Dec. 2025 Eric Hitz , Mingmin Feng , Radu Tanase , René Algesheimer , Manuel S. Mariani Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the proliferation of artificial agents in social contexts, ranging from education to online social media and financial markets, among many others. The increasing rate at which artificial and human agents interact makes it urgent to understand the consequences of human-machine interactions for the propagation of new ideas, products, and

Nov. 2025 Shuo Xing , Junyuan Hong , Yifan Wang , Runjin Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Ananth Grama , Zhengzhong Tu , Zhangyang Wang We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To causally isolate data quality, we run controlled experiments on real Twitter/X corpora, constructing junk and reversely controlled datasets via two orthogonal operationalizations: M1 (engagement degr

Nov. 2025 Qasim Bin Saeed YoungJin Cha The rising prevalence of mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder underscores the urgent need for effective tools to enable early detection and intervention. Social media platforms like Reddit offer a rich source of user-generated content that reflects emotional and behavioral patterns, making them valuable for mental health analysis. However, many existing social media–based approaches focus solely on

Oct. 2025 Jeena Joseph Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a mysterious technological presence hiding behind screens; it is...

Oct. 2025 David M. Berry This paper develops a critical theory of artificial intelligence, within a historical constellation where...

Sept. 2025 Muhammad Umar Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have advanced rapidly in creating realistic synthetic images, videos,...

Sept. 2025 Keith Robert HeadLMSW, Master ' s in Social Work (MSW), West Texas A & M University, USAMaster of Business Administration...

Aug. 2025 E nrico De Santis Antonello Rizzi This paper introduces and formalizes Noosemìa, a novel cognitive-phenomenological pattern...

Sept. 2025 Dinesh Deckker 1 , Subhashini Sumanasekara 2 1 Wrexham University, United Kingdom 2 University of Gloucestershire, United...

Sept. 2025 This article introduces the concept of \textit{authoritarian recursion} to theorize how AI systems consolidate institutional...

Sept. 2025 The emergence of AI therapy chatbots has the potential to reduce the widening gap between the huge demand for psychological...

Aug. 2025 There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok...

Aug., 2025 Purpose This article examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can simulate, analyze, and enhance mental health...

Aug. 30, 2025 Across different chatbots, the AI showed increased stigma toward conditions such as alcohol dependence and schizophrenia...

Aug. 26, 2025 Introduction The aim of the current study is to analyze the relationship between mental health and the accelerated...

Aug. 26, 2025 Reinforcement Learning AI commonly uses reward/penalty signals that are objective and explicit in an environment -- e.g....

Aug. 26, 2025 As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, law, and public...

Aug. 26, 2025 This research explores the extent to which Artificial Personas (APs) generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), like...

Aug. 26, 2025 The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence has raised concerns related to plagiarism in scientific contexts. However,...

Aug. 26, 2025 A new type of relationship is emerging in teens' lives—one that feels like connection but is powered by code. Our new...