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Evidence (4892 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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The interaction between strict algorithmic control and worker counter-strategies leads to persistent limit cycles in strategy frequencies rather than convergence to a stable compliant workforce.
Dynamical systems analysis and simulation trajectories from the EGT model showing limit cycles / oscillatory equilibria in strategy proportions; model-based (no empirical sample).
high negative THE RED QUEEN in the DASHBOARD: CO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS of ... dynamical behavior of strategy frequencies (limit cycles vs. stable equilibrium)
The way we're thinking about generative AI right now is fundamentally individual (this appears in how users interact with models, how models are built, how they're benchmarked, and how commercial and research strategies using AI are defined).
Author's observational/descriptive claim supported by argumentative examples (mentions user interaction patterns, model design and benchmarking practices, and commercial/research strategies); no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported in the excerpt.
high negative The Future of AI is Many, Not One conceptual framing and practices around generative AI (individual-focused design...
The emission-reduction effect of AI innovation is more significant for firms located in regions with underdeveloped factor markets.
Heterogeneity (regional subsample/interaction) analysis reported in the paper on the 21,428 firm-year sample, indicating larger AI-related emission reductions in regions with less developed factor markets.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (differential effect by regional factor mark...
The emission-reduction effect of AI innovation is more significant for firms in high-environmental-sensitivity industries.
Heterogeneity (subsample/interaction) analysis in the paper using the 21,428 firm-year observations, showing stronger AI-related emission reductions in industries characterized as high environmental sensitivity.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (differential effect by industry environment...
The emission-reduction effect of AI innovation is more significant for enterprises with a low supply chain concentration.
Heterogeneity (subsample) analysis reported in the paper using the 21,428 firm-year dataset, comparing effects across firms with different supply chain concentration levels.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (differential effect by supply chain concent...
Executives’ green cognition and government environmental attention together constitute dual internal and external driving forces for corporate carbon emission reduction.
Further analysis reported in the paper (moderation/interaction analysis or additional regressions) on the same 21,428 firm-year sample showing these factors strengthen carbon reduction associated with AI innovation.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity / carbon emission reduction
AI innovation can significantly reduce corporate carbon emission intensity.
Empirical analysis using panel data of 21,428 firm-year observations from Chinese A-share listed manufacturing companies over 2010–2022; result reported in the paper's main regressions (method described as micro-level empirical analysis).
high negative Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity
Traditional questionnaires yielded slightly higher accuracy in risk assessment.
Result reported from the two experiments comparing traditional questionnaires to adaptive ARQuest versions; no numeric accuracy or sample size provided in the excerpt.
Insurers must blindly trust users' responses, increasing the chances of fraud.
Stated as a motivating problem in the paper; presented as logical/empirical concern rather than supported by a reported study within the paper.
high negative AI in Insurance: Adaptive Questionnaires for Improved Risk P... fraud risk from self-reported responses
Insurance application processes often rely on lengthy and standardized questionnaires that struggle to capture individual differences.
Descriptive claim in paper introduction arguing limitations of standard questionnaires; no experiment or sample size reported for this assertion.
high negative AI in Insurance: Adaptive Questionnaires for Improved Risk P... ability of standardized questionnaires to capture individual differences
Using a stylised inpatient capacity signalling example and minimal game-theoretic reasoning, task optimisation alone is unlikely to change system outcomes when incentives are unchanged.
Theoretical analysis using a stylised inpatient capacity signalling example and game-theoretic reasoning presented in the paper (no empirical data/sample reported in the abstract).
high negative Incentives, Equilibria, and the Limits of Healthcare AI: A G... system-level outcomes in healthcare (response to task optimisation interventions...
Deployment of AI systems carries significant costs including ongoing costs of monitoring and it is unclear whether optimism of a deus ex machina solution is well-placed.
Conceptual/argumentative claim made by the authors in the paper (no empirical study or sample size reported in the abstract).
high negative Incentives, Equilibria, and the Limits of Healthcare AI: A G... costs and uncertainty associated with AI deployment (including monitoring costs)
Improvements in operational resilience (OR) effectively reduce corporate operational risk.
Further analysis reported in the paper linking higher OR to lower operational risk measures for firms in the sample.
high negative Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... corporate operational risk (reduction)
AI promotes operational resilience by reducing management agency conflicts.
Mechanism (mediation) tests reported in the paper showing AI associated with reductions in measures of agency/management conflict, which in turn relate to OR improvements.
high negative Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... management agency conflicts (reduction)
Practitioners identified specific functional deficiencies in AI: inability to maintain sustained partnerships.
Theme from semi-structured interviews with 10 practitioners; cited as an example of the functional gap.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... AI capability to maintain sustained collaborative partnerships
Practitioners identified specific functional deficiencies in AI: inability to adapt contextually.
Theme from semi-structured interviews with 10 practitioners; cited as an example of the functional gap.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... AI capability for contextual adaptation in collaborative work
Practitioners identified specific functional deficiencies in AI: inability to negotiate responsibilities.
Theme from semi-structured interviews with 10 practitioners; cited as an example of the functional gap.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... AI capability to negotiate responsibilities in teamwork
Practitioners currently view AI models as intellectual teammates rather than social partners and expect fewer SEI attributes from them than from human teammates.
Qualitative findings from semi-structured interviews with 10 software practitioners reported in the study.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... practitioners' expectations of SEI attributes in AI versus human teammates
Current AI systems lack SEI capabilities that humans bring to teamwork, creating a potential gap in collaborative dynamics.
Framed as background/context in the paper; asserted rather than empirically tested in this study.
high negative Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... presence of SEI capabilities in AI systems (vs. humans)
Unbalanced or poorly governed adoption of Big Data and AI contributes to increased systemic risk, cybersecurity vulnerability, regulatory fragmentation and third-party dependence on BigTech platforms.
Argument based on qualitative literature review and synthesis of international empirical studies and comparative sector analysis; no single-sample empirical study in this paper.
high negative Implications of Big Data Technologies for the Resilience of ... systemic risk; cybersecurity vulnerability; regulatory fragmentation; third-part...
Task orchestration is the most under-researched dimension among the five workplace-design components.
Finding from the PRISMA-guided systematic review of 120 papers, which mapped coverage across the five dimensions and identified task orchestration as having the least research attention.
high negative From Automation to Augmentation: A Framework for Designing H... volume/coverage of research on task orchestration
Decision authority allocation emerges as the binding constraint for Society 5.0 transitions.
Result synthesized from the systematic review and theoretical analysis mapping the five workplace-design dimensions; stated as the binding constraint in the paper's findings.
high negative From Automation to Augmentation: A Framework for Designing H... constraint on transitions to human-centric (Society 5.0) technology integration
A weak manager directing a weak worker achieves a 42% success rate, performing worse than the weak agent alone which achieves 44%.
Empirical comparison across the same 200 SWE-bench Lite instances and pipeline configurations, comparing weak-manager+weak-worker pipeline to weak single-agent baseline.
high negative Can AI Models Direct Each Other? Organizational Structure as... task success rate (percentage of tasks solved)
Under low emotional intelligence, the model predicts higher risks of over-reliance on AI, emotionally detached communication, and weaker delegation quality.
Theoretical predictions derived from the EI-moderated human–AI model presented in the paper.
high negative LEADER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE GENERATIVE AI ERA: “HUM... delegation quality (and over-reliance / communication quality)
The common claim that generative AI simply amplifies the Dunning–Kruger effect is too coarse to capture the available evidence.
Paper's synthesis of heterogenous empirical findings from human–AI interaction, learning research, and model evaluation used to critique the uniform-amplification interpretation; no single empirical countertest reported.
high negative Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... validity of the 'amplified Dunning–Kruger' interpretation
LLM use degrades metacognitive accuracy and flattens the classic competence–confidence gradient across skill groups (i.e., reduces calibration and narrows differences in self-assessed confidence by skill level).
Synthesis of studies from human–AI interaction and learning research reported in the paper that document worsened calibration and a reduction in the competence–confidence gradient when users rely on LLM outputs; the paper does not report a single combined sample size.
high negative Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... metacognitive accuracy / calibration and competence–confidence gradient
The agent team topology exhibits higher operational fragility due to multi-author code generation.
Reported empirical observation from experiments comparing architectures, attributing increased fragility/errors to multi-author code generation in the agent team setup (stated qualitatively; no quantitative failure rates provided in the abstract).
high negative An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent Collaboration for Automate... operational fragility / error-proneness associated with multi-author code genera...
Prominent studies predict substantial job displacement due to automation.
Paper asserts this as background, referencing the existence of prominent studies in the literature (no specific citations or sample sizes provided in the abstract).
high negative AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work job losses / displacement
For organizations of n humans with AI agents, the optimal team size decreases with agent capability.
Derived implication from the stylized model's analysis of multi-human organizations interacting with AI agents.
high negative The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... optimal team size as a function of agent capability
There is no smooth sublinear regime for human effort; it transitions sharply from O(E) to O(1) with no intermediate scaling class.
Mathematical derivation from a stylized model of human-AI collaboration that assumes tasks decompose into atomic decisions, a fraction ν are novel, and specification/verification/error correction scale with task size.
high negative The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... human effort scaling (human time/effort required as task size E grows)
There is a growing gap between rapid experimentation with AI tools and limited organizational capability to institutionalize them in everyday workflows.
Argument supported by targeted literature synthesis and review of recent scholarly and institutional sources; no primary empirical sample reported in this paper.
high negative Behavioral Factors as Determinants of Successful Scaling of ... organizational capability to institutionalize AI initiatives (pilot-to-productio...
Technological proximity has a noteworthy negative effect on collaboration, underscoring the importance of complementary knowledge in AI innovation.
SAOM estimates from longitudinal patent collaboration data (2013–2024) showing a statistically negative coefficient for technological proximity (implying organizations closer in technology space are less likely to form ties).
high negative The evolutionary mechanism of artificial intelligence indust... tie formation / collaboration probability (as a function of technological proxim...
Within the set of agentic-mention filings, autonomy evidence remains rare.
Empirical statement derived from analysis of the identified agentic-mention filings (small number of such filings reported across 2024–2025).
high negative Measuring agentic AI adoption and control frameworks in fina... presence/rarity of autonomy-related evidence within agentic-mention filings
Work autonomy weakens the positive effect of AI avoidance job crafting on work alienation (buffering moderation).
Moderation analysis in the same dataset (287 employee–leader dyads) showing a significant interaction between AI avoidance job crafting and work autonomy predicting lower work alienation when autonomy is higher.
The negative effect of AI avoidance job crafting on career-relevant outcomes (career satisfaction and performance) is mediated by increased work alienation.
Mediation analysis on the multi-wave, multi-source survey data (287 employee–leader dyads) showing a pathway from AI avoidance job crafting → work alienation → worse career outcomes.
high negative Approach or avoidance? A dual-pathway model of job crafting ... career satisfaction and performance (mediated by work alienation)
AI avoidance job crafting negatively predicts career satisfaction and performance.
Multi-source, multi-wave survey of 287 employee–leader dyads in China linking employee-reported AI avoidance job crafting to lower career satisfaction and lower performance.
high negative Approach or avoidance? A dual-pathway model of job crafting ... career satisfaction and performance
Analysis of global datasets on energy dependency, economic concentration, debt levels, demographic trends, digital infrastructure, and AI adoption highlights that interconnected systemic risks can amplify economic instability.
Paper reports drawing upon multiple global datasets (energy dependency, economic concentration, debt, demographics, digital infrastructure, AI adoption) to analyze systemic risk interactions; specific datasets, sample sizes, and statistical methods are not detailed in the excerpt.
high negative Beyond Forecasting: Adaptive Economic Preparedness in a Geop... amplification of economic instability by interconnected systemic risks
Events such as supply chain disruptions, oil price surges linked to geopolitical conflicts, and sudden labour market shifts due to reverse migration have exposed the limitations of prediction-based planning frameworks.
Illustrative examples cited in the paper; the claim is supported by referenced global events and the paper's use of global datasets, but no specific empirical case-study sample sizes or quantification are provided in the excerpt.
high negative Beyond Forecasting: Adaptive Economic Preparedness in a Geop... exposure of limitations in prediction-based planning frameworks
Traditional economic models that rely heavily on historical data and linear forecasting are increasingly inadequate in capturing the complexity and unpredictability of contemporary economic shocks.
Conceptual claim supported by discussion and examples of recent shocks (supply chain disruptions, oil price surges, labor market shifts); no specific empirical evaluation or quantified model comparison reported in the excerpt.
high negative Beyond Forecasting: Adaptive Economic Preparedness in a Geop... predictive adequacy of traditional economic models
The global economic system is undergoing a structural transformation characterized by geopolitical tensions, energy price volatility, trade fragmentation, demographic imbalances, and rapid technological disruption driven by artificial intelligence.
Narrative synthesis in the paper drawing on global trends; the paper references global datasets on energy dependency, trade patterns, demographics, and AI adoption (no specific sample size or empirical study detailed in the excerpt).
high negative Beyond Forecasting: Adaptive Economic Preparedness in a Geop... structural transformation of the global economic system (presence of geopolitica...
The competence shadow compounds multiplicatively to produce degradation far exceeding naive additive estimates.
Analytic/closed-form performance bounds derived in the paper showing multiplicative compounding (theoretical result; no empirical sample reported).
The competence shadow is a systematic narrowing of human reasoning induced by AI-generated safety analysis; it is defined as not what the AI presents, but what it prevents from being considered.
Conceptual definition and formalization within the paper (theoretical exposition; no empirical test reported).
Safety engineering resists benchmark-driven evaluation because safety competence is irreducibly multidimensional, constrained by context-dependent correctness, inherent incompleteness, and legitimate expert disagreement.
Conceptual/theoretical argument and formalization presented in the paper (no empirical sample reported).
Refining the state (as above) raises state-action blind mass from 0.0165 at \tau=50 to 0.1253 at \tau=1000.
Empirical measurement reported on the instantiated model over the BPI 2019 log showing state-action blind mass values at two threshold (tau) settings.
high negative The Stochastic Gap: A Markovian Framework for Pre-Deployment... state-action blind mass (measure of unsupported next-step decisions)
Currently, the region remains reactive as a 'recipient' rather than a 'creator' or an effective partner in the AI ecosystem.
Characterization reported by the authors based on their regional research and field study (qualitative findings from leaders across public/private sectors).
high negative Charting AI Governance Future in the Arab Region: A Policy R... degree of domestic AI creation/innovation versus reception/adoption
This gap hinders the ability of many governments in the region to push their countries toward joining the ranks of those benefiting from the AI revolution—both in developing the public sector and supporting economic growth and social development.
Authors' analysis and interpretation based on the regional research/field study described in the report.
high negative Charting AI Governance Future in the Arab Region: A Policy R... governments' ability to benefit from AI (public sector development; economic and...
The Arab region’s capacity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance remains limited relative to the accelerating pace of global AI developments and associated challenges.
Stated conclusion in the executive report based on a regional field study (authors' analysis of interviews/surveys and research across the region).
These harms increasingly translate into financial loss through litigation, enforcement penalties, brand erosion, and failed deployments.
Paper argues this linkage using conceptual reasoning and illustrative examples/case vignettes; cites regulatory and market incidents but does not provide systematic empirical estimates or a sample size.
AI systems can create material harms: discriminatory outcomes, privacy and security failures, opacity in decision logic, and regulatory noncompliance.
Paper lists these harms as core risks based on prior literature, regulatory developments, and conceptual risk analysis. Presented as well-documented categories rather than as new empirical findings; no sample size reported.
Insufficient organizational resources significantly inhibit AI adoption in procurement (β = -0.19, p < 0.05).
Same questionnaire survey (n=326) and multiple linear regression analysis; reported coefficient β=-0.19 with p<0.05.
high negative Research on the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Proc... AI adoption in procurement