Learning after COVID-19 and the ICT career aspirations: Are students entering the AI era with weaker skills?

Collection of recent arXiv papers (May 28, 2026) exploring societal, governance, pedagogical, and methodological implications of rapidly deploying AI and LLMs. Key themes: (1) agentic literacy debt — a structural societal deficit when autonomous/agentic AI is deployed without governance, accountability, or user literacy (implications for healthcare, finance, equity); (2) methods for AI policy prioritization using participatory evaluation, expert cost assessment, LLM-based harm estimates and genetic-algorithm simulation to surface viable policy mixes; (3) human–AI hybrid prediction markets that