Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim

Neither Proof Nor Dismissal: A Framework for Moral Uncertainty in AI Welfare Research

Abstract Debates over artificial intelligence (AI) welfare remain divided between categorical dismissal and premature attribution. One position holds that artificial systems cannot suffer because they lack biological substrates, persistent memory, or other conditions associated w...

AI-Mediated Rehabilitation Within Electronic Monitoring Infrastructure: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Behavioral Support and Long-Term Desistance

Abstract Electronic monitoring technologies have expanded the capacity of criminal justice systems to supervise individuals beyond conventional custodial settings, yet their primary function remains surveillance rather than rehabilitation. This paper proposes a multidisciplinary...

The Myth of Perfect Users and Perfect Systems: A Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Human-Centered AI Safety and Resilience

Abstract AI safety is often discussed in terms of model capabilities, alignment, robustness, and adversarial behavior. Yet failures in complex sociotechnical systems rarely originate from a single component. They can emerge through interactions among human behavior, system design...

Beyond Turn-Level Safety: Symbolic Interaction-State Bootstrapping as a Red-Teaming Probe for Progressive Frame Reconfiguration in Commercial LLMs

Abstract Large language models are increasingly protected by safety mechanisms that evaluate conversational inputs and outputs at the level of individual turns. While such mechanisms can identify explicit harmful content, this turn-local perspective may provide limited visibility...

Constructing Meaning Across Substrates: Human Cognition, Artificial Intelligence, and the Problem of Cross-Substrate Understanding

Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has intensified a familiar question: can machines think, understand, or possess consciousness? These questions, however, often assume that the meaning of terms such as understanding, representation, and meaning is sufficie...