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Evidence (4892 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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Ungoverned coupling between humans and AI can produce fragility, lock-in, polarization, and domination basins.
Theoretical/modeling analysis showing destabilizing dynamics and multiple basins of attraction when governance regularization is absent or weak; no empirical sample.
high negative A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... fragility, lock-in, polarization, and domination outcomes in the dynamical model
Classical robot ethics framed around obedience (e.g. Asimov's laws) is too narrow for contemporary AI systems.
Literature synthesis and conceptual argument drawing on developments in adaptive, generative, embodied, and embedded AI; no empirical sample reported.
high negative A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... adequacy of obedience-based ethical framing for contemporary AI
Industry digital maturity weakens the effect of the peer leader on a focal firm’s AI adoption.
Interaction/heterogeneity analysis in fixed-effects regression models on panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023), using an industry digital maturity moderator.
high negative Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (moderated by industry digital maturity for peer le...
Current evaluation proxies are insufficient for predicting downstream human impact.
Empirical results in the paper showing decoupling between standard quantitative proxies (e.g., sparsity, faithfulness) and human outcomes (clarity, decision utility, confidence) across datasets and analyst reviews.
high negative Rethinking XAI Evaluation: A Human-Centered Audit of Shapley... predictive validity of quantitative evaluation proxies for human impact
A highlighting policy that is optimal for sophisticated agents can perform arbitrarily poorly when deployed to naive agents.
Constructive worst-case examples and theoretical bounds in the paper demonstrating arbitrarily large performance degradation when applying sophisticated-optimal policies to naive agents.
high negative Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human-AI Decision-Makin... performance (loss in decision quality) of highlighting policies when agent type ...
Optimizing highlighting for sophisticated agents can be computationally intractable, even in simple discrete and binary settings.
Theoretical complexity results and proofs in the paper showing hardness of the optimization problem under the sophisticated-agent model; no sample/calibration required (formal/algorithmic analysis).
high negative Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human-AI Decision-Makin... computational tractability of the highlighting optimization problem
Ethical concerns—such as transparency, explainability, psychological effects, and responsible AI governance—are critical factors influencing employability outcomes.
Review synthesis highlighting ethical issues from empirical and industry literature as influential on employability outcomes.
high negative The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... ethical concerns' impact on employability
There are significant AI adoption challenges in education and industry that affect employability and role transformation.
Synthesized evidence from industry reports and empirical studies discussed in the review highlighting barriers to adoption in education and industry.
The transformation toward algorithmic enterprises raises critical concerns regarding agency, accountability, data monopolization, and algorithmic bias.
Presented as a principal concern in the paper's conceptual discussion and interdisciplinary critique; based on analysis of governance and ethical literature rather than new empirical evidence in the abstract.
high negative Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... risks to agency, accountability, market power (data monopolization), and algorit...
Industrial firms face a dual challenge: (1) the development and deployment of digital technologies and (2) the proliferation and integration of the corresponding skills portfolios.
Conceptual framing and literature synthesis presented in the paper (identification by authors); not tied to a specific quantitative sample in the provided text.
high negative Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital t... ability to develop and deploy digital technologies and integrate skills portfoli...
The study is framed based on Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, positing that HAI-C task complexity is a job demand and AI self-efficacy/humble leadership act as resources that can mitigate negative effects on engagement.
Introduction states JD-R theory as the theoretical basis and describes job demands (HAI-C task complexity) and job/personal resources (humble leadership, AI self-efficacy) in the hypothesized model.
high negative How does human-AI collaboration task complexity affect emplo... theoretical framing / hypothesized relationships
HAI-C tech-learning anxiety reduces employees' work engagement (serves as the mediator between HAI-C task complexity and work engagement).
Mediation analysis via hierarchical regression and bootstrapping on the three-wave survey sample of 497 employees; reported in Results as the mediating mechanism.
Human-AI collaboration task complexity (HAI-C task complexity) negatively affects employees' work engagement by amplifying their HAI-C tech-learning anxiety.
Three-wave longitudinal survey of matched data from 497 employees; mediation analysis using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping reported in the Results section.
Important boundary conditions include data maturity, process integration, governance discipline, and the degree of functional trust between finance and operating units.
List of boundary conditions reported in the paper based on documentary case analysis and synthesis with literature.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... constraints on GenAI impact on management accounting decision quality
GenAI does not improve management accounting decision quality primarily by replacing managerial judgment.
Interpretive finding based on documentary analysis of disclosures from the three case firms and relevant literature; presented as a summary conclusion in the paper.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... management accounting decision quality
Beyond technical barriers there are organizational ones: a persistent AI literacy gap, cultural heterogeneity, and governance structures that have not yet caught up with agentic capabilities.
Interview data (over 30) reporting organizational challenges including limited AI literacy, diverse cultural attitudes across organizations, and lagging governance relative to agentic AI capabilities.
high negative Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspe... organizational readiness factors (AI literacy, culture, governance alignment)
Adoption is constrained less by model capability than by fragmented and machine-unfriendly data, stringent security and regulatory requirements, and limited API-accessible legacy toolchains.
Stakeholder interviews (over 30) reporting barriers to deployment; qualitative synthesis identifies data fragmentation, security/regulatory requirements, and legacy toolchain access as primary constraints.
high negative Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspe... barriers to AI adoption in engineering/manufacturing
The value alignment problem for artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a purely technical or normative challenge, sometimes focused on hypothetical future systems.
Author's literature-based observation and critique in the paper's introduction (conceptual argument; no empirical sample reported).
high negative Relative Principals, Pluralistic Alignment, and the Structur... framing_of_problem_in_literature
Regulated deployment imposes four load-bearing systems properties — deterministic replay, auditable rationale, multi-tenant isolation, statelessness for horizontal scale — and stateful architectures violate them by construction.
Conceptual/architectural argument presented in the paper (theoretical analysis), not an empirical measurement in the abstract.
high negative Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents compatibility of stateful architectures with regulatory/system properties
The policy and research challenge posed by platform-mediated automation is not merely job quantity (technological unemployment) but institutional continuity — how societies reproduce practical competence when platforms optimize for efficiency rather than formation.
Normative and conceptual claim developed through literature synthesis (institutional economics, platform governance, workforce development); presented as an analytical reframing rather than an empirically tested hypothesis.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... institutional continuity and human capital reproduction (quality of workforce fo...
Entry-level roles have historically functioned as apprenticeships in which workers acquire tacit knowledge and critical judgment; if platforms curtail these formative occupational layers, organizations may lack future workers capable of exercising contextual reasoning required to manage complex systems.
Institutional economics and workforce development literature cited in the paper; conceptual synthesis without original empirical measurement reported.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... human capital formation (tacit knowledge acquisition and contextual reasoning ca...
Platform-mediated automation risks hollowing out labor structures from both directions: eroding repetitive, junior roles from below and automating supervisory coordination functions from above.
Theoretical argument synthesizing institutional economics and platform literature; articulated as a conceptual risk rather than demonstrated with original empirical data.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... structural change in occupational layers (hollowing out of junior and supervisor...
Algorithmic systems are displacing routine tasks across both low-wage entry-level work and middle-management functions.
Stated in paper's argumentation; supported by a literature-based review drawing on platform governance literature and recent research on AI-enhanced automation (no original empirical sample or quantitative study reported).
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... displacement of routine tasks (across entry-level and middle-management roles)
Training data scarcity is an emerging challenge for organizations that aim to train proprietary LLMs.
Paper highlights training data scarcity as a challenge in its analysis and discussion sections (qualitative observation).
high negative Buy Or Build? A Practitioner’s Framework for Large Language ... feasibility of training proprietary LLMs (availability of training data)
The infrastructure for cross-user agent collaboration is entirely absent, let alone the governance mechanisms needed to secure it.
Authoritative claim in paper framing the research gap; presented as observational/argumentative (no empirical audit reported).
high negative ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autono... availability of cross-user collaboration infrastructure and governance mechanism...
Current AI agent frameworks have made remarkable progress in automating individual tasks, yet all existing systems serve a single user.
Statement in paper's introduction/positioning; conceptual survey-style claim (no empirical study or systematic benchmark reported).
high negative ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autono... automation scope (single-user vs multi-user)
As multimodal AI achieves human-parity understanding of speech and gesture, [the keyboard's] necessity dissolves.
Theoretical claim supported by multidisciplinary review (history, neuroscience, technology, organizational studies); no quantified empirical test reported.
high negative The Instrumental Dissolution of Typing: Why AI Challenges th... necessity/usage of keyboard as default input
Current session-based context handling (sessions ending, context windows filling, memory APIs returning flat facts) produces intelligence that is powerful per session but amnesiac across time.
Descriptive diagnostic argument in the paper; no empirical measurement reported in this text.
high negative The Continuity Layer: Why Intelligence Needs an Architecture... temporal persistence of model 'understanding' (memory/continuity)
The paper identifies governance challenges such as accountability gaps, digital sovereignty risks, ethical pluralism, and strategic weaponization arising from embedding AI in diplomatic practice.
Conceptual and normative analysis section of the paper outlining risks and governance challenges; illustrated by examples and argumentation.
high negative Strategic Cognition and Artificial Diplomacy: Designing Huma... presence of governance risks (accountability gaps, digital sovereignty, ethical ...
Thin training coverage fosters anxiety about substitution and slows diffusion of AI tools.
Reported associations from surveys of mid-level managers and technical staff, interviews, and document analysis across cases; thematic coding identified links between limited training, worker anxiety, and slower diffusion. (Sample size not reported.)
high negative Overcoming Resistance to Change: Artificial Intelligence in ... worker anxiety and speed of diffusion/adoption
Agency in software engineering is primarily constrained by organizational policies rather than individual preferences.
Authors' synthesis of qualitative results across the ACTA/Delphi and task/review phases indicating organizational policy factors were cited as primary constraints.
high negative From Junior to Senior: Allocating Agency and Navigating Prof... Primary source of constraint on developer agency (organizational policy vs indiv...
The study identified significant implementation challenges including algorithmic bias, digital divide concerns, data privacy risks, and low technology readiness among HR teams in Tier 2 cities.
Synthesis of qualitative case study findings from 4 organizations plus survey responses (N=150) reporting barriers and risks encountered during adoption.
high negative A Study on the Effectiveness of Technology-Driven Recruitmen... implementation challenges / risks
This condition of authorship uncertainty reshapes how teams attribute ideas, negotiate accountability, and coordinate collective reasoning.
Theoretical claim based on conceptual analysis in the paper; no empirical method or sample described in the abstract.
high negative Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... idea attribution, accountability negotiation, collective reasoning / coordinatio...
As generative AI becomes an ambient presence in collaborative work, a new social ambiguity emerges around authorship and responsibility.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper (theoretical/observational claim). No empirical method or sample size reported in the abstract.
high negative Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... authorship uncertainty / attribution of responsibility
Large language models remain confined to linguistic simulation rather than grounded understanding.
Conceptual assertion in the paper arguing limits of current models; no empirical tests or measurements reported.
high negative Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for... grounded_understanding (absence thereof)
Fluency is not reliability: without structures that stabilise both human and model reasoning, AI cannot be trusted or governed where it matters most.
Central thesis/claim of the paper; normative argument synthesising the paper's observations and proposals rather than an empirically tested finding provided here.
high negative The Missing Knowledge Layer in AI: A Framework for Stable Hu... trustworthiness/governability of AI in high-stakes contexts
Humans often mistake fluency for reliability: when a model responds smoothly, users tend to trust it, even when both model and user are drifting together.
Behavioral/psychological assertion in the paper referencing human interaction patterns with fluent outputs; no experimental data or sample size reported in this paper excerpt.
high negative The Missing Knowledge Layer in AI: A Framework for Stable Hu... user trust in model outputs
LLMs produce fluent outputs even when their internal reasoning has drifted; a confident answer can conceal uncertainty, speculation, or inconsistency, and small changes in phrasing can lead to different conclusions.
Conceptual/observational claim presented in the paper; no original empirical test or sample size reported here.
high negative The Missing Knowledge Layer in AI: A Framework for Stable Hu... reliability/consistency of model outputs (decision quality)
Stronger reasoning capabilities do not prevent LLMs from defecting in single-shot social dilemmas (i.e., models defect with or without reasoning enabled).
Authors' experiments that explicitly compared model behavior with reasoning enabled vs disabled in single-shot social dilemmas; details not provided in the excerpt.
high negative CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and... cooperation/defection rates conditional on reasoning capability being enabled
Repetition-induced cooperation deteriorates drastically when co-players vary.
Authors' experimental observation comparing repeated-game cooperation under fixed vs varying co-players in their study; no quantitative metrics or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high negative CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and... cooperation level under repeated interactions when co-players vary
Our experiments show that recent models — with or without reasoning enabled — consistently defect in single-shot social dilemmas.
Authors' experimental results comparing recent LLMs in single-shot social dilemma games, with reasoning enabled vs disabled; specific models, number of games, and sample sizes are not provided in the excerpt.
high negative CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and... rate of defection (vs cooperation) in single-shot social dilemmas
Recent works report that LLMs with stronger reasoning capabilities behave less cooperatively in mixed-motive games such as the prisoner's dilemma and public goods settings.
Statement referencing prior literature (recent works) summarized in the paper's introduction/background; no specific dataset or sample size given in the excerpt.
high negative CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and... cooperative behavior in mixed-motive games (e.g., prisoner's dilemma, public goo...
Efficiency (e.g., minimizing time and cost with AI-only planning) does not equal effectiveness: optimizing for efficiency can erode team cognition and reduce decision quality.
Synthesis of experimental quantitative results (time/cost vs. risk capture and rework) and qualitative assessment indicating that AI-driven efficiency can come at the expense of risk awareness and planning robustness.
high negative Cognitive Offloading in Agile Teams: How Artificial Intellig... trade-off between efficiency and decision quality / team cognition
Human-only planning incurs substantial overhead.
Same controlled experiment reporting that human-only planning produced higher time and cost overheads relative to AI-assisted approaches.
high negative Cognitive Offloading in Agile Teams: How Artificial Intellig... planning overhead (time/cost)
AI-only planning increases rework due to unstated assumptions.
Experiment measured rework rates and accompanying qualitative analysis attributing increased rework in the AI-only condition to unstated assumptions made by algorithmic planning.
AI-only planning significantly degrades risk capture rates.
Same controlled three-condition experiment on a live client deliverable; paper reports measures/qualitative indicators of risk capture rates and states degradation for AI-only condition.
Existing competition-aware CFL and incentive-design approaches reward organizations based on marginal training contributions but fail to account for the costs of strengthening competitors.
Literature critique and comparison in the paper; theoretical discussion rather than a reported empirical trial or sample.
high negative Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Data Generation and Incentiv... adequacy_of_incentive_design (accounting for competitor-strengthening costs)
Non-IID data amplifies this coopetition dilemma by producing asymmetric learning gains across organizations and undermining sustained participation.
Conceptual claim supported by the paper's theoretical modeling and later experiments (described as 'non-IID data' experiments); no numeric sample size given in abstract.
high negative Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Data Generation and Incentiv... asymmetry_in_learning_gains / sustained_participation
Cross-silo federated learning (CFL) deployments in data-sensitive domains are inherently coopetitive: organizations cooperate during model training while competing in downstream markets, so training contributions can inadvertently strengthen rivals.
Conceptual argument and literature motivation presented in the paper's introduction; no empirical sample size reported.
high negative Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Data Generation and Incentiv... strengthening_of_rivals / participation incentives
The study proposes an integrative conceptual model and research propositions highlighting cross-functional challenges in governance, organizational capabilities, socio-technical alignment, and responsible implementation.
Statement in abstract that the authors developed a conceptual model and research propositions based on their review and identified cross‑functional challenges.
high negative The implementation of artificial intelligence in organizatio... identification_of_challenges (governance, capabilities, socio-technical_alignmen...