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Claims by outcome category

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
Industry 1 1
Platform regulations such as transparency requirements, auditability, and algorithmic impact assessments can change the incentives and equilibrium outcomes associated with algorithmic design in news markets.
Theoretical policy implication; the article proposes evaluating such effects but does not estimate them.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Algorithmic design incentives and market equilibrium outcomes
Accountability for public knowledge is distributed across journalists, platforms, and regulators rather than being assigned to a single actor.
Theoretical account of accountability within the contested epistemic space; no observed cases or measured accountability outcomes are reported.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Allocation of responsibility for information production and distribution
The intersection of editorial, algorithmic, and regulatory logics forms a contested epistemic space in which visibility, credibility, and accountability are negotiated and may be stabilized or destabilized.
Theoretical framework identifying the intersection and its effects on public knowledge; no empirical validation is presented.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Visibility, credibility, and accountability in public information ecosystems
Journalism's epistemic authority emerges from the interaction of editorial, algorithmic, and regulatory logics rather than being produced solely within newsrooms.
Conceptual synthesis in the article's main finding; no empirical sample or causal test is reported.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Formation and stability of journalism's epistemic authority
The study advocates balancing automation gains with ethical safeguards and human oversight in AI-driven talent acquisition.
Qualitative exploration of AI-enabled recruitment experiences, including participants' concerns about privacy, organisational readiness, and ethical governance.
high mixed AI-driven talent acquisition in Indian IT firms: A qualitati... Governance requirements and human oversight for AI-assisted recruitment decision...
The interaction of the AI Act and GDPR creates synergies in governance and accountability but can also compound compliance burdens, producing trade-offs between reduced harms and trust on one hand and efficiency and innovation on the other.
Synthesis of the doctrinal analysis and the paper's discussion of compliance costs, trust, innovation, and regulatory interaction; no quantitative trade-off estimate is provided.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... Compliance burden, trustworthiness, efficiency, and innovation incentives
EU rules may diffuse globally as de facto standards because firms adopt uniform EU-aligned practices to preserve market access, potentially reducing regulatory fragmentation while exporting EU norms.
Comparative legal analysis of extraterritoriality and market-access incentives, interpreted through the regulatory-governance and regulatory-capitalism literature.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... Global diffusion and harmonization of AI and data-governance standards
Organizational AI acculturation can generate positive private returns while also producing negative social externalities through propagation of biased or stale practices.
Conceptual analysis of the divergence between firm-level incentives and aggregate welfare; the paper proposes studying incentive and regulatory designs rather than reporting an empirical estimate.
high mixed Organizational AI Acculturation: How Human‐ AI Interaction E... Private economic returns and negative externalities from propagation of biased o...
The management responses associate AI-related employment change with distributional consequences, institutional governance and organisational responsibility, not only productivity.
Coding of 159 usable Q23 management responses identified social fairness, industry regulation, data privacy, human–AI collaboration, skills training and employee welfare as recurring categories.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Low-Skilled Employm... Perceived organisational and social consequences of AI adoption
The company-level version of SCAF conceptualizes vulnerability as exposure created by product deployment reach, coping as features that help users respond to and recover from failures, and adaptive capacity as features and practices that reduce future failures and improve learning.
Table 2's operational definitions of company contributions to vulnerability, coping, and adaptive capacities.
high mixed Assessing Company Contributions to Societal Resilience: Exte... Company contributions to vulnerability, coping, and adaptive resilience capaciti...
Four of the five primitives were built and running in private pilots, while supply-chain functionality was built as separate tooling but had not yet been integrated into the request path.
Authors' implementation-status report; no pilot sample size or outcome measurements are reported.
high mixed Five Primitives for Governing Autonomous AI Agents at Runtim... Implementation maturity and integration status of the governance architecture
The paper limits PES's applicability to settings in which multi-user deployment, execution audit, and expected persona churn occur jointly.
Scope and applicability statement; this is a stated boundary condition rather than an empirically validated result.
high mixed Persona-Execution Separation: An Architecture Pattern for Ev... Conditions under which the architecture pattern is applicable
The adoption drivers identified in prior frameworks should not be treated as parallel, co-equal factors in mandate-driven public-sector organizations; instead, their effects are hierarchically conditioned by political authorization.
The study's comparative qualitative findings across leading and emergent governments, interpreted through Task–Technology Fit, Diffusion of Innovations, and implementation theory.
high mixed Political gatekeeping and digital innovation in sustainable ... Relative influence and interaction of political, organizational, process, and te...
When an AI algorithm makes decisions affecting more than one person, alignment is a social-choice problem because the system must reconcile and aggregate divergent individual preferences.
Conceptual framework developed in the abstract and introduction; the paper formalizes alignment as preference aggregation over welfare impacts.
high mixed Algorithmic Impact Reveals the Hidden Social Choice Structur... Aggregation of stakeholders' welfare preferences in AI-system behavior
The feasibility and welfare effects of share compensation depend on firm size, share liquidity and valuation, bargaining and negotiation mechanisms, corporate governance, legal and regulatory constraints, and transaction costs.
The paper acknowledges implementation limitations and institutional frictions rather than testing them empirically.
high mixed Modifying the Corporate Objective to Improve Social Welfare:... Feasibility and effectiveness of negotiated equity compensation
Regulatory and institutional responses, including intellectual-property law, data-protection regimes, and antitrust enforcement, interact with entrepreneurial actions to shape whether AI property regimes are private, public, or hybrid.
Conceptual institutional analysis and proposed AI-governance research agenda.
high mixed Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Ass... Form and governance of AI property regimes
Corporate narratives portray digital twins and industrial AI as enabling synchronized, centrally managed, and predictive factory operations, but observed shop-floor practice departs from this framing.
Discourse analysis of promotional texts, vendor claims, and managerial presentations contrasted with ethnographic observation and worker interviews.
high mixed Desynchronizing the Digital Factory: Relational Intelligence... Alignment between official automation narratives and workplace operation
The paper proposes six theory-grounded propositions and a five-stage implementation pathway, while calling for auditable, longitudinal, multi-country empirical testing.
Reported output and research agenda of the transparent integrative literature review.
high mixed Role Of Digital Accounting Transformation And Supply Chain I... Empirical validation and implementation of the integrated capability framework
Strong data governance, consent mechanisms, and secure data-sharing architectures are necessary to obtain the benefits of AI-enabled finance while limiting cybersecurity and privacy harms.
Conceptual synthesis of governance, privacy, security, and data-sharing requirements identified as boundary conditions in the review.
high mixed Role Of Digital Accounting Transformation And Supply Chain I... Benefits and risks of AI-enabled SME finance, including privacy and cybersecurit...
The paper’s completeness guarantee is limited to mediated channels; unmediated channels remain an explicit residual assumption.
Threat-model qualification stating that the architecture detects omissions only where the witness boundary and per-channel sequencing apply.
high mixed HANSARD: A Reference Architecture for Forensic Readiness, Ru... Scope of forensic-record completeness guarantees
HANSARD reports compensation-set size rather than the conventional Chockler-Halpern degree of responsibility, because its modified counterfactual definition does not require setting variables to non-actual values.
Conceptual comparison between the modified Halpern-Pearl definition and the conventional responsibility measure 1/(1+k).
high mixed HANSARD: A Reference Architecture for Forensic Readiness, Ru... Interpretability of graded causal responsibility
Higher online engagement and more effective state controls coexist in a context where online mobilization persists but its translation into mass offline protest is dampened.
Comparative historical and qualitative analysis, supported by Mo Ibrahim Foundation indicators and synthesis of documented protest and online-repression cases.
high mixed Internet, political mobilisation, and state control in North... Relationship between online engagement, state control, and mass offline protest
Neither a blanket prohibition of opaque AI in auditing nor uncritical reliance on opaque AI is defensible; regulation should be calibrated to the risks created by opacity rather than to AI use as such.
Normative legal and regulatory argument drawing on comparative analysis of the EU AI Act, IAASB and PCAOB developments, and common-law liability doctrine.
high mixed Auditing the Black Box: Rethinking Audit Assurance and Profe... Appropriateness of regulatory responses to opaque AI in audit practice
The framework separates evidence into public-data, customs-internal, and gateway-conditional tiers, and uses Bangladesh as an illustration of how legal access and admissibility constraints shape feasible data flows and operators.
Institutional and statute-level legal analysis; jurisdictional transferability is explicitly limited.
high mixed Macro–meso–micro analytics for trade-based money laundering ... Feasibility of data access and evidence use in TBML screening
The implementation of the Rider Law was shaped by interactions among platform strategies, algorithmic technologies, worker bargaining capacity, and state enforcement capacity, rather than by the statute alone.
Qualitative case-study analysis focused on enforcement processes, platform counter-strategies, worker organisation, and state capacity.
high mixed ‘ A Legal Whack‐a‐Mole’ . Escaping the Rider Law in Spain: P... Effectiveness and practical implementation of labour-law enforcement
US-led restrictions targeting China change access conditions but do not substitute for corporate control over the semiconductor production pipeline.
Process tracing of US-led restrictions alongside corporate control over lithography services, qualification, packaging, and capacity scheduling.
high mixed Beyond weaponized interdependence: the corporate chokehold i... Control over the production pipeline after export restrictions change access con...
State-leveraged chokepoints and corporate chokeholds are distinct governance mechanisms: states govern access to frontier technologies and inputs, while firms govern the operational continuity and tempo of production.
Conceptual framework and process-tracing comparison of export controls with corporate control over servicing, qualification, packaging, and capacity scheduling.
high mixed Beyond weaponized interdependence: the corporate chokehold i... Governance of access, production continuity, and production timing
Blockchain creates new assurance targets involving consensus-protocol correctness and governance, cryptographic key management and custody, smart-contract correctness and vulnerabilities, and oracle reliability.
Standards analysis identifying new assurance objects created by blockchain systems and their links to audit evidence.
high mixed Beyond Verification: How Blockchain Technology Challenges th... Scope and complexity of assurance requirements
Treating frontier AI as scientific infrastructure implies that AI-access decisions shape the long-run distribution of scientific capability and power.
Conceptual interpretation of the model's endogenous feedback between AI access, credit, resources, future access, and laboratory participation.
high mixed The distribution of scientific power in the age of AI Long-run distribution of scientific capability and institutional power
AI diffusion may accelerate productivity while also increasing risks related to competition, market concentration, and strategic dependencies, requiring complementary governance measures.
Policy caution based on the paper's institutional and industrial-policy analysis; no direct productivity or concentration estimates are reported.
high mixed China's Diffusion‐Forward AI Strategy: The “ AI Race” in Pol... Productivity gains and competition or dependency risks associated with AI diffus...
Which long-run ownership regime occurs is determined by law and initial conditions rather than by technology alone.
The paper’s theoretical ownership analysis treats legal ownership arrangements and initial ownership as determinants of ε_t and the terminal regime.
high mixed Growth Without Us: Machine Consumers, Corporate Circularity,... Distribution of ownership and human access to machine-generated output
The benefits of AI integration in scientific communities are not automatic; they depend on institutional adaptation and the development of new standards and practices.
Model interpretation and simulation findings linking AI effectiveness to organizational practices, including standardization, protocols, divisions of labor, and documentation of tacit factors.
high mixed Navigating Epistemic Monocultures in AI-Driven Science: A Si... Effectiveness of AI-supported scientific problem-solving
The individual, legal, non-human configuration is controversial when applied to AI because it raises the question of whether an AI system could itself be legally liable or accountable.
Conceptual analysis of the typology, drawing on legal theory concerning animals and qualified legal standing.
high mixed A three-dimensional typology of agency for advanced AI syste... Potential legal liability and accountability of AI systems
Optimizing clinical AI for short-term satisfaction or engagement can be economically attractive but clinically and socially suboptimal.
Conceptual analysis of incentive misalignment between engagement metrics and long-term clinical outcomes.
high mixed A framework for evidence-based psychotherapy with AI (EBP-AI... Short-term user engagement versus long-term clinical and social outcomes
Hybrid human-AI decision structures are recommended for the large majority of consequential business decisions under current AI capabilities.
Organizational decision-making typology by Shrestha, Ben-Menahem, and von Krogh, summarized in the review; the recommendation is based on decision frequency, stakes, and specification of the prediction task.
high mixed Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business Decision-Maki... Allocation of control between humans and AI in consequential decisions
The framework is intended as an additional control layer and does not replace permission gates or sandboxing.
The paper's stated system-design conclusion and limitation: learned restraint complements, rather than substitutes for, brokered permission controls and isolated execution environments.
high mixed Task-Conditioned Least-Privilege Learning for Executable Ter... Security-control coverage and governance of tool-using agents
DMM and gold-standard-label methods such as DSL and PPI are complementary: DMM avoids assumptions about gold-standard labels but requires stronger assumptions about measurement errors, whereas validation-based methods make fewer assumptions about measurement errors but require gold-standard labels.
The paper explicitly contrasts the identifying assumptions and data requirements of DMM with DSL and PPI.
high mixed Debiased Inference for AI-Generated Data without Gold-Standa... Tradeoff between data requirements and assumptions for valid inference
Multimodal AI-centered data management creates technical and governance challenges involving scalability, interpretability, privacy, provenance, access control, compliance, and interoperability.
Conceptual discussion of system limitations and governance requirements; no quantitative evaluation of the challenges is reported.
high mixed Managing the Unmanageable: Multimodal Artificial Intelligenc... Scalability, explainability, governance, privacy, compliance, and interoperabili...
Embedding inheritance enforcement on-chain would require trusted or semi-trusted external institutions, including death-attestation registries, proof-of-humanity systems, attesters, challenge procedures, and courts or notaries.
Speculative escalation game in which the protocol is hardened through independent attesters, challenge windows, time locks, biometric enrollment, social vouching, and state identity bridges.
high mixed Agent Inheritance Protocol: Speculating on Feralized Agents ... Institutional requirements and governance complexity of enforcing on-chain succe...
Islamic and Catholic concerns converge substantially around dignity, responsibility, and social justice, but Islamic intellectual resources generate distinct emphases with implications for policy and institutional design.
The essay performs a comparative ethical framing of the encyclical and Islamic intellectual traditions rather than a systematic point-by-point comparison.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and the Rediscovery of the Human: An... Cross-tradition convergence and divergence in AI ethics and governance prioritie...
Islamic intellectual traditions raise foundational questions about personhood, knowledge, work, responsibility, and dignity in the context of large, complex systems, while framing them differently from Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas.
The essay uses hermeneutic interpretation of the encyclical alongside textual and conceptual analysis of Islamic theological, juridical, and ethical traditions.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and the Rediscovery of the Human: An... Normative framing of human dignity, responsibility, work, and knowledge under te...
Government responses that suppress demand, such as fees, are generally faster to deploy than measures that increase service capacity, but they can reduce service quality and accessibility and introduce procedural inequality.
The paper's mapping of response options and review of precedent; demand-suppression examples include fees, rate limits, and in-person requirements, while capacity measures include staffing, AI deployment, and interface redesign.
high mixed Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services Speed of government response deployment, service accessibility, service quality,...
Perceived legitimacy is a boundary condition for guardrail effectiveness: users are more likely to circumvent guardrails they regard as opaque or disproportionate.
The study identifies perceived legitimacy from observed workaround behavior in the quasi-experimental field deployment and presents it as a theoretical boundary condition.
high mixed Governing generative AI in organizations: a design theory an... Effectiveness and user compliance with AI guardrails as a function of perceived ...
Institutional capacity moderates the extent to which AI-related technological inputs translate into productive and inclusive outcomes.
The paper's integrated theoretical framework treats governance, regulation, skills, and social-protection systems as moderating conditions across productivity, distribution, and welfare channels.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Growth and Social We... Conversion of AI inputs into productivity, distributional, and welfare outcomes
Risk-based disclosure requirements for high-impact AI have ancillary value, whereas universal labeling of all GenAI outputs fails to differentiate between low-risk and high-risk uses.
Comparative analysis of Korea's AI Basic Law and its distinction between high-impact AI obligations and universal GenAI notification and labeling; no empirical assessment is reported.
high mixed A Regulatory Placebo? The Systemic Failure of Mandatory GenA... Risk sensitivity and signaling capacity of AI disclosure requirements
The review proposes a multidimensional framework integrating behavioural, institutional, and technological perspectives to explain persistent audit failures.
Qualitative thematic synthesis and integration of recurring factors into a conceptual framework; no meta-analytic statistical pooling was reported.
high mixed Bridging the expectation performance gap in fraud detection:... Conceptual explanation of audit failures
The four impact factors interact in a cyclical and adaptive process that continually transforms platform capabilities, governance, and participant incentives.
Theoretical framework developed from inductive coding of the qualitative interview data.
high mixed Striving for the Common Good: Sustainability Impacts on Digi... Evolution of platform ecosystem capabilities, governance, and incentives
Deploying trustworthy, scalable, and privacy-respecting IDSS requires addressing data quality, explainability, computational costs, governance, and user trust.
Qualitative review identifying cross-cutting implementation challenges across surveyed techniques and application domains.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Decision Support Sys... Feasibility and trustworthiness of IDSS deployment
Worker participation and co-design shape whether AI produces equitable, productivity-enhancing outcomes or harmful displacement and deskilling.
The paper presents participation and governance as the process-level moderators determining whether AI functions as a complement or substitute for workers' skills.
high mixed From Blueprint to Black Box: How Generative Artificial Intel... Productivity, displacement, deskilling, and equity of AI-mediated work outcomes
Subsidizing AI tools alone may have limited impact, whereas interventions that build managerial capacity, data infrastructure, workforce skills, and governance may be more effective.
Policy implication derived from the framework’s emphasis on complementary organizational capabilities; not directly tested through a policy intervention.
high mixed From Trials to Results – A Novel Capability Framework for Co... Effectiveness of policies supporting AI adoption and deployment