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Opening — Why this matters now Agentic AI is no longer a laboratory curiosity. It is already dispatching inventory orders, adjusting traffic lights, and monitoring patient vitals. And that is precisely the problem. Once AI systems are granted the ability to act, the familiar comfort of post-hoc logs and dashboard explanations collapses. Auditing after the fact is useful for blame assignment—not for preventing damage. The paper “A Blockchain-Monitored Agentic AI Architecture for Trusted Perception–Reasoning–Action Pipelines” confronts this uncomfortable reality head-on by proposing something more radical than explainability: pre-execution governance. ...

When the DAO hack siphoned millions from Ethereum in 2016, the blockchain world learned a hard lesson: code is law, and bad law can be catastrophic. Fast forward to today, and smart contract security still walks a tightrope between complexity and automation. Enter Smart-LLaMA-DPO, a reinforced large language model designed not just to find vulnerabilities in smart contracts—but to explain them, clearly and reliably. 🧠 Beyond Detection: Why Explanations Matter Most smart contract vulnerability detectors work like smoke alarms—loud when something’s wrong, but not exactly helpful in telling you why. The core innovation of Smart-LLaMA-DPO is that it speaks the language of developers. It explains vulnerabilities with clarity and technical nuance, whether it’s a reentrancy flaw or an oracle manipulation scheme. And that clarity doesn’t come from magic—it comes from Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), a training method where the model learns not just from correct labels, but from expert-ranked explanations. ...

From Ballots to Bots: Reprogramming Democracy for the AI Era Cognaptus Insights Democracy, at its core, is a decision-making system designed to fairly resolve conflicts and distribute resources in society. Historically, it has depended on human political agents—elected representatives who negotiate on behalf of their constituents. But as artificial intelligence matures, this centuries-old mechanism may be heading for a systemic rewrite. A Brief History of Democratic Pitfalls From Athenian direct democracy to parliamentary representation and constitutional republics, political systems have evolved to solve the problem of collective decision-making. Yet across cultures and eras, common systemic pitfalls emerge: ...