2 papers
q-bio.NC2026
A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agency
Brett J. Kagan, Valentina Baccetti, Brian D. Earp +3
As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a sys…
cs.CL2025
ISCA: A Framework for Interview-Style Conversational Agents
Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Vasudha Varadarajan +4
We present a low-compute non-generative system for implementing interview-style conversational agents which can be used to facilitate qualitative data collection through controlled…