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Evidence (8807 claims)

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

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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All 24 risks were judged as being more than 5% likely to cause catastrophic outcomes.
Aggregate Delphi judgments reported in paper: for each of the 24 risks, experts judged the probability of catastrophic outcomes to exceed 5% (n=272).
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... judged probability of catastrophic outcomes (>1M deaths or >$100B loss) for each...
In a scenario where pragmatic mitigations are implemented, experts still judged five risks as having a more than 10% probability of catastrophic outcomes: dangerous capabilities, weapons & cyberattacks, environmental harm, inequality & unemployment, and power centralization.
Delphi responses under an alternative (pragmatic mitigations) scenario from the same expert panel (n=272); paper lists five specific risks still judged >10% catastrophic probability.
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... judged probability of catastrophic outcomes (>1M deaths or >$100B loss) under pr...
In a business-as-usual scenario, experts judged 18 of 24 risks as having a more than 10% probability of catastrophic outcomes (e.g., more than 1 million deaths or more than USD 100B in financial loss) in the next 5 years (2025-2030).
Delphi elicitation under a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario from 272 experts; paper reports count (18 of 24) of risks exceeding a >10% judged probability of catastrophic outcomes defined as >1M deaths or >$100B loss.
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... judged probability of catastrophic outcomes (>1M deaths or >$100B loss) under BA...
Experts estimated the five most severe harms in the next 5 years were likely to come from dangerous capabilities, competitive dynamics, weapons & cyberattacks (including CBRNE), power centralization, and false information.
Delphi panel rankings/ratings of risk severity across 24 risks collected from 272 experts; paper reports these top five as the most severe for the 5-year horizon.
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... ranked severity of AI-related harms over next 5 years
Unemployment among highly educated workers consistently impedes sustainable development across both short- and long-run horizons.
Skill-disaggregated unemployment coefficients from ARDL short- and long-run estimates reported in the paper showing negative effects of highly educated workers' unemployment on development.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... sustainable development (effect of highly educated workers' unemployment)
In the short run, AI adoption negatively impacts sustainable development due to adjustment costs from routine-task substitution, labour market rigidities, and skill mismatches.
Short-run ARDL coefficient estimates reported in the paper showing a negative short-run effect of AI adoption on development; interpretive explanation attributing causes to adjustment costs, rigidities, and mismatches.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... sustainable development (short-run effect of AI adoption)
Further analyses reveal persistent failures in long horizon workflow delivery and proactive clarification.
Author-reported qualitative/diagnostic findings from analyses of evaluation results (stated in abstract).
high negative DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... failure modes: long-horizon workflow delivery and proactive clarification
Existing desktop GUI benchmarks mostly reduce this setting to short, simplified tasks with all user instructions provided upfront.
Author statement in paper abstract; critique based on literature review/positioning (no specific prior-benchmark sample sizes given in abstract).
high negative DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... representation of real-world workflow complexity in prior benchmarks
The path coefficient for R&D expenditure is negative, suggesting a possible short-term adjustment effect (even though the mediation is not significant).
Reported negative path coefficient in mediation analysis (value/statistical significance not provided beyond being nonsignificant); interpretation offered by authors as a potential short-term adjustment effect.
high negative Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... R&D expenditure path to new quality productive forces
AI-assisted coding agents are bottlenecked by input-token cost, driven in large part by two pathologies of raw human input: tokenization inefficiency for non-English text and structural entropy in conversational prompts.
Authors' analysis and motivation reported in the paper (conceptual analysis and motivating measurements on multilingual inputs and conversational prompts).
high negative Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... input-token cost / token overhead
In the second run, a subtle difference in the interpretation of the SNR range instruction led to a genuine scientific divergence: Claude Code silently reinterpreted the instructions, while Codex followed the specification literally.
Reported result from the second run contrasting the two agents' interpretations of the SNR instruction and the resulting divergence in scientific outcome; based on the two experimental runs with physically motivated SNR scaling.
In the absence of general design principles, hybrid components are typically introduced through ad hoc decisions tailored to specific domains.
Observational/literature-framing claim in the abstract describing current practice; not presented as a quantified empirical result in this paper.
high negative When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... design practices for hybrid MAS component selection
These systems create governance challenges that are not fully captured by traditional software or predictive ML technical debt.
Argumentative claim in the paper contrasting agentic-system risks with traditional software/ML technical debt; no empirical validation or comparative study reported.
high negative Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems extent to which governance challenges are captured by existing technical-debt fr...
Pure implementations of the data mesh paradigm frequently underdeliver because teams inherit new responsibilities without the platform maturity, tooling, or coordination mechanisms to exercise them effectively.
Argument/observation presented in the paper as rationale for proposing a new architecture (anecdotal/experience-based reasoning rather than reported empirical trial).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... effectiveness of data mesh decentralization (ability of teams to exercise respon...
Enterprise data platforms face an enduring tension between domain self-service and holistic governance (a flexibility-versus-control trade-off).
Conceptual statement in the paper describing the problem motivating the work (literature/architectural framing).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... flexibility-versus-control trade-off between domain self-service and centralized...
Achieving this system-level transformation takes time: it requires trust and accountability infrastructure, machine-legible and interoperable data and interfaces, the design and adoption of these new workflows, and economic incentives that favor reconstruction rather than local optimization.
Argumentative claim listing necessary preconditions and complementary investments; presented conceptually without reported empirical measurement in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... time and prerequisites required for system-level AI transformation
The main reason [the disruption has not fully arrived] is not model capability, nor even the tools built to harness those models; rather, most organizations are still using AI to accelerate workflows designed for a pre-AI world.
Argued in the paper as an explanatory thesis; supported by conceptual argument and illustrative examples (consumer markets, education, news, coding) rather than reported empirical analysis in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... degree to which organizations adapt workflows versus using AI to accelerate pre-...
The disruption many expect has not fully arrived.
Stated as an observation in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical method, sample size, or data reported in the excerpt.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... extent/arrival of AI-driven disruption
Cafeteria demand planning requires both algorithmic pattern recognition and human expertise, yet current systems treat these separately, which generates significant food waste.
Statement in the paper's motivation/background; presumably grounded in literature review and problem framing rather than new empirical measurement in this study.
Human-only teams commit more errors than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported counts/observations of errors made by team type in the escape room experiment; the abstract does not include numerical error counts or significance levels.
Human-only teams take longer to complete the escape room than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported comparison of time-to-complete between human-only and mixed teams in the experiment; specific times or statistical tests are not provided in the abstract.
The share of diffs receiving timely review has declined, exposing a widening gap between code supply and reviewer bandwidth.
Observational telemetry/operational metrics reported in the paper indicating a decline in timely reviews relative to diff supply. No specific numeric sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative Automating Low-Risk Code Review at Meta: RADAR, Risk Calibra... share of diffs receiving timely review
Total compensation declines persistently in the short and medium run following AI adoption.
Panel local projections indicating persistent declines in total compensation associated with higher establishment-level shares of AI-skill job postings (13 industries, 2017-2025).
Employment declines persistently in the short and medium run following AI adoption.
Panel local projection results showing persistent negative responses of employment to increases in the share of AI-skill job postings (13 industries, 2017-2025).
Limited data, resource constraints and skill gaps significantly influence the pace and form of AI adoption in SMEs.
Synthesis of barriers identified across multiple studies in the 2016-2024 literature (review-level claim without a single quantitative estimate).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... pace and form of AI adoption
Ethical concerns—especially algorithmic bias—and the need for human oversight remain essential for ensuring positive financial outcomes.
Argument and synthesis from the reviewed literature highlighting ethical risks and recommended governance (conceptual and empirical discussions across studies).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... ethical risks (algorithmic bias) and governance needs (human oversight)
SMEs face barriers to AI adoption such as limited data, skill shortages, and high implementation costs.
Review synthesis of barriers reported in multiple studies from 2016-2024 (no pooled quantitative prevalence reported).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... barriers to AI adoption (data availability, skills, costs)
GPT models showed significantly larger discrepancies compared to other evaluated models.
Comparative evaluation reported in the paper indicating GPT-family models had larger errors/discrepancies relative to the best-performing models.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... discrepancy/error between model estimates and self-reported skills
Employees often struggle to identify "who knows what," leading to organizational productivity losses.
Motivating statement in the paper (not an empirical result from this study); general observation cited as motivation for the research.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... organizational productivity (general claim about productivity losses due to diff...
Experiments on closed-source and open-source LLMs reveal a clear failure cascade from executable code to valid geometry and finally to engineering-ready design, with even the strongest models achieving limited success on fine-grained engineering criteria.
Experimental results described in abstract comparing multiple LLMs across the three evaluation stages.
high negative MUSE: Benchmarking Manufacturable, Functional, and Assemblab... success rates at stages: code executability, geometry validity, engineering-read...
Existing benchmarks focus primarily on generating single-part CAD models and evaluate them using geometric similarity metrics that fail to capture functionality, manufacturability, and assemblability.
Paper's literature/related-work claim as stated in abstract; critique of existing benchmarks' focus and metrics.
high negative MUSE: Benchmarking Manufacturable, Functional, and Assemblab... adequacy of geometric similarity metrics to capture functionality, manufacturabi...
The core cause of the R&D productivity paradox is cognitive saturation: researchers spend an increasing share of their effort on coordination, documentation, and data governance—hidden work that displaces high-value hypothesis formation, interpretation, and strategic synthesis.
Argument presented in the paper supported by DSR analysis, triangulated with four expert interviews, foresight scenarios, and pattern matching (causal claim based on qualitative evidence and reasoning).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... researchers' allocation of effort between hidden/administrative work and high-va...
Corporate R&D faces a persistent productivity paradox: rising investment and expanding scientific knowledge have not translated into proportional innovation output (Eroom's Law); analogous patterns appear across engineering, materials science, and healthcare.
Literature reference to Eroom's Law and cross-domain pattern matching described in the paper (conceptual/literature observation).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... innovation output relative to R&D investment
Organizations increasingly deploy separate purpose-built AI tools across professional domains, often hiring domain specialists for each, recreating the staffing models AI was expected to transform.
Stated as an observational/introductory claim in the paper (no empirical data or sample size reported to support the general trend).
high negative Augment Engineering: A Methodology for Multi-Tool AI Orchest... deployment of separate purpose-built AI tools and hiring of domain specialists (...
Such settings abstract away two characteristics of real industrial OR workflows: persistent multi-artifact workspaces and multi-stage task lifecycles.
Argument in the paper identifying gaps in benchmark realism (conceptual claim based on comparison between benchmark setups and industrial workflows).
high negative OR-Space: A Full-Lifecycle Workspace Benchmark for Industria... realism of benchmark scenarios relative to industrial workflows
Existing OR-oriented benchmarks often reduce evaluation to one-shot translation from a self-contained problem statement into a mathematical formulation or solver program.
Claim about the prevailing design of prior benchmarks as stated in the paper (literature survey / critical summary in the text excerpt; no numeric evidence provided here).
high negative OR-Space: A Full-Lifecycle Workspace Benchmark for Industria... scope/coverage of OR benchmarks
The greatest organizational risk of AI may not be technical failure but structural over-optimization (i.e., AI-driven erosion of adaptive openness).
Argumentative claim derived from the AI fragility theory presented in the paper; no empirical validation or quantified risk assessment included.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational risk profile attributable to AI (structural over-optimization vs....
Artificial intelligence functions as a 'hyper-crystallization' engine—by classifying, predicting, standardizing and optimizing it accelerates structural crystallization and may erode local judgment and generative adaptability.
Conceptual theory labeled 'AI fragility theory' developed in the paper; supported by argumentative reasoning rather than empirical testing.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational generative adaptability and local decision-making quality under A...
When digital systems are reified into internal structural optimization and control, transformation efforts can intensify organizational rigidity and failure to adapt.
Theoretical/analytic argument contrasting two modes of digital transformation; no empirical estimates or dataset provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational rigidity and failure to adapt as a consequence of reified digital...
Structurally heavy firms with substantial material and institutional resources frequently experienced paralysis or collapse during the pandemic.
Qualitative claim grounded in the author's reading of pandemic outcomes; the paper does not report systematic data or case counts.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational failure/paralysis during crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with the most optimized structures were not necessarily the most adaptive under radical uncertainty.
Argument based on the COVID-19 pandemic presented as an empirical 'stress test' in the paper; no empirical sample, data, or statistical analysis provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational adaptability/resilience under radical uncertainty
AI may influence society broadly via ethical issues, economic inequality, and social adaptation challenges.
Paper lists ethics, economic inequality, and social adaptation as societal-level areas affected by AI (abstract). Presented as thematic concerns reviewed in the paper; no empirical estimates included in the provided text.
high negative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment and Society ethical risks, economic inequality, societal adaptation needs
AI-driven automation is associated with job loss.
The paper lists automation and job loss among the areas it examines (abstract). The provided text frames job loss as a potential negative ramification but does not report primary empirical estimates or sample sizes.
high negative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment and Society job loss / job displacement
LLMs heavily rely on simulations for designing algorithms, which is notorious for breaking when transferred to real hardware.
Paper's claim grounded in known transferability issues between simulation and hardware; no experimental quantification provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... algorithm performance when moving from simulation to real hardware (failure/brea...
LLM pitfalls worsen on Radio Access Network (RAN) use cases: they hallucinate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and mis-read specifications, which kills interoperability of RAN components at the first mistake.
Author assertion / observed behavior reported in the paper (qualitative examples implied); no formal experiment or sample size provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... interoperability / correctness of produced interfaces and implementations
Cellular research and development (R&D) is throttled by six structural processes that each consume months of manual engineering work per iteration: (i) synthesizing new features from standards or research papers into production code; (ii) conformance and interoperability testing; (iii) hardening against field anomalies and diverse deployment environments; (iv) data-driven optimization of network functionalities; (v) discovering and prototyping novel waveforms, functionalities, and capabilities for future standards; and (vi) securing the stack against vulnerabilities.
Author assertion in the paper (qualitative analysis / domain expertise). No empirical sample size or quantitative study reported in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... time per R&D iteration (manual engineering work duration)
Stochastic Tax can remain positive even when Agentic Technical Debt is minimized.
Theoretical claim in the paper's model and discussion: even with minimized debt (stock), the model predicts a nonzero recurring operating burden from stochastic agents; illustrated via examples and an accounts-payable simulation.
high negative Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standa... persistence of Stochastic Tax (recurring operating burden) under minimized Agent...
Stochastic Tax is a recurring flow of operating burden that arises when stochastic agents are used in business workflows.
Definition provided in the paper as part of the conceptual framework describing Stochastic Tax as a flow (recurring operating burden) associated with stochastic agents in workflows.
high negative Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standa... operating burden (recurring flow) arising from use of stochastic agents in busin...
Humans are the bottleneck in building and improving AI. Both the models and the agents that wrap them are written, tuned, and corrected by people.
Statement/argument in the paper's introduction framing motivation (conceptual observation about current practice). No experimental data reported in the abstract to support this claim.
high negative SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates humans-as-bottleneck in AI development
Slow AI induced delayed cognitive conflict; humans hesitated (61.1% accuracy).
Reported experimental result for Slow/Accurate AI condition showing human accuracy of 61.1%, interpreted as hesitation/delayed conflict.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... human accuracy/hesitation under Slow AI