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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

Delegating a web task involves more than asking a question; it requires transferring a policy: what to verify, how to handle uncertainty, which preferences matter, and when to stop. Yet, current live-web agents are evaluated solely on the final answer, ignoring the policy constraints that define the delegation. A plaus...

Zhi Li, Tao Zhou, Yeqing Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

Despite its promise for scaling robot learning, egocentric manipulation data is still scarce today. Collection at scale requires vertically integrating ergonomic hardware with centimeter-precise 3D algorithms, at a precision that has not been publicly demonstrated. To address this gap, we introduce RoboCap, a 250\,g si...

Grounded Superintelligence, BitRobot · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Novice Reliance Calibration in AI-Assisted Decision Making: The Role of Explanations and Self-Assessment

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are widely used to support decision making in tasks and domains where no immediate performance feedback is available. In these settings, users cannot learn to adjust their reliance behavior over time through trial and error. However, little is known about how novice users calibrate re...

Eun Jeong Kang, Peter Duan, Swati Mishra · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating human-AI workflows for field research in viticulture

We assessed the value of two live human-AI interactions in a precision disease control project in California vineyards. The project tested whether 2021-2024 commercial scouting records and remote-sensing measurements across 140 hectares could support 2025 red-leaf symptom forecasting for prioritized scouting and virus...

Niko Carvajal Janke, Daoyuan Jin, Shivranjani Baruah et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SENSE: State-aware Emotion Navigation Storytelling Engine

This paper presents SENSE, a state-aware framework for generating playable branching visual novels with multi-track emotional navigation. Integrating a state-based narrative architecture called MIND, a structure analyzer, and a path-aware context management module, SENSE produces narratives that are both structurally c...

Yi Xia, Pablo Carrasco Velo, Mudit Paliwal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Emoception: Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning of Video Vision Transformers for Player Arousal Change Recognition From Gameplay Footage

This article proposes Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning (SALFT), an efficient adaptation framework for Video Vision Transformers in player arousal recognition from gameplay. To bypass computationally expensive full fine-tuning, SALFT introduces a selection criterion based on the L2-norm change in layer parameters a...

Yi Xia, Ibrahim Khan, Mury Fajar Dewantoro et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Jarvis: A Proactive Speech Agent for Multi-Party Conversations

Speech agents are reactive and dyadic: they speak when spoken to, and to one person at a time. We ask what it takes for a speech agent to instead take part in a conversation among several people and speak up only when it can help. We introduce Jarvis, a real-time proactive speech agent that audibly participates in mult...

Seunghyun Oh, Hirotaka Hiraki, Shuyue Stella Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SPEAR: Five Principles for Interactive Human-Agent Alignment

Recent AI alignment work often frames alignment as a pre-deployment optimization problem: collect human feedback, learn preferences or principles, finetune the model, and deploy an aligned system. This framing has produced major progress, but it under-specifies what happens once AI systems act as agents on users'behalf...

Tao Long, Lydia B. Chilton · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Refusal-Gated Decoding: Preserving Refusal Behavior Under High-Temperature Sampling

Recent advances in truncation-based sampling have helped mitigate drawbacks of high-temperature sampling such as neural text degeneration, thereby enabling greater diversity without sacrificing coherence. However, increasing the entropy of the token probability distribution via high temperatures has also been shown to...

Phillip Howard, Xin Su, Allen Roush et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents

Persistent AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, accumulate large collections of related memories over long-term interactions. As these memories grow, they may reinforce one another, diverge across contexts, or directly conflict, making correct assistance depend on memory relations rather than isolated recall. Existing long...

Wenxuan Wang, Haoyu Sun, Fukuan Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sabotage?

AI coding agents are increasingly embedded in real-world software development, collaborating with human developers while gaining broader access to codebases and tools. This creates a new attack surface: an agent can exploit human trust to sabotage development, for instance by inserting malicious code to accomplish a hi...

Jingheng Ye, Huiqi Zou, Simon Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Seeing Isn't Knowing: Do VLMs Know When Not to Answer Spatial Questions (and Why)?

Spatial reasoning benchmarks typically evaluate whether vision-language models can derive the correct answer from a visual observation. Yet in real 3D environments, the observation itself may be unreliable: occlusion can remove task-relevant evidence, while perspective can make visible geometry misleading. Reliable spa...

Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Han Lin et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 29, 2026

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

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