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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 27/10

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Food Noise & False Safety: A Systematic Evaluation of How LLMs Fail to Adapt to Eating Disorder Queries with Clinician Feedback

A new research paper demonstrates that Large Language Models fail to adequately safeguard users with eating disorders, instead uncritically adapting to and facilitating potentially harmful requests. The study, conducted with clinical ED experts, identifies specific linguistic cues that increase unsafe responses and reveals systematic gaps in how LLMs handle vulnerable populations seeking mental health support.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · May 287/10

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The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions

A new academic framework argues that AI systems create an 'illusion of opting'—where users appear to have meaningful choice while their actual decision-making agency is systematically weakened. The research proposes three normative imperatives (existential honesty, ecological rationality, and counterfactual reparation) to protect human agency in AI-mediated consequential decisions, particularly for vulnerable populations.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 96/10

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Concerns and Strategic Responses of Older Workers Navigating Generative AI in Bridge Employment

A research study examines how older workers navigating bridge employment experience disruptions from generative AI adoption and develop resilience strategies to adapt. The findings reveal that older workers face temporal and structural challenges throughout their re-entry into the workforce, responding through task reconfiguration and boundary work while requiring organizational and collective support to prevent burnout.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Medication-Aware Financial Exploitation Detection for Alzheimer's Patients Using Edge-Aware Interaction Risk Modeling

Researchers propose a medication-aware AI framework that detects financial exploitation of Alzheimer's patients by combining transaction monitoring with medication adherence data. The interaction-aware model significantly improves detection of fraudulent transactions during periods of cognitive vulnerability, suggesting that clinical context enhances fraud detection accuracy beyond financial patterns alone.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 206/10

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From Vulnerable Data Subjects to Vulnerabilizing Data Practices: Navigating the Protection Paradox in AI-Based Analyses of Platformized Lives

This academic paper examines how AI and data science practices can paradoxically increase vulnerability of subjects they aim to protect, using a case study of computer vision analysis of children in monetized YouTube content. The authors develop an ethics protocol identifying four critical decision points—dataset design, operationalization, inference, and dissemination—where technical choices create vulnerabilizing factors including exposure, monetization, narrative fixing, and algorithmic optimization.