arXiv AI

Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Knowledge Cutoff

arXiv:2606. 05383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can artificial intelligence (AI) refute economic theory?

arXiv AI

Jul 24

pAI-Econ-claude: A Gated Human-in-the-Loop Multi-Agent Architecture for AI-Assisted Economic Theory Development

arXiv:2607. 21268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many social-science research tasks, such as economics, LLM-based agents must produce outputs for which no cheap, task-complete, machine-readable correctness signal exists.

By Chen Zhu, Xiaolu Wang, Weilong Zhang

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2026

arXiv:2606. 15708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Welcome to the ninth edition of the AI Index report.

By Sha Sajadieh, Loredana Fattorini, Raymond Perrault, Yolanda Gil, Vanessa Parli, Lapo Santarlasci, Juan Pava, Nestor Maslej, Russ Altman, Erik Brynjolfsson, Carla Brodley, Jack Clark, Virginia Dignum, Vipin Kumar, James Landay, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Juan Carlos Niebles, Yoav Shoham, Elham Tabassi, Russell Wald, Toby Walsh, Dan Weld

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arXiv AI

Jul 3

Human Capital, Not Model Benchmarks, Predicts Hybrid Intelligence in Forecasting

arXiv:2607. 02467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether pairing people with AI helps or hurts is usually reported as a single average effect.

By Vivienne Ming

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 30

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

arXiv:2607. 27191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research.

By Peter Kirgis, Sayash Kapoor, Andrew Schwartz, Stephan Rabanser, David Africa, Konstantinos Voudouris, Viet Nguyen, Toby Pilditch, Magda Dubois, Harry Coppock, Cozmin Ududec, Nitya Nadgir, Matilda Orona, Tilman Bayer, Derrick Chan-Sew, Yue Ling, Abhishek Shetty, Helen Toner, Gillian Hadfield, Seth Lazar, Steve Newman, Shoshannah Tekofsky, Rishi Bommasani, Arvind Narayanan

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arXiv AI

Jul 22

What General Intelligence Requires: Non-Reducible Constraints Across Levels of Description

arXiv:2607. 18943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General intelligence, of the kind that underwrites the full range of human cognitive achievement, is not a property of computational architecture alone.

By Subhomoy Bakshi

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

AI Economist Agent: An Agentic Framework for Model-Grounded Economic Analysis with RAG, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 20041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a model-grounded RAG-based AI economist with an agentic framework for economic scenario analysis using large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs.

By Masahiro Kato

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arXiv AI

1d ago

The Benchmark Trap: Structures of Power and Injustice in AI Evaluations

arXiv:2608. 15326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) benchmarks are not neutral tools of evaluation but socio-technical artefacts that shape competition, power, and research priorities within AI.

By Jason Branford, Angelie Kraft

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

The Industrialization of Research ; On AI-Driven Science and Its Consequences

arXiv:2607. 15164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming scientific research - not merely as a more powerful instrument, but as an autonomous participant in the research cycle itself.

By Emmanuel Jeannot

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arXiv AI

Aug 3

Can AI Evaluate AI Scientists? A Benchmarking Study of Autonomous Research Generation Systems Using Automated Multi-Model Review

arXiv:2607. 28631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI Scientist systems capable of autonomous research have the potential to significantly accelerate scientific discovery.

By Vaibhava Lakshmi Ravideshik, Mayank Kejriwal

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jul 15

AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized

Knowing when to say "I don't know" is fundamental to human judgment, yet AI assistants offer a fluent answer to almost any question. In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions and could always decline to respond.

arXiv AI

Jun 10

Gaming AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Poses New Risks to the Scientific Community

arXiv:2606. 10159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI is increasingly used to support scientific peer review, from manuscript screening, reviewer assistance to editorial triage.

By Lin Li, Qi Zhang, Xander Davies, Jianing Qiu, Yarin Gal

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arXiv AI

Aug 7

Studying People to Study AI: Expert Perspectives on the Epistemic Fit and Barriers of Human Research in AI Safety & Ethics

arXiv:2608. 05656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety risks of AI are becoming increasingly evident in human interactions with AI technologies.

By Jessica Y. Bo, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Shalaleh Rismani, Dipto Das, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Ashton Anderson

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