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A Triple-Intelligence Framework for Sustainable AI-Driven Workforce Analytics: Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Human Judgment, and Organizational Governance
LaborContested · G 67 / P 69

AI-driven workforce analytics for employee-related decisions

Source article: A Triple-Intelligence Framework for Sustainable AI-Driven Workforce Analytics: Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Human Judgment, and Organizational Governance

Problem

AI use in workforce analytics introduces substantive risks including algorithmic opacity, automation bias, proxy-based discrimination, and employee surveillance.

International Journal of Emerging Research in Science, Engineering, and Management
Gain

AI use in workforce analytics enables proactive and predictive decision-making about employees.

International Journal of Emerging Research in Science, Engineering, and Management
A kind of magic? Artificial intelligence-assisted recording: developing principles for an AI-informed social work curriculum
EducationContested · G 70 / P 71

AI-assisted recording with Magic Note for social work practitioners in a Scottish Local Authority

Source article: A kind of magic? Artificial intelligence-assisted recording: developing principles for an AI-informed social work curriculum

Problem

Practitioners reported tensions that AI assistance could erode professional judgment, reflective value of writing, and create deskilling risk and ethical complexity.

Social Work Education
Gain

Deployment of Magic Note AI-assisted recording in a Scottish Local Authority social work department provided administrative relief and efficiency for practitioners.

Social Work Education
Redefining Accounting in the Digital Age: The Impact of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
LaborContested · G 68 / P 68

integration of blockchain and AI into accounting and auditing practices

Source article: Redefining Accounting in the Digital Age: The Impact of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence

Problem

Adoption of blockchain and AI in accounting faces scalability, interoperability, and potential job displacement concerns that constrain effective integration.

International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering Management & Applied Science
Gain

Integration of blockchain and AI in accounting improves audit quality, enhances transparency and data reliability, and reduces operational costs while automating routine tasks.

International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering Management & Applied Science
The role of agentic artificial intelligence in healthcare: a scoping review
HealthNegative state · G 69 / P 74

performance and maturity of agentic AI systems for clinical tasks in healthcare

Source article: The role of agentic artificial intelligence in healthcare: a scoping review

Problem

Most agentic AI studies in healthcare were exploratory, limited in scope, lacked robust clinical validation, and lacked conceptual clarity, with only one trial involving patients.

npj Digital Medicine
Gain

Agentic AI systems demonstrated autonomous, goal-directed behavior with high accuracy in cancer diagnosis, treatment planning, alert generation, coaching, and workflow optimization across emergency medicine, oncology, radiology, and rehabilitation pilots.

npj Digital Medicine
Digitalization, AI Adoption, and MSME Productivity: An Ibn Khaldunian Perspective
BusinessContested · G 68 / P 67

digitalization and MSME labor productivity in Indonesia

Source article: Digitalization, AI Adoption, and MSME Productivity: An Ibn Khaldunian Perspective

Problem

High religiosity marginally weakens the positive link between digitalization and MSME labor productivity, reflecting transitional adaptation frictions in highly normative environments.

Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam
Gain

Provincial panel analysis for 2020-2023 found digitalization significantly increased labor productivity for micro, small and medium enterprises in Indonesia.

Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam
The Algorithmic Sanctuary: Social-Interaction Burnout, Loneliness, and Emotional Attachment to AI Companions Among Young Adults in Indonesia
LifestyleContested · G 66 / P 68

emotional attachment to AI companions among young adults experiencing social-interaction burnout and loneliness in Indonesia

Source article: The Algorithmic Sanctuary: Social-Interaction Burnout, Loneliness, and Emotional Attachment to AI Companions Among Young Adults in Indonesia

Problem

Higher social-interaction burnout and subjective loneliness predict stronger emotional attachment to AI companions among young adults, with parasocial interaction mediating the relationship.

Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences
Gain

Socially active young adults experiencing social-interaction burnout use AI companions as an algorithmic sanctuary to avoid judgment costs in collectivist culture.

Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences
Towards end-to-end automation of AI research
SciencePositive state · G 69 / P 64

end-to-end automation of AI research using The AI Scientist

Source article: Towards end-to-end automation of AI research

Problem

Autonomous research systems could overwhelm peer review infrastructure and pollute scientific literature with low-quality or noisy papers.

Nature
Gain

The AI Scientist pipeline autonomously executed the entire research lifecycle and produced a manuscript that cleared initial peer review at a selective machine learning workshop.

Nature
Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning while active collaboration mitigates the effects
LaborContested · G 70 / P 70

passive AI copying for work tasks and its effects on workers' psychological experience of work

Source article: Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning while active collaboration mitigates the effects

Problem

Relying on passive AI copying at work reduced self-efficacy, psychological ownership, and work meaningfulness, with declines in efficacy and meaningfulness persisting after returning to manual work.

Scientific Reports
Gain

Passive AI use initially boosted enjoyment and satisfaction, while active collaboration where workers drafted first then used AI to refine preserved psychological connection comparable to independent work.

Scientific Reports
They Think AI Can Do More Than It Actually Can: Practices, Challenges, & Opportunities of AI-Supported Reporting In Local Journalism
ScienceContested · G 72 / P 72

AI-supported data reporting for local journalists in Germany to process data and support reporting

Source article: They Think AI Can Do More Than It Actually Can: Practices, Challenges, & Opportunities of AI-Supported Reporting In Local Journalism

Problem

Local journalists in Germany do not fully leverage AI to support data-related reporting work, linked to limited awareness of what AI can do.

OpenAlex-indexed journal
Gain

Local journalists in Germany reported willingness to use AI-supported tools to process data and discover stories to help maintain efficiency.

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The making of digital ghosts: designing ethical AI afterlives
PolicyNegative state · G 65 / P 72

AI-mediated digital afterlife technologies and their ethical governance

Source article: The making of digital ghosts: designing ethical AI afterlives

Problem

Rapid proliferation of AI-mediated digital afterlife technologies including chatbots trained on personal data, voice clones and posthumous avatars has created moral risks of posthumous simulation without operational governance constraints.

Ethics and Information Technology
Gain

Authors derive a two-tier structure of auditable design constraints that operationalizes ethical principles for AI-mediated afterlife systems, providing a concrete bridge to governance.

Ethics and Information Technology
Human Detection of Voice-Cloned Speech Under GSM, VoLTE and VoIP Conditions
CrimeContested · G 64 / P 68

ability of 95 human listeners to distinguish natural speech from ElevenLabs-cloned speech after GSM, VoLTE, and VoIP transmission

Source article: Human Detection of Voice-Cloned Speech Under GSM, VoLTE and VoIP Conditions

Problem

95 listeners could barely distinguish natural speech from ElevenLabs-cloned speech after telecom transmission, with overall accuracy of 54.8% and only 44.0% on VoLTE, increasing susceptibility to voice spoofing.

Acoustics
Gain

Listeners detected ElevenLabs-cloned speech more accurately when audio was transmitted through narrowband GSM (AMR-NB) at 63.7%, compared to other telecom conditions.

Acoustics
Human detection of AI-generated faces and voices is not domain-general
CrimeNegative state · G 64 / P 70

human ability to classify real versus AI-generated faces and voices

Source article: Human detection of AI-generated faces and voices is not domain-general

Problem

Detection skill did not generalize across modalities, and confidence did not track voice accuracy, leaving people vulnerable to deepfake-enabled identity theft and financial fraud despite some detection ability.

Scientific Reports
Gain

In a preregistered classification task, typical adults distinguished real from AI-generated faces and real from AI-generated voices at rates above chance.

Scientific Reports
The use of large language models to solve mathematical modeling problems: preservice mathematics teachers’ use practices, perceived affordances and challenges, and trustworthiness judgments of AI-generated outputs
EducationContested · G 71 / P 70

LLM assistance for mathematical modeling by preservice teachers in a German university course

Source article: The use of large language models to solve mathematical modeling problems: preservice mathematics teachers’ use practices, perceived affordances and challenges, and trustworthiness judgments of AI-generated outputs

Problem

Same preservice teachers raised concerns that LLM outputs contained inaccuracies, encouraged overreliance, and were less useful for validation phases of modeling.

ZDM – Mathematics Education
Gain

Preservice teachers reported that LLMs helped during early modeling work by supporting assumption-making, formula retrieval, and building models and solution strategies.

ZDM – Mathematics Education
Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts
Media & ArtsContested · G 66 / P 66

generative AI voice cloning in popular music

Source article: Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts

Problem

An AI-generated imitation of Drake and The Weeknd's voices in a viral track convinced millions of listeners it was authentic, requiring a label disclosure.

eYLS (Yale Law School)
Gain

Generative AI can learn from large music datasets to create new compositions and realistically reproduce a specific artist's voice.

eYLS (Yale Law School)
Artificial intelligence applications in sport-related concussion: an updated scoping review
SportsContested · G 65 / P 67

AI applications for sport-related concussion management

Source article: Artificial intelligence applications in sport-related concussion: an updated scoping review

Problem

Current AI studies for sport-related concussion are frequently constrained by small or imbalanced samples, inconsistent definitions, limited external validation, and poor model interpretability.

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Gain

AI models using EEG, speech, motor data, wearables and video have been applied to detect concussion and quantify head-impact exposure while reducing false-positive events.

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport