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Evidence (16496 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
Within the public sector, there is an emerging policy trend to incorporate AI considerations into workforce planning, including examining whether human positions may be substituted by technological solutions prior to recruiting new employees.
Paper reports an observed policy trend in public-sector workforce planning; specific policy documents, jurisdictions, or counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... public sector workforce planning practices (consideration of substituting human ...
Objectives, constraints, and prompt guidance affect reliability and generalization.
Authors' analysis and discussion based on experiments and ablations described in the paper (qualitative/empirical observations about sensitivity to objectives, constraints, and prompts).
The architect's role is shifting, but the human remains central.
Authors' discussion and interpretive analysis about the role of humans in agentic AI-driven design processes.
Across evolved designs, components often correspond to known techniques; the novelty lies in how they are coordinated.
Authors' qualitative analysis of evolved architectures and components reported in the paper (design inspection and interpretation of evolved solutions).
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and compensation dynamics.
Econometric estimates (difference-in-differences and propensity score matched comparisons) using the combined datasets listed in the paper and controlling for industry, firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macroeconomic variables.
high mixed The Generative AI Revolution: Early Evidence of Structural T... compensation dynamics (wages/pay)
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in occupational structures.
Same econometric approach (difference-in-differences and propensity score matching) applied to combined datasets (Anthropic Economic Index, Census Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics), with controls for industry, firm size, location, occupation-level characteristics, and macroeconomic environment.
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in employment patterns in the United States during 2022–2025.
Econometric analysis using multiple large-scale data sources (Anthropic Economic Index, U.S. Census Bureau Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics) and methods described as difference-in-differences estimation and propensity score matching controlling for industry (NAICS 2-digit), firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macro conditions.
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
High-value uses require broader authority exposure — data access, workflow integration, and delegated authority — when governance controls have not yet decoupled capability from authority exposure.
Conceptual/mechanism claim articulated in the paper (motivating assumption for the analytical model; no empirical sample given in the abstract).
high mixed The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... authority exposure associated with AI deployment
Firms are deploying more capable AI systems, but organizational controls often have not kept pace.
Stated as background context in the paper's abstract/introduction (observational claim; no empirical sample or experiment reported in the abstract).
high mixed The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... deployment of capable AI systems / governance maturity
The distribution of complementary (non-AI) skills across the workforce shapes whether AI improvements generate productivity bottlenecks or concentration-driven inequality.
Derived from the task-based model analysis described in the article; framed as a theoretical mechanism with reference to empirical patterns but without specific empirical study details in the excerpt.
high mixed AI as Augmentation: How Human Capital Shapes Technology's Im... occurrence of productivity bottlenecks and concentration-driven wage/income ineq...
There is a strict policy reversal in optimal editorial policy sign: tightening is optimal pre-transition, loosening is optimal post-transition.
Analytical proof in the model showing the sign reversal of the editor's optimal constrained response as AI capability crosses the critical threshold.
high mixed Buying the Right to Monitor:Editorial Design in AI-Assisted ... direction of optimal editorial policy change (tighten vs loosen) across regimes
After the AI transition, editors must loosen acceptance standards while investing in AI detection, because further tightening only amplifies dissipative polishing without improving sorting.
Analytical characterization of the constrained optimal editorial response in the post-transition regime within the model; argument relies on the discontinuous reviewer-effort collapse and comparative statics.
high mixed Buying the Right to Monitor:Editorial Design in AI-Assisted ... optimal editorial policy (acceptance standards and investment in AI detection) a...
The reviewer-effort collapse creates a welfare misalignment: authors benefit from a weakened 'rat race' while editors suffer from degraded signal informativeness.
Comparative statics and welfare analysis in the theoretical model showing authors' equilibrium payoffs rise as competition/polishing dissipates, while editor's signal informativeness declines due to lower reviewer effort.
high mixed Buying the Right to Monitor:Editorial Design in AI-Assisted ... welfare for authors (utility/payoff) and informativeness of editorial signals
In academic peer review, generative AI enters both sides of the market: authors use AI to polish submissions, and reviewers use it to generate plausible reports without exerting evaluative effort.
Model assumption and motivation in the paper's three-sided equilibrium framework; described as the dual adoption mechanism analyzed analytically (no empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Buying the Right to Monitor:Editorial Design in AI-Assisted ... adoption of AI by authors and reviewers (change in task allocation and effort)
The paper extends paradox theory to conceptualise the Creativity Paradox in the context of GenAI.
Theoretical extension and conceptual development within the paper (no empirical tests reported).
high mixed Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... extension of paradox theory (Creativity Paradox)
Within that n=11 subset, 9 of 11 agents shift by at least 2 ranks between composite and benchmark-only rankings.
Comparison of rank positions between composite and benchmark-only rankings on the 11-agent subset; reported count of agents that moved at least 2 ranks.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... count/proportion of agents with ≥2-rank shifts
The four factors capture largely complementary information (n=50; ρ_max = 0.61 for Adoption-Ecosystem, all others |ρ| ≤ 0.37).
Correlation analysis among the four factor scores computed on the 50-agent sample; reported maximum inter-factor Pearson/Spearman correlation coefficients.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... inter-factor correlations (Adoption vs Ecosystem and other factor pairs)
The intervention only modestly narrows the gap to a full-information benchmark.
Comparison between post-intervention calibration/auction outcomes and a full-information benchmark reported in the paper, showing only modest improvement.
high mixed MarketBench: Evaluating AI Agents as Market Participants remaining gap between post-intervention outcomes and full-information benchmark ...
Provisioned Throughput delivers the lowest latency at low concurrency but saturates its reserved capacity above approximately 20 concurrent users.
Empirical measurements from the instrumented system across concurrency up to 50 users and tier comparisons; the paper reports the observed saturation point near ~20 concurrent users.
high mixed Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response time (latency) and saturation threshold (concurrency where reserved cap...
Delegating tasks to genAI can be individually beneficial in the short term even as widespread adoption degrades future model performance (creating a social dilemma).
Result of the paper's behavioral model showing an individual-level incentive to use genAI versus a collective cost from adoption (theoretical/model-based; no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high mixed Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... individual short-term benefit vs future model performance (collective welfare)
Token usage is highly variable and inherently stochastic: runs on the same task can differ by up to 30x in total tokens.
Observed run-to-run variability in total token counts for identical tasks across the collected agentic trajectories from eight frontier LLMs on SWE-bench Verified.
high mixed How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... run-to-run variability in total token consumption for the same task
ASC (adaptive stopping criterion) halts harmful refinement but incurs a 3.8 pp confidence-elicitation cost.
Reported experiment with ASC showing that it prevents harmful iterative refinement yet causes a measured cost described as 3.8 percentage points due to confidence elicitation.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... trade-off between stopping harmful refinement and a confidence-elicitation cost ...
Only o3-mini (+3.4 pp, EIR = 0%), Claude Opus 4.6 (+0.6 pp, EIR ~ 0.2%), and o4-mini (+/-0 pp) remain non-degrading under self-correction; GPT-5 degrades by -1.8 pp.
Reported measured changes in accuracy (percentage-point changes) and measured EIR values for the named models after applying iterative self-correction across the experiment suite.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction
Across 7 models and 3 datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA), we find a sharp near-zero EIR threshold (<= 0.5%) separating beneficial from harmful self-correction.
Empirical experiments reported across 7 LLMs and 3 benchmark datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA) comparing outcomes of iterative self-correction as a function of measured EIR.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction as a function of EIR
Firms with a high market position tend to imitate the peer leader, whereas firms in middle and low market positions are more likely to follow the peer group.
Heterogeneity analysis / subgroup regressions in fixed-effects models on panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023), stratifying firms by market position (high, middle, low).
high mixed Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (differential peer influence by firm market positio...
AI influences innovation performance in organizations.
Discussion and synthesis of studies and reports on AI adoption and innovation performance presented in the review.
AI adoption is producing organizational implications, including changes in project management practices.
Findings synthesized from conference papers, case studies and industry reports included in the review.
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... project management practices / organizational processes
Automation, generative AI, and intelligent systems are reshaping task structures, leading to both job displacement risks and the creation of new AI-driven roles.
Synthesis of empirical studies, conference findings, and industry reports reporting both displacement risks and new role emergence (review paper).
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... job displacement and role creation
AI is rapidly transforming the nature of work, the demand for skills, and the professional roles of Information Technology (IT) practitioners.
Stated as a synthesis result from a narrative review of recent empirical studies, conference findings, and industry reports (review paper).
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... demand for skills / professional roles
Semiconductors are a representative case study for analyzing weaponized interdependence in advanced technology sectors.
Methodological claim in the paper: selection and focus on the semiconductor sector as illustrative of broader advanced-technology sector dynamics under export restraints and chokepoint activation.
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... suitability of semiconductors as a representative sector for studying weaponized...
Previous literature is based primarily on the short-term effectiveness of coercion; this paper shifts attention to the longer-term structural consequences of technological restraints.
Literature review and positioning in the paper contrasting prior studies' short-term focus with the paper's longer-term structural emphasis (methodological/literature-critique claim).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... scholarly framing of effects of technological coercion (short-term vs. long-term...
Over time, U.S.–China reaction–counterreaction interactions generate three structural transformations: supply-chain reconfiguration, substitution, and regulations reinforcing segmentation.
Synthesis from the paper's longitudinal/case-analysis of semiconductor-related export restraints and subsequent industry and regulatory responses (qualitative identification of three emergent structural outcomes).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... structural transformations in technology supply chains and regulatory regimes
Current instability in U.S.–China relations arises less from complete ideological divergence or failure of outright containment policy than from a structured reaction–counterreaction dynamic triggered by chokepoint activation.
Argument based on qualitative analysis of U.S. export restraints after the first Trump administration and application of the 'weaponized interdependence' framework to advanced-technology sectors (paper's theoretical argument and case discussion).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... primary driver(s) of instability in U.S.–China technological relations
AIGC is reshaping the rights and obligations of platforms and workers.
Argument in the paper describing legal and practical impacts of AIGC on platform-worker relationships; based on doctrinal/legal analysis and discussion of platform practices rather than reported quantitative empirical data.
high mixed AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... rights and obligations (legal status)
The study explores implications of algorithmic enterprises for competitive advantage, labour markets, and regulatory policy.
Declared scope of the paper in the abstract; exploration is conceptual and analytical rather than reporting empirical findings or quantified effects.
high mixed Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... implications for firm competitive advantage, labour market outcomes, and policy
Survey evidence suggests public attitudes towards AI combine optimism with apprehension, and most respondents oppose granting AI systems final authority over hiring and dismissal decisions.
Review cites multiple public opinion and survey studies reporting mixed (optimistic and apprehensive) attitudes and opposition to AI final authority in employment decisions (survey evidence summarized).
high mixed From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... public attitudes toward AI and policy preferences (authority in hiring/dismissal...
There are important regional differences—especially in developing contexts—that necessitate context-specific approaches to improving women’s participation in AI-enabled work.
Observation reported in the review drawing on geographically diverse studies and policy analyses; the abstract does not quantify differences or report sample sizes for cross-region comparisons.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... regional variation in barriers and opportunities affecting women's participation...
Social, cultural, and ethical considerations influence women’s engagement in AI-centric workplaces.
Claim made in the review, based on interdisciplinary literature that includes sociocultural analyses and ethical discussions; the abstract does not provide empirical effect estimates or sample sizes.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... women's engagement in AI-centric workplaces
AI applications—ranging from recruitment algorithms to workplace automation—can either reinforce gender disparities or promote equitable employment outcomes.
Stated in the review based on collated findings from multiple studies and analyses that document both harms (e.g., biased recruitment algorithms) and potential benefits (e.g., tools designed to reduce bias); no single empirical study or pooled effect size provided in the abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... impact of AI applications on gender disparities in hiring and employment outcome...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming workplaces across the globe, offering both novel opportunities and unique challenges for women in technology-driven industries.
Stated in the paper's introduction/abstract as a summary conclusion based on a narrative literature review of peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, and preprint research; no specific sample size or primary empirical method reported in the abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... women's participation and experiences in AI-enabled workplaces
The study proposes a sectoral risk classification to better understand vulnerability patterns and workforce implications.
Paper reports development/proposal of a sectoral risk classification as a contribution (the classification itself and validation details are not described in the abstract).
high mixed AI and the Future of Job Profiles: A systematic Review of Se... sectoral vulnerability classification
The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across industries is fundamentally reshaping occupational structures and redefining employment dynamics.
Stated as an overall conclusion of the paper based on a systematic review of recent literature from major academic databases (details of included studies not provided in the abstract).
high mixed AI and the Future of Job Profiles: A systematic Review of Se... occupational structures and employment dynamics
These efficiency gains are offset by a growing 'Efficiency-Legitimacy Paradox' (i.e., improvements in efficiency come with worsening legitimacy concerns).
Conceptual synthesis from the systematic review (2018-2026) identifying a recurring trade-off across reviewed studies; specific empirical quantification not provided in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... trade-off between administrative efficiency and democratic legitimacy/procedural...
There is a structural shift from 'street level' bureaucracies to 'system-level' architectures that can be defined as the institutional division of 'Artificial Discretion' to algorithmic infrastructures.
Synthesis from the PRISMA-guided systematic review of literature (2018-2026) reporting observed changes in administrative architectures; specific studies not enumerated in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... institutional/administrative architecture (shift from street-level to system-lev...
As a General-Purpose Technology (GPT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reconfiguring state capacity, as well as the mechanics of global economic management.
Systematic review of current research studies (2018-2026) conducted following PRISMA guidelines; synthesis of literature claiming broad institutional and macroeconomic effects. Number of studies not specified in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... state capacity and the mechanics of global economic management
Agentic AI differs from traditional algorithmic trading and generative AI through its capacity for goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, and multi-agent coordination.
Analytic comparison and synthesis across prior research and technical architectures in the survey; descriptive/definitional rather than empirical testing.
high mixed Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Comprehensive ... capability differences (goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, multi-agent...
Uncertainty-aware exploration (in algorithms) alters fairness metrics compared to policies that ignore uncertainty.
Results from simulation experiments compare uncertainty-aware exploration policies to baseline policies and report changes in fairness metrics (as described in the abstract and results).
Analysis of more than two decades of M&A deals reveals shifts in acquisition activity and allows mapping of corporate linkages and overlapping investments.
Empirical longitudinal analysis of M&A deals over a period exceeding 20 years; method: mapping corporate linkages from M&A data (sample size/dataset not specified in the excerpt).
high mixed Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital t... acquisition activity and corporate linkages / overlapping investments
The emissions effects of digital trade are conditional rather than uniform, depending on complementary policy (carbon pricing, regulatory stringency), technological (AI-enhanced logistics), and energy (renewables) factors.
Synthesis of findings from fixed-effects regressions with interactions, carbon-pricing threshold analysis, machine-learning threshold detection, and SEM mediation on the monthly panel of 38 OECD economies (2000–2024).