As networks expand and become an ever more critical infrastructure to modern society the need to analyze these networks with the highest regard for privacy is essential to ensure their proper function. Depending on the level of the network layer to be analyzed, sources and destinations can be any combination of physica …
Autonomous research agents can design experiments, evaluate results, and write reports, giving them control over both a scientific result and the evidence used to support it. This creates a risk of reward hacking: meeting the reward criteria without achieving the intended goal. We study (1) how often models reward-hack …
AI systems can strengthen democracy by supporting deliberation at scale by addressing cognitive, social, platform-design, and market-driven frictions, while preserving human agency. Unlike proposals such as liquid democracy that restructure representation through vote delegation, in this position paper, we argue that A …