers of Open-Source Models
Open-weight large language models (LLMs) unlock huge benefits in innovation, personalization, privacy, and democratization. However, their core advantage - modifiability - opens the door to systemic risks: bad actors can trivially subvert current safeguards, turning beneficial models into tools for harm. This leads to a 'safety gap': the difference in dangerous capabilities between a model with intact safeguards and one that has been stripped of those safeguards. We open-source a toolkit to est…

Secondary Bounded Rationality: A Theory of How Algorithms Reproduce Structural Inequality in AI Hiring
Jia Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09233 https://…

Secondary Bounded Rationality: A Theory of How Algorithms Reproduce Structural Inequality in AI Hiring
AI-driven recruitment systems, while promising efficiency and objectivity, often perpetuate systemic inequalities by encoding cultural and social capital disparities into algorithmic decision making. This article develops and defends a novel theory of secondary bounded rationality, arguing that AI systems, despite their computational power, inherit and amplify human cognitive and structural biases through technical and sociopolitical constraints. Analyzing multimodal recruitment frameworks, we …

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Carlos Entrena-Serrano, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse \c{C}etin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09746

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Following the Digital Services Act of 2023, which requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) to facilitate data accessibility for independent research, TikTok augmented its Research API access within Europe in July 2023. This action was intended to ensure compliance with the DSA, bolster transparency, and address systemic risks. Nonetheless, research findings reveal that despite this expansion, notable limitations and inconsistencies persist withi…