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cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions

Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46

This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…

cs.CY2026

Evaluating the Effectiveness of OpenAI's Parental Control System

Kerem Ersoz, Saleh Afroogh, David Atkinson +1

We evaluate how effectively platform-level parental controls moderate a mainstream conversational assistant used by minors. Our two-phase protocol first builds a category-balanced…

cs.CY2025

LLM Harms: A Taxonomy and Discussion

Kevin Chen, Saleh Afroogh, Abhejay Murali +3

This study addresses categories of harm surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of artificial intelligence. It addresses five categories of harms addressed before, du…

cs.CY2025

Evaluating LLM Safety Across Child Development Stages: A Simulated Agent Approach

Abhejay Murali, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +3

Current safety alignment for Large Language Models (LLMs) implicitly optimizes for a "modal adult user," leaving models vulnerable to distributional shifts in user cognition. We pr…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-LLM Interactions

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +3

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power applications used by children and adolescents, ensuring safe and age-appropriate interactions has become an urgent ethical impera…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

A Task-Driven Human-AI Collaboration: When to Automate, When to Collaborate, When to Challenge

Saleh Afroogh, Kush R. Varshney, Jason D'Cruz

According to several empirical investigations, despite enhancing human capabilities, human-AI cooperation frequently falls short of expectations and fails to reach true synergy. We…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

LLM Ethics Benchmark: A Three-Dimensional Assessment System for Evaluating Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Abhejay Murali +3

This study establishes a novel framework for systematically evaluating the moral reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) as they increasingly integrate into critical…

cs.CY2025

Mapping out AI Functions in Intelligent Disaster (Mis)Management and AI-Caused Disasters

Yasser Pouresmaeil, Saleh Afroogh, Junfeng Jiao

This study maps the functions of artificial intelligence in disaster (mis)management. It begins with a classification of disasters in terms of their causal parameters, introducing…

cs.CY2025

LLMs and Childhood Safety: Identifying Risks and Proposing a Protection Framework for Safe Child-LLM Interaction

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in child-facing contexts such as education, companionship, creative tools, but their deployment raises safety, privacy, devel…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

IGGA: A Dataset of Industrial Guidelines and Policy Statements for Generative AIs

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +2

This paper introduces IGGA, a dataset of 160 industry guidelines and policy statements for the use of Generative AIs (GAIs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in industry and workpla…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Generative AI and LLMs in Industry: A text-mining Analysis and Critical Evaluation of Guidelines and Policy Statements Across Fourteen Industrial Sectors

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +2

The rise of Generative AI (GAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed industrial landscapes, offering unprecedented opportunities for efficiency and innovation while rai…

cs.CY2024

Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE): A new power and platform to fostering green obligation for climate peace and justice

Saleh Afroogh, Ali Mostafavi, Junfeng Jiao

In this paper, we propose Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE) as a new driver for climate peace and justice, as an emerging issue in the age of big data. We first show that the…

cs.CY2024

When Trust is Zero Sum: Automation Threat to Epistemic Agency

Emmie Malone, Saleh Afroogh, Jason DCruz +1

AI researchers and ethicists have long worried about the threat that automation poses to human dignity, autonomy, and to the sense of personal value that is tied to work. Typically…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and Large Language Models

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen +2

The integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in academia has spurred a global discourse on their potential pedagogical benefits and…

cs.CY2024★ 26 cited

Navigating LLM Ethics: Advancements, Challenges, and Future Directions

Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Yiming Xu +1

This study addresses ethical issues surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) within the field of artificial intelligence. It explores the common ethical challenges posed by both LL…

cs.CY2024★ 11 cited

Trust in AI: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

Saleh Afroogh, Ali Akbari, Evan Malone +2

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in our daily life through various applications, services, and products explains the significance of trust/distrust in AI…

cs.CY2021

Tracing app technology: An ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19

Saleh Afroogh, Amir Esmalian, Ali Mostafavi +4

We conducted a systematic literature review on the ethical considerations of the use of contact tracing app technology, which was extensively implemented during the COVID-19 pandem…