Another Frame Problem: The Outermost Frame and Constitutive Recording in Self-Amending LLM Systems
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Authors
- Masaomi Hatakeyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-9694)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-07-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21386419
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00