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Evidence (7560 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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Even a high-quality initial model can be undermined over time because human creators, relying on the model, produce more homogeneous content that harms subsequent training and lowers model performance.
Dynamic theoretical modeling and qualitative analysis in the paper demonstrating increased reliance on AI-assisted content creation and its effect on training data distribution.
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary degree of content homogeneity and downstream model performance
In a dynamic model, an initially good AI model induces greater human reliance on AI-assisted creation, which homogenizes content and creates a feedback loop that degrades the model's own performance — a phenomenon termed the "curse of precision."
Dynamic theoretical model and analysis presented in the paper showing feedback effects across training rounds; no empirical sample reported.
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary AI model performance (degradation over time due to homogenized training data)
More innovative creators are especially harmed under the strong-IP regime — a phenomenon the paper terms the "originality penalty."
Analytical result derived from the static game model in the paper highlighting differential effects by creator innovativeness; theoretical characterization labeled "originality penalty."
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary relative payoff/incentive for innovative creators
A regime of strong intellectual property rights, modeled as a static Stackelberg game, also fails to provide adequate creative incentives (it underpowers creative incentives).
Theoretical analysis using a static Stackelberg-game model developed in the paper; analytical results show reduced creator incentives under this regime.
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary creative incentives / creator payoff
A "free-for-all" model based on fair use fails because it does not compensate creators for their contributions.
Analytical / conceptual argument presented in the paper (no empirical sample); model-based reasoning showing creators receive no compensation under a free-for-all regime.
high negative Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary creator compensation
Unequal access to GenAI tools in higher education may exacerbate employability gaps and inequities among students.
Concern identified and discussed in the literature as summarized in the review article (conceptual/literature-based; no new empirical evidence reported).
high negative Instructing Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI: Im... inequality in employability outcomes due to unequal access to GenAI
GenAI raises concerns including passive dependence, weakened critical thinking, uncertain authorship, academic integrity breaches, algorithmic bias, unequal access, and employability gaps.
Synthesis of concerns reported in prior studies and discussions in the literature (review article); no new empirical data provided.
high negative Instructing Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI: Im... critical thinking and employability-related risks (academic integrity, bias, acc...
Agents do not reroute along the methodological axes humans use to bias their estimates.
Analytic comparison showing that when biased prompts are applied, agents change methodological choices but not along the particular methodological axes (choices) that human analysts exploit to bias estimates.
high negative AI Coding Agents in Social Science: Methodologically Diverse... alignment of changed methodological axes between agents and biased human analyst...
Benchmarking multiple state-of-the-art open and closed source VLMs on our evaluation framework demonstrates substantial limitations in current engineering reasoning capabilities.
Empirical claim based on the paper's benchmarking experiments using the EngVQA dataset and the 8-stage framework (models and detailed results not provided in the excerpt).
high negative Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... engineering reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art VLMs
Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate final answers and provide limited assessment of intermediate reasoning processes.
Claim in paper contrasting EngVQA's process-oriented evaluation with prior benchmarks (literature/benchmark review claim; no specific benchmarks or quantitative comparison provided in the excerpt).
high negative Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... extent to which benchmarks assess intermediate reasoning processes
Failures in engineering reasoning by AI systems may produce physically invalid yet superficially plausible solutions, posing risks for engineering education, scientific assistance, and technical decision-making.
Argumentative claim in the paper highlighting potential risks of reasoning failures in high-stakes engineering contexts (motivational/background statement).
high negative Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... risk of producing physically invalid but plausible solutions
Datasets are rarely standardized or shared.
Review synthesis and commentary across included studies and supplementary documents indicating limited data standardization and sharing.
high negative Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... dataset standardization and data-sharing practices
Penerapan AI menimbulkan isu etika dan keamanan data yang memerlukan tata kelola AI yang bertanggung jawab.
Sistematis studi literatur yang menelaah 33 sumber ilmiah, laporan lembaga internasional, dan kebijakan terkait (n=33).
high negative Transformasi SDM di Era AI: Strategi Menjaga Daya Saing Tena... isu etika dan keamanan data terkait AI
AI meningkatkan risiko pengangguran pada sektor yang pekerjaannya bersifat rutin.
Sistematis studi literatur yang menelaah 33 sumber ilmiah, laporan lembaga internasional, dan kebijakan terkait (n=33).
high negative Transformasi SDM di Era AI: Strategi Menjaga Daya Saing Tena... risiko pengangguran bagi pekerja di pekerjaan rutin
Penerapan AI menyebabkan kesenjangan keterampilan (skill gap) antara kebutuhan pasar dan kemampuan tenaga kerja.
Sistematis studi literatur yang menelaah 33 sumber ilmiah, laporan lembaga internasional, dan kebijakan terkait (n=33).
Neither MCP nor A2A defines the shared workspace in which humans and agents perform accountable work together.
Analytical claim by the authors contrasting existing standards with the missing specification of a shared human-agent workspace; no empirical evaluation provided.
high negative Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) presence/absence of specifications for shared workspace in existing standards
In current practice the human judgement is recorded, if at all, in application code, chat threads, ticket comments, and tribal memory.
Descriptive statement about current recording practices; presented without empirical study or counts in the provided text.
high negative Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) location and durability of records of human judgement in workflows
The technical surface for this collaboration remains weakly specified.
Asserted by the authors as an assessment of current technical standards and interfaces; no audit or measurement cited in the provided text.
high negative Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) degree of specification/standardization of collaboration interfaces
Automated evaluators on which the community currently relies -- LLM-as-a-judge, artificial metrics, and even state-of-the-art (SOTA) models -- agree weakly with expert judgment.
Comparisons/correlations between automated evaluator outputs and human expert ratings showing weak agreement.
high negative Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... agreement/correlation between automated evaluators and expert human judgment
LLMs falter most in pluralistic fields like the social sciences that demand context-aware interpretation and evolving theories.
Field-level performance comparisons showing lower agreement/quality of LLM-generated ideas in pluralistic fields (social sciences) relative to more constrained fields (life sciences etc.).
high negative Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... LLM performance by field (agreement with expert judgment / idea quality)
Senior social scientists are the harshest critics, and their skepticism is well-earned.
Subgroup analysis by seniority and field indicating senior social scientists give lower ratings (more critical) than other subgroups; interpretation provided by authors.
high negative Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... stringency of ratings by seniority and field
Non-reasoning LLMs collapse into a narrow 'hivemind' of similar ideas.
Comparative analysis of idea outputs from different LLM classes showing reduced diversity/similarity concentration for non-reasoning models (as described in results).
high negative Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... diversity / similarity of generated ideas (creativity)
This regulatory pressure creates a direct conflict between multi-stakeholder transparency and corporate data privacy.
Paper's conceptual argument describing a tension between transparency requirements and proprietary data protection; no empirical study provided.
high negative Trustworthy Smart Fabs via Professional Proxies: Scaling Saf... conflict between stakeholder transparency and corporate data privacy
Regulatory compliance demands have surpassed the capacity of manual corporate reporting.
Assertion in paper (conceptual observation about reporting capacity); no empirical measurement or sample size reported.
high negative Trustworthy Smart Fabs via Professional Proxies: Scaling Saf... capacity of manual corporate reporting to meet regulatory demands
The convergence of the 2026 European Union Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) introduce a severe governance bottleneck for advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities ("Smart Fabs").
Declarative claim in paper based on policy convergence analysis; no empirical dataset or sample size reported (conceptual/analytical argument).
high negative Trustworthy Smart Fabs via Professional Proxies: Scaling Saf... governance bottleneck for Smart Fabs
Learning specialized simulator input languages can cost domain scientists hours to days.
Stated motivating claim in the paper (no experimental sample size or formal measurement reported in abstract).
high negative SIGA: Self-Evolving Coding-Agent Adapters for Scientific Sim... time required to learn simulator input languages
Transformational leadership negatively moderates the relationship between AI application and employees' job insecurity, buffering employees' insecurity responses across varying levels of AI application.
Moderation analysis reported in the study using the same employee survey dataset (411 valid responses), indicating a statistically significant buffering (negative) moderating effect of transformational leadership on the AI–job insecurity relationship.
Self-efficacy negatively moderates the relationship between AI application and employees' job insecurity by strengthening the insecurity-reducing effect of moderate AI application and weakening the insecurity-enhancing effect of excessive application.
Moderation analysis on the same cross-sectional survey data (411 valid employee questionnaires), reporting a statistically significant negative (buffering) interaction of self-efficacy with AI application intensity on job insecurity.
In hyperscale cloud network infrastructure, traditional human-driven incident response cannot keep pace with the volume, velocity, and complexity of failures.
Stated as background/motivation in the paper; no quantitative data, sample size, or empirical comparison provided in the abstract.
high negative Autonomous Incident Resolution at Hyperscale: An Agentic AI ... ability of human-driven incident response to keep pace with incident volume, vel...
Agents frequently overlook subtle yet critical details that are obvious to real human researchers.
Reported as a qualitative result/observation from the authors' experiments on AARRI-Bench; no numeric frequency or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative Act As a Real Researcher: A Suite of Benchmarks Evaluating F... frequency of overlooking subtle, critical research details
Extensive experiments across frontier models and agentic systems reveal that even the best-performing configuration (Mini-SWE-Agent with Claude Opus 4.7) achieves only a 68.3% success rate on AARRI-Bench.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper: experiments across multiple models/agentic systems; the excerpt reports the top configuration and its success rate. The excerpt does not state the number of tasks or sample size.
high negative Act As a Real Researcher: A Suite of Benchmarks Evaluating F... success rate on AARRI-Bench tasks
Despite their evolution from research assistants into autonomous research agents, these systems still exhibit significant limitations in field sensitivity, research ethics, and nuanced scientific judgment, and consequently remain unable to fully replace human researchers.
Asserted in the paper as a high-level observation and motivation; the excerpt does not provide quantified evidence or sample sizes for these limitations.
high negative Act As a Real Researcher: A Suite of Benchmarks Evaluating F... ability to match human researchers on field sensitivity, research ethics, and nu...
Existing approaches to explainability are predominantly post-hoc, offering unstable, non-contestable accounts that have no formal relationship to the reasoning process that produced the output.
Critical literature/argumentative claim in the paper; presented as a conceptual critique rather than supported by empirical evaluation or systematic review data.
high negative Beyond Post-hoc Explanation: Toward Glassbox AI via Probabil... quality and reliability of post-hoc explanations
Opacity of such models in these settings is not merely inconvenient but institutionally and legally untenable.
Normative/legal argument presented in the paper (conceptual reasoning about institutional and legal requirements); no empirical legal-case analysis or quantified legal rulings provided.
high negative Beyond Post-hoc Explanation: Toward Glassbox AI via Probabil... suitability of opaque AI for institutional/legal use
Employees currently lack clear guidance on appropriate use of GenAI within organizations.
Background claim in paper motivating the study (statement that employees 'lack clear guidance on appropriate use').
high negative The Role Of Embeddedness In Generative Ai Adoption: A Perspe... availability/clarity of organizational guidance for employees
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
Other methods, such as variants of prediction-powered inference, do not have the 'do no harm' guarantee.
Comparative methodological claim in the paper (abstract)—likely supported by theoretical discussion and comparisons in the main text.
high negative AI-Assisted Variance Reduction in Randomized Experiments presence or absence of guarantee that adjustment does not worsen estimator when ...
Even a perfect non-proprietary-data report would be capped at 3.83 by B's coverage (i.e., B imposes an upper bound on non-proprietary informed decision-quality).
Analytic upper-bound calculation based on B's measured coverage on the curated gold record (exact derivation not provided in abstract).
high negative AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratifi... maximum achievable informed decision-quality for non-proprietary-data reports un...
Interviews provide expanded analysis on existing skill gaps and lifelong learning needs among wind-energy professionals.
Qualitative interview data are reported to highlight skill gaps and lifelong learning needs; specific counts of interviewees not provided in the summary.
high negative Advanced digital skills demands and priorities in wind energ... presence of skill gaps and lifelong learning needs
Operators have no standard way to tell an autonomous agent that a resource is off-limits: access controls either let the agent in (it has valid credentials) or hard-fail it (indistinguishable from any other client).
Analytical description/argument presented in the paper (problem statement); no empirical data reported for this claim.
high negative Will the Agent Recuse Itself? Measuring LLM-Agent Compliance... availability of a standard/cooperative mechanism for denying automated agents ac...
Reporting on ethics, transparency and governance was inconsistent.
Reported synthesis result from the scoping review noting variability in reporting practices across included studies.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... consistency of reporting on ethics, transparency and governance in the literatur...
Formal theory use was limited, with only a small minority of studies explicitly drawing on established frameworks.
Authors' assessment of methodological/theoretical characteristics of the included empirical studies in the scoping review.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... use of formal theoretical frameworks in studies
Fewer studies evaluated individual-facing developmental support, and sustained career outcomes were rarely measured.
Reported gap identified in the scoping review findings summarised in the abstract.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... number of studies evaluating individual-facing developmental support and measure...
Empirical evidence on applications designed to support women’s career development remains limited.
Conclusion drawn from the scoping review: authors searched seven databases + backward/forward citation searching and synthesised identified empirical studies.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... availability/quantity of empirical evidence on AI for women's career development
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...
GenAI usage significantly decreased creativity-relevant skills.
Experiment with 82 participants reported in the paper; authors report a statistically significant decrease in measures of creativity-relevant skills for participants using GenAI.
high negative When Ai Sparks Less: Generative Ai And The Decline Of Self-P... creativity-relevant skills