Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Migration has become a defining feature of contemporary societies and digital economies. Migration significantly reshapes the global digital economy, yet the lack of explicit country-of-origin data in digital records hinders large-scale quantitative research. This study addresses this methodological gap by systematically evaluating and comparing three computational approaches for inferring migran…

On a par with shepherds that, motivated by personal gain, overexploit an open-access pasture resulting in its degradation, known as the tragedy of the commons, the race to build the first Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is overstretching safety boundaries exemplified by the reliability concerns associated with OpenAI's ChatGPT. In the worst case, this could lead to a rogue AGI or its monopo…

Despite increasing efforts to promote biodiversity protection, a persistent gap remains between policy measures and public expectations. Aligning biodiversity strategies with citizens' concerns is crucial to fostering support and ensuring effective implementation. Building on the environmental governance and ecosystem services literature, this study leverages Large Language Models for embedding-b…