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Evidence (176 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 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
The cooperative effects of the prosocial AI interventions were short-lived, fading after the first few rounds.
Temporal analysis of contributions over rounds in the iterated game showing decay of the prosocial AI effect after the initial rounds (reported in the experiment with N = 1,283).
high mixed AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas temporal persistence of increased contributions (effects across rounds)
Personality effects depend critically on task structure.
Authors compared the impact of personality manipulation across three distinct task domains (structured coding, open-ended research collaboration, competitive bargaining) and report differing outcomes by domain. Abstract does not provide numeric sample sizes or statistical details.
high mixed When Does Personality Composition Matter for Multi-Agent LLM... variation in team performance by task structure
Du et al. (2026) find that information-based team faultlines can enhance proactive behavior via deep information processing, while AI adoption moderates and mitigates the negative effects of social-based faultlines on team cooperation.
Information-processing theoretical framing and empirical analysis reported in the paper (study type and sample size not specified in the excerpt).
high mixed Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... proactive behavior and team cooperation under team faultlines and AI adoption
Human–AI complementarity in finance is conditional rather than automatic, depending on task structure, private information, feedback quality, incentives, explanation design, and governance.
Synthesis of literature from finance, management, HCI, and AI showing moderating factors for complementarity (conceptual integration; no unified empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems degree of human–AI complementarity in financial decision-making
There is a suggestive non-linear relationship between embodiment and team performance.
Analysis reported in the paper indicating a non-linear (not strictly monotonic) association between degree of agent embodiment (Box, Avatar, humanoid) and measured team performance; described as 'suggestive' in the abstract, without quantified functional form or statistics included there.
high mixed Teaming Up with Artificial Agents in Non-routine Analytical ... team performance as a function of embodiment
Artificial agents have an uneven impact on team outcomes, with some mixed human–AI teams performing exceptionally well and others markedly worse.
Observed performance outcomes across mixed human–AI teams in the escape room experiment, showing high between-team variability; exact sample size and statistical details not provided in the abstract.
high mixed Teaming Up with Artificial Agents in Non-routine Analytical ... team outcomes / performance variability
cBCI synergy is heavily contingent on the temporal dynamics of trust, providing a critical framework for designing dynamically gated Human-AI systems.
Interpretive/concluding claim based on experimental results (timing-dependent failure modes, Oracle gating, Hybrid Fusion effects) reported in the study.
high mixed The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... cBCI synergy as modulated by temporal dynamics of trust
AI timing dictates the mechanism of team failure: high-speed AI interventions risk inducing reflexive blind compliance while delayed interventions can induce ambiguous cognitive conflict.
Synthesis claim derived from experimental contrasts between Fast/Less-Accurate and Slow/Accurate AI conditions and observed human/team behaviors (blind compliance vs. delayed conflict).
high mixed The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... mechanism/type of team failure as a function of AI timing
GenAI enables small teams to expand capacity while creating new dependencies and coordination logics.
Empirical finding from 17 interviews indicating both expanded capacity and emergent dependencies/coordination needs.
high mixed From Prompt To Process: Qualitative Insights On How Genai Us... team capacity expansion and emergence of dependencies/coordination requirements
Across studies, causal modeling reveals that cognitive alignment systematically drives attentional coordination in successful collaboration, while mismatches between effort and attention characterize unproductive regulation.
Synthesis of causal inference results from the three studies using time-series measures (JME, JVA) and episode-based analyses across the pooled dataset (182 dyads total).
high mixed Cognitive Alignment Drives Attention: Modeling and Supportin... directional relationship between cognitive alignment (JME) and attentional coord...
Augmentation is bounded rather than linear (i.e., human-AI augmentation shows diminishing or negative returns past a balanced zone).
Synthesis of interview themes across 34 cases producing the bounded-augmentation / curvilinear conceptualization.
high mixed E-leadership and human-AI collaboration: socio-technical ali... perceived team effectiveness as a function of AI-use intensity
Mediators such as trust, cohesion and accountability are reshaped when AI-generated contributions enter collaboration.
Thematic evidence from interviews indicating changes in trust, cohesion and accountability dynamics associated with the introduction of AI outputs into team collaboration.
high mixed E-leadership and human-AI collaboration: socio-technical ali... trust, cohesion, accountability
Social (leadership engagement, trust, ownership, mediation and alignment) and technical (automation, creation, reliability, distraction and integration) subsystems combine to enable or erode team effectiveness, summarized in an e-leadership–AI orientation matrix.
Analytic synthesis from thematic coding (Gioia-informed) of interview data producing a conceptual matrix mapping social and technical factors to outcomes.
high mixed E-leadership and human-AI collaboration: socio-technical ali... perceived team effectiveness (as a function of social and technical subsystems)
Analysis identifies a curvilinear pattern of bounded augmentation, where effectiveness peaks in a zone of balanced use but declines under under-use and over-reliance.
Thematic (Gioia-informed) analysis of 34 semi-structured interviews with project managers across five UK industries; pattern emerges from cross-case coding and synthesis.
high mixed E-leadership and human-AI collaboration: socio-technical ali... perceived team effectiveness
We identify significant differences between human and AI negotiation behaviors, finding that humans favor lower-complexity deals and are significantly less reliable partners compared to LM-based agents.
Results from the user study comparing human vs LM-based agent negotiation behavior (statements in the results section).
high mixed Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent ... deal complexity preference and partner reliability in negotiations
The authors identify ten evaluation practices that teams use, ranging from lightweight interpretive checks to formal organizational processes (examples: qualitative user reviews, red-team testing, A/B experiments, telemetry/log analysis, structured annotation, governance/meta-evaluation).
Thematic coding of 19 interview transcripts produced a taxonomy enumerating ten practices (paper reports the taxonomy as an outcome).
high mixed Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... taxonomy/count and description of evaluation practices
Teamwork partner type moderates the effect of service empathy on collaboration proficiency (i.e., the impact of service empathy on proficiency differs by human vs AI partner).
Reported interaction/moderated-mediation analyses from the online experiment (n = 861) indicating a significant partner-type × service-empathy interaction predicting collaboration proficiency.
Employees' emotional state significantly moderates the relationship between partner type (human vs AI) and collaboration proficiency.
Moderation analyses reported from the same online experimental dataset (n = 861), testing interaction terms between partner type and measured employee emotion on collaboration proficiency; authors report a significant moderating effect.
AI excels at hypothesis generation but cannot replace scientific reasoning and experimental validation; human expertise remains essential.
Argument and case examples in the paper showing AI-generated hypotheses requiring human-led experimental design, interpretation, and validation.
high mixed Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... role of AI versus human scientists in hypothesis generation and experimental val...
AI use can reduce visibility of real skill differences among employees.
Reported findings from performance management and knowledge-work studies indicating that AI-mediated outputs can obscure underlying employee skill variation.
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... visibility of employee skill differences
Agent-authored pull requests are discussed less than human-authored ones.
Observational analysis of public GitHub activity reported in the paper (no sample size reported in abstract); comparison of discussion volume/length for agent- vs human-authored PRs.
high negative 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... discussion volume in pull request threads
Aligning AI systems with human teams remains a major challenge to realizing AI's full potential in organizations.
Authors' statement in abstract framing the motivation for the study; supported by literature cited in full paper (abstract asserts this as a core challenge).
high negative Mapping Human–AI Relationships: Intellectual Structure and C... difficulty of human–AI alignment in teams
Computational theorising, synthetic task simulations, real LLM agent traces, and robustness analyses show that human-imitation forms often underperform when they add lossy handoffs, correlated deliberation, and verification burdens.
Empirical and simulation-based methods listed in the paper (computational theorising, synthetic task simulations, analysis of real LLM agent traces, robustness checks). The excerpt does not report sample sizes, numeric effect sizes, or statistical tests.
high negative The Organizational Behavior of Agentic AI: Collective Intell... performance (relative underperformance) of human-imitation organisational forms
There is an asymmetry between prosocial and antisocial persuasion: antisocial (selfish) persuasion produces larger and more persistent reductions in cooperation than prosocial persuasion produces increases.
Direct experimental comparison of prosocial versus antisocial AI persuasion treatments in the iterated Collective Risk Game showing differential magnitudes and temporal persistence of effects (reported results from N = 1,283).
high negative AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas relative magnitude and persistence of changes in contributions and group success...
The larger and more persistent negative effects of antisocial AI persuasion were particularly pronounced for personalized interventions.
Subgroup or interaction analysis in the experiment indicating that personalization (targeting by Social Value Orientation) amplified the persistence and magnitude of antisocial framing effects (reported within the N = 1,283 sample).
high negative AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas interaction of personalization with antisocial framing on contributions and grou...
When AI treatments were reconfigured to promote selfish behavior through exculpatory framing, the negative effects on contributions and group success were larger and substantially more persistent.
Experimental comparison between prosocial and antisocial (exculpatory/selfish) AI treatments in the iterated Collective Risk Game showing larger and longer-lasting reductions in contributions and lower group success rates under antisocial framing (reported across N = 1,283).
high negative AI Persuasive Framing in Collective Dilemmas player contributions and group success rate under antisocial framing
In open-ended collaboration and bargaining, the same manipulation substantially degrades performance.
Experimental manipulation of agreeableness in LLMs on open-ended research collaboration and competitive bargaining tasks; authors report substantial performance degradation in these domains. Abstract lacks numeric metrics, sample sizes, and statistical significance details.
high negative When Does Personality Composition Matter for Multi-Agent LLM... team performance (quality/success in open-ended collaboration and bargaining)
Under individual selection, self-interested prompts dominate, causing populations to collapse into collective defection.
Simulation experiments with individual-level selection/transmission showing emergence and dominance of self-interested prompts and subsequent decline into collective defection.
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... prevalence of defection / decline in cooperative behavior
As frontier training shifts toward individual rewards for verifiable tasks (e.g., mathematics and coding), this outcome-based focus may further undermine cooperation in multi-agent settings.
Argumentative/prognostic claim in the paper's motivation; not an empirical result from the study but framed as a risk informed by the literature and authors' reasoning.
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... extent of cooperation in multi-agent settings
Current approaches to instill prosociality in LLM agents often rely on humans specifying desired behaviors at the individual level, which does not guarantee cooperation within LLM populations.
Background statement in paper; conceptual critique of human-specified, individual-level reward/behavior specification as commonly used in LLM alignment and fine-tuning literature (no new empirical test reported in this study).
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... guarantee of cooperation in LLM populations
Adding relevant collaborators can lower performance when teams lack structure to coordinate their contributions.
Empirical comparisons across experimental sessions in the Collaborative Gym / DiscoveryBench setup; result reported across the study (1,482 sessions).
high negative Searching for Synergy in Shared Workspace Human-AI Collabora... team performance (task success / accuracy)
Pure behavioural teams (N=8) failed to scale beyond 74.1%.
Reported team performance metric for 'pure behavioural' teams with sample size N=8; maximum reported performance 74.1%.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... team accuracy/performance ceiling
Reactive approaches paired with automation or creation produced breakdowns (reduced effectiveness).
Thematic evidence from interviewees describing instances where reactive leadership combined with high automation-or-creation use led to coordination or accountability breakdowns across the 34 cases.
high negative E-leadership and human-AI collaboration: socio-technical ali... perceived team effectiveness (breakdowns)
Studies highlight concerns around cognitive offloading and reduced team collaboration when using LLM-assistants.
Synthesis of reported negative effects in included studies (themes extracted by the authors).
high negative The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... cognitive processes and team collaboration
This condition of authorship uncertainty reshapes how teams attribute ideas, negotiate accountability, and coordinate collective reasoning.
Theoretical claim based on conceptual analysis in the paper; no empirical method or sample described in the abstract.
high negative Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... idea attribution, accountability negotiation, collective reasoning / coordinatio...
OpenAI o3 achieves only 17% of optimal collective performance.
Experimental measurement of collective performance for OpenAI o3 in the paper's multi-agent setup (value reported in abstract; no sample size provided there).
high negative More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... collective performance (percent of optimal group revenue)
Practitioners identified specific functional deficiencies in AI: inability to maintain sustained partnerships.
Theme from semi-structured interviews with 10 practitioners; cited as an example of the functional gap.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... AI capability to maintain sustained collaborative partnerships
Practitioners currently view AI models as intellectual teammates rather than social partners and expect fewer SEI attributes from them than from human teammates.
Qualitative findings from semi-structured interviews with 10 software practitioners reported in the study.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... practitioners' expectations of SEI attributes in AI versus human teammates
Current AI systems lack SEI capabilities that humans bring to teamwork, creating a potential gap in collaborative dynamics.
Framed as background/context in the paper; asserted rather than empirically tested in this study.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... presence of SEI capabilities in AI systems (vs. humans)
For organizations of n humans with AI agents, the optimal team size decreases with agent capability.
Derived implication from the stylized model's analysis of multi-human organizations interacting with AI agents.
high negative The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... optimal team size as a function of agent capability
Developers and experts still lack a shared view, resulting in repeated coordination, clarification rounds, and error-prone handoffs.
Observational/qualitative claim in paper describing current MSD practice (no numeric sample reported).
high negative LLM-Powered Workflow Optimization for Multidisciplinary Soft... frequency of coordination rounds / error-prone handoffs
Cooperation with the AI plateaus and never reaches the near-complete cooperation levels observed in human–human interactions.
Time-series/trajectory analysis of cooperation rates in the lab human–AI experiment (n = 126) compared to the human–human benchmark (n = 108); reported convergence/end-state cooperation levels show AI condition asymptotes below the human–human condition.
high negative Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... cooperation rate over time and asymptotic/end-state cooperation level
Across studies, performance was the most frequently examined aspect, followed by trust, explainability and transparency, decision-making, and team processes.
Synthesis and frequency coding of outcomes/measured constructs across the 104 included empirical studies.
high null result From testbeds to high-stakes work: a review of Human-AI team... performance (and ranked prevalence of constructs like trust, explainability, dec...
Production deployments are no longer one human supervising one model; they are multi-human, multi-agent collaborations that cross teams, time zones, and trust boundaries.
Stated as a general characterization of modern production deployments; no quantitative data or case counts provided in the excerpt.
high null result Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) structure of production deployments (multi-human, multi-agent)
Neither survey nor transcript-based measures of participation equity improved under LLM facilitation (an "illusion of inclusion").
Quantitative survey measures and transcript-based analyses of participation equity (e.g., measures of turn-taking, speaking/typing share) showed no improvement in equity metrics for facilitated conditions compared to controls across the experiments.
high null result Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... participation equity (survey and transcript-derived measures of participation ba...
Capability does not predict cooperation.
Comparative experimental results reported in the paper showing different models with different capability levels achieving substantially different collective cooperation outcomes (specifically comparing OpenAI o3 and o3-mini).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... degree of cooperation / collective performance
Allowing repeated pre-play communication (chat before every round) has no detectable effect on cooperation rates when the partner is an AI.
Between-subjects manipulation within the human–AI experiment comparing chat-before-first-round vs chat-before-every-round treatments (human–AI n = 126 total); statistical comparison of cooperation rates across the two chat-frequency treatments showed no detectable difference.
high null result Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... effect of chat frequency on cooperation rate (difference in cooperation between ...
Initial cooperation rates against the AI (GPT-5.2) are high and comparable to initial cooperation in human–human pairs.
Laboratory experiment with human subjects playing an indefinitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma against an AI chatbot (GPT-5.2); human–AI sample n = 126; human–human benchmark taken from Dvorak & Fehrler (2024) with n = 108; comparison of initial-round / early-round cooperation rates across conditions.
high null result Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... initial cooperation rate (cooperation in early rounds / first round of supergame...
Four autonomous agents were benchmarked on the same fresh CTF challenge set alongside human teams.
Benchmarking experiment described in the study: four autonomous AI agents evaluated on the identical fresh challenge set used in the live onsite CTF.
high null result Understanding Human-AI Collaboration in Cybersecurity Compet... agent performance metrics on the fresh CTF challenge set (success rates, traject...
Teamwork partner type (human vs AI) has no direct, significant effect on collaboration proficiency for temporary virtual tasks.
Online experiment with employees in the online-retail industry (n = 861). Hypothesis testing showed no significant main effect of partner type on the outcome variable 'collaboration proficiency' in the reported analyses.
high null result Adoption of AI partners in temporary tasks: exploring the ef... collaboration proficiency