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Evidence (8807 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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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
Agents performed more weakly on a task requiring novel bioinformatics reasoning.
Reported ABC-Bench results indicating relatively lower agent scores on the task characterized by novel bioinformatics reasoning (authors' summary in the abstract).
high negative ABC-Bench: An Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark for Biosecu... performance on novel bioinformatics reasoning task
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
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...
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...
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
GenAI usage significantly decreased domain-relevant skills.
Experiment with 82 participants reported in the paper; authors report a statistically significant reduction in measures of domain-relevant skills for the GenAI condition.
GenAI usage significantly decreased intrinsic task motivation.
Randomized experiment reported in the paper with 82 participants; authors report a statistically significant decrease in intrinsic task motivation for participants using GenAI.
high negative When Ai Sparks Less: Generative Ai And The Decline Of Self-P... intrinsic task motivation
AI cannot yet refute economic theory on its own.
Main conclusion: based on the experiments (models failed to autonomously find true errors) and caveats about data contamination, the author concludes models are not yet capable of independently refuting economic-theory papers.
high negative Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Know... autonomous_theory_refutation_capability
No model located a true error without substantial human guidance.
Author reports that in the experiments none of the models identified a real error autonomously; successful identifications required substantial human guidance.
high negative Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Know... error_detection_without_human_guidance
Other models (Gemini, Refine, Claude) fared worse than ChatGPT Pro at these tasks.
Reported qualitative performance differences across the four models on the 4 papers; other models did not match ChatGPT Pro's performance.
high negative Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Know... output_quality (relative performance across models)
Algeria lags behind peer countries on key indicators of digital infrastructure, human capital, and institutional frameworks as evidenced by World Bank (2022) and Oxford Insights indices.
Specific comparative claim based on the paper's use of World Bank (2022) indicators and Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index scores; the summary does not report numeric index values or sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Compara... index scores for digital infrastructure, human capital, institutional readiness
Findings reveal that Algeria exhibits significant lag in digital infrastructure, human capital, and institutional frameworks compared to peers (Morocco, Egypt, Turkey).
Result reported from the paper's comparative analysis using World Bank indicators, the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index, and sector-specific studies comparing Algeria to Morocco, Egypt, and Turkey; specific quantitative comparisons not provided in the summary.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Compara... digital infrastructure, human capital, institutional readiness for AI
Existing research has significant shortcomings in terms of local empirical evidence, micro task mechanisms, and the impact of cutting-edge AI.
Critical appraisal in the paper's discussion of gaps identified through the systematic literature review; no single-study sample size.
high negative Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market completeness/coverage of empirical research
Skill mismatch constitutes the core contradiction of labor force transformation.
Interpretive conclusion from the literature review asserting that mismatches between worker skills and job/task requirements are central to the labor-market effects of AI.
high negative Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market skill mismatch / skill obsolescence
Despite the growing prevalence of human-AI decision making, the human-AI team’s decision performance often remains suboptimal, partially due to insufficient examination of humans’ own reasoning.
Motivating claim stated in the paper's introduction/abstract (appears to be based on broader literature and motivation rather than a new empirical test in this paper).
high negative Understanding the Effects of AI-Assisted Critical Thinking o... human-AI team decision performance
AACT also triggers higher cognitive load.
Reported measurement of cognitive load in the same house price prediction case study comparing AACT to traditional AI support (details and sample size not provided in abstract).
Current results show that the hardest tier remains far from saturated: across mainstream harness and backbone configurations, the average full pass rate is 2.6%.
Empirical evaluation results reported by the authors summarizing ALE benchmark performance across mainstream harness and backbone configurations (no further detail on exact configurations or task/sample counts in excerpt).
high negative Agents' Last Exam average full pass rate (task success rate) on the hardest tier
The gap is largely an evaluation problem: widely used benchmarks lack sustained performance measurement on real and economically valuable workflows.
Author argument presented in the paper; motivated by benchmarking limitations rather than an empirical test in the excerpt.
high negative Agents' Last Exam coverage and sustained measurement of benchmarks on real workflows
These gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains.
Assertion in paper arguing a deployment gap between benchmark performance and real-world economic adoption; no quantitative deployment data provided in the excerpt.
high negative Agents' Last Exam translation of benchmark gains into economic deployment
Manual processing of these documents is time-consuming, inconsistent across reviewers, and unscalable.
Author claim / background motivation; no quantitative time or consistency metrics reported in the statement.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis effort, consistency, and scalability of manual document processing
Actuaries rely primarily on structured numerical data for reserving and ratemaking, while valuable predictive information in unstructured text including medical records, adjuster notes, and call transcripts remains largely unused.
Author statement/observation in paper introduction; no empirical data or sample size provided to support prevalence claim.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis use of unstructured text in actuarial processes
The determining barrier to adoption observed in the two studied public-service units was not technological but training-related.
Qualitative analysis and intervention observations across two auditable case studies (SES/CONT in 2024 and UCI/SEDET in 2025); author-developed intervention and outcome changes used to support inference.
high negative The Main Barrier to AI Adoption in the Public Sector is Lack... primary barrier to adoption (training vs. technology)
The adoption of generative artificial intelligence in the public sector has been treated predominantly as a technological problem, with the expectation that productivity gains would follow from more capable models.
Author statement / literature-positioning in paper (assertion about prevailing treatment); no quantitative data provided in text to support prevalence.
high negative The Main Barrier to AI Adoption in the Public Sector is Lack... framing of AI adoption (technological vs. training-related)
Government subsidies exert a negative moderating influence on the relationship between fintech development and corporate total factor productivity.
Moderation analysis reported in the paper on Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms (2015–2023); paper states government subsidies weaken the positive fintech–TFP relationship (no numeric interaction estimates provided in the excerpt).
high negative Research on the Impact of Financial Technology on the Total ... corporate total factor productivity (moderated by government subsidies)
Neither setup speaks to the operationally most relevant case for marketing practice: building detailed individual twins from the pre-existing heterogeneous panel data that firms already accumulate through CRM systems, loyalty programs, and repeat surveys.
Author's argument / positioning (identifying a gap between existing published twins and practical marketing use cases).
high negative Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... applicability of existing twin construction approaches to pre-existing heterogen...
In binary classification, no internal local composition can achieve complementarity under endpoint-monotone losses (including standard Bregman and many finite Bernoulli f-divergence losses); an analogous obstruction holds for multiclass aggregation under cross-entropy.
Impossibility results proved in the paper for binary classification under endpoint-monotone losses and for multiclass cross-entropy (formal mathematical proofs; no empirical sample).
high negative Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... complementarity in classification aggregation
Selector-based HAIs, including self- or AI-reliance, cannot achieve complementarity regardless of task, loss, or prediction quality.
Formal impossibility theorem proved within the paper's tree-based HAI formalism (mathematical proof; no empirical sample).
high negative Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... complementarity (HAI performance relative to best member)
Reliable deployment faces three obstacles: (1) no large-scale evidence on how today's strongest model-and-harness combinations behave on end-to-end legal matters; (2) no agent architecture adapted to the legal vertical, only general-purpose harnesses; and (3) no mechanism for systems to learn from their own outcomes in a changing setting.
Authors' diagnosis / framing of gaps in the literature and practice motivating the study and system design (stated in the paper's introduction/abstract).
high negative Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework availability of prior large-scale evidence, existence of legal-specific agent ar...
Strict matter completion stalls (does not improve) despite stronger models.
Harvey LAB empirical results (12,510 agent trajectories) report that while per-criterion accuracy increases, strict matter completion does not show corresponding improvement.
high negative Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework strict matter completion rate
Even frontier agents remain far from completing matters in a single pass.
Results reported from the Harvey LAB empirical study (12,510 agent trajectories) comparing end-to-end matter completion across agent runs.
high negative Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework matter completion in a single pass (strict end-to-end completion)
GPU utilization surged from 57% to 94% following the mining software's public release, displacing legitimate research workloads.
Measurement of GPU utilization levels before (57%) and after (94%) the public release of mining software; authors attribute displacement of research workloads to the utilization surge.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... GPU utilization (and displacement of research workloads)
Budget GPU rental prices rose 38% following the mining software's public release.
Market measurements of budget GPU rental prices before and after the public release of the mining software, reporting a 38% increase.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... budget GPU rental price change
The mining computation is commodity integer arithmetic portable to any hardware platform, offering no vendor lock-in.
Analysis of the computation showing it relies on basic integer arithmetic operations and is implementable across diverse hardware architectures.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... hardware specificity / vendor lock-in of mining computation
Mining is unprofitable at current PRL prices ($0.21) across all GPU tiers (-54% to -72% ROI).
Profitability analysis/calculation across GPU tiers using current token price of $0.21; reported ROI range of -54% to -72%.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... economic profitability (ROI) of mining across GPU tiers
Statistical distribution checks are trivially defeated by adversarial Gaussian sampling.
Demonstration that adversarial Gaussian-sampled outputs pass the system's statistical distribution checks; experimental or analytic demonstration reported.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... robustness of statistical checks to adversarial sampling
The verification protocol accepts random matrices by design, confirmed by 44 pool-accepted shares from our open-source miner across NVIDIA, AMD, CPU, and Apple Silicon hardware.
Protocol analysis showing acceptance criteria; empirical confirmation via 44 pool-accepted shares generated by an open-source miner run on multiple hardware architectures (44 accepted shares observed).
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... ability of verification protocol to accept non-useful/random computation
The dominant mining software contains no inference code.
Static/dynamic analysis of the dominant mining software deployed on the network showing absence of AI inference routines.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... presence/absence of inference code in mining software
Pearl's 24 EH/s network -- representing approximately 320,000 GPU-equivalents consuming an estimated 112 MW -- produces zero useful AI computation.
Empirical measurement of Pearl network hashrate (24 EH/s) and mapping to GPU-equivalents and power consumption; analysis of miner code and verification showing no useful AI inference performed.
high negative The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... usefulness of AI computation performed by the network (zero useful AI computatio...
Across most risks, experts identified information, finance, and national security as the most vulnerable sectors.
Sector vulnerability ratings from the Delphi study (n=272); paper reports that information, finance, and national security sectors were most frequently judged vulnerable across risks.
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... sector vulnerability across listed risks
AI users and the general public were judged the most vulnerable to these risks.
Delphi panel rated actor vulnerability; results reported in paper indicate AI users and general public received highest vulnerability ratings (n=272).
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... actor vulnerability ratings