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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
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The productivity gap is attributable to organizational and behavioral factors.
Theoretical analysis, generalization, and synthesis of corporate cases and empirical reports linking observed micro-behaviors to macro-level productivity outcomes.
high negative Analysis of labor productivity in the context of technologic... attribution of macro–micro productivity gap to organizational and behavioral fac...
There is a gap between anticipated macroeconomic efficiency gains (aggregate labor productivity) and observed micro-level outcomes following AI adoption.
Comparison of aggregate productivity trends (BLS series/AAPC calculations) with micro-level evidence drawn from corporate case studies and empirical reports documenting localized impacts of AI.
high negative Analysis of labor productivity in the context of technologic... discrepancy between aggregate labor productivity changes and micro-level perform...
The CAD has implications for knowledge-work stratification and AI platform governance.
Argumentative/policy discussion in the paper linking the CAD to potential stratification among knowledge workers and governance considerations for AI platforms.
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... knowledge-work stratification / governance outcomes
The probabilistic model demonstrates that manual context attachment leads to a combinatorial collapse in task-success probability as corpus size and task conjunctivity grow.
Results from the paper's probabilistic model (analytic/theoretical demonstration based on fan effect reasoning); no empirical sample reported.
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
There exists a finer-grained divide at the level of individual interaction — the Context Access Divide (CAD) — whereby two users with nominally equivalent agent access may experience qualitatively different AI utility depending on whether the system can autonomously retrieve context (Dynamic Context Retrieval) or requires manual document attachment (Manual Attachment).
Conceptual argument and definitional framing in the paper introducing the CAD as a novel dimension of inequality; comparison of two interaction modalities (Dynamic Context Retrieval vs Manual Attachment).
high negative The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... AI utility experienced by the user (qualitative usefulness)
Free overrides also cut sales by 1.19%.
Randomized field experiment comparing free-overrides arm to control; effect reported as 1.19% reduction in sales.
Free overrides reduce inventory by 1.95%.
Randomized field experiment comparing free-overrides arm to control; effect reported as 1.95% reduction in inventory.
The testing tool raised cost by 42 to 68 percent without improving functional score or reliability, even on interface visible criteria.
Comparison between runs with and without the testing tool showing reported cost increase (42–68%) and no improvement in functional score or reliability.
high negative Reasoning effort, not tool access, buys first-try reliabilit... development cost, functional score, reliability (interface-visible criteria)
Container deployment was the dominant defect, failing first try in 44 percent of runs.
Criterion-level analysis of failure modes across the 90 runs reporting first-try failure frequency for container deployment.
high negative Reasoning effort, not tool access, buys first-try reliabilit... first-try container deployment failure rate
Monopoly production of AI restricts its deployment, slowing the transition and impact of AI.
Theoretical model comparing monopolistic AI producer behavior to competitive deployment; result is derived analytically. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... AI deployment / transition speed
Wages of labor that is substituted for by AI decrease in both absolute and relative terms.
Analytical economic model / comparative statics predicting wage declines for labor substituted by AI. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... wages of labor substituted by AI
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
The AI premium is absent in emerging markets, including China.
Geographic cross-sectional analysis indicating no significant AI premium in emerging market firms (explicitly mentioning China).
high negative AI Premium AI premium presence/absence in emerging markets (e.g., China)
Unemployment, idle labour and weakening domestic demand are holding back growth.
Empirical results reported in the paper indicate a negative relationship between unemployment (and related indicators) and economic growth in the 27-country panel (2008–2020).
high negative AI Readiness, Renewable Energy, and Industrial Development: ... economic growth (country-level) / unemployment rate
AI poses environmental challenges.
The abstract lists environmental challenges as one of the potential trade-offs identified by the systematic review of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... environmental_sustainability / environmental_impact
AI can contribute to widening inequality.
Abstract reports the review identifies widening inequality as a potential trade-off of AI, based on synthesis of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... income_distribution / inequality
AI can give rise to job displacement.
The abstract states the review finds potential trade-offs including job displacement across the surveyed literature (194 articles).
Only a small percentage of the human-labelled bugs are detected as being likely associated with LLM-generated code.
Comparison between a set of human-labelled bugs and detector-flagged LLM-generated code to assess co-occurrence (human-labelled bug sample size not provided).
high negative An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in C... percentage of human-labelled bugs associated with code detected as likely LLM-ge...
Comments exhibit a relatively low proportion of grammatically correct sentences.
Linguistic/grammatical analysis of comments flagged as likely LLM-generated (detector-based proxy analysis).
high negative An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in C... proportion of grammatically correct sentences in comments detected as likely LLM...
Code detected as likely to be generated by LLMs decreased over time (2021–2025).
Detector-based proxy analysis on active company- and community-maintained repositories from 2021 to 2025 using various tools and techniques to detect LLM-generated code.
high negative An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in C... proportion of code detected as likely LLM-generated over time
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)
In the same repositories, agent-authored contributions concentrate repository-level friction roughly twice as much as human ones (intraclass correlation 0.30 versus 0.16); this gap holds after controlling for codebase size, age, task shape, process maturity, and merge path.
Comparison of intraclass correlations (ICC) between agent-authored and human-authored pull requests using multilevel models with controls for codebase characteristics and process variables. Dataset includes >930,000 agent-authored PRs (human sample size not specified in excerpt).
high negative Govern the Repository, Not the Agent: Measuring Ecosystem-Le... concentration of repository-level integration friction (measured by intraclass c...
The paper reframes humans not as passive users, but as core system components whose competencies, limitations, and adaptive capacities constrain the performance envelope of optimized AI systems.
Framing/interpretive claim derived from the paper's perspective and literature synthesis (conceptual; no empirical support provided in text).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... constraining effect of human competencies and limitations on AI system performan...
Organizational structures, bias susceptibility, retraining constraints, and interface design co-determine system stability, error propagation, and optimization ceilings.
Conceptual claim based on synthesis of literature across organizational adoption and ML lifecycle management (no empirical tests or sample sizes reported).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... system stability and error propagation (incidence and spread of errors) and limi...
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...
Despite accelerating advances in AI capabilities, human capital remains the enduring and dominant system constraint.
Argument and synthesis of emerging research across human-AI interaction, ML lifecycle management, organizational adoption, and adult learning theory (conceptual synthesis; no empirical sample size reported).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... constraint on overall AI system performance (human capital as limiting factor)
GAGI is a necessary complement to GDP-based monitoring: any macroeconomic monitoring instrument that tracks only aggregate output will systematically miss the distributional harm that automation can cause even while reported growth remains strong.
Argument combining conceptual critique of GDP with empirical demonstration on G7 data using the GAGI index (authors' normative policy recommendation).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... ability of GDP-only monitoring to detect distributional harms from automation (v...
The divergence between welfare-adjusted prosperity (GAGI) and headline GDP widens sharply after 2022, temporally coincident with the after-effects of COVID and the acceleration of generative-AI deployment, though this evidence alone does not demonstrate causation.
Temporal pattern observed in the authors' G7 2010–2026 empirical series (associational observation; authors explicitly note lack of causal identification).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... increase in the gap (widening divergence) between GAGI and GDP per capita after ...
Applying GAGI to the G7 economies over 2010-2026 shows that welfare-adjusted prosperity has diverged persistently and increasingly from headline GDP growth.
Empirical analysis performed on G7 countries over 2010–2026 (sample: 7 economies; time series comparison of GAGI vs. GDP per capita).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... divergence between welfare-adjusted prosperity (GAGI) and headline GDP per capit...
What is missing from the macroeconomic monitoring toolkit is an operational monitoring trigger: a statistic minimal enough to compute annually from public data, transparent enough to audit without modelling assumptions, and normalised so that year-on-year, cross-country change is legible to a regulator.
Normative/methodological claim by the authors arguing for a practical monitoring statistic (no empirical test; statement of need).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... presence/absence of an operational, auditable macroeconomic monitoring statistic
GDP per capita is blind to two first-order determinants of lived prosperity: income/wealth distribution and inflation impact.
Conceptual/definitional argument presented by the authors in the paper (no empirical test reported).
high negative GAGI: A Gini-Adjusted GDP-per-Capita Index for Distribution-... ability of GDP per capita to reflect consumer welfare (specifically distribution...
Capital distortion negatively moderates the effect of industrial robots on firm-level TFP (i.e., capital distortion reduces the positive impact of robots on TFP).
Moderation/interaction analysis using the same panel data of Chinese listed firms and industrial robots (2006–2019); reported tests of interaction between robot application and measures of capital distortion.
high negative The application of industrial robots, capital distortion, an... total factor productivity (TFP) at the firm level (moderated by capital distorti...
Longer system responses and more information-providing turns negatively affect user satisfaction.
Statistical modeling of user satisfaction using features of multi-turn interactions (response length, number of information-providing turns) derived from the 49 participant sessions; models show negative associations reported in the paper.
Accuracy of developer+LLM assessments against expert ground truth is low.
Comparison of participant/LLM assessment outcomes to expert-annotated ground truth for the 148 NFRs; reported low accuracy in the paper.
high negative Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NF... accuracy of assessments relative to expert ground truth
Existing benchmarks typically report accuracy for a single model on a single run, which systematically understates real-world LLM capabilities—particularly under heterogeneous data distributions—because (i) different models get different questions correct according to their specializations, and (ii) given a budget, multiple generations can be sampled and selectively retained.
Argument supported by the paper's empirical Capability Frontier analysis (21 models, 16 benchmarks) and supporting simulations demonstrating specialization and gains from multiple samples/selection.
high negative The Capability Frontier: Benchmarks Miss 82% of Model Perfor... reported benchmark accuracy vs achievable collective capability
We surface threats to construct validity in CORE-Bench Hard that are difficult to anticipate with less capable agents (e.g., shortcuts).
Empirical analysis of failures and shortcuts observed when evaluating more capable agents on CORE-Bench Hard (case-study observations).
high negative Life After Benchmark Saturation: A Case Study of CORE-Bench construct validity issues (shortcuts)
When a benchmark's accuracy saturates, it is often retired and replaced with a more challenging version; this accuracy-centric approach privileges accuracy and misses the opportunity to study six other key dimensions of agent performance (construct validity issues such as shortcuts, out-of-distribution generalizability, efficiency, reliability, the relative importance of the model versus the scaffold, and uplift from human-agent collaboration).
Argument and framing in the paper supported by conceptual analysis and the CORE-Bench Hard case study (qualitative reasoning and empirical examples).
high negative Life After Benchmark Saturation: A Case Study of CORE-Bench coverage of evaluation dimensions (accuracy-centric vs. multidimensional evaluat...
GenAI adoption carries risks including overreliance on models, misalignment between model outputs and human needs, and uneven performance across tasks and contexts.
Reported adverse effects and risks identified in the reviewed literature (task-level experiments and applied studies summarized by the paper).
high negative Generative AI, Digital Infrastructure, and Firm Productivity... error rates, misalignment incidents, quality failures due to overreliance
Traditional dynamic pricing models in large-scale e-commerce suffer from limited interpretability, poor utilization of unstructured information, and misalignment with long-term business objectives such as cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), Return on Investment (ROI) and milestone achievement.
Author statement in paper abstract/introduction asserting limitations of existing dynamic pricing models (literature/motivation claim); no empirical test or sample size reported in the provided text.
high negative AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment i... interpretability; utilization of unstructured information; alignment with long-t...
Re-asking the same GPQA-Diamond questions in free-response rather than multiple-choice form reopens the all-wrong tail: beta is 0.127; a five-judge panel had kappa 0.73 to 0.92, locating co-failure in answer format rather than subject.
Empirical comparison of GPQA-Diamond questions in multiple-choice vs free-response format, with human adjudication by a five-judge panel and reported inter-rater agreement (kappa range).
high negative When Does Combining Language Models Help? A Co-Failure Ceili... all-wrong rate (beta); inter-annotator kappa
On execution-graded code, the observed all-wrong rate beta is 0.079.
Empirical measurement on execution-graded code tasks reported in the paper (dataset/method described in the study).
Across 67 models from 21 providers on open-ended mathematics, observed beta is 0.052 versus 0.023 under the full 67-model Gaussian copula (tetrachoric-calibrated single-factor model underprices the all-wrong tail), about 2.5 times underpricing with 90% CI 1.7 to 3.4 and k = 17.
Empirical evaluation across 67 models from 21 providers on open-ended mathematics; comparison between observed all-wrong rate and rate predicted by a full 67-model Gaussian copula / tetrachoric-calibrated single-factor model; confidence interval reported and k specified (k = 17 as reported).
For any policy whose output is one member model answer, accuracy cannot exceed one minus beta, where beta is the rate at which every model is wrong on the same query.
Theoretical derivation/proof given in the paper (a formal upper bound linking ensemble accuracy to the all-wrong rate beta).
This analysis (identifying robust trait combinations across the full tested space) was infeasible with the mechanistic model alone.
Comparative statement: inability to perform such exhaustive search with APSIM due to computational expense, contrasted with capability of the emulator.
high negative From Simulation to Discovery: AI Enabled Probabilistic Emula... feasibility of exhaustive genotype × environment × management exploration
AI has a significant negative influence on value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries.
Industry-type heterogeneity analysis within the same 30-province panel (2010–2022) showing a statistically significant negative coefficient for labor-intensive subsectors.
high negative The impact of artificial intelligence on value chain upgradi... value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries
There is a Verifier-Goodharting Floor on flywheel ceilings under imperfect rewards (a formal result showing a lower bound / floor imposed by reward imperfection and verifier limitations).
Formal theoretical result in the paper (derivation showing that imperfect/verifier-mediated rewards create a floor limiting flywheel / self-improvement ceilings).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... maximum achievable flywheel / self-improvement ceiling in presence of imperfect ...
There exists a Determinism-Efficiency Bound on chain-task success (one of three formal results pinning down the regime).
Formal theoretical result presented in the paper (a derived bound relating environment determinism to chain-task efficiency/success).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... chain-task success / efficiency under limited environment determinism
With per-step determinism δ < 1, k-step chain success degrades as δ^k (long-chain agent execution fails exponentially in environments designed for human tolerance).
Formal theoretical statement in the paper: a mathematical characterization of per-step determinism and k-step chain success (Derivation / formal result presented by the authors).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... k-step chain success probability (chain-task success)
Infrastructural deficiencies, unstable electricity supply, limited technical expertise, and high implementation costs remain major barriers to AI adoption.
Survey responses from 522 participants reporting barriers to AI adoption; descriptive analysis identifying these factors as major barriers.
high negative Cost-Benefit, Energy Sustainability and Technological Assess... barriers to AI adoption / factors limiting adoption