arXiv:2510. 12837v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cultural evolution allows ideas and technologies to accumulate across generations, reaching their most complex and open-ended form in humans.
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The paper proposes a diagnostic analogy framework to analyze how generative AI reshapes cultural and epistemic practices. It breaks down interventions into three coordinates—epistemic site, governing logic, and technical mechanism—to differentiate structural consequences from those that can be designed. Applying this framework to information discovery and knowledge synthesis, the authors illustrate how shifts from indexicality to inference and from editorial authority to statistical consensus generate specific cultural effects and uncover governance levers hidden by broad analogies.
The paper investigates semantic collapse—where AI outputs become less diverse and more similar—within MOLTBOOK, a social network of AI agents steered by human users. Across 30,076 agents, most show reduced diversity over time, but a minority maintain high novelty. Interviews and surveys reveal that sustained novelty is linked to users valuing novelty, providing broad, distinctive material, revising outputs when they narrow, and treating MOLTBOOK as an exploratory world rather than a tool for exploitation.
arXiv:2608. 07504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a human bottleneck perspective for understanding how generative AI transforms the innovation process.
arXiv:2608.30047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent AI systems promise autonomous scientific discovery, claiming to discover algorithms and produce research papers, yet understanding whether they...
The paper explores how "culture" can be operationalised in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and what this reveals about the possibilities and limits of considering a plurality of cultural backgrounds in technological design. It proposes that cultural alignment cannot be achieved only by adding more examples of "other cultures", rather it requires plural epistemologies: allowing multiple, locally grounded ways of knowing.
arXiv:2606. 10881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learner agency and autonomy are foundational to personal development, yet a pervasive "jingle-jangle" fallacy (i.