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Evidence (896 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
Essay quality changes little while students have AI access but improves in style and relevance one week later when students write unaided.
Open-ended essay assessments (higher-order skills) collected immediately (with AI access for treatment group) and one week later (unaided) in the randomized experiment; quality measured on dimensions including style and relevance.
high mixed Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative A... essay quality (immediate and one-week delayed), specifically style and relevance
Hybrid (human-AI) performance, analyzed at the individual forecaster level, is trimodal: most people either deferred to the model (matching it) or rubber-stamped a prior guess (performing worse than the model alone), while a minority engaged in genuine complementary reasoning and reached accuracy matching or even exceeding the market.
Pilot empirical analysis comparing individual forecasters' hybrid forecasts to both the model and the Polymarket benchmark; claims reported at individual level in the paper.
high mixed Human Capital, Not Model Benchmarks, Predicts Hybrid Intelli... forecasting accuracy / error relative to model and market
In established open-source projects, adopting an AI coding agent makes code modestly more complex but does not crowd out the human newcomers that a project depends on.
Synthesis of the paper's DiD results: no significant decline in newcomer inflow, unchanged onboarding/retention, correlational beginner-task measure unchanged, and measured modest increases in complexity metrics.
high mixed Decoupling Code Complexity from Newcomer Participation: A Ca... code complexity and newcomer participation
Code detected as likely to be generated by LLMs shows substantial intra-repository code clones.
Code-clone analysis applied to code flagged by LLM-detection tools within the same repositories (detector-based proxy approach).
high mixed An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in C... rate/proportion of intra-repository code clones among code detected as LLM-gener...
Projected yield distributions vary substantially across locations, with some lower productivity sites exhibiting yield increases under future climate scenarios.
Results from simulated climate-projection experiments across multiple locations showing heterogenous yield distribution changes, including increases in some lower-productivity sites.
high mixed From Simulation to Discovery: AI Enabled Probabilistic Emula... changes in projected yield distributions across locations under future climate s...
Bias transfer from the LLM is asymmetric: agency is suppressed in female-target essays while male-target writing remains largely unaffected.
Comparative analysis within the participant data showing differential effects by target gender (female-target vs male-target essays) in the N = 123 study; reported asymmetry in the paper summary.
high mixed Contaminated Collaboration: Measuring Gender Bias Transfer i... agency in essays by target gender (suppression in female-target essays, no chang...
Specifying instructions for AI-agents does not necessarily lead to better results.
Project-level before/after comparison of performance metrics for projects that created instruction files (pre/post comparison across 148 projects using the 15,549 PRs).
high mixed Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... overall performance of agentic PRs (merge rate, code churn, merge time, comments...
Analysis of recent benchmark evidence including SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain's multi-agent coordination studies demonstrates both the transformative potential of the agentic paradigm and its current limitations.
Empirical/benchmark analysis referencing SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain multi-agent studies as sources of evidence; the paper analyzes these benchmarks qualitatively or comparatively (specific sample sizes and quantitative effect sizes not stated in the abstract).
high mixed The End of Software Engineering: How AI Agents Are Fundament... agentic systems' capabilities and limitations as measured in benchmarks
An explicit thinking mode raises rank-order correlation without moving accuracy.
Empirical comparison of reasoning modes showing increased rank-order correlation (e.g., Spearman/Fisher-z) when explicit 'thinking' mode is used, with no significant change in accuracy.
high mixed Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... rank-order correlation (and accuracy) under explicit thinking mode vs. other rea...
Overall, complementarity is attainable in multi-agent regression but obstructed in classification under natural conditions on local aggregation and loss functions.
Synthesis of the paper's proved positive results for regression and negative impossibility results for classification within the tree-based HAI framework (theoretical proofs; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... attainability of complementarity across problem classes (regression vs classific...
In regression under squared loss, complementarity is equivalent to Euclidean distance minimization from the ground-truth vector.
Analytic equivalence proved in the paper for the tree-based model under squared loss (mathematical derivation; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... complementarity (as characterization via Euclidean distance)
The autonomously generated manuscripts also diverged in length, details, and quality.
Reported qualitative comparison of the LLM-assisted manuscripts produced by each agent indicating differences in length, level of detail, and overall quality between the two agents' outputs.
No single LLM dominates across engine types, highlighting the importance of specific tasks and tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.
Empirical observation from cross-engine evaluations reported in the paper; descriptive conclusion without numeric dominance metrics or sample sizes in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... relative dominance/performance of different LLMs across engine types and task tr...
The evaluations implemented by the initiative demonstrate that AI enabled modeling tools perform better at discussion and basic qualitative tasks than with causal reasoning and quantitative error fixing.
Result reported from the implemented evaluations comparing relative performance across task categories (discussion/qualitative vs causal reasoning/quantitative error fixing); no quantitative effect sizes or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... relative performance of AI modeling tools across task types (qualitative discuss...
When engines from the sd ai project are coupled with different LLMs, their performance on these evaluations reveals variability across different AI tools.
Empirical statement in the paper based on applying the implemented evaluations to different engine+LLM combinations; no numeric performance metrics or sample sizes reported in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... performance variability across engine and LLM combinations on benchmark evaluati...
These findings demonstrate the feasibility and current limits of automated expertise mapping.
Synthesis/conclusion based on model performance (e.g., MAE results) and observed limitations reported across evaluations.
high mixed Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... feasibility (ability to infer expertise) and limits (accuracy constraints) of au...
Models with near-identical overall strength show qualitatively different capability profiles.
Observed differences in capability-profile axes for models with similar aggregate scores in the tournament.
high mixed GENSTRAT: Toward a Science of Strategic Reasoning in Large L... differences in capability-profile axes (state space, temporal depth, information...
For molecular sonification, the gain is representational rather than predictive.
Reported outcome for molecular structure to music task indicating improvements in representation/sonification quality but not in predictive performance.
high mixed Cross-domain benchmarks reveal when coordinated AI agents im... representational (sonification) quality versus predictive performance for molecu...
Some merged PRs introduce new lint or security findings while simultaneously removing existing issues (i.e., merges sometimes involve both addition and removal of issues).
Before-and-after static analysis (Pylint and Bandit) of merged PRs showing coexistence of introduced and removed findings in observed diffs.
high mixed Quality and Security Signals in AI-Generated Python Refactor... co-occurrence of introduced and removed lint/security findings in merged PRs
Cross-model validation reveals architecture-level trade-offs independent of specific LLMs: Dual Process excels at numeric/temporal queries (65-90% accuracy) while RAG excels at historical retrieval (60-85% accuracy).
Empirical cross-model tests across six LLMs; reported accuracy ranges for different query types and architectures.
high mixed Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... accuracy on numeric/temporal queries; accuracy on historical retrieval queries
Clarifying-question prompts produced mean rubric scores of 6.67 out of 8, higher than raw prompts but lower than checklist-improved prompts.
Reported mean rubric scores in the abstract showing clarifying-question prompts scored 6.67, compared to 5.67 for raw and 7.50 for checklist.
LLMs often generate responses with the structural clarity associated with early-career engineers, yet they display persistent weaknesses in factual grounding and contextual interpretation.
Qualitative and comparative analysis of LLM responses against the expert rubric during the audit (six commercial LLMs); observed patterns in response form and substantive content.
high mixed Governance risks of AI reasoning in urban infrastructure thr... response structure and factual/contextual quality
Adapting to individual preference data yields only marginal gains over training on pooled preferences from a diverse population.
Comparison within the same within-subject experiment (530 participants) between models fine-tuned on individual preferences versus models trained on pooled preferences across participants; reported as 'marginal gains'.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... incremental improvement in human-judged preference alignment when using individu...
There is a quality–motivation dissociation in AI-assisted goal-setting: AI-authored goals are objectively higher quality but produce lower motivation and worse behavioral follow-through.
Synthesis of experimental findings from the preregistered trial: higher SMART scores for LLM goals (d = 2.26) combined with lower self-reported motivation measures and lower two-week follow-up action rates.
high mixed Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... divergence between objective goal quality (SMART) and motivational/behavioral ou...
Fine-tuning and reinforcement learning improve in-distribution performance, but generalization to unseen part families remains limited.
Experiments reported in the paper/abstract applying fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to models evaluated on BenchCAD; observed improvements on in-distribution data and limited generalization to unseen families.
high mixed BenchCAD: A Comprehensive, Industry-Standard Benchmark for P... in-distribution_performance_and_out-of-distribution_generalization
Across 10+ frontier models, current systems often recover coarse outer geometry but fail to produce faithful parametric CAD programs.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper/abstract across more than ten contemporary multimodal / large language models on the BenchCAD dataset; observed pattern that coarse outer geometry is often recovered while faithful parametric program synthesis fails.
high mixed BenchCAD: A Comprehensive, Industry-Standard Benchmark for P... faithfulness_of_generated_parametric_CAD_programs
Larger models do not consistently outperform smaller ones on tool-use tasks.
Empirical observations from the paper's evaluations across the five function-calling benchmarks.
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling relative performance of larger vs smaller models on tool-use tasks
Aesthetic and functional attributes load onto a single latent factor, suggesting users perceive quality as a unified construct rather than separable aesthetic and functional dimensions.
Factor analysis (or similar latent-variable analysis) on participant ratings of multiple attributes showing a single dominant factor combining aesthetic and functional attributes.
high mixed Artificial Aesthetics: The Implicit Economics of Valuing AI-... latent factor structure of perceived quality
Across 78 endpoints serving 12 model families, the same model on different endpoints differs in mean accuracy by up to 12.5 points on math and code.
Empirical measurement across 78 endpoints and 12 model families comparing mean accuracy on math and code tasks.
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... mean accuracy on math and code benchmarks
Fluent users' failures occur alongside greater success on complex tasks.
Combined analysis of task complexity, success outcomes, and failure incidence in the 27K transcripts showing that fluent users both attempt and have greater success on complex tasks even while experiencing more failures.
high mixed A paradox of AI fluency success on complex tasks
LLMs are able to extract signals from unstructured text (financial news headlines) but have limitations without explicit quantitative optimization.
Interpretation in discussion/conclusion: empirical finding that LLM-based portfolios beat naive diversification but underperform AI-optimized strategies, implying LLMs extract signals from text yet lack full optimization capability.
high mixed Few-Shot Portfolio Optimization: Can Large Language Models O... ability to extract actionable signals from unstructured text as reflected in por...
Whether LLM-based assistants improve or degrade code quality remains unresolved: existing studies report contradictory outcomes contingent on context and evaluation criteria.
Review finds mixed/contradictory findings across included studies regarding code quality effects.
high mixed The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... code quality (e.g., correctness, maintainability, defects)
The system tends to be factually correct when it answers but often omits information (i.e., 'the system is right when it answers — it just leaves things out').
Interpretation combining reported factual accuracy (85.5%) with low completeness (0.40) from benchmark results.
high mixed Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... factual accuracy vs. answer completeness
ASC (adaptive stopping criterion) halts harmful refinement but incurs a 3.8 pp confidence-elicitation cost.
Reported experiment with ASC showing that it prevents harmful iterative refinement yet causes a measured cost described as 3.8 percentage points due to confidence elicitation.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... trade-off between stopping harmful refinement and a confidence-elicitation cost ...
Only o3-mini (+3.4 pp, EIR = 0%), Claude Opus 4.6 (+0.6 pp, EIR ~ 0.2%), and o4-mini (+/-0 pp) remain non-degrading under self-correction; GPT-5 degrades by -1.8 pp.
Reported measured changes in accuracy (percentage-point changes) and measured EIR values for the named models after applying iterative self-correction across the experiment suite.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction
Across 7 models and 3 datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA), we find a sharp near-zero EIR threshold (<= 0.5%) separating beneficial from harmful self-correction.
Empirical experiments reported across 7 LLMs and 3 benchmark datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA) comparing outcomes of iterative self-correction as a function of measured EIR.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction as a function of EIR
Removing safety layers made the system less useful: structured validation feedback guided the model to correct outcomes in fewer turns, while the unconstrained system hallucinated success.
Qualitative and quantitative comparisons from the deployed evaluation across the three conditions (observations about turn counts, validation-feedback loops, and model hallucinations in unconstrained condition over the 25 scenario trials).
high mixed Bounded Autonomy for Enterprise AI: Typed Action Contracts a... number of interaction turns to correct outcome; presence of hallucinated success
Practitioners negotiate model performance via technical and political means.
Observational data from the ethnography showing technical adjustments, benchmarks, and political negotiation (e.g., with regulators or management) to establish acceptable performance.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya practices used to achieve and justify model performance (technical tuning and po...
These effects are observed across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension.
Trials included multiple task types (explicitly naming mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension); cross-task analysis reported.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... task-specific performance and persistence across task types (math reasoning, rea...
Providing issue-specific design guidance reduces design violations, but substantial non-compliance remains.
Intervention experiments in paper: agents were given issue-specific design guidance and resulting patch compliance measured; reported reduction in violations but remaining non-compliance.
high mixed Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... design violations / design satisfaction
Models performed well on commonly discussed topics but struggled with specialized health data.
Task-level performance comparison across topics in the elicited population statistics: better accuracy on commonly discussed topics, poorer performance on specialized health data tasks.
high mixed Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... topic-specific estimation accuracy
In a preliminary experiment, giving models web search access degraded predictions for already-accurate models, while modestly improving predictions for weaker ones.
A preliminary comparative test where some models were given web search access and changes in predictive performance were observed: degradation for already-accurate models and modest improvement for weaker models.
high mixed Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... change in predictive accuracy with web search access
The top four models are statistically indistinguishable (mean score 0.147–0.153) while a clear tier gap separates them from the remaining four models (mean score <= 0.113).
Reported mean performance scores across 8 models and statement of statistical indistinguishability for the top four vs lower-tier four; numerical means provided.
high mixed SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pul... mean model performance score
Testing revealed AI excels at computational tasks but consistently misses nuanced factors like new construction rent premiums and infrastructure proximity impacts, validating the framework's hybrid structure as essential for professional-grade underwriting.
Findings from the controlled ChatGPT-4 test on the single 150-unit scenario: qualitative and comparative observations showing AI handled computations well but failed to capture specific local-market nuances, leading authors to endorse a hybrid human-AI framework.
AI assistance in safety engineering is fundamentally a collaboration design problem rather than merely a software procurement decision: the same tool can either degrade or improve analysis quality depending entirely on how it is used.
Synthesis of the formal framework and analytic results in the paper (theoretical argument; no empirical sample reported).
Extensive synthetic experiments show that policy regularizations reshape the narrative on what is the best DRL method for inventory management.
Paper states results from extensive synthetic experiments that change which DRL methods are considered best under policy regularization; abstract does not provide the experimental sample size, specific methods, or quantitative comparisons.
high mixed DeepStock: Reinforcement Learning with Policy Regularization... relative performance/ranking of DRL methods for inventory management
PPS gains are task-dependent: gains are large in high-ambiguity business analysis tasks but reverse in low-ambiguity travel planning tasks.
Task-level analysis across the three domains (business, technical, travel) within the controlled study (60 tasks total); authors report differential performance patterns by domain/ambiguity.
high mixed Evaluating 5W3H Structured Prompting for Intent Alignment in... relative_performance_by_task_domain (PPS vs baselines)
We evaluate 14 LLMs under zero-shot prompting and retrieval-augmented settings and witness a clear performance gap.
Experimental evaluation reported in the paper: authors state they ran experiments on 14 different large language models, under zero-shot and retrieval-augmented configurations, and observed differing performance across models.
high mixed FinTradeBench: A Financial Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs model performance on financial reasoning benchmark (accuracy/score across models...
Convergence after exemplar exposure occurred by both tightening of estimates within a measure family and by agents switching measure families.
Agent-level tracking across stages showed two patterns following exemplar exposure: (1) reduced within-family dispersion (tighter estimates) and (2) categorical switches in measure selection by some agents, as recorded across the 150-agent sample.
high mixed Nonstandard Errors in AI Agents within-family dispersion (IQR) and measure-family switching frequency (binary/ca...
Choice of scaffold materially affects outcomes: an open-source scaffold outperformed vendor-provided scaffolds by up to approximately 5 percentage points.
Comparative experiments across three scaffolding approaches (vendor scaffolds and at least one open-source scaffold) showing up to ~5 percentage point differences in measured outcomes.
high mixed Re-Evaluating EVMBench: Are AI Agents Ready for Smart Contra... performance_difference_across_scaffolds (detection/exploitation_rates_difference...