Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service
economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local …

The Internet has evolved into a ubiquitous and indispensable digital environment in which
people communicate, seek information, and make decisions. Despite offering various …

Responsible innovation on large-scale Language Models (LMs) requires foresight into and
in-depth understanding of the risks these models may pose. This paper develops a …

Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a
disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their …

The metaverse promises a host of bright opportunities for business, economics, and society.
Though, a number of critical aspects are still to be considered and the analysis of their …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language
processing, enabling the generation of coherent and contextually relevant text. As LLMs …

This introduction to this special issue discusses artificial intelligence (AI), commonly defined
as “a system's ability to interpret external data correctly, to learn from such data, and to use …

The development of academic fields is often described through the metaphor of
'waves.'Following the instantiation of positive psychology (the first wave), scholarship …

This explainer document aims to provide an overview of the current state of the rapidly
expanding work on synthetic data technologies, with a particular focus on privacy. The …