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Evidence (272 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
In coding tasks, low agreeableness leads to large communication shifts that have little effect on milestone completion.
Experimental manipulation of agreeableness in LLMs on structured coding tasks; observed large changes in communication but little change in milestone completion rates. No quantitative effect sizes or sample counts given in the abstract.
high mixed When Does Personality Composition Matter for Multi-Agent LLM... milestone completion (task completion success)
Participants' IAT scores were predictive of the time they spent in human-AI collaboration.
Reported predictive relationship between individual IAT scores and measured time spent interacting with/considering resumes during human-AI collaborative screening tasks (likely from regression or correlation analyses); exact statistics and sample size not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Resume Screening, Fast and Slow: (Biased) AI Recommendations... time spent in human-AI collaboration (resume viewing / interaction time)
Frontier proprietary models achieve near-zero success under GUI-based interaction, whereas COM-based execution yields substantial immediate gains.
Experimental comparison reported in the paper on ComCADBench between GUI-based interaction by proprietary models and COM-based execution (authors report success rates and comparative performance).
high mixed ComAct: Reframing Professional Software Manipulation via COM... success rate on CAD tasks under GUI-based interaction vs COM-based execution
The same observation is seen with the amount of changes (e.g., code churn, number of modified files) and with the efforts to merge an agentic PR (e.g., merge time and number of comments).
Reported that pre/post comparison across projects shows mixed/no consistent improvement patterns for code churn, modified files, merge time, and comment counts after instruction-file creation (analysis over 15,549 PRs in 148 projects).
high mixed Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... amount of changes (code churn, number of modified files) and effort to merge (ti...
Claude Code completed the pipeline in ~3.4 minutes with silent deviations from the specification, while Codex required ~16 minutes across explicit self-correcting restarts, including an unsolicited performance optimization of the matched filter inner loop.
Reported run-time measurements and qualitative behavior descriptions in paper: timing values (~3.4 min vs ~16 min) and observed behaviors (silent deviations for Claude Code; explicit restarts and an unsolicited optimization by Codex).
AI assistance can generate a deceptive productivity signature: average completion times fall because AI tools typically supply a fast first draft, yet workflow-level performance can deteriorate when a subset of AI errors escapes review and returns as costly downstream rework.
Analytical derivation and discussion based on the paper's queueing model (theoretical/model-based evidence; no empirical sample provided).
Across 78 endpoints, the same model on different endpoints differs in tail latency by an order of magnitude.
Empirical tail-latency measurements across 78 endpoints serving 12 model families.
Provisioned Throughput delivers the lowest latency at low concurrency but saturates its reserved capacity above approximately 20 concurrent users.
Empirical measurements from the instrumented system across concurrency up to 50 users and tier comparisons; the paper reports the observed saturation point near ~20 concurrent users.
high mixed Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response time (latency) and saturation threshold (concurrency where reserved cap...
Wall-clock time can be reduced to O(√E) through team parallelism, but total human effort remains O(E).
Model-derived result showing parallelism across humans can speed wall-clock completion time while aggregate human effort does not drop asymptotically.
high mixed The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... wall-clock task completion time and total human effort
For knowledge-intensive workers whose intellectual capital spans tens of thousands of files, the CAD constitutes a qualitative threshold in AI usefulness: below it, the cognitive burden of context curation falls on the human, reproducing the inefficiencies AI is meant to eliminate.
Theoretical argument grounded in the paper's conceptual discussion about large personal/organizational corpora (stated scale: tens of thousands of files) and the user burden of manual context attachment.
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... cognitive burden / effective AI usefulness for knowledge work
Human interfaces define throughput limits in areas such as prompt engineering, data-stream curation, adjudication of model outputs, and the orchestration of hybrid automation workflows including robotics, scraping, and digitization.
Theoretical assertion supported by the paper's systems-oriented analysis and literature synthesis (no empirical measurement or sample size provided).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... throughput / task completion capacity for workflows involving human-AI interacti...
Current machine learning models commonly require large and well-annotated datasets, and the annotation process often becomes a bottleneck with increased complexity leading to higher chances of human errors.
Background statement in the paper summarizing common knowledge and prior literature about dataset requirements and annotation challenges.
high negative Speeding up the annotation process in semantic segmentation ... annotation bottleneck / annotation error likelihood
Reconstructing this context can consume an estimated 5,000-20,000 tokens per session.
Statement in paper abstract presenting an estimate (no detailed method or sample described in the abstract).
high negative PROJECTMEM: A Local-First, Event-Sourced Memory and Judgment... context_size_in_tokens_per_session
Extensive experiments across frontier models and agentic systems reveal that even the best-performing configuration (Mini-SWE-Agent with Claude Opus 4.7) achieves only a 68.3% success rate on AARRI-Bench.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper: experiments across multiple models/agentic systems; the excerpt reports the top configuration and its success rate. The excerpt does not state the number of tasks or sample size.
high negative Act As a Real Researcher: A Suite of Benchmarks Evaluating F... success rate on AARRI-Bench tasks
Strict matter completion stalls (does not improve) despite stronger models.
Harvey LAB empirical results (12,510 agent trajectories) report that while per-criterion accuracy increases, strict matter completion does not show corresponding improvement.
high negative Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework strict matter completion rate
Even frontier agents remain far from completing matters in a single pass.
Results reported from the Harvey LAB empirical study (12,510 agent trajectories) comparing end-to-end matter completion across agent runs.
high negative Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework matter completion in a single pass (strict end-to-end completion)
Human-only teams take longer to complete the escape room than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported comparison of time-to-complete between human-only and mixed teams in the experiment; specific times or statistical tests are not provided in the abstract.
Cellular research and development (R&D) is throttled by six structural processes that each consume months of manual engineering work per iteration: (i) synthesizing new features from standards or research papers into production code; (ii) conformance and interoperability testing; (iii) hardening against field anomalies and diverse deployment environments; (iv) data-driven optimization of network functionalities; (v) discovering and prototyping novel waveforms, functionalities, and capabilities for future standards; and (vi) securing the stack against vulnerabilities.
Author assertion in the paper (qualitative analysis / domain expertise). No empirical sample size or quantitative study reported in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... time per R&D iteration (manual engineering work duration)
Mean-based metrics (e.g., tasks completed per worker-hour or mean handle time) can misrepresent AI's effects in workflows where tasks accumulate and compete for scarce human attention.
Argument and analysis presented in the paper; theoretical reasoning and illustrative queueing model (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow task_completion_time
There is a 'speedup illusion' where people have accurate forecasts of independent completion times but significantly underestimate AI-assisted times.
Empirical pattern reported in the abstract: comparison of predicted vs. actual times shows accurate independent forecasts but underestimation of AI-assisted completion times (preregistered study, N = 1237).
high negative Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI in... calibration of predicted vs actual completion time
More persuasive narratives may have had a detrimental effect on decision response times.
Exploratory analyses reported in the paper indicating persuasive narratives were associated with longer decision response times.
However, models remain limited in long-horizon reliability and domain-specific planning.
Evaluation results and analysis in paper highlighting failures in maintaining reliability over long-horizon tasks and in planning for domain-specific workflows.
high negative CutVerse: A Compositional GUI Agents Benchmark for Media Pos... long-horizon reliability and domain-specific planning ability
Extensive evaluations reveal that existing agents achieve only 36.0% task success on realistic media editing tasks.
Empirical evaluation reported in paper measuring task success rates of existing GUI agents on the Cutverse benchmark (benchmark size: 186 tasks across 7 apps implied).
Frontier agents struggle with end-to-end completion despite partial progress.
Evaluation experiments reported in the paper showing frontier (state-of-the-art) agents achieving partial progress but failing to reliably complete end-to-end tasks in the OpenComputer benchmark.
high negative OpenComputer: Verifiable Software Worlds for Computer-Use Ag... end-to-end task completion / success rate
AI coding assistants expand the volume of code requiring review, turning code review into a growing bottleneck.
Authors' analytical claim linking increased code production from AI assistants to increased review workload; presented as an observed/trend claim in the paper rather than supported by a quantified study in the abstract.
high negative Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agenti... volume of code requiring review / code review bottleneck
AI deployment reduces average chat duration.
Randomized field experiment on Alibaba's Taobao platform: workers in treatment supervised an agentic AI resolving AI-eligible chats while handling AI-ineligible chats; control workers resolved all chats without AI. Effect observed on average chat duration in experiment data.
This overthinking behavior significantly increases inference latency and energy consumption, forming a potential vector for denial-of-service (DoS)-style resource exhaustion.
Authors assert increased latency and energy consumption as consequences of longer reasoning traces; framed as a potential attack vector in the abstract (no quantitative latency/energy measurements provided in abstract).
high negative Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS... inference latency and energy consumption
Large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit a tendency to "overthink", producing excessively long and redundant reasoning traces when confronted with incomplete or logically inconsistent inputs.
Empirical observation reported by the authors based on experiments described in the paper (abstract references experiments across multiple SOTA reasoning models); no numerical sample size for inputs reported in abstract.
high negative Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS... response length / reasoning trace length (verbosity and redundancy)
Participants using LLMs had significantly shorter idea-generation periods (p=0.0004).
Within-subject comparison between LLM-assisted and unassisted conditions reported in paper; p-value reported as p=0.0004. Sample size N=20.
high negative "Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Im... idea-generation period (time spent generating ideas)
Breaking down user stories into actionable tasks is a critical yet time-consuming process in agile software development.
Background/introductory statement in the paper describing the problem motivation; no experimental sample size reported for this claim.
high negative Splitting User Stories Into Tasks with AI -- A Foe or an All... time required to split user stories (descriptive claim about time consumption)
Telemetry across 10,000+ developers shows 91% longer code review times.
Observational telemetry data aggregated across >10,000 developers reported in the paper; metric reported is percent increase in review time.
There is a persistent female disadvantage in work intensity.
Analysis of EWCTS 2021 with IFR robot exposure measures using weighted logit models controlling for individual and job covariates and fixed effects; gender-specific patterns examined via interaction terms.
high negative Gendered Effects of Robotisation on Job Quality work intensity (job-quality dimension)
Standard PayGo degrades substantially under classroom-scale concurrency.
Empirical latency measurements and comparative analysis across throughput tiers and concurrency levels in the instrumented deployment.
high negative Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response time (latency) degradation under concurrency
Each student query triggers several concurrent API calls whose latencies compound through a parallel-phase maximum effect that single-agent systems do not face.
Architectural description and instrumentation of the four-agent ITAS system (paper reports measurements and latency analysis across tiers and concurrency levels).
high negative Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response latency (task completion time)
Current AI agent frameworks have made remarkable progress in automating individual tasks, yet all existing systems serve a single user.
Statement in paper's introduction/positioning; conceptual survey-style claim (no empirical study or systematic benchmark reported).
high negative ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autono... automation scope (single-user vs multi-user)
In an observational study of documented interactions across four AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cowork, Codex), incomplete context was associated with 72% of iteration cycles.
Observational study reported in the paper covering interactions across four AI tools; the paper reports the 72% figure.
high negative Context Engineering: A Practitioner Methodology for Structur... iteration cycles associated with incomplete context
People are more likely to give up after interacting with AI (increased likelihood of quitting tasks unassisted).
Randomized controlled trials (N = 1,222) measuring rates of task abandonment/giving-up after AI interaction vs. control.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... likelihood of giving up / task abandonment
Resolution margin: the probability that posted queries are resolved declines because AI raises contributors' outside options, thinning the contributor pool and creating congestion on the platform.
Mechanism and comparative-static implication produced by the paper's theoretical model; no empirical sample provided in the excerpt.
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... probability that posted queries are resolved (conditional resolution rate)
Real estate pro forma development remains one of the most time-intensive functions in property investment, typically requiring twenty to forty hours per multifamily project through manual research, Excel-based modeling, and iterative scenario analysis.
Statement in paper asserting typical industry practice; not tied to the paper's controlled test. No empirical sample size or survey data reported alongside this assertion.
Reliance on massive, schema-heavy prompts results in prohibitive per-token API costs and high latency, hindering scalable production deployment.
Introductory problem statement in the paper arguing that large context prompts increase per-token API costs and latency for API-based LLMs; no quantitative study or sample size provided for this claim within the excerpt.
high negative Schema on the Inside: A Two-Phase Fine-Tuning Method for Hig... latency and per-token API cost
Using C.A.P. entails trade-offs: potential increases in latency and compute cost and a risk of over-correction (unnecessary clarification).
Paper explicitly notes these trade-offs as part of the design discussion and proposes measuring latency, compute cost, and unnecessary clarification rate in evaluations; this is an acknowledged design risk rather than an empirically quantified result.
high negative A Context Alignment Pre-processor for Enhancing the Coherenc... response latency, compute cost per session, rate of unnecessary clarifications
On-Premise RAG incurs higher latency compared with cloud RAG.
Technology evaluations included measured system latency comparisons between architectures; exact latency values and statistical details not provided in summary.
high negative An Empirical Study on the Feasibility Analysis of On-Premise... system latency (response time)
Integration cost: AI-generated outputs often require human revision, testing, and manual integration into existing systems.
Reported practitioner experience and observed practices from the field study at Netlight; authors note time and effort spent on revision and integration; no quantitative time-cost estimates provided.
high negative Rethinking How IT Professionals Build IT Products with Artif... human time/effort required to adapt AI outputs for production
We conducted a small-scale randomized experiment to measure uplift from human-agent collaboration on real-world computational reproducibility tasks.
Randomized experiment described in the paper (authors report it was small-scale; details in methods section).
high neutral Life After Benchmark Saturation: A Case Study of CORE-Bench human-agent collaboration uplift (measured via task completion time and success)
The divergence between mean task speed and system-level delay caused by AI assistance is labeled the 'variance wedge'.
Definition/terminology introduced in the paper as part of its conceptual framing; supported by the analytic model description.
high neutral Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow task_completion_time
LLM guidance did not increase the total number of victims saved (no increase in total victims saved relative to baseline).
Same experimental comparison (two LLM-guided conditions vs no-LLM) in the simulated SAR environment; behavioral measure of total victims saved reported.
Larger-scale GPU workload results are projections calibrated from published benchmarks.
Paper states that larger GPU results are not directly measured but are projections calibrated using published benchmarks; no calibration dataset size given in the excerpt.
high null result Mojo: A Promising Tool for Scalable Financial AI Efficiency projected performance for larger-scale GPU workloads
AI-assisted feedback does not reduce time per character (i.e., it does not increase time cost per unit of feedback).
Time-per-character was measured in the randomized field experiment; authors report no reduction (no increase in time per character) associated with the AI-assisted drafts. Student-level/completion-level data from the experiment (n=88); 11 TAs.
high null result AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Pr... time per character (effort per unit of feedback)
The paper evaluates the proposed architecture using the outcome metric 'time-to-insight'.
Methodological statement in the paper listing evaluation metrics.
high null result Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... time-to-insight (time required to generate actionable insight from data)
The paper evaluates the proposed architecture using the outcome metric 'time-to-find'.
Methodological statement in the paper listing evaluation metrics.
high null result Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... time-to-find (time required to locate relevant data/products)