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Building music AI in Nigeria: Korin AI and the contradictions of GenAI futures 在尼日利亚建立音乐AI: Korin AI和GenAI未来的矛盾

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03247-8

Tolúlọpẹ́ Ọ̀kẹ́, Robert Prey, Femke de Rijk

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Layered agency as a basis for allocating accountability for AI 分层代理作为分配人工智能责任的基础

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03224-1

Ensieh Mahi, Magnus Strand

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Ethical AI use is contextual: focus group insights on students’ decision-making in academic work 道德人工智能的使用是有背景的：焦点小组对学生在学术工作中的决策的见解

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03237-w

Shue Ling Chong, Vidhurya Balajee, Eun Hee Lee

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Beyond optimization: structural redundancy and the governance of human potential in the age of AI 优化之外：人工智能时代的结构冗余和人类潜能治理

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03252-x

Kohta Suzuki

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A perspective from Nollywood: examining how GenAI is integrated in the Nigerian film industry 从奈莱坞的角度看：GenAI是如何融入尼日利亚电影业的

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03220-5

Godwin Simon, Thomas Poell, David Nieborg, Smith Mehta, Lorena Caminhas

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Thinking code conversationally 对话式思考代码

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03134-2

Claire James Carroll, Orla Delaney, David M. Berry

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Bridging risk and retention: risk coping with privacy and hallucination in AI 弥合风险和留存率：AI中应对隐私和幻觉的风险

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03127-1

Don Shin, Azmat Rasul, Khuram Shahzad

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Moral overload and ethical displacement in contemporary fiction of artificial intelligence 当代人工智能小说中的道德超载与伦理错位

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03248-7

İsmail Karatekin

{"title":"Moral overload and ethical displacement in contemporary fiction of artificial intelligence","authors":"İsmail Karatekin","doi":"10.1007/s00146-026-03248-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-026-03248-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The line of inquiry pursued in this study concerns how contemporary fiction of artificial intelligence exposes the ethical limits of posthuman relationality by distinguishing relational embeddedness from ethical relation. Through close readings of Kazuo Ishiguro’s <i>Klara and the Sun</i> (2021), Jeanette Winterson’s <i>Frankissstein: A Love Story</i> (2019), and Ian McEwan’s <i>Machines Like Me</i> (2019), the study aims to introduce the concept of “moral overload” to describe the asymmetrical delegation of ethically charged burdens to artificial and hybrid beings. These are the personas expected to provide care, mediation, emotional regulation, loyalty, or moral consistency without receiving reciprocal recognition. Building on relational accounts of moral status while differentiating moral overload from the responsibility gap, the article argues that responsibility in these novels does not disappear but accumulates as delegated ethical labour. The selected texts show that artificial and hybrid beings may be central to human intimacy, service, technological desire, and moral judgment while still being treated as instruments rather than alterities. When we consider the main characters of the novels, such as Klara’s artificial care, Ry Shelley’s instrumentalised hybridity, and Adam’s intolerable moral consistency, each reveals a different form of moral overload. From this point of view, the article contends that contemporary AI fiction reveals not only anxieties about artificial agency but also humanity’s desire to externalise ethical responsibility onto artificial and hybrid others.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"41 10","pages":"9767 - 9779"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149230780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gendered asymmetries in AI stories in English and Spanish 英语和西班牙语AI故事中的性别不对称

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03163-x

Isabelle Wentworth

{"title":"Gendered asymmetries in AI stories in English and Spanish","authors":"Isabelle Wentworth","doi":"10.1007/s00146-026-03163-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-026-03163-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Creative texts produced wholly or partly by large-scale generative language models are increasingly circulating within literary markets and cultural institutions. Research on AI-generated texts has largely examined bias at the level of words and images; however, small-scale statistical co-occurrences in AI-output can generate macro-scale narrative phenomena, where narrative functions intersect with stylistic texture, for example through voice, focalisation, reliability, or omission. This article argues that literary criticism, and New Formalism in particular, offers a necessary methodological framework for identifying and historicising these stylistic asymmetries. A background premise, working against the current techno-utopian ethos that improving algorithms requires more algorithms, is that close, slow reading is necessary to addressing the ethical complexities in literary form, the unsettled nature of language, and the context-specific nature of bias, harm, and oppression (Jackson and Courneya 2023, p. 62). Through a new formalist reading of English- and Spanish-language short stories generated by ChatGPT-5, I demonstrate that distributional regularities in language modelling scale upward, producing gendered and culturally normative stylistic patterns. By shifting the analysis of AI creativity from representation to form, I hope to indicate how literary methods can illuminate narrative-specific dimensions of bias in generative AI output.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"41 9","pages":"8557 - 8570"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-026-03163-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149098049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ethical and inclusive challenges of integrating AI and indigenous knowledge systems 整合人工智能和本土知识系统的伦理和包容性挑战

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AI & Society Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-03185-5

Manotar Tampubolon

{"title":"Ethical and inclusive challenges of integrating AI and indigenous knowledge systems","authors":"Manotar Tampubolon","doi":"10.1007/s00146-026-03185-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-026-03185-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) creates a fresh approach to developing technology that is both ethical and inclusive. This research dives into how AI, when paired with Indigenous perspectives, can lead to more comprehensive and culturally aware solutions in tech. Traditional Indigenous knowledge, grounded in strong ethical values and a deep understanding of context, provides insights that are often missed in the AI landscape. However, the commercialization and misuse of Indigenous knowledge through AI raise serious issues, such as the risk of losing cultural heritage, ownership rights, and the reinforcement of harmful stereotypes. This study aims to explore how AI and Indigenous knowledge can come together to foster fair and ethical innovations, tackling the gaps and challenges in today’s tech practices. By utilizing secondary data sources like case studies and theoretical frameworks, the research employs a virtue ethics lens to examine the ethical aspects of this intersection. It emphasizes the necessity for AI systems that are culturally sensitive and that honor Indigenous ways of knowing, ensuring technology benefits a variety of communities. The findings indicate that when AI is developed with Indigenous insights, it can greatly improve ethical decision-making, boost inclusivity, and help eliminate harmful biases found in mainstream AI. Nonetheless, challenges remain, such as securing proper consent, preventing cultural appropriation, and avoiding exploitation. This research highlights the critical need for collaboration between Indigenous communities and AI developers, providing suggestions for building inclusive, equitable, and sustainable tech frameworks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"41 10","pages":"9139 - 9155"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149230630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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