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Evidence (1416 claims)

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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 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
Effectiveness of AI in tax compliance is contingent on data quality, governance capacity, and organizational readiness.
CIMO-structured synthesis of contextual factors across the 68 reviewed articles highlighting data, governance, and organizational readiness as moderators of AI effectiveness.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Tax Compliance and Evasion Mitiga... effectiveness of AI interventions
Firm-level productivity gains from AI are contingent on complementary organizational investment.
Synthesis finding from the SLR: multiple studies report that complementary investments (e.g., organizational change, worker training, data infrastructure) are necessary for realizing productivity benefits.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... conditionality of productivity gains on complementary investments
The task-based adaptive collaboration model hypothesizes that trust, explainability, and task difficulty moderate the effect of human–AI collaboration on performance.
Statement of hypothesized relationships within the model developed in the paper (theoretical hypotheses rather than reported experimental estimates).
high mixed Human–AI Collaborative Systems for Workflow Optimization: A ... moderation effects on performance
The organizing claim of the theory is that review is the control point through which a coding agent's effect on software is decided, and that AI does not fix the sign of that effect: the team sets it, through the expertise its humans bring and how it structures the review process.
Synthesis of practitioner discourse coded into a causal model derived from the LLM-assisted analysis of 3,100 sampled documents; presented as the central theoretical claim.
high mixed 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... net effect of coding agents on software (mediated by review process and team exp...
The direction of these observed trends (review frequency, merge speed, discussion) flips under different but equally defensible analysis choices.
Authors' sensitivity/robustness checks on the observational GitHub analysis indicating that trend direction depends on analysis choices; reported in abstract without numeric detail.
high mixed 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... direction/stability of observational trends
Coding agents are capable; human oversight is the bottleneck.
Authors' high-level claim/argument in the paper, supported conceptually and motivated by the reported experiment showing reviewer limits.
high mixed Steerability via constraints: a substrate for scalable overs... scalability limited by human oversight
Agentic AI differs from human organisations because these patterns are not sustained by motivation, identity, trust, employment, socialisation, or moral accountability; they are sustained by context architecture: prompts, memory, traces, schemas, tools, validators, and permissions.
Theoretical argument in the paper contrasting sustaining mechanisms for organisational behaviour; based on conceptual analysis and description of system-level affordances (no sample size reported).
high mixed The Organizational Behavior of Agentic AI: Collective Intell... mechanisms sustaining organisational behaviour
The SCR-enhancing effect of GAI is conditional: it is not automatic but depends critically on alignment between technological deployment and organizational adaptation.
Empirical heterogeneity/conditionality findings from the panel analysis (2017–2024), implying the positive effect of GAI on SCR varies with organizational alignment and adaptation measures.
high mixed How Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption Enhances Fir... Firm-level supply chain resilience (SCR) conditional on organizational adaptatio...
Key human factors—trust calibration, output-quality sensemaking, expertise depth, feedback latency, cognitive load, and metacognitive skill development—serve as performance-shaping mechanisms within AI-enabled systems.
Presentation of a socio-technical evaluation model synthesizing prior research across several disciplines (conceptual synthesis; no empirical sample reported).
high mixed Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... AI-enabled system performance as shaped by listed human factors
The paper develops a task-to-firm conversion framework explaining why task-level GenAI productivity gains do not automatically translate into firm-level improvements.
Theoretical and conceptual contribution presented in the review, integrating multiple literatures (GPT theory, digital economics, task experiments, China studies).
high mixed Generative AI, Digital Infrastructure, and Firm Productivity... mechanisms and frictions in converting task-level gains into firm-level producti...
Existing user-role frameworks (e.g., the BTP User Type Matrix) require adaptation because the workforce is undergoing significant role-specific changes.
Authors' analysis based on 20 expert interviews and a 24-person workshop that uncovered mismatches between current role taxonomies and emergent AI-influenced responsibilities.
high mixed The impact of artificial intelligence on enterprise software... fit and adequacy of existing user-role frameworks for current workforce roles
The simulation offers a template of how firms ought to reorganize internal promotion ladders when junior positions are significantly automated.
Model-based policy/reorganization recommendation derived from the simulation results; presented as guidance for firm-level reorganization rather than an empirically tested organizational intervention in the abstract.
high mixed THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... structure of internal promotion ladders / organizational reorganization
Stronger synchronization can increase collective output but may also increase systemic fragility and reduce mobility.
Analytical results and trade-off analysis in the model showing the effects of synchronization on collective output, fragility, and mobility; theoretical deduction without empirical sample.
high mixed Optimal Order of Multi-Agent and General Many-Body Systems organizational_efficiency
The paper formalizes four mechanism theorems explaining the overhead-pressure dynamics: overhead non-additivity, augmentation-saved-time pathways, innovation-premium amplification, and human-AI dyad attribution uncertainty.
Presentation of four mechanism theorems within the paper (theoretical/mathematical exposition rather than direct empirical tests).
high mixed What Capital After Labor? Forecasting the Talent ROI Transit... mechanisms driving overhead-pressure under AI augmentation
The ICH framework predicts three distinct augmentation regimes (determined by combinations of A and C) with distinct policy implications.
Theoretical classification derived from the model; conceptual prediction presented in the paper.
high mixed Forecasting AI-Era Productivity: The Intellectually Converge... augmentation regime classification (regimes of phi behavior as functions of A an...
Organisational performance becomes more dependent on the reliability of algorithms, the quality of data, effective governance, and coordination among public institutions.
Conceptual argument supported by synthesis of empirical studies in the systematic review (68 peer-reviewed empirical studies).
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly embedded in the digital infrastructure of local government, creating new opportunities to improve public sector productivity while also influencing systemic risk and organisational resilience across interconnected public systems.
Statement based on literature synthesis in the paper; theoretical framing and review of empirical studies (systematic review).
high mixed AI Adoption in Local Government: Productivity, Systemic Risk... public sector productivity and systemic risk
The relationship between AI use levels and corporate carbon emission intensity exhibits a significant inverted U-shaped curve: at early stages AI adoption may increase emissions, but beyond a critical point further AI use significantly reduces emissions.
Empirical two-way fixed effects (TWFE) analysis on provincial panel data from China, with robustness checks; the paper reports a statistically significant inverted U-shaped relationship.
high mixed A study on the nonlinear impact and mechanism of artificial ... corporate carbon emission intensity
The endurance budget is dormant on premium 3,000-P/E TLC at datasheet prices and binding on the commodity QLC/eMMC (~1,000 P/E) that cheaper edge robots run.
Comparative statement based on device endurance specifications cited in the paper (3,000 P/E for TLC vs ~1,000 P/E for QLC/eMMC) and cost/pricing considerations; presented as boundary conditions for when the endurance budget matters. No empirical sample size reported.
high mixed Memory as a Wasting Asset: Pricing Flash Endurance for Embod... endurance_budget_binding (whether endurance constraints are economically binding...
Implementation success depends heavily on data quality, workflow redesign, interpretability, governance, and procurement alignment.
Synthesis of factors identified across included studies and supporting regulatory/industry documents as important determinants of successful deployment.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... determinants of implementation success (data quality, workflow redesign, interpr...
National AI development can be interpreted as a controlled balance between information injection and entropy dissipation.
Theoretical mapping using HCLM; paper presents this dynamical framing and definitions of the two processes; no empirical sample.
high mixed AI Sovereignty as National Learning Capacity: A Human-Center... balance between information injection and entropy dissipation
Significant advancements in smart technology, AI, robotics and algorithms (STARA) are changing how organisations design and implement work for the current and future workforce.
Statement in the editorial supported by references to prior literature and reviews (e.g. Brougham and Haar, 2018; Raisch and Krakowski, 2021; Tang et al., 2023; Ulfert et al., 2024; Yam et al., 2023). This paper is an editorial/literature-synthesis rather than a primary empirical study.
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... how organisations design and implement work (work design / organisational practi...
The agents exhibited substantially different behaviors and computational costs.
Overall observation from the two runs: distinct behavioral patterns (silent reinterpretation vs explicit restarts), different execution times, and differing computational actions (optimization introduced by Codex).
Task accuracy, monetary cost, and edge energy consumption are tightly coupled in hybrid MAS design.
Claim made in the abstract and investigated empirically by adapting MAS architectures and measuring power, cost, and performance trade-offs.
high mixed When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... task accuracy, monetary cost, edge energy consumption (multi-dimensional trade-o...
AI maturity moderated the effects of governance exposure on adaptation (p ≤ 0.035).
Reported moderation analysis: 'with AI maturity moderating these effects (p ≤ 0.035)'.
high mixed Research on the adaptation path of corporate strategy based ... moderation_of_governance_effects_by_AI_maturity
Resilience should be redefined not as reserve magnitude (accumulated buffers) but as recoverability of generative relational capacity.
Normative/theoretical redefinition proposed by the paper; no empirical validation provided.
high mixed The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... conceptualization of resilience (recoverability of generative relational capacit...
AI has changed how work is executed (work processes and execution).
Explicit statement in the paper's abstract; presented as a qualitative/general finding from the paper's evaluation and literature synthesis (no numerical sample provided).
Artificial intelligence, especially generative AI, is transforming enterprise operations by automating tasks, enhancing decision-making, and redefining job roles.
Conceptual statement in the paper describing observed/expected effects of generative AI on enterprise operations (no specific empirical sample or experiment reported in the excerpt).
high mixed From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... enterprise operations (task automation, decision-making quality, job-role change...
The workflow was cache-dominant, suggesting that persistent agentic environments may shift the economic unit from cost per token to cost per completed artifact.
Observed high cache-read fraction (82.9% in May subset) and interpretation by authors that caching dominates token usage, leading to the suggestion about economic-unit shifts.
high mixed Persistent AI Agents in Academic Research: A Single-Investig... dominance of cache reads (resource-cost implication) and predicted change in cos...
We identify five key moderating factors: human resource composition, baseline capability of individuals, learning curve of practitioners, incentives for fair use, and flexibility of objectives.
Explicit enumeration of proposed moderating factors in the paper (conceptual identification rather than empirical measurement).
high mixed Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... organizational determinants that moderate AI effectiveness
Completion time itself is not sufficient to characterize efficiency gains.
Authors' inferential conclusion in the abstract based on observed dissociation between completion time (no difference) and subjective effort (lower with AI) in their preregistered study (N = 1237).
high mixed Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI in... adequacy of completion time as a measure of efficiency
Labor-market adjustment to generative AI is a process of organizational reconfiguration, in which firms reshape both hiring demand and the task architecture of work.
Synthesis/conclusion drawn from the paper's empirical findings (decomposition results, heterogeneity analyses).
high mixed Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand organizational reconfiguration (hiring demand and task architecture)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has caused massive changes in nature of workplaces in healthcare sector.
Asserted in paper's introduction and supported by a scoping review (PRISMA-ScR) of 29 peer-reviewed empirical studies published 2020–2025.
high mixed The influence of AI-Driven Employee Performance Management (... nature of workplaces in healthcare (workplace structure, roles, processes)
Acceleration in the Generate/Take Action phase translates into durable performance only when Analyze/Prioritize is de-biased by individuals and teams, and Measure/Review converts results into reusable knowledge with appropriate inference discipline.
Thematic conclusions from the 17 interviews and cross-case analysis (Gioia methodology) identifying conditional relationships across stages of the seven-stage growth pipeline.
high mixed Reframing growth hacking in resilient startups: the role of ... durable performance of growth experiments / sustained improvement
AI changes the traditional relationship between learning and performance: in AI-intensive environments, learning must be supported by systems that coordinate knowledge and build intelligence rather than relying on learning alone.
Authors' synthesis and interpretation of their cross-sectional mediation results (AIDLC → KO → OI → IP) and comparison with prior management models.
high mixed Enhancing innovation in Pakistan’s IT sector interaction of AIDLC, KO and OI in producing performance
AI alters strategizing practices (Strategy-as-Practice) by making strategy processes continuous and AI-augmented rather than episodic and purely human-driven.
Conceptual synthesis of Strategy-as-Practice literature; theoretical claim about process change to continuous, AI-augmented strategizing; no empirical sample.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... temporal structure and conduct of strategizing practices
AIO’s decarbonization effects vary systematically across climate risk, industry competition, and AI exposure (heterogeneity analyses).
Authors state they performed heterogeneity/subgroup analyses showing systematic variation in the AIO–decarbonization relationship by climate risk, the degree of industry competition, and firms' AI exposure.
high mixed Artificial intelligence orientation and decarbonization spil... carbon emission intensity (heterogeneous effects)
Readiness and performance-related variables are associated with higher predicted success, whereas higher barrier levels are associated with lower predicted success.
Model coefficients/feature effect analyses and nonlinear diagnostics from the fitted models.
high mixed Determinants of Successful IoT and AI Initiatives in the SMA... predicted reported AI/IoT success related to readiness, performance, and barrier...
Augmented work agency is shaped by whether applications are generative or non-generative, by employees' experiences of anxiety and technostress, and by micro-politics through which teams negotiate AI use and AI ethics.
Thematic findings from semistructured interviews (28 participants) and document review identifying these factors as shaping agency in practice.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... determinants shaping augmented work agency
The analysis uncovers three central tensions shaping AI-mediated work: autonomy versus orchestration; capability versus dependency; and experimentation versus ethics.
Recurring themes identified through qualitative interviews (28 participants) and document review; interpretive synthesis presented in findings.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... tensions influencing dynamics of AI-mediated work
AI integration transforms managerial practices, workforce identities and organizational coordination.
Thematic and interpretive analysis of semistructured interviews with 28 managers/professionals across 12 organizations and review of organizational documents.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... managerial practices, workforce identities, organizational coordination
These AIECI benefits were contingent on complementary conditions—particularly data quality, governance, managerial interpretation, and integration of intelligence outputs into operating decisions.
Cross-case pattern-matching across five analytical dimensions (intelligence source, AI mechanism, decision domain, economic implication, boundary condition) identifying recurring contingencies in the four firms' archival evidence.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence Enabled Competitive Intelligence as ... conditionality of benefits on complementary organizational factors (data quality...
The dominant explanation for the gap locates it in model capability; instead, software-engineering capability emerges from a model-harness-environment system where a runtime substrate (the harness) mediates how an agent observes a project, acts on it, receives feedback, and establishes that a change is complete.
Conceptual argument and reframing presented in the paper (abstract). The paper formalizes this perspective rather than reporting a large-scale empirical test in the abstract.
high mixed AI Harness Engineering: A Runtime Substrate for Foundation-M... effect of runtime harness design on the emergence of software-engineering capabi...
The research challenges for this vision stem from a broader flexibility–robustness tension that requires moving beyond the on-the-fly paradigm to navigate effectively.
Analytical claim in paper identifying a design trade-off (flexibility vs. robustness) as the core challenge motivating the proposed shift; no empirical demonstration provided.
high mixed Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... trade-off between flexibility and robustness in agent design
Integrating Generative AI into agile development processes has potential benefits and limitations for planning efficiency.
High-level conclusion based on the controlled experiment with GitLab Duo and qualitative participant feedback discussed in the paper.
high mixed Splitting User Stories Into Tasks with AI -- A Foe or an All... planning efficiency (benefits and limitations)
Model routing can mitigate the cost of agentic tool use, but existing routers are designed for chat completion rather than tool use.
Argument/positioning in the paper and literature discussion (no specific empirical test reported for existing routers in this statement).
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling cost mitigation via model routing; applicability of existing routers to tool use
AI will affect public administration.
Report introduction describing a section focused on how AI will affect public administration; based on expert synthesis rather than reported empirical study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public administration processes and organizational efficiency (service delivery,...
This workload-buffering effect (governance improving performance while reducing fatigue) contradicts the usual framing of governance as pure overhead.
Interpretation and comparison of empirical manufacturing results against prior framing in literature (qualitative claim within the paper). No sample size provided.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relationship between governance and combined measures of performance and fatigue
Modeled joules per correct answer varies by a factor of 6.2 across endpoints.
Modeled energy estimate combined with task accuracy to compute joules per correct answer across 78 endpoints.
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... joules per correct answer (modeled energy efficiency)
Fluent users adopt a fundamentally different interactional mode: they iterate collaboratively with the AI, refining goals and critically assessing outputs, whereas novices take a passive stance.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the same 27,000 annotated WildChat transcripts, with annotations describing interactional mode and user behavior (iteration, goal refinement, critical assessment vs. passivity).
high mixed A paradox of AI fluency interactional mode / engagement style