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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 1820 479 278 1820 4588
Organizational Efficiency 2711 616 401 173 3922
Governance & Regulation 2075 886 459 246 3714
Technology Adoption Rate 1467 530 258 206 2488
Decision Quality 1281 496 289 152 2228
Output Quality 1227 447 207 138 2025
AI Safety & Ethics 634 754 207 83 1688
Research Productivity 826 241 114 422 1624
Firm Productivity 1052 154 163 66 1441
Task Allocation 685 211 331 99 1335
Market Structure 433 423 242 46 1150
Innovation Output 639 91 105 34 871
Task Completion Time 476 113 43 36 672
Firm Revenue 445 126 58 25 656
Skill Acquisition 364 119 109 34 626
Consumer Welfare 288 167 104 31 592
Employment Level 214 140 174 50 582
Error Rate 230 251 35 16 535
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 268 136 71 50 532
Inequality Measures 100 307 96 12 515
Worker Satisfaction 221 173 60 30 484
Automation Exposure 155 138 65 36 398
Regulatory Compliance 171 120 30 13 335
Developer Productivity 222 58 27 13 321
Team Performance 188 56 50 24 320
Wages & Compensation 146 104 46 16 312
Training Effectiveness 207 41 21 26 298
Job Displacement 23 153 52 4 232
Hiring & Recruitment 102 57 30 11 202
Skill Obsolescence 16 102 24 6 148
Creative Output 71 42 23 6 143
Social Protection 57 30 11 3 101
Labor Share of Income 29 42 24 2 97
Worker Turnover 43 29 6 4 82
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Increased individual performance from generative-AI assistance can coincide with reduced similarity-adjusted diversity of population-level outputs.
The paper cites an online short-story experiment by Doshi and Hauser (2024), reporting improved third-party evaluations of individual stories while AI-assisted stories became more similar to one another.
high mixed Human Computational Capital and the AI Time Dividend: A Cond... Individual story evaluations and similarity among stories
Mathematical creativity comprises at least four mechanistically distinct modes: reflexive mathematics, analogical mathematics, problem-driven mathematics, and bridging distant domains.
Conceptual taxonomy developed from historical case studies and an architecture-level discussion of transformer-based systems; the paper explicitly states that the list is not exhaustive.
high mixed Assessing LLMs' mathematical abilities requires understandin... classification of mathematical creativity mechanisms
The two AI-AI co-creation configurations showed minimal differences in creativity and novelty, except that complementary roles outperformed identical roles on creativity in task 3.
Pairwise comparisons between complementary-role and identical-role AI-AI conditions found no significant differences in creativity for tasks 1 and 2 or in novelty for any task; complementary roles were superior on creativity in task 3 (p < .01).
high mixed AI-AI co-creation outperforms human pairs in creative tasks Creativity and novelty scores of generated solutions
Suno and Lyria 3 do not converge on a common acoustic profile; each system is more acoustically distant from the other than two random human subsamples would typically be.
Cross-system comparison in the 72-feature MIR space, benchmarked against distances between random human subsamples.
high mixed The Algorithmic Flattening of Sound: Computational Evidence ... Acoustic distance between generative systems and between human music subsamples
Cognitive and logical interaction styles are associated with greater novelty, whereas logical and informative interaction styles are associated with greater usefulness.
Human–ChatGPT dialogues were coded along cognitive, logical, and informative dimensions, and the resulting posts were evaluated independently for novelty and usefulness.
high mixed Individual skill differences and human AI interaction shape ... Novelty and usefulness ratings of creative marketing posts
The benefits of AI-assisted creativity vary according to individual skill level, with moderate-skill individuals deriving the greatest creative benefit from AI support.
The first empirical component examined creative outputs from 90 UK participants balanced across three education-defined skill groups, with and without optional ChatGPT assistance.
high mixed Individual skill differences and human AI interaction shape ... Creative performance of AI-assisted versus non-AI-assisted marketing posts
Informative human–AI interactions are positively associated with the usefulness of creative outputs, but not with their novelty.
Recorded dialogues were coded for the volume and relevance of information provided to ChatGPT, and posts were independently rated on novelty and usefulness.
high mixed Individual skill differences and human AI interaction shape ... External ratings of post usefulness and novelty
Cognitive human–AI interactions are positively associated with the novelty of creative outputs, but not with their usefulness.
Recorded human–ChatGPT dialogues were coded for cognitive interaction, while the resulting social-media posts were independently evaluated on novelty and usefulness using post-level ratings.
high mixed Individual skill differences and human AI interaction shape ... External ratings of post novelty and usefulness
The structured review found generally positive associations between AI capability and organizational creativity and firm performance, but measurement approaches vary substantially across studies.
The thematic synthesis reports prior empirical applications with positive associations while noting differences in the number and labeling of dimensions and in reflective versus formative measurement models.
high mixed When Does AI Capability Convert to Advantage? A Complementar... Organizational creativity and firm performance
Increasing sampling temperature increased model output diversity only up to a plateau, and the configuration that exceeded the plateau did so with substantial gibberish and poor format adherence.
Simulation sweep over sampling temperatures from 0.5 to 2.0. Diversity plateaued around 0.50; GPT-4o mini at temperature 2.0 generated 14.3% non-dictionary output words and had format adherence below 75%.
high mixed Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Simulated collective diversity, fluency, and format adherence
Prompting simulated L2 personas in their native languages increased simulated diversity but did not close the gap with human pools.
Simulation comparison across three models using English-only output versus native-language generation followed by translation. For GPT-4o mini, mean centroid similarity changed from 0.698 to 0.606, Δ = -0.092, p < 0.001, but the best native-language simulation remained less diverse than the human AI-ideation pool.
high mixed Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Collective diversity of simulated metaphor pools
AI refinement preserved diversity in the metaphors themselves but made the explanations more similar to one another.
Separate embedding analysis of metaphors alone versus metaphors combined with explanations. When explanations were included, AI refinement shifted toward the centroid relative to human-only by b = 0.046, p < 0.001.
high mixed Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Diversity of metaphor ideas and their written explanations
Looking for solutions together encourages members to examine more alternatives but narrows the range of these ideas, while working independently generates greater variety but fewer alternatives being examined.
Synthesis of the empirical patterns observed in the online competition data: joint search associated with higher count of attempts but lower exploration/variety, independent search associated with greater variety but fewer attempts (details/samples not provided in abstract).
high mixed Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kag... number of alternatives examined and variety/range of ideas
Among top-selling books, those with substantial AI text draw on more distinctive language from existing books than do books with no AI text; for AI-text books, overlap rises with revenue, a gradient not detected for non-AI books.
Language-overlap analysis comparing top-selling books classified by detected AI content (>25%) to existing books; correlation between overlap measure and revenue for AI-text books reported, with no similar correlation for non-AI books.
high mixed Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books language-overlap (distinctiveness) of books and its relationship with revenue am...
Approach motivation (BAS Drive) moderates whether interactive partnership benefits originality.
Moderation analysis reported from the pilot (N = 62) showing interaction between BAS Drive (a measured personality/motivation scale) and the effect of interactive partnership on originality.
Reasoning models roam a wider hypothesis space, yet no model class spontaneously proposes null hypotheses — a move humans make more freely.
Model-output analysis comparing 'reasoning' vs 'non-reasoning' classes on hypothesis-space breadth and presence/absence of null hypotheses; human responses used as comparison.
high mixed Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... breadth of hypothesis space and frequency of null-hypothesis proposals
AI advances science through structurally distinct creative pathways rather than a single mechanism; the creative pathway depends on how AI is incorporated into the research process.
Interpretation synthesized from observed heterogeneity in creativity outcomes across classified AI research modes (Tool-oriented vs Adaptation-oriented) in the >1M publication analysis.
high mixed Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? mechanism/pathway of scientific creativity (qualitative synthesis from heterogen...
Through a pre-registered randomized control trial, we show that incentives mediate AI's homogenizing force in a creative writing task where participants can use AI interactively.
Pre-registered randomized controlled trial (experimental design) conducted on a creative writing task with interactive AI use (details such as sample size not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI extent to which incentives alter AI's homogenizing effect (mediating effect)
The effect of increasing the share of AI-automated R&D tasks is non-monotonic: firms initially target more radical innovations, but beyond a threshold of human-AI complementarity, they shift the focus toward incremental innovations.
Analytical comparative-statics in the theoretical model: varying the fraction of R&D tasks performable by AI yields a non-monotonic relationship between AI task-share and optimal recombination distance, with a threshold determined by human-AI complementarity.
high mixed Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... targeted recombination distance / radicalness of innovations as a function of AI...
Higher AI productivity encourages more distant recombinations, if the direct facilitation effect is stronger than the indirect effect due to intensified competition from rivals.
Comparative-static result from the analytical model: the paper derives a condition comparing the direct facilitation effect of AI on accessing distant knowledge and the indirect effect from increased competition; when the former dominates, equilibrium recombination distance increases with AI productivity.
high mixed Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... recombination distance (degree of distance in knowledge-space targeted by firms)
AI usage has dual effects on employees: it can both enhance innovative behavior and predict disengagement, as revealed by a dual-path (SOR-based) model.
Interpretation/synthesis from the four-stage longitudinal study of 285 finance professionals using a dual-path model based on SOR theory (combining the mediation and moderation results).
high mixed Autonomous enhancement or emotional depletion? The dual-path... innovative work behavior and work disengagement behavior (dual outcomes)
Current systems stall when they must select a new type of mathematical object or practice to formalize, even if they can search and score candidates once the candidate type is specified.
Comparison of systems such as AlphaEvolve and FunSearch, which search spaces whose object types are fixed by the problem statement, with historical examples of Turing, Boole, Gentzen, and Gödel selecting practices as objects of formalization.
high negative Assessing LLMs' mathematical abilities requires understandin... selection of novel mathematical objects or formalization targets
Current transformer-based systems concentrate their mathematical competence in recombination and search over existing building blocks, rather than in inventing genuinely new conceptual primitives.
The paper infers this from the predominance of existential results in autonomous AI mathematical discovery and from a mechanistic study finding narrow heuristics in language-model arithmetic; it explicitly characterizes the architectural account as a conjecture.
high negative Assessing LLMs' mathematical abilities requires understandin... ability to generate novel mathematical concepts
The four proposed mechanisms of mathematical creativity are likely non-substitutable, so competence in existing modes such as search, deduction, and straightforward cross-domain transfer does not transfer to modes requiring genuinely new conceptual primitives.
Theoretical argument based on the distinction between recombination over a fixed candidate type and invention of a new candidate type; the paper acknowledges that the claim is not proved outright.
high negative Assessing LLMs' mathematical abilities requires understandin... transfer of mathematical creativity competence across mechanisms
Stepwise Guidance reduced new idea generation relative to the other conditions.
Researchers counted unique idea units generated across two iterations and compared quantitative design behavior changes across conditions.
high negative Enacting Constructive Conflicts with AI Agents to Enhance Re... Generation of new design ideas
The observed homogenization patterns are more consistent with learned system priors than with prompt constraints.
The paper used genre-name-only null prompts to isolate system-level priors from prompt-engineering effects and reports that both systems exhibited homogenizing tendencies despite minimal prompting.
high negative The Algorithmic Flattening of Sound: Computational Evidence ... System-level default acoustic tendencies under minimal prompting
Suno collapses acoustic distinctions between genres without compressing within-genre acoustic spread.
Comparison of Suno-generated and human-produced tracks across four genres using 72 MIR features and diagnostics of within-genre dispersion and between-genre separability.
high negative The Algorithmic Flattening of Sound: Computational Evidence ... Acoustic separability between genres and acoustic dispersion within genres
Lyria 3 reduces within-genre acoustic diversity relative to human-produced music.
Black-box audit comparing 100 Lyria 3 tracks per genre with matched human corpora across 72 MIR features and diagnostics of dispersion, redundancy, and separability, covering Afrobeats, K-pop, Dance Pop, and Heavy Metal.
high negative The Algorithmic Flattening of Sound: Computational Evidence ... Within-genre variation in rhythm, timing, timbre, spectral shape, and dynamics
Across three additional AI-creativity studies and multiple diversity metrics, AI-generated ideas were significantly less diverse than human-generated ideas.
Study 2b conducted a meta-analysis of data from Stevenson et al. (2022), Hubert et al. (2024), and Boussioux et al. (2024), applying multiple diversity measures.
high negative AI and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical ... Diversity of generated ideas across studies and diversity metrics
AI-generated idea sets were substantially less diverse than human-generated idea sets, meaning that the AI ideas were more similar to one another.
Study 2a compared the diversity of human- and AI-generated ideas from Study 1, operationalizing diversity as semantic distance between ideas in a set.
high negative AI and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical ... Semantic diversity or distance among ideas within an idea set
AI-generated ideas had slightly lower novelty than human-generated ideas, but the decrease was small.
Study 1c used human judges to rate the novelty of AI-generated and human-generated product ideas.
high negative AI and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical ... Rated novelty of product ideas
The strongest reported simulation, Claude Sonnet 4.6, recovered only 75.3% of the diversity of the human-only pool.
Comparison of the simulated metaphor pools with human pools across the three model families.
high negative Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Relative collective diversity of simulated versus human metaphor pools
Every LLM-simulated metaphor pool was less diverse than every human pool, including the most homogenized human AI-ideation pool.
Non-preregistered adversarial simulation using personas based on participants' backgrounds and three model families: GPT-4o mini, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Qwen3.5-27b. All comparisons were reported as p < 0.001.
high negative Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Collective diversity of simulated metaphor pools
AI ideation compressed both L1 and L2 writers' metaphor pools and made the L2 collective-diversity advantage statistically undetectable.
Comparison of L1 and L2 pools under AI ideation. The group means were 0.457 for L1 and 0.451 for L2, with Δ = 0.006 and p = 0.481.
high negative Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Collective diversity of metaphor ideas
AI ideation produced the most homogeneous human metaphor pools, whereas AI refinement produced pools that were statistically indistinguishable from the human-only condition.
Multilevel regression of collective metaphor diversity measured by mean centroid similarity. AI ideation differed from human-only by b = 0.036, p < 0.001; AI refinement differed by b = 0.007, p = 0.516. Higher centroid similarity indicates lower diversity.
high negative Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large langu... Collective diversity of metaphor ideas
At the collective level, LLMs aggregate knowledge into a unified distribution rather than exhibiting the knowledge partitioning inherent to human populations (where individuals occupy distinct regions of knowledge space).
Theoretical account plus empirical analyses comparing distributions of ideas across multiple independent LLM samples versus multiple human participants, showing greater overlap / less partitioning in LLM outputs.
high negative Examining and Addressing Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Genera... knowledge partitioning across generators / cross-sample idea diversity
At the individual level, LLMs exhibit fixation: early outputs constrain subsequent ideation.
Theoretical argument plus empirical tests reported in the paper showing within-generator sequences where early outputs reduce later idea novelty/diversity for LLMs.
high negative Examining and Addressing Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Genera... fixation (constraint on subsequent ideation) / within-sequence idea diversity
Ideas generated by independent samples of humans tend to be more diverse than ideas generated from independent LLM samples.
Empirical comparison reported across the paper's studies (four studies) that measure idea diversity between independently sampled human participants and independently sampled LLM outputs.
Reliance on generative AI can reduce cultural variance and diversity, especially in creative work.
The paper asserts this as a motivating premise and studies it using an agent-based model and evolutionary game theory (theoretical/modeling evidence).
high negative Group Selection as a Safeguard Against AI Substitution cultural variance and diversity in creative outputs
Compared to their counterfactuals that search apart, groups searching together exhibit less exploration in their search outcomes.
Empirical analysis of naturally occurring data from a strongly incentivized online competition platform; groups searching together were compared to counterfactual groups that searched apart (method details and sample size not provided in abstract).
high negative Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kag... exploration in search outcomes (variety/range of ideas)
Traditional packaging design models based on experience, templates, functionality, or imitation produce homogenized designs, long development cycles, high costs, and limited ability to meet contemporary demands for personalization, sustainability, and e-commerce.
Paper's comparative background and motivation section describing limitations of traditional approaches; positioned against the study's empirical comparison.
high negative AI-Driven Innovation and Optimization of Packaging Design design originality, development cycle length, cost, ability to meet personalizat...
Self-reported cognitive outsourcing predicts lower originality specifically in human-human dyads.
Correlation / regression result from the in-person pilot (N = 62) reporting that self-reported cognitive outsourcing is associated with lower originality in human-human dyads but not in other conditions.
More innovative creators are especially harmed under the strong-IP regime — a phenomenon the paper terms the "originality penalty."
Analytical result derived from the static game model in the paper highlighting differential effects by creator innovativeness; theoretical characterization labeled "originality penalty."
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary relative payoff/incentive for innovative creators
A regime of strong intellectual property rights, modeled as a static Stackelberg game, also fails to provide adequate creative incentives (it underpowers creative incentives).
Theoretical analysis using a static Stackelberg-game model developed in the paper; analytical results show reduced creator incentives under this regime.
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary creative incentives / creator payoff
Non-reasoning LLMs collapse into a narrow 'hivemind' of similar ideas.
Comparative analysis of idea outputs from different LLM classes showing reduced diversity/similarity concentration for non-reasoning models (as described in results).
high negative Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... diversity / similarity of generated ideas (creativity)
GenAI usage significantly decreased creativity-relevant skills.
Experiment with 82 participants reported in the paper; authors report a statistically significant decrease in measures of creativity-relevant skills for participants using GenAI.
high negative When Ai Sparks Less: Generative Ai And The Decline Of Self-P... creativity-relevant skills
In deployed settings, the effects of AI systems on human agency, creativity, and institutional well-being emerge over time, shaped by repeated interaction, reuse, and integration into real-world workflows, and these dynamics are rarely visible through pre-deployment evaluation or isolated prompt–response analysis.
Argumentative observation based on conceptual reasoning; no empirical data or sample size reported.
high negative Post-Deployment Observability as a Foundation for Well-Being... emergent effects on human agency and creativity arising from extended AI use
Generated ideas often degrade after implementation.
Paper statement about the gap between idea generation and implemented results reported in the Creation-phase analysis; no quantified follow-up study reported in the excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide quality change of generated ideas after implementation
Using LLMs led to fewer creative moments observed in participants (p=0.002).
Within-subject comparison between LLM-assisted and unassisted conditions with reported p-value p=0.002. Study sample N=20.
high negative "Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Im... count of creative moments
Patent text similarity analysis confirms a 'homogenization trap' (AI-associated increases in patent-text similarity).
Text-similarity analysis of patent documents reported in the paper showing increased patent similarity associated with AI use.
high negative The Inverted-U Relationship Between AI and Corporate Innovat... patent text similarity (homogenization of patent content)