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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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There is a ceiling effect where excessive linguistic expansion yields diminishing marginal utility.
Empirical observation reported in the abstract that overly expanding linguistic output leads to diminishing marginal gains; presumably derived from analysis of the dataset and evaluation framework.
high negative Double-Edged Sword or Sharp Tool? Designing and Evaluating T... marginal gains in writing quality from linguistic expansion
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.
Reputation mechanisms presuppose persistent identity, behavioral continuity, sanction sensitivity, and costly non-fungibility; absence of any of these undermines reputation systems.
Analytic claim in the paper articulating necessary conditions for reputation mechanisms to function; presented as theoretical grounding rather than empirically tested criteria.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... operational conditions for reputation system effectiveness
The analogy from human identity verification and reputation mechanisms (e.g., 'Know Your Customer', credit scores) to 'Know Your Agent' regimes is fundamentally incomplete.
Comparative conceptual argument in the paper highlighting disanalogies between human actors and modular language model agents; no empirical comparison or data provided.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... validity/completeness of the human-to-agent governance analogy
Identity-based, ex post, regulative, sanction-based governance, such as reputation, is structurally inapplicable to dissociative agents.
Normative/theoretical argument in the paper deduced from properties of dissociative agents and requirements of identity-based governance; no empirical or experimental support reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... applicability/effectiveness of identity-based governance mechanisms
Dissociativity leaves agents without grounding for identifiability, predictability, credibility, and rehabilitability — the very properties that reputation mechanisms aim to sustain — thereby collapsing trust.
Conceptual inference in the paper combining the dissociative characterization of agents with the functional requirements of reputation systems; no empirical validation provided.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... identifiability, predictability, credibility, rehabilitability, and resultant tr...
An agent's persona is fluid, vulnerable to adversarial attack, and may not internalize sanctions.
Argumentative claim in the paper citing susceptibility of modular agent components (prompts, tools, memory) to manipulation; no empirical attack experiments or sample sizes reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... agent robustness to adversarial manipulation and responsiveness to sanctions
Language model agents are ontologically dissociative: they are essentially an assemblage of mutable modules -- foundational models, system prompts, tool-access policies, external memory, and, in some cases, a multi-agent system as a whole -- any of which may change agent behavior.
Theoretical characterization and system-level description in the paper; lists components that can be changed to alter behavior; no empirical measurement or sample reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... ontological stability/identity of agents
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
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...
Results across 15 experimental runs reveal that elderly female occupants consistently experience the lowest satisfaction in initial rounds.
Empirical experiment results reported in abstract: 15 experimental runs; observed satisfaction distribution across demographic profiles with elderly females lowest initially.
high negative OccuReward: LLM-Guided Occupant-Centric Reward Shaping for D... occupant satisfaction (per demographic group)
Existing AI education, AI literacy, and human-AI collaboration frameworks remain centred on prompting, task execution, and productivity support and are poorly equipped to address this tacit layer of expert cognition.
Argumentative critique in the paper drawing on conceptual analysis and review of prevailing frameworks; no empirical evaluation or sample reported.
high negative Tacit Signal Infrastructure: Towards AI Systems that Model E... effectiveness-of-current-training-and-collaboration-frameworks-for-tacit-cogniti...
Both humans and AI contribute wrong answers.
Reported error contributions from both human participants and AI agents in the experimental task.
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... contribution of incorrect answers by humans and by AI
Humans over-rely on AI when AI misleads them, occurring in 1.7% of opportunities.
Aggregate analysis of adoption decisions in the experiment (reported percentage of over-reliance on misleading AI suggestions).
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... rate of over-reliance on incorrect AI suggestions
Humans under-rely on correct AI suggestions, missing 3.9% of opportunities.
Aggregate analysis of adoption decisions in the experiment (reported percentage of missed opportunities to rely on correct AI suggestions).
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... rate of missed correct AI suggestions (under-reliance)
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
Incumbent workforce management frameworks remain anchored to a purely human labor model, rendering AI agents invisible to capacity planning, performance attribution, and governance enforcement.
Stated in paper's problem motivation / literature review; presented as an observed gap motivating the design-science contribution. No sample size or empirical study described in the provided text.
high negative Workforce Unit Abstraction for Governing Hybrid Human and Ar... visibility of AI agents in capacity planning, performance attribution, and gover...
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)
Existing approaches remain fragmented across formal verification, runtime assurance, neuro-symbolic reasoning and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) research communities.
Author claim about the state of the research landscape; asserted fragmentation without bibliometric or survey data provided in excerpt.
high negative ReasonOps: A Unified Operational Paradigm for Trustworthy Ve... degree of integration/coordination across research communities
Current reasoning systems still suffer from hidden logical inconsistencies, hallucinated symbolic transitions, unsupported theorem applications, and limited reliability guarantees.
Author assertion identifying failure modes of current reasoning systems; presented qualitatively without quantitative error rates or experimental sample sizes in the excerpt.
high negative ReasonOps: A Unified Operational Paradigm for Trustworthy Ve... reliability / correctness of reasoning systems
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
Translators have functioned as 'invisible teachers' of AI—through the construction of translation memories, post-editing, and quality assessment—without recognition as teachers of models.
Conceptual framing and synthesis of workflow practices (TM construction, post-editing, QA) and their role as supervision for ML; qualitative argument and illustrative examples in the paper. No quantitative sample reported.
high negative Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translat... lack of recognition/attribution for contributors who effectively trained AI
Translators' renditions have been bought as deliverables under contract, segmented as technical objects, and processed as 'information analysis' data under copyright law—resulting in the loss of moral, creative, and economic attribution to the translators who produced them.
Comparative reading of contract practices and copyright treatment (legal/contractual analysis across jurisdictions), descriptive examples of how translations are delivered, segmented, and processed; qualitative argumentation in the paper. No quantitative sample reported.
high negative Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translat... loss of attribution and economic recognition for translators
Using GoEmotions-based affective prompting, we show that emotion substantially shifts negotiation outcomes, suggesting that emotion is a strategic action channel rather than a surface style.
Experiments using GoEmotions-based affective prompting applied to negotiation agents; reported shift in negotiation outcomes attributed to emotional framing. (Specific experimental details such as number of runs, seeds, or exact metrics are not provided in the excerpt.)
high negative EmoDistill: Offline Emotion Skill Distillation for Language ... negotiation outcomes / agent utility (shifted toward counterparty interests)
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
Pure behavioural teams (N=8) failed to scale beyond 74.1%.
Reported team performance metric for 'pure behavioural' teams with sample size N=8; maximum reported performance 74.1%.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... team accuracy/performance ceiling
Fast AI induced instant, blind compliance; human accuracy under deception collapsed to 50.2%.
Reported experimental result comparing Fast/Less-Accurate AI condition to baseline conditions; numeric accuracy reported as 50.2% for humans under deception.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... human accuracy under AI deception