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Evidence (7560 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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We evaluate 36 models; the strongest, Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code, reaches only 45.9%.
Empirical evaluation reported by the authors: 36 models tested on JobBench; highest-performing model and its score (Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code achieves 45.9%).
high negative JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will model performance on JobBench (aggregate score/accuracy as percent)
Organizations implementing AI without responsible transition mechanisms may worsen workforce anxiety, skill obsolescence, inequality, and trust erosion.
Paper's theoretical/conceptual assertion about risks of poorly-managed AI adoption; no empirical validation reported in the excerpt.
high negative From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... workforce anxiety, skill obsolescence, inequality, trust
The International Monetary Fund estimates that nearly 40% of global employment is susceptible to AI, with exposure rising to 60% in advanced economies owing to cognitive task-oriented jobs.
Cited IMF estimate reported in the paper (reference to an IMF analysis; no sample size given in the excerpt).
high negative From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... share of employment susceptible/exposed to AI
Tenure negatively relates to AI use (OR = 0.846 per category).
Reported odds ratio from logistic regression for tenure categories predicting AI use; OR = 0.846 per tenure category.
high negative Determinants of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Public S... active AI adoption (binary)
The requirement that review + expected rework attention be lower than manual completion attention is substantially more stringent than the requirement that AI merely generate faster drafts.
Comparative analytical argument based on the model's derived stability conditions (theoretical/model-based reasoning; no empirical sample reported).
high negative Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow developer_productivity
Under congestion, reviewers rationally raise the risk threshold for checking AI outputs, reducing scrutiny precisely when it would matter the most.
Analytical implication derived from the queueing model presented in the paper (theoretical/model-based inference; no empirical validation reported).
Mean-based metrics (e.g., tasks completed per worker-hour or mean handle time) can misrepresent AI's effects in workflows where tasks accumulate and compete for scarce human attention.
Argument and analysis presented in the paper; theoretical reasoning and illustrative queueing model (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow task_completion_time
Regardless of apparent performance advances in AI technology, human and environmental factors of the organization may substantially attenuate — or even negate — the effective productivity benefits.
Conceptual argument in the paper; theoretical reasoning and literature synthesis (no primary empirical data reported in the abstract).
high negative Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... realized productivity benefits from AI deployment
Adopting AI in organizational practice does not guarantee productivity gains, because human and environmental factors critically moderate the relationship between AI deployment and realized productivity improvements.
Position paper's conceptual argument presented in the abstract; no empirical sample or quantitative study reported.
high negative Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... productivity gains (realized productivity improvements)
AI evaluation methods (benchmarks, red teaming, leaderboards) cannot be easily applied to human workers or yield comparable metrics.
Conceptual critique in the paper contrasting standard AI evaluation methods with human evaluation (no empirical comparisons provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... applicability and comparability of AI evaluation methods when applied to humans
Common criteria used to assess people (e.g., education, experience, references) cannot feasibly scale to AI systems.
Argumentative claim in the paper contrasting human hiring/evaluation practices with AI system assessment (conceptual; no empirical validation provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... scalability of human assessment criteria to AI systems
Human and machine workers may 'compete' for a given task, reproducing aspects of adversarial games.
Theoretical/assertional claim in the paper (conceptual discussion; no empirical data provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... competitive interaction between human and AI workers for tasks
The increased use of algorithms in allocation decisions creates a Reverse Turing Test dynamic wherein the machine is now the judge.
Conceptual framing and argument presented in the paper (theoretical description; no empirical test reported).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... judgment role of algorithms in human-machine task assignment
A-insensitivity acts as a cognitive barrier between beliefs and trust (i.e., it reduces the extent to which beliefs about forecast accuracy are translated into trust).
Interpretation based on experimental findings showing that higher a-insensitivity weakens the predictive relationship between beliefs about accuracy and expressed trust in analysts (derived from measures and analyses in the lab experiment; sample size not reported in abstract).
high negative Trusting human versus machine predictions as a decision unde... belief-to-trust translation (strength of relationship between beliefs and trust)
Decision-makers who are more a-insensitive are less likely to incorporate their beliefs about forecast accuracy into their trust judgments.
Experimental data where participants' a-insensitivity was measured and used to predict the extent to which their beliefs (optimism about accuracy) translate into trust for analysts (moderation/interaction analysis implied; sample size not reported in abstract).
high negative Trusting human versus machine predictions as a decision unde... degree to which beliefs predict trust (belief–trust linkage)
AI adoption presents workforce adaptation challenges.
Reported in the study's literature synthesis and thematic analysis of secondary sources (qualitative review). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... workforce adaptation / need for retraining
AI adoption raises ethical considerations.
Authors' thematic evaluation of secondary literature identifying ethical issues associated with human-AI collaboration (qualitative synthesis). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... ethical risks and considerations
AI adoption presents challenges related to skill gaps.
Thematic findings from peer-reviewed literature and secondary data (qualitative review). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... skill gaps / workforce skill mismatch
There is a 'speedup illusion' where people have accurate forecasts of independent completion times but significantly underestimate AI-assisted times.
Empirical pattern reported in the abstract: comparison of predicted vs. actual times shows accurate independent forecasts but underestimation of AI-assisted completion times (preregistered study, N = 1237).
high negative Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI in... calibration of predicted vs actual completion time
The fidelity gain from richer profiles comes with more input tokens per call from the longer prompts they require (i.e., higher per-call input cost).
Measurement of input token counts per model call for prompt variants with and without life-history profiles in the benchmark experiments; comparison shows longer prompts require more input tokens.
high negative Benchmarking LLMs for Community Governance Simulation with L... per-call input token count (per-call cost proxy)
A conventional two-arm test understates the algorithmic channel by a factor of two.
Empirical comparison reported in the paper between the three-arm design estimates and conventional two-arm test estimates from the live campaign.
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... bias/understatement factor in estimated algorithmic effect from two-arm test
In the same campaign, the creative channel moves female impression share by -0.68 ppt.
Empirical result from the live Meta campaign reported in the paper; measured effect size (-0.68 percentage points).
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... female impression share (change attributable to creative channel)
Adjusting for the realized audience is biased because audience is a post-treatment mediator.
Causal inference argument in paper explaining why conditioning on realized audience induces bias (audience as post-treatment mediator).
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... bias from post-treatment adjustment
Every two-arm test conflates the creative's effect with the algorithm's targeting response.
Theoretical/causal argument presented in the paper about confounding in standard two-arm experiments when algorithmic delivery is endogenous.
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... confounding/bias in estimated creative effect
As these systems scale, the bottleneck shifts away from raw model capability toward coordination.
Analytical/argumentative claim in the paper framing a shift in primary constraint; no empirical study or quantified benchmark reported.
high negative Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Societ... primary system bottleneck (model capability versus coordination capacity)
More persuasive narratives may have had a detrimental effect on the ability to discriminate between a correct and incorrect AI prediction.
Exploratory analyses in the paper reporting reduced discrimination between correct and incorrect AI predictions when narratives were more persuasive.
high negative Human Decision-Making with Persuasive and Narrative LLM Expl... ability to discriminate correct vs. incorrect AI predictions
More persuasive narratives may have had a detrimental effect on decision response times.
Exploratory analyses reported in the paper indicating persuasive narratives were associated with longer decision response times.
Higher benchmark performance does not reliably show that a system can carry out knowledge work in real-world deployment settings.
Argument based on review of current knowledge-work evaluation and benchmark design literature; paper motivates with conceptual analysis and references to empirical work showing mismatch between benchmark tasks and deployed work settings.
high negative Design and Report Benchmarks for Knowledge Work ability of a system to carry out knowledge work in real-world deployment setting...
AI systems intended to simulate companionship or emotional responsiveness raise risks such as emotional manipulation, addictive interaction patterns, and potential impact of prolonged AI interaction on users’ mental well-being, particularly for vulnerable users.
Asserted risk statement in policy recommendations; no empirical study, prevalence data, or sample provided in the text.
high negative Governing Relational AI: China’s Regulation of Anthropomorph... psychological safety (emotional manipulation, addiction, mental well-being impac...
Current systems still struggle with evidence preservation, reproducibility, weak-direction rejection, provenance tracking, cross-domain robustness, and accountable scientific closure.
Survey-identified recurring failure modes and limitations reported in literature and system descriptions; qualitative synthesis.
high negative AutoResearch AI: Towards AI-Powered Research Automation for ... capabilities related to evidence preservation, reproducibility, rejection of wea...
Current systems remain fragmented, differing in autonomy, domain scope, execution environment, validation mechanism, and human oversight.
Survey of existing systems and categorization across the listed dimensions; descriptive synthesis rather than an empirical meta-analysis.
high negative AutoResearch AI: Towards AI-Powered Research Automation for ... heterogeneity/fragmentation across AI research systems along autonomy, domain sc...
Two of the top three leaderboard models (gpt-5 and claude) are noticeably more locally volatile than the third (gemini-3.1-pro), despite being close in overall strength.
Comparison of jaggedness/local volatility measures and overall scores from the tournament (top-three leaderboard).
high negative GENSTRAT: Toward a Science of Strategic Reasoning in Large L... local volatility / jaggedness
Existing strategic-reasoning benchmarks evaluate models on fixed canonical games and may saturate as the frontier improves and fail to generalize to varied real-world strategic environments.
Conceptual critique stated in the paper's motivation/background; no empirical test reported in abstract.
high negative GENSTRAT: Toward a Science of Strategic Reasoning in Large L... benchmark generalizability / benchmark saturation
Other changes are more nuanced and put the typical career growth opportunities, like receiving feedback from professional networks and promoting leadership and mentorship, at risk.
Qualitative reports from interview participants (n=24) expressing concerns that AI-driven changes may reduce feedback, leadership development, and mentoring opportunities.
high negative Beyond the Org Chart: AI and the Transformation of Invisible... access to feedback, leadership development, mentorship (career growth opportunit...
Integrations of AI that neglect human factors are associated with increased anxiety, burnout, and disengagement among users.
Aggregate findings from the systematic review reporting associations in the literature between non-human-centered AI integration and negative psychological/work outcomes.
high negative Yapay Zeka Sistemleri ve İnsan İşbirliğinin Psikolojik, Sosy... anxiety, burnout, disengagement
Notable challenges to AI implementation include concerns about algorithmic bias, privacy, transparency, job displacement, organizational culture, and issues related to ethical and legal oversight.
Synthesis of reported challenges across the 29 empirical studies included in the scoping review.
high negative The influence of AI-Driven Employee Performance Management (... implementation barriers and risks (bias, privacy, transparency, displacement, cu...
This transition proceeds without tools to forecast how individual employees will respond psychologically and behaviorally.
Asserted by the authors as a gap/need; no empirical inventory or systematic review presented in the excerpt to substantiate completeness of tool absence.
high negative Toward an AI-Powered Computational Testbed for Workforce Pol... availability of forecasting tools for individual employees' psychological and be...
Workforce transformations are difficult to forecast and costly to mismanage.
Stated as a general assertion in the paper's introduction; no empirical data, sample, or formal analysis reported in the excerpt.
high negative Toward an AI-Powered Computational Testbed for Workforce Pol... forecastability of workforce transformations and costs of mismanagement
Student-designed tasks reveal hidden failures in current deep research systems: fluent, source-backed answers can still miss the right query, source, term, or evidence standard.
Qualitative analysis of failure modes from student-designed tasks and system evaluations reported in the paper (examples and discussion of how answers can be fluent and sourced yet incorrect on key criteria).
high negative Teaching AI Through Benchmark Construction: QuestBench as a ... types of model failure (mismatch on query, source selection, terminology, eviden...
Evaluation on QuestBench shows that student-designed tasks reveal hidden failures in current deep research systems: across thirteen evaluated systems, the mean question-level pass rate is only 16.85%.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper: 13 systems evaluated on QuestBench; aggregated mean question-level pass rate reported as 16.85%.
high negative Teaching AI Through Benchmark Construction: QuestBench as a ... question-level pass rate (model performance on benchmark)
There is a negativity asymmetry: negative histories induce 1.62x more bias than positive (paired per item; t = 13.46, p < 10^-39, n = 2,481).
Paired per-item comparison of bias induced by negative versus positive histories; reported multiplicative factor, t-statistic, p-value, and sample size n = 2,481.
high negative AMEL: Accumulated Message Effects on LLM Judgments relative bias magnitude induced by negative versus positive conversation histori...
Static benchmarks capture only part of how large language models behave in practice.
Argument supported by the paper's experimental design comparing static evaluations with a timed multi-phase Risk environment that includes repeated planning/execution loops and real-system constraints.
high negative Evaluating Large Language Models as Live Strategic Agents: P... coverage_of_model_behavior_by_static_benchmarks
The de-coring and skill-demand changes are concentrated among low entry-threshold, small firms.
Abstract statement reporting heterogeneity: concentration of observed patterns among firms characterized as small and with low entry thresholds.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... heterogeneity of skill-demand changes by firm size and entry-threshold (concentr...
Both displacement and augmentation exposure are associated with a de-coring pattern: a shallower and more dispersed skill portfolio with within-category importance diverging from share movements.
Empirical description in abstract that both forms of exposure correlate with changes in portfolio depth and dispersion, and with divergence between within-category importance and category shares.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... skill portfolio depth and dispersion; divergence between within-category importa...
Displacement exposure is negatively associated with the routine cognitive skill share.
Empirical result stated in abstract: negative association between displacement exposure and routine cognitive share, identified using within-firm variation and the constructed exposure measures.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... routine cognitive skill share (share of demand for routine cognitive tasks/skill...
In deployed settings, the effects of AI systems on human agency, creativity, and institutional well-being emerge over time, shaped by repeated interaction, reuse, and integration into real-world workflows, and these dynamics are rarely visible through pre-deployment evaluation or isolated prompt–response analysis.
Argumentative observation based on conceptual reasoning; no empirical data or sample size reported.
high negative Post-Deployment Observability as a Foundation for Well-Being... emergent effects on human agency and creativity arising from extended AI use
The most significant barriers to AI adoption reported by entrepreneurs are human-centred—talent scarcity, organisational resistance, and change management—rather than technology or cost alone.
Theme 'Barriers and the Adoption Journey' from thematic analysis of interviews (n=16); interviewees repeatedly cited human-centred barriers (talent scarcity, resistance, change management) over purely technical/cost barriers.
high negative Navigating the Intelligence Frontier: AI Adoption as a Succe... adoption barriers (human-centred constraints)
Raw interaction logs are inherently noisy, contain trial-and-error and low information density, and are inefficient for direct model training.
Author assertion describing properties of raw interaction logs; no empirical quantification provided in the excerpt.
high negative Echo: Learning from Experience Data via User-Driven Refineme... information density and training-efficiency of raw interaction logs
Static 'human data' is expensive to scale and bounded by the knowledge of its creators.
Author claim/argument in the paper's introduction; no empirical sample or quantitative test reported in the provided text.
high negative Echo: Learning from Experience Data via User-Driven Refineme... scalability and knowledge coverage of human-generated training data
People exhibit self-estimate miscalibration: on average they believe they are using AI less than they actually are.
Same three pre-registered user studies (combined N = 2691) comparing participants' self-reported AI use against observed/recorded AI use during tasks.
high negative The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate ... discrepancy_between_self_reported_and_actual_AI_use