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Evidence (4892 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
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Current research on AI-supported conflict techniques has focused predominantly on Devil's Advocate (DA) and has neglected Dialectical Inquiry (DI).
Literature review / gap statement in the paper pointing to relative emphasis on DA in prior research and lack of work on DI.
high negative Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... research attention on DA vs DI
The framework reframes the education–employer gap as a structural failure in the pathway and outlines implications for universities, employers, accreditors, and policymakers.
Conceptual claim and implications drawn by the author(s) in the paper (stated in the abstract).
high negative Apprenticeship after AI: Bridging Gaps in Early-Career Knowl... characterization of the education–employer gap (structural pathway failure) and ...
The architecture of the undergraduate degree is structurally incapable of replacing the informal post-degree apprenticeship system through curricular revision alone.
Argument presented in the paper, supported by the systematic review of eighteen peer-reviewed studies and labor-market analyses cited in the abstract.
high negative Apprenticeship after AI: Bridging Gaps in Early-Career Knowl... capacity of undergraduate curricular revisions to substitute for post-degree app...
The informal post-degree apprenticeship system that historically completed graduate formation no longer reliably exists.
Claim based on the paper's systematic review of eighteen peer-reviewed studies and current labor-market analyses (as described in the abstract).
high negative Apprenticeship after AI: Bridging Gaps in Early-Career Knowl... presence/reliability of informal post-degree apprenticeship pathways for graduat...
Higher education has misdiagnosed the resulting challenge as curriculum misalignment—a content problem assumed to be solvable through revised syllabi, AI electives, and marginal expansions of experiential learning.
Argument presented in the paper, supported by the paper's systematic review of eighteen peer-reviewed studies and labor-market analyses (as described in the abstract).
high negative Apprenticeship after AI: Bridging Gaps in Early-Career Knowl... adequacy of curricular fixes (revised syllabi, AI electives, marginal experienti...
Artificial intelligence and automation are restructuring early-career knowledge-work roles by compressing the entry-level functions through which graduates historically built portfolios, developed professional judgment, and earned professional credibility.
Statement supported in the paper by a systematic review of eighteen peer-reviewed studies and current labor-market analyses (as described in the abstract).
high negative Apprenticeship after AI: Bridging Gaps in Early-Career Knowl... compression of entry-level functions used for portfolio-building, judgment forma...
Manual processing of these documents is time-consuming, inconsistent across reviewers, and unscalable.
Author claim / background motivation; no quantitative time or consistency metrics reported in the statement.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis effort, consistency, and scalability of manual document processing
Actuaries rely primarily on structured numerical data for reserving and ratemaking, while valuable predictive information in unstructured text including medical records, adjuster notes, and call transcripts remains largely unused.
Author statement/observation in paper introduction; no empirical data or sample size provided to support prevalence claim.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis use of unstructured text in actuarial processes
By framing AI risk exclusively in cybersecurity terms, the Order constructs an AI-risk universe in which provenance, labor, education, culture, meaning, and the commons are rendered 'not testable' within the policy regime.
Argumentative/theoretical claim backed by textual analysis and the counted absence of relevant terms in the EO.
high negative The Security Frame Is a Selection Kernel: Trump's AI Executi... scope of testable AI risks under the policy
The Executive Order frames AI risk overwhelmingly through cybersecurity language.
Textual analysis of the EO; supported by the paper's verified word-count analysis showing high frequency of security/cyber terms relative to other domains.
high negative The Security Frame Is a Selection Kernel: Trump's AI Executi... policy framing (AI risk framed as cybersecurity)
An incentive sweep reveals Goodhart-style drift where measured performance becomes anti-correlated with true outcomes.
Simulation results in Medi-Sim showing that optimizing measured metrics leads to a decrease (anti-correlation) in true outcomes (Goodhart effect).
high negative Healthcare Mechanisms from Policy-as-Code Search under Strat... correlation between measured performance metric and true patient outcomes
Existing healthcare AI benchmarks hold this [strategic provider] response fixed and so cannot evaluate mechanisms by the equilibrium they produce.
Author statement/argument in the paper about limitations of existing benchmarks (conceptual claim; not an empirical experiment).
high negative Healthcare Mechanisms from Policy-as-Code Search under Strat... ability of benchmarks to evaluate mechanisms by equilibrium response
Research on platform governance remains fragmented and lacks an integrative perspective.
Conclusion drawn from the systematic literature review (644 publications) indicating fragmentation in the scholarly literature.
high negative Mission: Orchestration – Governance Mechanisms And Future Re... degree of fragmentation and lack of integrative perspectives in platform governa...
Participants in platform ecosystems cannot be governed through traditional command-and-control mechanisms.
Conceptual claim supported by the literature synthesized in the systematic literature review (644 publications).
high negative Mission: Orchestration – Governance Mechanisms And Future Re... suitability of traditional command-and-control governance for platform participa...
Research on AI-enabled decision-making and upper echelons theory (UET) has largely evolved in parallel (i.e., the two literatures are not well integrated).
Concept-centric literature review mapping management and IS literatures and identifying lack of integration (no quantitative meta-analysis or sample size reported).
high negative Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... degree of integration between AI-enabled decision-making and UET research stream...
Traditional review perspectives organized by method, data type, or application domain understate a deeper shift toward human–AI hybrid decision systems.
Critical assessment within the integrative conceptual review contrasting existing review axes with the proposed decision-system perspective (no empirical sample size).
high negative Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems adequacy of existing review perspectives for capturing systemic change in financ...
A budget-neutral anti-gaming design reduces consumer harm by 0.025 relative to computable static rules.
ABM/RL simulation comparison reported in the paper (design variants evaluated across scenario/sweep runs and the firm-period panel).
high negative When Firms Learn to Game the Rules consumer harm
A budget-neutral anti-gaming design reduces conduct boundary mass by 0.032 relative to computable static rules.
ABM/RL simulation comparison reported in the paper (design variants evaluated across scenario/sweep runs and the firm-period panel).
high negative When Firms Learn to Game the Rules conduct boundary mass
Ordinary adaptive updates lower consumer harm (0.202 to 0.194).
ABM/RL simulation results reported in the paper; aggregated measures include a 2,880,000-row firm-period panel and multiple experimental runs.
high negative When Firms Learn to Game the Rules consumer harm
AI reconfigures comparative advantage and reduces efficient scale.
Theoretical claim presented as a core conclusion of the paper's Cognitive Economic Geography framework, supported by argumentation and the paper's investment-pattern analysis (2018-2024).
high negative The cognitive heartland: A foundational framework for AI-dri... change in comparative advantage determinants and the optimal (efficient) scale o...
Artificial Intelligence (via generative design, autonomous logistics, and predictive analytics) is methodically undermining agglomeration economies that have traditionally focused on advanced manufacturing in coastal and global megaregions.
Paper's analytical claim supported by empirical investigation of capital investment (2018-2024) in specified facility types (EV batteries, semiconductor fabs, additive manufacturing) and theoretical discussion of AI capabilities.
high negative The cognitive heartland: A foundational framework for AI-dri... strength/importance of agglomeration economies for advanced manufacturing
This phenomenon is the self-undermining property of unilateral optimization.
Terminology/label introduced by the authors to describe the preceding conceptual phenomenon; no empirical validation provided in the excerpt.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative conceptual identification of unilateral optimization leading to self-undermining...
Deploying AI systems induces endogenous non-stationarity, resulting in a train-test-deploy gap where historical distributions diverge from the deployment context.
Conceptual claim offered in the paper about deployment feedback effects; presented as an argument rather than supported by reported empirical measurement.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative distributional shift (train-test-deploy gap) induced by AI deployment
Superintelligence, an extremely capable task solver, born out of such a solipsistic approach to AI design, is unlikely to be cooperative.
Theoretical/argumentative claim in the paper linking design assumptions to likely cooperative behavior; no empirical evidence or formal model reported in the excerpt.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative cooperativeness of superintelligent AI
The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous and stationary source of feedback.
Paper's critique/characterization of current research paradigms; presented as an observed trend without empirical backing.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative research paradigm focus (solipsistic/stationary world assumption)
These systems create governance challenges that are not fully captured by traditional software or predictive ML technical debt.
Argumentative claim in the paper contrasting agentic-system risks with traditional software/ML technical debt; no empirical validation or comparative study reported.
high negative Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems extent to which governance challenges are captured by existing technical-debt fr...
Pure implementations of the data mesh paradigm frequently underdeliver because teams inherit new responsibilities without the platform maturity, tooling, or coordination mechanisms to exercise them effectively.
Argument/observation presented in the paper as rationale for proposing a new architecture (anecdotal/experience-based reasoning rather than reported empirical trial).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... effectiveness of data mesh decentralization (ability of teams to exercise respon...
Enterprise data platforms face an enduring tension between domain self-service and holistic governance (a flexibility-versus-control trade-off).
Conceptual statement in the paper describing the problem motivating the work (literature/architectural framing).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... flexibility-versus-control trade-off between domain self-service and centralized...
Post-merger IS integration often threatens the human-centered and IT-embedded knowledge of acquired firms.
Statement based on literature and the authors' framing; supported by observations in the paper's case discussion about two acquisitions (qualitative, case-based).
high negative From Knowledge Loss To Knowledge Leverage: How Gen Ai Afford... loss/threat to human-centered and IT-embedded knowledge
Cloud orchestrators follow efficiency-oriented logics of integration and standardization with limited openness.
Claim presented as a finding from the paper's comparative taxonomy and qualitative analysis of platform business models; method appears to be conceptual/qualitative comparison rather than a reported quantitative sample (no sample size in abstract).
high negative An Ai Economy Beyond Big Tech Hyperscalers? A Taxonomy Of Ma... level_of_integration/standardization and degree_of_openness of cloud-orchestrato...
Achieving this system-level transformation takes time: it requires trust and accountability infrastructure, machine-legible and interoperable data and interfaces, the design and adoption of these new workflows, and economic incentives that favor reconstruction rather than local optimization.
Argumentative claim listing necessary preconditions and complementary investments; presented conceptually without reported empirical measurement in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... time and prerequisites required for system-level AI transformation
The main reason [the disruption has not fully arrived] is not model capability, nor even the tools built to harness those models; rather, most organizations are still using AI to accelerate workflows designed for a pre-AI world.
Argued in the paper as an explanatory thesis; supported by conceptual argument and illustrative examples (consumer markets, education, news, coding) rather than reported empirical analysis in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... degree to which organizations adapt workflows versus using AI to accelerate pre-...
The disruption many expect has not fully arrived.
Stated as an observation in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical method, sample size, or data reported in the excerpt.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... extent/arrival of AI-driven disruption
Human-only teams commit more errors than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported counts/observations of errors made by team type in the escape room experiment; the abstract does not include numerical error counts or significance levels.
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.
The share of diffs receiving timely review has declined, exposing a widening gap between code supply and reviewer bandwidth.
Observational telemetry/operational metrics reported in the paper indicating a decline in timely reviews relative to diff supply. No specific numeric sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative Automating Low-Risk Code Review at Meta: RADAR, Risk Calibra... share of diffs receiving timely review
GPT models showed significantly larger discrepancies compared to other evaluated models.
Comparative evaluation reported in the paper indicating GPT-family models had larger errors/discrepancies relative to the best-performing models.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... discrepancy/error between model estimates and self-reported skills
Employees often struggle to identify "who knows what," leading to organizational productivity losses.
Motivating statement in the paper (not an empirical result from this study); general observation cited as motivation for the research.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... organizational productivity (general claim about productivity losses due to diff...
Existing AI education, AI literacy, and human-AI collaboration frameworks remain centred on prompting, task execution, and productivity support and are poorly equipped to address this tacit layer of expert cognition.
Argumentative critique in the paper drawing on conceptual analysis and review of prevailing frameworks; no empirical evaluation or sample reported.
high negative Tacit Signal Infrastructure: Towards AI Systems that Model E... effectiveness-of-current-training-and-collaboration-frameworks-for-tacit-cogniti...
The core cause of the R&D productivity paradox is cognitive saturation: researchers spend an increasing share of their effort on coordination, documentation, and data governance—hidden work that displaces high-value hypothesis formation, interpretation, and strategic synthesis.
Argument presented in the paper supported by DSR analysis, triangulated with four expert interviews, foresight scenarios, and pattern matching (causal claim based on qualitative evidence and reasoning).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... researchers' allocation of effort between hidden/administrative work and high-va...
Corporate R&D faces a persistent productivity paradox: rising investment and expanding scientific knowledge have not translated into proportional innovation output (Eroom's Law); analogous patterns appear across engineering, materials science, and healthcare.
Literature reference to Eroom's Law and cross-domain pattern matching described in the paper (conceptual/literature observation).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... innovation output relative to R&D investment
Incumbent workforce management frameworks remain anchored to a purely human labor model, rendering AI agents invisible to capacity planning, performance attribution, and governance enforcement.
Stated in paper's problem motivation / literature review; presented as an observed gap motivating the design-science contribution. No sample size or empirical study described in the provided text.
high negative Workforce Unit Abstraction for Governing Hybrid Human and Ar... visibility of AI agents in capacity planning, performance attribution, and gover...
Organizations increasingly deploy separate purpose-built AI tools across professional domains, often hiring domain specialists for each, recreating the staffing models AI was expected to transform.
Stated as an observational/introductory claim in the paper (no empirical data or sample size reported to support the general trend).
high negative Augment Engineering: A Methodology for Multi-Tool AI Orchest... deployment of separate purpose-built AI tools and hiring of domain specialists (...
The greatest organizational risk of AI may not be technical failure but structural over-optimization (i.e., AI-driven erosion of adaptive openness).
Argumentative claim derived from the AI fragility theory presented in the paper; no empirical validation or quantified risk assessment included.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational risk profile attributable to AI (structural over-optimization vs....
Artificial intelligence functions as a 'hyper-crystallization' engine—by classifying, predicting, standardizing and optimizing it accelerates structural crystallization and may erode local judgment and generative adaptability.
Conceptual theory labeled 'AI fragility theory' developed in the paper; supported by argumentative reasoning rather than empirical testing.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational generative adaptability and local decision-making quality under A...
When digital systems are reified into internal structural optimization and control, transformation efforts can intensify organizational rigidity and failure to adapt.
Theoretical/analytic argument contrasting two modes of digital transformation; no empirical estimates or dataset provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational rigidity and failure to adapt as a consequence of reified digital...
Structurally heavy firms with substantial material and institutional resources frequently experienced paralysis or collapse during the pandemic.
Qualitative claim grounded in the author's reading of pandemic outcomes; the paper does not report systematic data or case counts.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational failure/paralysis during crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with the most optimized structures were not necessarily the most adaptive under radical uncertainty.
Argument based on the COVID-19 pandemic presented as an empirical 'stress test' in the paper; no empirical sample, data, or statistical analysis provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational adaptability/resilience under radical uncertainty
LLMs heavily rely on simulations for designing algorithms, which is notorious for breaking when transferred to real hardware.
Paper's claim grounded in known transferability issues between simulation and hardware; no experimental quantification provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... algorithm performance when moving from simulation to real hardware (failure/brea...
LLM pitfalls worsen on Radio Access Network (RAN) use cases: they hallucinate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and mis-read specifications, which kills interoperability of RAN components at the first mistake.
Author assertion / observed behavior reported in the paper (qualitative examples implied); no formal experiment or sample size provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... interoperability / correctness of produced interfaces and implementations