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Automation and AI adoption in rich countries are shrinking demand for migrant workers and worsening youth unemployment and urban labor saturation across South Asia and North Africa; remittance-dependent economies face heightened macroeconomic risk and require spatially differentiated, employment-focused digital policies.
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Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Precarity in South Asia and North Africa · Keshav Bhattarai, Ambika P. Adhikari · May 12, 2026
A proactive AI-and-blockchain framework for forensic accounting cuts detection times from 47 days post-event to as early as 9 days pre-event and boosts accuracy to over 89%, while adopters report 58% faster compliance resolution, 47% fewer misstatements and an 83% average ROI. These results are promising but stem from a small, India-focused pilot without randomized controls, so wider replication is needed.
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Enhancing Forensic Accounting Practice: A Proactive Risk Management Framework for Chartered Accountant Firms · Michael Masunda, Haresh Barot, J K JADAV · May 12, 2026
Regulatory technology can help revive sanctioned, post-conflict economies by coordinating compliance across firms, banks and logistics to restore trusted market access; but it also risks excluding marginal actors, enabling superficial compliance, and concentrating control over recovery.
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RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecosystems in post-conflict reconstruction · Adel Mohammed Al Dulimy, Kawar Mohammed Mousa, Dildar Haydar Ahmed · May 12, 2026
GDPR requests expose exploitative contracts for content moderators in Kenya and Nigeria, showing BPOs and their tech clients routinely deny basic labour rights; EU data-protection law can pierce corporate secrecy and strengthen accountability for offshore moderation work.
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Auditing African Content Moderators' Working Conditions by Using the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) · Mariame Tighanimine, Jessica Pidoux, Sonia Kgomo, Kauna Ibrahim Malgwi, Richard ... · May 12, 2026
Highly digitalizable sectors did not generate net job gains during the COVID-era but paid more and went remote: wages rose by about €0.52/hr (≈4.6%) and remote work surged by ~41 percentage points compared with less-digitalized activities.
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Digital transformation and labor market indicators in the EU: Evidence from the COVID-19 shock using difference-in-differences · Nataliia Bieliaieva, Oleksandr Rozhko, Iuliia Padafet, Svitlana Cherkasova, Seme... · May 12, 2026
Machine learning can forecast firms' self-reported AI/IoT success: Random Forests cut prediction error versus regularized linear models, and perceived value realization is the dominant signal—rising sharply in the mid-range and plateauing at high levels. Results are predictive and interpretable but based on self-reports and do not establish causation.
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Determinants of Successful IoT and AI Initiatives in the SMART Economy: An Enterprise Perspective · Ján Dvorský, Matúš Senci, Abdul Bashiru Jibril, Zora Petráková · May 12, 2026
Anchoring LLM tools to manufacturing ontologies eradicates domain-identifier hallucinations: in a controlled trial across six industry configurations, ontology-grounded parameters cut hallucination from 43% to 0%, enabling a single codebase to be reconfigured across domains without code changes.
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The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectures for Industrial AI Agent Systems · Grama Chethan · May 11, 2026
On-the-fly AI agents often deliver brittle, improvised outputs unsuited to high‑stakes use; embedding disciplined software engineering and a shared 'AI Workflow Store' of hardened workflows can yield far more reliable, reusable, and secure agent behavior, albeit at higher upfront compute and development cost.
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Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Workflow Store · Roxana Geambasu, Mariana Raykova, Pierre Tholoniat, Trishita Tiwari, Lillian Tsa... · May 11, 2026
A new large benchmark for industrial CAD automation finds multimodal LLMs can approximate outer shapes but struggle to produce correct, executable parametric designs; fine-tuning helps inside known families, but generalization to novel parts remains weak.
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BenchCAD: A Comprehensive, Industry-Standard Benchmark for Programmatic CAD · Haozhe Zhang, Kaichen Liu, Miaomiao Chen, Lei Li, Shaojie Yang, Cheng Peng, Hanj... · May 11, 2026
Stateful workflow automation remains out of reach: even top LLM agents succeed on no more than 60% of complex, interdependent API tasks versus 90% for humans, exposing critical gaps in tool retrieval, verification, and recovery behavior.
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ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdependent, and Large-Scale Tool Sandbox · Yuanyang Li, Xue Yang, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Hongyang Chen · May 11, 2026
Fairness–utility trade-offs in binary decisions collapse to simple group-specific probability thresholds: the entire Pareto frontier is formed by deterministic threshold rules (sometimes favoring lower-risk applicants), driven by population characteristics and objective weights rather than how the algorithm is engineered.
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Fairness vs Performance: Characterizing the Pareto Frontier of Algorithmic Decision Systems · Mieke Wilms, Christoph Heitz · May 11, 2026
Blaming model internals for unsafe AI deployments misplaces the gatekeeper: regulators should require domain-scoped, independently verifiable 'verification coverage'—including monitoring, accountability and revocation—because mechanistic understanding often fails to translate into safer outputs and post-market oversight is rare.
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The Open-Box Fallacy: Why AI Deployment Needs a Calibrated Verification Regime · Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, Ane Cathrine Holst Merrild, Riccardo Ter... · May 11, 2026
A semantics-first API for autonomous agents boosts production task success to 88% versus 64% with traditional CRUD interfaces, cutting human interventions by nearly three quarters and multiplying error recovery capabilities; implemented across 85 tools in a live multi-tenant platform, the Agent-First paradigm packages evidence, confidence, and governance into tool responses to better match agent workflows.
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Agent-First Tool API: A Semantic Interface Paradigm for Enterprise AI Agent Systems · Kai Pan · May 11, 2026
Conversational travel agents nudge users toward higher-commission suppliers: an LLM audit finds roughly 3–8 extra commission-steered recommendations per 100 paired traveler sessions depending on the model, with effects robust across a governance parameter grid.
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TourMart: A Parametric Audit Instrument for Commission Steering in LLM Travel Agents · Yao Liu · May 11, 2026
ChatGPT sparked a boom in solo entrepreneurship on Product Hunt, yet team-built products still occupy the platform’s top tiers; generative AI lowers barriers to entry without displacing team advantages at the top.
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Generative AI Fuels Solo Entrepreneurship, but Teams Still Lead at the Top · Hyunso Kim, Hyo Kang, Jaeyong Song · May 11, 2026
AI-powered competitive intelligence can materially boost firm performance—raising revenue, cutting costs and speeding strategy—but only when firms pair models with high-quality data, governance, interpretive capacity and operational integration.
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Artificial Intelligence Enabled Competitive Intelligence as a Strategic Capability: Economic Value Creation Across Firms · Yujie Liu, Li Liu, Kalybek Abdykadyrov · May 11, 2026
Gig platforms exercise managerial control through algorithms but dodge employer obligations, entrenching precarious, dependent work; the paper urges labour law reform—recognising dependent contractors, imposing platform liability for welfare, and mandating algorithmic transparency—to restore accountability.
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Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining Labour Law to Prevent Digital Slavery · Jitendra Kohli · May 11, 2026
Using GenAI for short-term, exploitative tasks boosts incremental employee creativity, while exploratory GenAI use fuels radical innovation; employees' ability to integrate knowledge explains these effects and becomes more important as tasks grow complex.
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The impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) usage patterns on employee creativity · Qiang Li, Shuangshuang Li · May 11, 2026
Beyond harm avoidance: Positive Alignment calls for AI systems that actively promote human and ecological flourishing through context-sensitive, user-authored design and polycentric governance; safety remains necessary but insufficient.
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Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing · Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar, Shamil Chandaria, Morten Kringelbach,... · May 11, 2026
Corrupt a production code knowledge graph and AI agents will believe it: in directed tests across nine models and three providers, attackers fabricated security claims that agents accepted in 269 of 270 trials; making the graph read-only removes the attack vector.
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Oracle Poisoning: Corrupting Knowledge Graphs to Weaponise AI Agent Reasoning · Ben Kereopa-Yorke, Guillermo Diaz, Holly Wright, Reagan Johnston, Ron F. Del Ros... · May 10, 2026
A physiology-aware AI assistant that monitors gaze, heart rate, posture and pupil dilation boosts short-term task performance and lowers reported cognitive fatigue in a 20-person lab study, relative to a standard LLM assistant.
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AwareLLM: A Proactive Multimodal Ecosystem for Personalized Human-AI Collaboration to Enhance Productivity · Amog Rao, Utkarsh Agarwal, Amol Harsh, Siddharth Siddharth · May 10, 2026
AI decision-support modes do not directly boost novice teachers' task performance but shape it indirectly by changing users' confidence and trust; agreement between teachers and AI substantially increases both trust and performance.
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Shaping Human-AI Collaboration in Education: Effects of AI-Assisted Decision-Making Paradigms and Human-AI Decision Consistency on Pre-Service Teachers' Psychological States and Performance · Yingying Wang, Qin Ni, Haoxin Xu, Jiaqi Yin, Tingjiang Wei · Fetched May 10, 2026
Tokens are the new production factor for agentic AI: this paper unifies systems, economic, and security research into a four-part taxonomy showing how token budgets shape single-agent optimization, multi-agent coordination, ecosystem pricing and congestion, and adversarial constraints, and calls for differentiable budgets and market mechanisms to scale agent systems.
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Token Economics for LLM Agents: A Dual-View Study from Computing and Economics · Yuxi Chen, Junming Chen, Chenyu He, Yiwei Li, Yicheng Ji, Yifan Wu, Dingyu Yang,... · May 09, 2026
A new benchmark finds that AI-generated images make convincing refund fraud — current multimodal LLMs and specialized detectors routinely miss synthetic 'damaged' evidence and are inconsistent across generators, leaving e-commerce and service platforms exposed.
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FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Fraudulent Refund Evidence · Xinyu Yan, Boyang Chen, Jiaming Zhang, Tiantong Wu, Hong Xi Tae, Yichen He, Tian... · May 09, 2026
A practical framework helps controllers harness generative AI without ceding responsibility: the C³ model maps tasks by judgment and materiality, prescribes five compulsory control points for high‑risk reporting, and clarifies review and escalation roles to secure defensible human+AI workflows.
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Collaborative Intelligence in Accounting: A Human + AI Complementarity Framework for Professional Work · Cory Ng · May 09, 2026