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Evidence (8974 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 882 244 117 1097 2424
Governance & Regulation 1010 469 229 135 1875
Organizational Efficiency 977 235 149 90 1462
Technology Adoption Rate 781 299 143 128 1362
Research Productivity 506 155 74 363 1110
Output Quality 555 219 71 70 915
Decision Quality 395 200 95 54 751
Firm Productivity 523 67 101 27 724
AI Safety & Ethics 262 309 75 36 688
Market Structure 195 201 135 30 566
Task Allocation 248 77 96 38 464
Innovation Output 300 34 55 20 411
Skill Acquisition 207 75 65 21 368
Employment Level 138 67 119 24 350
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 156 80 53 33 329
Task Completion Time 211 38 13 16 280
Firm Revenue 183 52 29 5 270
Consumer Welfare 131 77 48 13 269
Inequality Measures 50 141 54 9 254
Worker Satisfaction 104 85 25 13 227
Error Rate 87 112 11 5 215
Automation Exposure 69 69 37 20 198
Wages & Compensation 102 49 31 11 193
Team Performance 115 30 30 11 187
Regulatory Compliance 88 74 17 7 186
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 116 21 15 8 161
Job Displacement 12 92 26 1 131
Hiring & Recruitment 57 12 9 5 83
Skill Obsolescence 6 59 10 2 77
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 23 17 1 59
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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Evaluation demonstrates that Flowr significantly reduces manual coordination overhead.
Empirical claim reported in the paper's evaluation section; the excerpt notes an evaluation and collaboration with a large supermarket chain but provides no sample size figures or quantitative effect sizes.
high positive Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... manual coordination overhead (effort/time/coordination burden)
Central to the framework is a human-in-the-loop orchestration model in which supply chain managers supervise and intervene across workflow stages via a Model Context Protocol (MCP)-enabled interface, preserving accountability and organizational control.
Design/organizational claim describing human-in-the-loop orchestration and MCP interface; asserted in the paper without empirical measures of accountability or control in the excerpt.
high positive Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... preservation of accountability and organizational control during automation
To ensure task accuracy and adherence to responsible AI principles, the framework employs a consortium of fine-tuned, domain-specialized large language models coordinated by a central reasoning LLM.
Technical/design claim in the paper describing model architecture and approach; no evaluation metrics or tests of accuracy/responsibility provided in the excerpt.
high positive Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... task accuracy and adherence to responsible AI principles
Flowr systematically decomposes manual supply chain operations into specialized AI agents, each responsible for a clearly defined cognitive role, enabling automation of processes previously dependent on continuous human coordination.
Architectural claim — asserted mechanism of the framework in the paper; presented as part of the framework design, no quantitative evaluation details in the excerpt.
high positive Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... task decomposition and automation of previously human-coordinated processes
This paper introduces Flowr, a novel agentic AI framework for automating end-to-end retail supply chain workflows in large-scale supermarket operations.
Design and system-proposal claim in the paper; supported by framework description rather than empirical testing in the provided text.
high positive Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... ability to automate end-to-end supply chain workflows (task allocation to AI)
Generative AI helps users solve problems more efficiently.
Motivating empirical observation stated in the paper (no sample or empirical analysis reported in the provided text); assumption used to motivate the theoretical model.
high positive When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... problem-solving efficiency (implicit)
Prompts can be treated as decision policies that allocate discretion between researcher and system, governing what is executed and when iteration stops.
Methodological framing advanced by the authors describing prompts as decision policies; conceptual claim based on the paper's analytic framework rather than empirical measurement.
high positive On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... conceptualization of prompts' role in workflow control and decision allocation
Operational constraints and decision rule prompts deliver large and stable footprint reductions while preserving decision equivalent topic outputs.
Experimental comparisons of prompt strategies in the benchmarked workflow showing reductions in runtime/CO2e and evaluated topic outputs' decision-equivalence (asserted in abstract; no numeric reductions or sample sizes provided).
high positive On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... carbon footprint / runtime reductions and preservation of topic output equivalen...
We benchmark a modern economic survey workflow, an LDA-based literature mapping implemented with GenAI assisted coding and executed in a fixed cloud notebook, measuring runtime and estimated CO2e with CodeCarbon.
Experimental benchmark described in the paper: single implemented workflow (LDA-based literature mapping) executed in a fixed cloud notebook with runtime and CO2e measured using CodeCarbon (methodological claim).
high positive On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... runtime and estimated CO2e (carbon footprint) of the benchmarked workflow
Training footprint is the largest cluster in the mapped Green AI literature.
Result from the paper's literature mapping / clustering (statement in abstract; no numeric cluster sizes given).
high positive On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... relative prevalence (cluster size) of 'training footprint' theme
We map the recent Green AI literature into seven themes: training footprint is the largest cluster, while inference efficiency and system level optimisation are growing rapidly, alongside measurement protocols, green algorithms, governance, and security and efficiency trade-offs.
Bibliometric / thematic mapping of recent Green AI literature described in the paper (method: literature mapping; exact number of papers or mapping procedure not specified in abstract).
high positive On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... distribution of themes within Green AI literature (theme prevalence and growth)
We share our methodology and lessons learned to enable other organizations to construct similar production-derived benchmarks.
Paper states intention and contribution: releasing methodology and lessons to allow replication by other organizations.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... ability of other organizations to construct similar benchmarks
We detail data collection and curation practices including LLM-based task classification, test relevance validation, and multi-run stability checks to address challenges in constructing reliable evaluation signals from monorepo environments.
Methodological description in paper listing specific practices (LLM-based classification, test relevance validation, multi-run stability checks) aimed at producing reliable evaluation signals in monorepos.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... reliability of evaluation signals derived from monorepo environments
Models making greater use of work validation tools, such as executing tests and invoking static analysis, achieve higher solve rates.
Reported relationship from paper's analysis correlating models' use of verification tools (test execution, static analysis) with higher solve rates across evaluated models.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... solve rate (task success) as a function of verification tool usage
Systematic analysis of four foundation models yields solve rates from 53.2% to 72.2%.
Empirical evaluation reported in paper: four foundation models were evaluated on the ProdCodeBench benchmark producing reported solve-rate range.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... solve rate (task success rate)
Each curated sample consists of a verbatim prompt, a committed code change and fail-to-pass tests spanning seven programming languages.
Descriptive dataset claim in paper specifying components of each sample and that samples cover seven programming languages.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... dataset composition (prompt, code change, tests) and language coverage (7 langua...
We present ProdCodeBench, a benchmark built from real sessions with a production AI coding assistant.
Paper describes methodology and introduces ProdCodeBench explicitly as constructed from real production assistant sessions.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... existence and provenance of benchmark (production-derived dataset)
Benchmarks that reflect production workloads are better for evaluating AI coding agents in industrial settings.
Argument presented in paper motivating creation of production-derived benchmark; no specific empirical comparison to alternative benchmarks reported in the abstract.
high positive ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... quality of evaluation for AI coding agents (suitability of benchmark)
A representative incident (ISS-004) demonstrated boundary-based containment with 10-minute detection latency, zero user exposure, and 80-minute resolution.
Incident ISS-004 report in the paper giving specific timings for detection latency (10 minutes), user exposure (zero), and resolution (80 minutes).
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... incident detection latency, user exposure, and time-to-resolution
The multi-agent approach improved reliability: audited handoffs detected and blocked a coordinate transformation error affecting all 2,452 stations before publication.
Incident detection reported in the SF2Bench deployment where audited handoffs prevented publication of a coordinate transformation error that would have affected all 2,452 stations.
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... detection/blocking of a systemic coordinate transformation error (error preventi...
The multi-agent approach improved efficiency — the SF2Bench deployment was completed by a single operator in two days with repeated artifact reuse across deployments.
Operational report from the production deployment: single operator completion time of two days and reuse of artifacts across deployments as stated in the paper.
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... time to complete deployment (task completion time) and operator effort
SF2Bench, a compound flooding benchmark comprising 2,452 monitoring stations and 8,557 published files spanning 39 years, validates the multi-agent workflow.
Reported dataset composition and use in the paper: SF2Bench with stated counts and temporal span used to validate the multi-agent workflow.
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... scale and temporal coverage of benchmark used to validate workflow (stations, fi...
EnviSmart treats reliability as an architectural property through two mechanisms: (1) a three-track knowledge architecture that externalizes behaviors (governance constraints), domain knowledge (retrievable context), and skills (tool-using procedures) as persistent, interlocking artifacts; and (2) a role-separated multi-agent design where deterministic validators and audited handoffs restore fail-stop semantics at trust boundaries before irreversible steps.
System architecture and design description in the paper; presented as the core reliability mechanisms implemented in EnviSmart.
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... architectural approach to reliability (design features implemented)
We introduce EnviSmart, a production data management system deployed on campus-wide storage infrastructure for environmental research.
System description and statement of deployment in the paper; presented as a production deployment (no randomized evaluation reported).
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... existence and production deployment of EnviSmart
Embedding LLM-driven agents into environmental FAIR data management can externalize operational knowledge and scale curation across heterogeneous data and evolving conventions.
Conceptual / argumentative claim made in the paper as a motivation for the system; no quantitative experiment tied to this statement in the excerpt.
high positive Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... ability to externalize operational knowledge and scale curation
In the short run, with fixed human capital, wages, and job boundaries, AI raises productivity by reducing the time required to perform steps.
Model distinction between short-run (fixed job design and skills) and long-run horizons; short-run optimization shows AI reduces expected execution times for steps, thereby raising productivity.
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation time required to complete production steps (task completion time)
Aggregating heterogeneous firms that deploy a commonly available AI technology yields an aggregate production function that admits a constant elasticity of substitution (CES) representation with three inputs: aggregate manual labor, aggregate AI-assisted labor, and aggregate capital.
Theoretical aggregation argument drawing on Houthakker (1955) and Levhari (1968), deriving a macro-level CES representation from a microfounded algorithmic cost function defined by firms' joint optimization over AI deployment and job design.
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation form of the aggregate production function (CES representation and separability o...
Improvements in AI quality generate non-linear effects on labor demand and wages because firms' cost-minimizing AI deployment and job designs change discretely at particular AI quality thresholds (microfoundation for the productivity J-curve).
Theoretical analysis of discrete switches in the cost-minimizing arrangement as AI success probability and execution times change; characterization of threshold effects and discussion linking to the J-curve phenomenon (model results and comparative statics).
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation labor demand and wages response to AI quality improvements (non-linear threshold...
Adjacency to AI-executed steps increases the likelihood that a given step is executed by AI (local complementarities): a step is more likely to be AI-executed in occupations where its neighboring steps are also AI-executed.
Empirical comparisons of conceptually similar steps across occupations paired with workflow adjacency information and realized AI execution outcomes from Anthropic’s Economic Index; statistical tests reported in the paper.
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation probability (or likelihood) that a step is AI-executed conditional on neighborin...
AI-executed steps co-occur in contiguous chains rather than being randomly scattered across a production workflow.
Empirical analysis linking O*NET tasks to human assessments of AI exposure (Eloundou et al., 2024), realized AI execution outcomes from Anthropic’s Economic Index (Handa et al., 2025), and GPT-generated workflow orderings for occupations; statistical tests comparing observed contiguity to random/scaled baselines reported in the paper.
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation contiguity of AI-executed steps in occupation workflows
Instrumenting AI use cases with treatment assignment suggests each additional AI use case prompted by treatment leads to approximately 26% higher revenue.
Instrumental variable analysis using randomized treatment as instrument for number of AI use cases in the 515-firm sample; outcome measured as revenue.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... firm revenue (per additional AI use case)
Instrumenting AI use cases with treatment assignment suggests each additional AI use case prompted by treatment leads to 0.85 more completed tasks.
Instrumental variable analysis using randomized treatment as instrument for number of AI use cases in the 515-firm sample; outcome measured as completed tasks.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... number of tasks completed (per additional AI use case)
Revenue and investment gains are largest at the 90th percentile and above, suggesting AI expands the upper range of what firms achieve.
Quantile/upper-tail analysis of revenue and investment outcomes in the randomized sample (515 firms); reported concentration of gains at the 90th percentile+.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... distribution of revenue and investment gains (percentile analysis)
Treated firms generate 1.9x higher revenue compared to control firms.
RCT with 515 firms; revenue reported by firms during and after the accelerator; comparison of mean revenues between treated and control groups.
Treated firms are 11 percentage points (18%) more likely to acquire paying customers.
RCT with 515 firms; customer acquisition measured in weekly reports / traction outcomes; treatment vs control comparison.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... probability of acquiring paying customers
Treated firms complete 12% more tasks.
RCT with 515 firms; weekly progress reports used to measure tasks completed; comparison of completed tasks between treatment (255) and control (260) groups.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... number of tasks completed
The additional AI use cases discovered by treated firms are concentrated in product development and strategy-related domains.
Analysis of categorized AI use cases reported in weekly progress reports from the randomized accelerator sample (515 firms); comparison of functional distribution of use cases between treated and control firms.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... distribution of AI use cases across firm functions (e.g., product development, s...
Treated firms discover 2.7 additional AI use cases (a 44% increase).
Randomized field experiment in a 3-month accelerator; sample of 515 high-growth startups, 255 treatment and 260 control; weekly progress reports capturing AI use cases; treatment delivered case-study workshops prompting broader search for AI use cases.
high positive Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... number of AI use cases discovered
Under an extreme calibration where A.I. makes the entire economy grow like the computer industry, growth 'explodes' with incomes becoming infinite in finite time; infinite income does not occur until around 2060 even in this extreme calibration.
Simulation of the endogenous-automation endogenous-growth model calibrated to the fast-automation (computer industry) scenario.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... occurrence and timing of a finite-time singularity (infinite income) in simulate...
Simulating the calibrated endogenous-automation model under an 'A.I. as a continuation of historical patterns' calibration yields growth rates reaching only 2.5% by 2075.
Forward simulations of an endogenous-growth model calibrated to historical private business sector patterns (model + calibration + simulation).
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... projected economy-wide growth rate by 2075
The main benefit of automation is that it allows production of a task to shift from slowly-improving human labor to rapidly-improving machines.
Theoretical argument within the task-based model and supporting historical accounting showing faster capital-augmenting productivity growth relative to labor.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... contribution of automation to productivity/TFP growth
At the task level, capital productivity has grown at least 3 percentage points per year faster than labor productivity.
Historical task-level growth accounting across sectors using BEA/BLS data and the paper's task-based decomposition; statement appears in abstract and introduction summarizing empirical findings across sectors.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... gap in growth rates between capital productivity and labor productivity at the t...
Historically, TFP growth is driven primarily by improvements in capital productivity.
Growth accounting using a task-based model applied to aggregate U.S. data (BEA and BLS) and industry-level data; theoretical decomposition separating capital-augmenting, labor-augmenting, and "other" productivity components.
Economists strongly favor targeted policy interventions such as AI-focused worker retraining (71.8% support) over broad structural interventions like job guarantees (13.7% support) or universal basic income (37.4% support).
Survey items asking respondents to indicate normative support for six policy proposals; reported support percentages for the economist group for specific policies (retraining, job guarantee, UBI).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI policy support percentages among economists
Economists (as a group) forecast GDP growth of 3.5% under the rapid AI scenario.
Conditional forecasts reported in Key Findings (economist subgroup forecasts under the rapid progress scenario).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI annual GDP growth under rapid AI scenario (economists)
The median respondent in each group expects annual U.S. GDP growth of about 2.5% (unconditional forecast).
Unconditional (all-things-considered) survey forecasts of annual GDP growth elicited from respondents across five groups; compared in text to government and private-sector baseline forecasts (typical medium-run 2.0% and long-run 1.7%).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI annual GDP growth (unconditional forecast)
The average economist assigns a 61.4% probability to moderate or rapid AI progress by 2030.
Survey responses from the economist respondent group reporting the mean/average subjective probability for the combined 'moderate' and 'rapid' scenario categories.
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI probability assigned to moderate or rapid AI progress by 2030
The median respondent in each group expects substantial advances in AI capabilities by 2030.
Survey of five respondent groups (academic economists, AI-company employees, AI policy researchers, highly accurate forecasters, and the general public) eliciting unconditional and conditional forecasts about AI capabilities and economic outcomes (details and sample sizes referenced in Section 2.1, not provided in excerpt).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI AI capability progress by 2030
Organizations and policymakers that treat work-time policy as foundational economic planning will better position their economies to harness AI's benefits while mitigating systemic instability.
Policy-prescriptive conclusion based on cross-disciplinary analysis; no empirical trial or quantification offered in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... economic resilience / ability to harness AI benefits and mitigate instability
Work-time reduction can distribute productivity gains more equitably.
Argument supported by examination of historical work-time transitions and pilot programs referenced in the article; no empirical effect sizes or sample details in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... distribution of productivity gains / equity in gains