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Evidence (362 claims)

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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 1880 496 296 1854 4721
Organizational Efficiency 2906 665 438 180 4210
Governance & Regulation 2162 929 480 247 3866
Technology Adoption Rate 1533 545 278 210 2593
Decision Quality 1391 534 321 173 2429
Output Quality 1298 472 231 145 2153
AI Safety & Ethics 682 821 230 90 1837
Research Productivity 855 253 121 425 1675
Firm Productivity 1105 171 175 73 1531
Task Allocation 735 229 361 99 1433
Market Structure 457 461 251 47 1222
Innovation Output 673 94 108 36 913
Task Completion Time 499 118 43 38 702
Firm Revenue 458 130 61 26 677
Skill Acquisition 381 122 113 34 650
Consumer Welfare 316 176 115 39 648
Employment Level 223 143 177 53 600
Error Rate 246 282 44 19 594
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 283 142 78 52 562
Inequality Measures 103 329 106 13 552
Worker Satisfaction 225 185 63 30 503
Automation Exposure 158 155 72 37 426
Regulatory Compliance 186 126 35 14 362
Team Performance 193 56 51 24 326
Developer Productivity 224 58 27 13 323
Wages & Compensation 148 108 50 17 323
Training Effectiveness 218 44 21 27 313
Job Displacement 23 159 53 5 240
Hiring & Recruitment 109 61 32 11 215
Skill Obsolescence 16 107 26 6 155
Creative Output 71 44 28 6 150
Social Protection 58 31 12 3 104
Labor Share of Income 29 43 25 2 99
Worker Turnover 45 29 6 4 84
Industry 1 1
Adoption of electronic tax filing improved tax compliance among small and medium-sized enterprises in Lagos State, while internet access remained an important barrier.
Nigerian study of electronic tax filing and compliance among Lagos State SMEs; sample size is not reported in the supplied text.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Tax Compliance in Nigeria: A Com... SME tax compliance and digital access constraints
Digital tax administration can improve compliance in Nigeria's informal sector, but its effectiveness is constrained by structural informality and administrative friction.
Study of digital tax administration and tax compliance in Nigeria's informal sector using Nigerian data; sample size is not reported in the supplied text.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Tax Compliance in Nigeria: A Com... Tax compliance in the informal sector
Use of Indonesia's Core Tax Administration System reduced perceived compliance costs and increased compliance intentions, although excessive reliance on automation may weaken professional vigilance over time.
A 2026 evaluation of Indonesia's Core Tax Administration System; the supplied text does not report the evaluation's sample size.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Tax Compliance in Nigeria: A Com... Perceived compliance costs, compliance intentions, and professional vigilance
Qualitative evidence from Indonesia indicates that AI can strengthen tax-law enforcement, improve taxpayer convenience and perceived fairness, and lower compliance costs, but implementation readiness, cost, and governance are barriers.
Qualitative primary research on tax-administration modernization in Indonesia.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Tax Compliance in Nigeria: A Com... Tax enforcement, taxpayer convenience, fairness, and compliance costs
Compliance with the European Union's voluntary General Purpose AI Code of Practice was divided among major AI firms: OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google committed to sign; Meta declined; and no major China-based AI developer signed.
Stakeholder analysis using the European Commission's account of firm responses to the EU General Purpose AI Code of Practice.
high mixed Governing Artificial Intelligence in a Fragmented World: Tow... Firm compliance or participation in a voluntary AI governance code
The Albanese government presented the Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 as applying a duty of care while structuring it to avoid open-ended, binding legal obligations and liabilities.
Analysis of the bill’s legal text, explanatory memorandum, government statements, press releases, and parliamentary debate concerning the under-16 social-media restriction.
high mixed The politics of a ‘duty of care’: children, climate change a... Scope and enforceability of statutory obligations imposed on online platforms
Firm size significantly moderated the relationship between descriptive analytics and tax evasion, such that the analytics-related compliance effect differed by firm size.
Hierarchical moderated regression using an interaction term for descriptive analytics × firm size; the interaction was statistically significant with β = -0.198 and p = 0.000.
high mixed Effect of Data Analytics on Tax Evasion Among Small and Medi... Tax evasion and tax compliance as a function of descriptive analytics and firm s...
On-chain immutability may increase the probability of detecting tampering with recorded transactions and reduce some fraud incentives, while off-chain manipulation and weaknesses in oracles or key management create new avenues for misreporting.
Conceptual fraud and enforcement analysis contrasting the deterrent effects of immutable records with vulnerabilities at off-chain interfaces and access-control points.
high mixed Beyond Verification: How Blockchain Technology Challenges th... Fraud detection and opportunities for misreporting
The orchestrator-subagent architecture elicited more policy-relevant trigger facts than the single-loop baseline on Qwen2.5-32B, but then attenuated most of those facts.
Across 100 episodes per arm, D2 discovered trigger facts in 27 episodes versus 16 for D0; D2 attenuated 22 of the 27 discovered facts, while D0 attenuated none.
high mixed Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Trigger-fact discovery and subsequent fact preservation
The same fact-attenuation mechanism can cause either under-escalation or over-escalation, depending on whether the dropped fact is a risk signal or an exculpating finding.
Paired mirror tasks kyc-0004 and kyc-0005 on Qwen2.5-32B under D2 at constraint distance 2.
high mixed Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Correctness and direction of mandatory escalation decisions
The governance cost of decomposition is partly dependent on model capability: the stronger gpt-4.1-mini model showed substantially less fact attenuation than Qwen2.5-32B under the same architectures and constraint distance.
Cross-model comparison in Table 4 and Figure 1, using the same task variants and architecture arms.
high mixed Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Fact attenuation rate as a function of model and architecture
Governance, auditability, and regulatory compliance impose additional internal and regulatory costs, while effective governance may function as an economic asset.
Conceptual institutional and cost analysis; no compliance-cost measurements or enforcement outcomes were reported.
high mixed The New AI Architect: Composing Intelligence Through AI Tech... Governance and regulatory compliance costs
Sarbanes–Oxley, CLERP 9, and similar reforms increased compliance and controls but did not eliminate audit failures.
Comparative discussion of regulatory reforms and qualitative evidence from the reviewed literature and high-profile audit-failure cases.
high mixed Bridging the expectation performance gap in fraud detection:... Audit-failure incidence and compliance/control strength
Analytics can improve finance-control effectiveness only when governance and use are embedded at the enterprise level; adversarial adaptation, class imbalance, data drift, and opaque reasoning remain persistent risks.
Review synthesis of research on fraud detection, artificial intelligence in finance, digital finance, and enterprise control governance.
high mixed Business Process Improvement in Finance Operations through P... Effectiveness and reliability of financial controls and fraud-prevention analyti...
Firms may shift misreporting from revenue to costs when tax authorities can cross-check only revenue information.
The paper reports evidence from Ecuador in which firms were notified of discrepancies between self-reported revenue and third-party information; the paper characterizes the finding as strong evidence of substitution.
high mixed Enhancing Tax Compliance and Transparency in Emerging Econom... Reported revenue, reported costs, and resulting tax liability
Multimodal audit and verification tools have the potential to improve audit quality and fraud detection, but their use raises questions about standards and liability.
Proposed applications of multimodal fusion to audit and compliance, together with the paper's discussion of regulatory implications.
high mixed Multi-modal information in accounting research: how can we u... Audit quality and fraud detection
Blockchain's permanence can conflict with GDPR's right to be forgotten, despite blockchain's potential to support consent logging and other aspects of GDPR compliance.
Review of literature discussing immutable consent records, automated consent management, data deletion requests, and the conflict between permanent ledgers and GDPR deletion rights.
high mixed AI-Powered personalization vs. blockchain-based privacy: a s... Regulatory compliance with GDPR, especially consent and deletion requirements
Effective decolonial judicial AI design requires new procurement standards, auditing regimes, and governance mechanisms, which raise upfront compliance costs but may avoid longer-term social and legal externalities.
Policy and economic implications inferred from the paper's proposed decolonial governance and design agenda; no cost data or comparative evaluation is reported.
high mixed From colonial judicial legacy to algorithmic justice: Prepar... Upfront compliance costs and longer-term social and legal externalities of judic...
The U-shaped pattern is concentrated in software-based AI applications rather than supporting hardware.
Heterogeneity/subgroup analyses in paper that separate software-based AI applications from supporting hardware and find the non-linear pattern concentrated in software applications.
high mixed Too Much of a Good Thing? AI Investment and Internal Control... internal control deficiency (ICD) risk
Spline regressions, the Lind–Mehlum U-test, an instrumental-variable analysis using leave-one-out peer AI investment, and entropy balancing all support the non-linear (U-shaped) pattern.
Robustness and identification methods reported in paper: spline regressions, Lind–Mehlum U-test for U-shape, IV using leave-one-out peer AI investment, and entropy balancing.
high mixed Too Much of a Good Thing? AI Investment and Internal Control... internal control deficiency (ICD) risk
There is a U-shaped association between AI investment and internal control deficiency (ICD) risk.
Main empirical finding reported in paper based on analyses of 41,725 firm-year observations; supported by spline regressions and Lind–Mehlum U-test.
high mixed Too Much of a Good Thing? AI Investment and Internal Control... internal control deficiency (ICD) risk
Two minimal extension policies, each derived from the observation, close the regime along orthogonal axes: a sample-size-aware static rule (Periodic-with-floor) closes the granularity-failure case, while a history-conditioned suspicion-escalation policy closes the coverage-failure case for the naive Drift strategy — and neither closes both, exactly as the observation predicts.
Design and analysis of two auditor policies in the paper; theoretical argument from Observation 1 and supporting simulation results illustrating which failure modes each policy addresses.
high mixed A Benchmark for Strategic Auditee Gaming Under Continuous Co... ability of proposed auditor policies to close granularity or coverage failures
The effectiveness of automated tax systems is mediated by contingencies including digital literacy, institutional trust, and regulatory clarity.
The review identifies recurring contextual factors across the 36 articles that are reported to moderate or mediate the impact of automation on outcomes (qualitative and quantitative findings cited in the synthesis).
high mixed The Influence of Automation on Tax Compliance Behaviour effectiveness of automated tax systems (e.g., compliance/adoption/effect size)
Safeguards such as audit trails, explainability, and human oversight impose additional implementation costs that must be weighed against efficiency benefits.
Normative and economic reasoning based on requirements for compliance and system design; no empirical cost estimates provided.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... implementation costs versus efficiency gains (net cost-benefit of deploying safe...
Alignment with evolving regulatory expectations (evidence standards, auditing, liability) is necessary to translate AI capabilities into products and reduce adoption risk.
Policy-focused argument referencing regulatory uncertainty; no empirical measures of regulatory impact included.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research adoption risk and time-to-market under regulatory regimes
Key tradeoffs in contemporary financing models include speed/flexibility versus regulatory coverage and long‑term cost, and data reliance versus privacy/fairness.
Multi‑criteria comparative evaluation and conceptual analysis across financing models; synthesis draws on regulatory context and observed product features rather than primary quantitative tradeoff estimation.
high mixed Traditional vs. contemporary financing models for MSMEs and ... tradeoff between speed/flexibility and regulatory protection/cost; tradeoff betw...
Public distrust is associated with reduced compliance with policies and programs.
Synthesis of reported consequences across the systematic-review literature.
high negative The antecedents, consequences and repair mechanisms of publi... Compliance with policies and programs
Data privacy and regulatory compliance concerns constrain the implementation of Big Data Analytics in the sampled firms.
Primary practitioner and firm-level responses identifying implementation barriers.
high negative A Study on Big Data Analytics in Financial Decision Making w... Analytics implementation feasibility and compliance burden
Only 3% to 4% of employers in the sample studied by Wright et al. (2024) had published the legally required notice that applicants were subject to automated assessment.
Cited study by Wright et al. (2024), described as measuring disclosure compliance in a jurisdiction where notice was mandated.
high negative Governing the Algorithmic Black Box in Talent Acquisition: T... Employer compliance with mandatory automated-assessment disclosure
A corrupted ground-truth label caused the optimizer to delete correct compliance rules in order to agree with the incorrect label.
Observed production instance in which a ground-truth loading or labeling failure redirected optimization toward an incorrect compliance behavior.
high negative LLM-as-a-Judge Is Not an Oracle: Why Self-Improving Agents N... Correctness of compliance rules after optimization
When compliance is evaluated primarily through auditable artefacts such as explanations and documented human reviews, firms may adopt legally comfortable procedures without achieving substantive fairness in lending outcomes.
Doctrinal reconstruction of EU, US, and UK duties and theoretical analysis of compliance incentives; no original empirical test is reported.
high negative Governing automated credit after explainability: From transp... Substantive fairness and distributional lending outcomes under artifact-centred ...
A UK national role conception that foregrounds international law could result in stricter human-rights-informed procurement rules, export controls, or conditions on AI-related technology transfers, increasing compliance costs and influencing firms' locations for development and testing.
The paper presents this as a possible policy implication of the UK's role-conception shift; no direct implementation or cost estimate is reported.
high negative The UK–Israel FTA in a politically dynamic era: economic rat... AI-related regulatory compliance costs and location decisions
A governance shock was associated with lower fraud risk over a three-year horizon, with the cumulative reported impulse response equal to -0.062.
A panel VAR estimated using GMM, firm fixed effects, and orthogonalized impulse-response functions reports negative responses of fraud risk at the current period and at one-, two-, and three-year horizons.
high negative Deep Learning for Corporate Governance: Predicting Financial... Firm fraud risk following a governance shock
A gate rejected a framework's documented base-class idiom sixteen times across four services because the gate encoded an assumption that did not match the system under change.
Incident records describing repeated false rejection by an enforcement gate across multiple services.
high negative Agent Mesh: Reliability Primitives for Non-Idempotent Agent ... Correct-work acceptance by an enforcement gate
API gateways and network policies are insufficient for many agent-governance decisions because they generally control routes or reachability rather than action parameters.
Architectural comparison of route-level controls with parameter-level authorization requirements such as recipient, amount, or record class.
high negative Five Primitives for Governing Autonomous AI Agents at Runtim... Parameter-level authorization of agent actions
Platforms engaged in performative compliance, making nominal HR or contractual changes that satisfied formal legal requirements without altering algorithmic control mechanisms.
Interview-based qualitative assessment of platform compliance practices and the relationship between formal legal changes and continued algorithmic management.
high negative ‘ A Legal Whack‐a‐Mole’ . Escaping the Rider Law in Spain: P... Substantive compliance with labour regulation and persistence of algorithmic con...
Algorithmic opacity made enforcement and workers' claims harder to substantiate by concealing platform decision rules.
Qualitative analysis of how algorithmic management affected enforcement and worker advocacy in the Rider Law case.
high negative ‘ A Legal Whack‐a‐Mole’ . Escaping the Rider Law in Spain: P... Ability of regulators and workers to detect, verify, and substantiate violations...
Higher enterprise-level generative AI application is associated with lower internal-control quality.
A firm- and year-fixed-effects mechanism regression of the DIB Internal Control Index on GenAI, controls, and 33,765 observations reports a negative GenAI coefficient.
high negative Technology Empowerment or audit burden? A Study on the Impac... DIB Internal Control Index
Static joint liability is ineffective for low-risk unsafe behaviour.
Comparative theoretical analysis of static liability using a finite-population Moran process, with outcomes evaluated across different behavioural risk levels.
high negative Effectiveness of Joint Liability Mechanism in Controlling Un... Suppression of low-risk unsafe behaviour
Directional errors in generated credit explanations may be more consequential for adverse-action communication than omissions of influential factors.
The paper identifies a systematic asymmetry between coverage of influential factors and directional correctness and interprets directional error as the governance-relevant failure mode in regulated credit communication.
high negative Communicating Credit Risk with Large Language Models: Evalua... Risk of inaccurate adverse-action communication and regulatory communication fai...
Overall governed success was very low: 8 of 596 episodes, or 1.3%, satisfied task success, absence of critical violations, and correct escalation.
The limitations section reports the aggregate governed-success rate across the 596 model episodes.
high negative Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Governed success combining task completion, critical-policy compliance, and corr...
In the paired mirror tasks, Qwen2.5-32B under D2 attenuated 80% of discovered facts in the hidden-UBO risk task and 88% in the resolvable-PEP false-positive task.
Table 5 reports 8/10 attenuated facts for kyc-0004 and 14/16 for kyc-0005, with 25 episodes per task.
high negative Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Policy-trigger fact preservation across handoffs
For gpt-4.1-mini at constraint distance 2, fact attenuation was 0% under the single-loop baseline, 3% under the fixed pipeline, and 6% under the orchestrator-subagent architecture.
Table 4 reports attenuation conditional on discovery: D0 0/27, D1 1/30, and D2 1/18.
high negative Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Rate of discovered policy-relevant facts absent from all handoffs on the path to...
For Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct at constraint distance 2, fact attenuation was 0% under the single-loop baseline, 56% under the fixed pipeline, and 85% under the orchestrator-subagent architecture.
Table 4 reports attenuation conditional on trigger-fact discovery: D0 0/16, D1 9/16, and D2 22/26.
high negative Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Rate of discovered policy-relevant facts absent from all handoffs on the path to...
Decomposing an agent into components increases policy-relevant fact attenuation at handoff boundaries relative to a single-loop architecture.
A 626-episode experiment across 100 KYC/AML task variants, two models, and three architectures measured whether discovered trigger facts survived component handoffs.
high negative Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades... Fact attenuation and policy compliance across agent architectures
The availability of locally run large language models enables individuals and small or medium-sized organizations to generate content without centralized servers or platform compliance procedures, making that content difficult to distinguish from other content.
Analysis of declining hardware costs, open-source development, and local dissemination via USB drives, local networks, and social media; cited to Zheng (2025), without an original empirical sample.
high negative A Regulatory Placebo? The Systemic Failure of Mandatory GenA... Ability of mandatory labeling systems to identify and govern locally generated c...
Mandatory labeling frameworks that rely exclusively on centralized service providers are inadequate for decentralized GenAI applications and distribution channels.
Conceptual analysis of dissemination through small websites, decentralized social networks, peer-to-peer communication, email, and locally run models; supported by cited sources but without an original empirical test.
high negative A Regulatory Placebo? The Systemic Failure of Mandatory GenA... Coverage and effectiveness of labeling enforcement across content-generation and...
There is currently no reliable technical solution for determining the relative proportions of human and machine contributions to a text, undermining enforcement predictability if labeling thresholds are used.
Technical and legal feasibility analysis of hypothetical contribution thresholds, such as a requirement to label content when AI contributions exceed 50%; no validation study or sample size is reported.
high negative A Regulatory Placebo? The Systemic Failure of Mandatory GenA... Ability to determine AI contribution shares for labeling and enforcement
Current mandatory labeling systems create implementation dilemmas because national laws do not clearly define when human-machine collaborative content should count as AI-generated.
Legal-text analysis of EU, Chinese, and California definitions, combined with conceptual analysis of human-AI collaborative writing and editing; no empirical sample is reported.
high negative A Regulatory Placebo? The Systemic Failure of Mandatory GenA... Clarity and enforceability of legal obligations governing AI-generated content
Income subject to third-party information reporting has much lower evasion than self-reported income.
The paper reports results from the Danish field experiment by Kleven et al., described as a large randomized audit design with administrative verification.