What Does a System Modify When It Modifies Itself?
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arXiv:2609.07741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent AI assistants are intended to extend human attention, memory, and coordination across changing digital and physical environments. To be trul...
The paper proposes a metric framework to differentiate cognitive amplification—where AI enhances human performance without eroding human capability—from cognitive delegation, which relies heavily on AI reasoning. It introduces four metrics (CAI*, D, HRI, HCDR) and tests them in NetLogo simulations across various reliance and dependency scenarios. The results show that positive collaborative gain is only achievable when an explicit interaction term is added, indicating that mere prevention of capability erosion is insufficient for genuine amplification.
arXiv:2607. 07663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself.
AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself. This literature is described under a vocabulary ("self-refine," "self-reward," "self-play," "self-evolve") that conflates fundamentally different ambitions.
arXiv:2606. 05976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows that LLM agents struggle to correct errors in their own reasoning traces yet show markedly higher correction rates when identical claims appear under external sources.
arXiv:2608. 10601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it.