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AI audit finds YouTube rewards performative child labor: an analysis of 5,051 kidfluencer videos across 79 channels shows that higher automated 'exploitation' scores—driven by performative content and emotional bait—are linked to far higher view counts, with within-channel boosts of roughly +56–66%, while product placements attract no engagement premium.
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Auditing Engagement Incentives in the Kidfluencer Ecosystem: A Multimodal Weak Supervision Approach · Zijing Wei, Chao Peter Yang, Xuanjie Chen · Jun 02, 2026
A new benchmark reveals AI assistants still struggle with complex desktop workflows: on DeskCraft’s 538 long-horizon creative and engineering tasks, GPT-5.4 scores only ~32% on standard tasks and ~28% when realistic interactions are allowed. The suite exposes systematic failures in delivering long workflows and in proactively clarifying ambiguous instructions despite a formal mid-turn/post-turn collaboration protocol.
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DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workflows and Human-in-the-Loop Collaboration · Wenkai Wang, Tao Xiong, Jingchen Ni, Yunpeng Bao, Xiyun Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongcan ... · Jun 02, 2026
AI-generated feedback drafts prompt teaching assistants to give substantially more and longer personalized feedback—up 10.8 percentage points and ~40 characters—while preserving usefulness and human control.
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AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education · Romina Mahinpei, Victoria Dean, Ruth Fong, Lydia T. Liu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro · Jun 02, 2026
Targeted AI R&D and governance, not overall AI vibrancy, raise tourism’s share of GDP; human-capital gains materialize with a one-year lag while COVID cut tourism by about 37%.
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Which dimensions of AI development shape tourism’s direct contribution to GDP? Evidence from a multi-country panel · Farhad Rahmanov, Anar Azizov, Elnara Samedova, Murad Bagirzadeh, Günel İsayeva, ... · Jun 02, 2026
Egypt’s leading newsroom adopts AI under unequal terms: reliance on global providers embeds platform dependency and extracts journalistic labour without commensurate returns. Journalists counter with ‘defensive AI governance’—local adaptation, self-training and institutional guardrails that limit but do not overturn structural dependency.
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Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: Insights From the Global South · Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson · Jun 02, 2026
Flexible working boosts productivity most strongly (β=0.562), and human-centered AI adoption yields a smaller but significant productivity gain (β=0.263); digital leadership alone shows no measurable direct benefit.
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The Synergistic Impact of Human-Centric AI Adoption, Digital Leadership, and Work Flexibility on Employee Productivity in the Digital Era · Amine Azri · Jun 02, 2026
Writing prompts is now a form of cognitive labour: stochastic LLM outputs create widespread 'prompt anxiety', and AI platforms monetise that uncertainty through token pricing, subscriptions and prompt marketplaces; grassroots prompt-sharing practices may turn that anxiety into collective critique.
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Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty · David M. Berry · Jun 02, 2026
Generative AI strengthens market institutions and improves liquidity where regulation is strong; in poorly governed markets it can deepen information asymmetries. The net market benefits of GenAI therefore hinge critically on institutional quality.
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The impact of generative AI on institutional efficiency: Regulatory and trading evidence from financial markets · Sepideh Khalafi, Ali Salari · Jun 02, 2026
Agentic AI that learns from prior experiments outperforms human-guided design: in two large field trials of prescription messaging the tool-augmented AI produced a message with a 69.8% click-through rate, 6.5 percentage points above baseline, while general-purpose LLMs without access to experimental data failed to identify winners.
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Beyond One-shot: AI Agents for Learning in Field Experiments · Junjie Luo, Ritu Agarwal, Gordon Gao · Jun 01, 2026
Targeted training, not just technology, unlocked big productivity gains in two Brazilian public-sector audit units — processing times fell by up to 50% and report output nearly doubled, with no recorded data-security incidents.
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The Main Barrier to AI Adoption in the Public Sector is Lack of Training: How a Structured Method Increased Productivity in Two Brazilian Government Cases Without Incidents · Vinicius Santana Gomes · Jun 01, 2026
Fintech expansion lifts productivity at listed Chinese manufacturers by improving supply-chain finance and spurring innovation, but government subsidies blunt the gains; effects are largest in high‑tech industries and richer regions.
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Research on the Impact of Financial Technology on the Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Enterprises · Lu Zhang, He Liu · Jun 01, 2026
AI is reshaping American industrial geography: capital‑intensive production in EV batteries, chips and advanced manufacturing is moving inland as AI reduces the need for coastal agglomerations, land constraints and energy access now trump proximity to traditional hubs.
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The cognitive heartland: A foundational framework for AI-driven reindustrialization as a spatial-economic resurgence of the American interior · Simon Suwanzy Dzreke · Jun 01, 2026
China’s Green Industrial Parks bolster city-level industrial-chain resilience by accelerating green innovation and structural upgrading; gains are strongest in open, digitally advanced and AI-rich eastern and resource-based cities.
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Does green industrialization enhance urban industrial chain resilience? Evidence from a double machine learning approach · Yue Wang, Yang Lu, Qiuling Yang · Jun 01, 2026
Algorithmic TaxTech is shifting power in global wealth chains toward data-and-code owners, enabling firms to optimize legal affordances previously hidden by opacity. The change creates new infrastructural hubs that challenge traditional regulator–client–supplier relationships and could reshape who benefits from international tax rules.
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How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains · Leonard Seabrooke, Saila Stausholm · Jun 01, 2026
AI looks more like a real technological revolution than a pure speculative mania, but parts of the market are fragile: solid revenue and adoption trends underpin a meaningful slice of AI valuations even as concentrated private bets, fast-rising capex and exuberant narratives produce localized bubble dynamics.
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Boom, Bubble, or Buildout? A Multi-Method Evaluation of Whether Artificial Intelligence Is in an Ongoing Financial Bubble · Qian’an Wang, Zen Chen · Jun 01, 2026
Industrial robots are linked to stronger value‑chain resilience among Chinese manufacturers, with the biggest effects in private, downstream and low‑tech firms. The study ties robot exposure to lower costs, higher productivity and more innovation, though the evidence is observational rather than experimental.
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Industrial Robot Application and the Manufacturing Value Chain Resilience: Evidence from China’s Listed Manufacturing Firms · Weili Xie, Shuqing Zou, Qifan Zhang, Xu Dong · May 31, 2026
AI in finance is evolving from prediction engines to partners in decision-making, reshaping workflows, prices and credit allocation; its benefits hinge on how firms allocate authority, oversight and incentives across human–AI workflows rather than on raw model accuracy.
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Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems · Gang Kou, Yan Li, Haomin Wang, Xin Wang · May 31, 2026
Law underpins surveillance capitalism: through legal frameworks that routinize data production, ownership and commercialization, personal information is transformed into commodified inputs for algorithmic governance, reshaping power and producing novel inequalities.
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GÖZETİM KAPİTALİZMİNİN HUKUKSAL TEMELLERİ: FOUCAULTCU BİR ANALİZ · Pelin Dinçer, Erdem Seçilmiş · May 31, 2026
France's AI strength will come from governing information flows, not just piling on compute: sovereignty depends on injecting data, talent and deployment faster than institutions dissipate them. The paper urges a calibrated, human‑centred regime that grows information capacity while shoring up institutions to avoid instability, inequality and energy‑heavy expansion.
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AI Sovereignty as National Learning Capacity: A Human-Centered Learning Mechanics Viewpoint on France, the United States, and China · Kim Phuc Tran · May 30, 2026
How an AI looks matters: in an escape-room field experiment, teams working with embodied agents performed unevenly — some mixed teams excelled while others fared worse — whereas all-human teams were steadier but slower and error-prone. Higher degrees of embodiment produced conversational dynamics closer to human–human interaction, suggesting social cues from embodiment reshape collaboration.
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Teaming Up with Artificial Agents in Non-routine Analytical Tasks · Lorenzo Cominelli, F. Galatolo, Caterina Giannetti, F. Dell’orletta, Cristiano C... · Fetched May 30, 2026
Algeria trails regional peers on AI readiness—weak digital infrastructure, skills and governance constrain adoption; targeted investment and policy change could unlock productivity gains but require sustained effort.
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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Comparative Assessment of Algeria's Readiness and Development Prospects · Lakhdar ZIANE, Moussa Boukrif · May 30, 2026
AI-driven answer boxes are upending search: visibility now depends on being cited within LLM-generated summaries, not just high SERP rank. This change forces marketers to optimize for inclusion in synthesized answers, concentrating attention and raising new questions about bias, brand trust and market power.
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SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE REDEFINING CONSUMER DISCOVERY AND BRAND VISIBILITY · Ngoni Shaani, Chipo Talitakhumi Chakweza, Anna Tanyaradzwa Audrey Chingono, Cast... · May 30, 2026
Firms hiring for AI skills boost output and productivity, but the gains are not evenly shared: employment and pay fall persistently, especially for non-AI roles and junior staff.
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AI Adoption and Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Job Postings · Yusuke Aoki, Ahmad Firdaus, Takuji Fueki, Koji Takahashi · Fetched May 29, 2026
In South Africa, AI adoption depresses development in the short term as routine-task substitution and skill mismatches bite, but contributes positively in the long run once structural adjustments occur; crucially, unemployment among highly educated workers persistently undermines development while aggregate unemployment conceals these distributional effects.
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Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sustainable Development In South Africa: Does The Routine-Biased Technological Change Hypothesis Explain The Dynamics? · Felix Aberu, Tersia Botha · May 29, 2026
AI adoption raises productive capability in China’s new-energy vehicle firms, driven by reorganised R&D teams and stronger innovation rather than immediate increases in R&D spending; gains are largest in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and among smaller companies.
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Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Quality Productive Forces in New Energy Vehicle Firms: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta · Xinrui Li, Linhu Du · May 29, 2026