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Ceci n'est pas une pipe: AI systems as semantic abstractions

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arXiv:2607. 09489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI system's output is not the fact or world state it appears to describe, but rather an engineered representation.

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A Neurosymbolic Approach to Natural Language Formalization and Verification

arXiv:2511. 09008v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models perform well at natural language interpretation and reasoning, but their lack of formal correctness guarantees limits their adoption in regulated industries like finance and health-care that operate under strict policies.

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Generative Interpretability via Scalable Neuro-Symbolic Models

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