The study examines how teenagers discuss and navigate generative AI in their daily lives, using data from r/teenagers between January 2023 and July 2026. Analysis of 11,083 posts identified eight interconnected domains of experience, with everyday and social use being most common. Over time, discussions shifted toward concerns about authenticity, personal control, safety, and the future role of humans versus AI, highlighting adolescents’ active negotiation of AI’s place in their lives.
By Jianfeng Zhu
The paper proposes a developmental framework for autonomous artificial agents that emphasizes learning social norms and alignment through direct interaction with dynamic environments. It argues that intrinsic motivations such as curiosity and competence can guide exploration, but also complicate alignment with human goals. By drawing parallels to child development, the authors suggest that regulatory sandboxes serve as pedagogical spaces where agents gradually acquire moral agency and adapt their behaviors through experience and cooperation.
By Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
arXiv:2607. 08285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI evaluation frameworks focus primarily on technical performance, including accuracy, robustness, reasoning ability, and policy compliance.
By Marcos Economides, Paul M. Sacher, Samuel Salzer, Alexis Michelle Abellar, Fendi Tsim, Antoine Ferr\`ere
The paper explores how to trace the functional role of AI in natural language generation, distinguishing between AI acting as an assistive editor or a creative generator. It proposes a methodology that infers the latent role from prompts, embeds it during generation, and recovers the role from the output. Experiments demonstrate that the approach can discriminate roles, remains robust to perturbations, and preserves linguistic quality.
By Ching-Chun Chang, Yuchen Guo, Hanrui Wang, Timo Spinde, Isao Echizen
arXiv:2609.16679v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models, alongside advances in learned game-world models, are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle. Beyond playing games, recent systems mo...
By Meng Luo, Yanlin Li, Hao Li, Hongzhan Lin, Pengfei Zhou, Tianjie Ju, Ran Zhang, Yeying Jin, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
arXiv:2608. 19950v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used across domains to provide personalized information, recommendations, and decision support.
By Nini Kurashvili, Yana Ivanchenko, Greta Schiavo, Cansu Koyuturk, Dimitri Ognibene
Caregivers often turn to online communities for informational and emotional support. In these spaces, peer supporters frequently draw on personal narratives to respond to emotionally complex caregiving situations.
arXiv:2608. 07902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Youth increasingly turn to AI chatbots for social and emotional support, raising concerns about how these systems respond, especially in high-stakes situations.
By Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas, Alexandra Chouldechova, Eugenia Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
arXiv:2609.13718v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: AI-powered gameplay support agents hold promise for game-based learning, yet grounding generative models in structured game data remains an open chal...
By Jiahong Li, Sai Siddartha Maram, Atieh Kashani, Ulia Zaman, Zhiyu Lin, Cameron Marano, Roger Azevedo, Jichen Zhu, Magy Seif El-Nasr
arXiv:2606. 12350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) raises critical questions about human creativity and individual expression in an era of AI-assisted creation.
By Maria Edwards, Julian Togelius
arXiv:2608.21391v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In this research-to-practice paper we present a survey that can be used to assess students' AI knowledge. As the use of artificial intelligence (AI),...
By Aditya Johri, Cory Brozina, Akriti Bagale
arXiv:2607. 00527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI now enables games to produce dialogue, quests, characters, images, and worlds at runtime.
By Zhiyue Xu, Fandi Meng, Kaijie Xu, Clark Verbrugge, Simon Lucas, Jian Zhao