When AI Plays Referee: The Ethics of Automated Oversight
New research explores why consumers are more comfortable with artificial intelligence enforcing existing rules than making ethical judgments on its own.
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Beyond the AI Act: Europe’s Next Governance Challenge
The landmark EU AI Act is just the first step, and a robust, independent agency is now vital to effectively manage the risks and ethical implications of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence.
Beyond the Human: How AI is Rewriting Filmmaking
Generative AI isn’t replacing filmmakers, but fundamentally reshaping how movies are made and who – or what – contributes to the creative process.
Decoding Molecules with AI: A New Era for NMR Spectroscopy
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence framework that dramatically improves the process of determining molecular structures from nuclear magnetic resonance data.
Robots That Understand What You Mean: AI-Powered Positioning for Construction
![The proposed artificial intelligence agent leverages a modular framework to facilitate complex problem-solving, enabling decomposition into manageable components and promoting scalability through independent module operation - a design choice rooted in the principle that any sufficiently complex system benefits from structural elegance mirroring mathematical decomposition [latex] \mathbb{S} = \bigcup_{i=1}^{n} S_i [/latex], where [latex] \mathbb{S} [/latex] represents the system and [latex] S_i [/latex] denotes its independent modules.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.22903v1/figure/Figure1.jpg)
New research demonstrates how robots can navigate dynamic construction sites and respond to on-the-fly instructions using advanced artificial intelligence.
Beyond AI Einsteins: A System for Discovering New Physics
Researchers have developed a novel system that doesn’t just imagine new theories, but actively generates and tests them using a combination of large language models and rigorous simulations.
Bending to the Task: Smarter Control for Soft Robots
![This work demonstrates a control-affine representation of interconnected elastic rods-originally a physics-based model-allowing for the control of underactuated soft robots, achieved through an explicit mapping of actuator inputs to applied forces, and implemented using a Discrete Elastic Rod (DER) model which approximates the rod’s structure with a system of point masses [latex] [/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.22604v1/picture/Overview.jpg)
Researchers have developed a new dynamic model that dramatically improves the precision and predictability of soft robot movements.
The Limits of Control: Governing Autonomous AI
A new analysis reveals that current regulatory frameworks struggle to effectively address the unique challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated AI agents.
The AI Scientist Designing Search Algorithms
A new framework uses artificial intelligence to automatically discover and build effective search ranking models, rivaling human-designed approaches.
Orchestrating Robot Teams: A New Approach to Human Interaction
Researchers are developing systems that allow humans to seamlessly coordinate with multiple robots using natural communication and shared understanding of the physical world.