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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 measure the change in the skill premium using a difference-in-differences design on freelance websites worldwide.
Statement of empirical method: difference-in-differences design applied to data from freelance platforms with global coverage; no sample size provided in the abstract.
high mixed THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... change in the skill premium (wage/pay gap by skill level)
The present wave of automation targets non-routine cognitive activity such as coding, technical writing, and graphic design, unlike past automation which mainly involved routine manual activity.
Framing/background statement in the paper contrasting historical automation (routine manual tasks) with current AI-driven automation of non-routine cognitive tasks; no sample size or quantitative test reported in the abstract.
high mixed THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... which tasks are targeted by automation (routine manual vs. non-routine cognitive...
There is a similar shift to agentic tooling outside OpenAI, particularly within organizations, although external adoption remains lower and more uneven.
Comparative usage analysis across three populations (external personal-account users, external organizational-account users, and OpenAI workers) from Codex logs.
high mixed The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex adoption and distribution of agentic tooling across populations
There exists a six-bit prior for which R_max(μ)/R_0(μ) = 39/31 > 5/4, so no universal 5/4 bound holds.
Constructive counterexample provided in the paper: an explicit six-bit prior is presented and analyzed to compute the ratio. This is a theoretical construction, not empirical data.
high mixed Quantifying Theoretical AI Alignment Guarantees: Receiver-Ut... receiver's expected number of correctly guessed bits (receiver utility)
If the prior μ is close to the independent product prior with the same marginals in the sense that μ(x) ≥ (1−η) π_μ(x) for every state x, then R_max(μ) ≤ R_0(μ) + η n.
Mathematical derivation/proof in the paper under the stated closeness assumption (formal theorem conditional on parameter η and number of bits n). No empirical/sample data.
high mixed Quantifying Theoretical AI Alignment Guarantees: Receiver-Ut... receiver's expected number of correctly guessed bits (receiver utility)
For any prior μ, R_max(μ)/R_0(μ) ≤ 3/2.
Mathematical proof (theorem) within the paper's Bayesian persuasion model where the sender is strategic and the receiver guesses bits. The result is presented as a proven upper bound under the model's assumptions (no empirical/sample data).
high mixed Quantifying Theoretical AI Alignment Guarantees: Receiver-Ut... receiver's expected number of correctly guessed bits (receiver utility)
Some skills generalize broadly across tasks and models, whereas others become specialized to role-specific workflows and lose effectiveness under transfer.
Analyses reported in the paper showing heterogeneous transfer behavior across the 22 procedural skills in the AFTER benchmark, with some skills showing broad cross-task and cross-model generalization and others showing role-specific specialization and reduced transfer performance.
high mixed Managing Procedural Memory in LLM Agents: Control, Adaptatio... skill transfer effectiveness (generalization versus specialization under transfe...
Participants' IAT scores were predictive of the time they spent in human-AI collaboration.
Reported predictive relationship between individual IAT scores and measured time spent interacting with/considering resumes during human-AI collaborative screening tasks (likely from regression or correlation analyses); exact statistics and sample size not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Resume Screening, Fast and Slow: (Biased) AI Recommendations... time spent in human-AI collaboration (resume viewing / interaction time)
The Simpson's paradox in the pooled result is driven entirely by agent composition: Codex dominates 64.9% of the dataset.
Descriptive composition statistics from the AIDev dataset showing agent shares; explicit statement that Codex comprises 64.9% of dataset.
high mixed Beyond Simpson's Paradox: A Cascade of Confounders in AI Age... agent share of dataset (proportion of PRs by agent)
Better measurement matters, but improved measurement alone will not close the coordination gap between researchers and policymakers.
Authors' analytical conclusion arguing that measurement improvements are necessary but insufficient.
high mixed AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... effect of measurement improvements on research–policy coordination
These patterns suggest a commoditization effect of AI on labor, with implications for online labor market design, workers' incentives to invest in human capital, and labor welfare.
Interpretation synthesized from the three empirical findings above (decline in human-capital importance, rise in price importance, decline in demand premium for high-human-capital workers, and reallocation toward lower-priced workers). This is presented as the paper's conceptual/mechanistic conclusion and policy implication rather than a separately tested causal estimate. (Empirical basis: Upwork analysis and difference-in-differences; sample size not reported in abstract.)
high mixed Human Capital, AI, and Labor Commoditization commoditization of labor and its implications for worker incentives and welfare
Stronger synchronization can increase collective output but may also increase systemic fragility and reduce mobility.
Analytical results and trade-off analysis in the model showing the effects of synchronization on collective output, fragility, and mobility; theoretical deduction without empirical sample.
high mixed Optimal Order of Multi-Agent and General Many-Body Systems organizational_efficiency
The guarded engagement loop framework conceptualizes generative AI adoption as a feedback process in which risk perceptions may shape interaction conditions that, in turn, can influence observed performance and subsequent trust calibration.
Central conceptual claim of the paper; framework articulated by the authors and presented as a set of testable propositions (theoretical contribution rather than empirical finding in the abstract).
Risk salience may shape interaction dynamics with LLMs via a multilevel feedback mechanism called the 'guarded engagement loop', in which risk perceptions shape interaction strategies that influence observed performance and, in turn, recalibrate trust in generative AI systems.
Conceptual framework proposed by the authors, integrating theories from trust in automation, privacy calculus, algorithm aversion, and social amplification of risk; presented as a theoretical model rather than an empirical test.
LLM guidance was associated with increased pupil size variability.
Physiological eye-tracking measure (pupil size variability) reported and compared across conditions in the simulated SAR experiment.
Eye-tracking data revealed an attention-guidance trade-off: visual resources shifted to the chat interface when LLM guidance was present.
Eye-tracking measures collected during the experiment showing changes in gaze allocation (increased fixations/dwell time on the chat interface) across LLM-guided vs baseline conditions.
high mixed LLM-Mediated Human-AI Interaction in Search and Rescue: Impa... visual attention allocation (fixations/dwell time to chat interface vs environme...
The paper formalizes four mechanism theorems explaining the overhead-pressure dynamics: overhead non-additivity, augmentation-saved-time pathways, innovation-premium amplification, and human-AI dyad attribution uncertainty.
Presentation of four mechanism theorems within the paper (theoretical/mathematical exposition rather than direct empirical tests).
high mixed What Capital After Labor? Forecasting the Talent ROI Transit... mechanisms driving overhead-pressure under AI augmentation
The ICH framework predicts three distinct augmentation regimes (determined by combinations of A and C) with distinct policy implications.
Theoretical classification derived from the model; conceptual prediction presented in the paper.
high mixed Forecasting AI-Era Productivity: The Intellectually Converge... augmentation regime classification (regimes of phi behavior as functions of A an...
AI-induced changes are displacing existing labor jobs while also creating new jobs that require high technological skills.
Summary claim from the SLR reporting that reviewed empirical studies report both displacement of existing jobs and creation of new, high-skill jobs; no quantified displacement/creation rates provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Labor Market The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employ... job displacement and job creation (skill intensity of new jobs)
Between 2017 and 2025, studies identified current trends of AI-induced changes affecting both blue-collar and white-collar occupations.
Synthesis statement in the paper reporting that reviewed empirical studies identified trends across blue- and white-collar jobs (timeframe 2017–2025). Specific studies or counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Labor Market The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employ... AI-induced changes in occupation types (blue-collar and white-collar)
AI's rapid evolution has profound effects on the labor market, influencing the levels, skills needed for jobs, and overall jobs content.
Statement from the paper's synthesis/introduction summarizing reviewed empirical studies (systematic literature review covering studies from 2017–2025). Number of underlying studies not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Labor Market The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employ... overall effects on labor market: job levels, skill requirements, and job content
The paper develops the concept of 'bidirectional dynamics' in digital sovereignties, applying a paradoxical view to interpret institutional control objectives and individual autonomy aspirations as persistent organizational tensions in AI adoption.
Theoretical/conceptual development grounded in the empirical single-case study; concept introduced and motivated by observed tensions in the organization (empirical method details and sample size not provided).
high mixed Tensions And Synergies Between Digital Sovereignties In Ai A... conceptual framing of institutional control vs. individual autonomy (bidirection...
Early digital transformation presents tensions but also synergies between digital sovereignty levels in AI adoption.
Empirical observations from the single-case study of a Nordic public transportation organization during early AI adoption; qualitative examples and analysis (specific methods/sample size not stated).
high mixed Tensions And Synergies Between Digital Sovereignties In Ai A... presence of tensions and synergies between individual and organizational digital...
Embodied intelligence is driving the human-machine relationship from a "human-dominated" model toward "collaborative co-creation," which, while boosting productivity, also triggers deep-seated contradictions in production relations.
Conceptual/theoretical argumentation in the paper, drawing on Marx's theory of reproduction; no empirical sample or quantitative data reported.
high mixed Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Overall productivity and structural contradictions in production relations
The near-term value of Agentic AI does not lie in full autonomy or workforce reduction, but in controlled partial autonomy for simple and medium complexity business processes.
Central argumentative claim/recommendation in the paper (theoretical justification; no empirical study or sample size reported).
high mixed The Integrator Advantage: Controlled Agentic AI for Small an... optimal_autonomy_level_for_value
This shift raises fundamental questions for consumer theory, which has traditionally modeled humans as the primary decision-makers.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper framing the research problem and motivating the new theoretical framework; literature critique rather than empirical test.
high mixed LLM Consumer Behavior Theory: Foundations of a Novel Researc... applicability of traditional consumer theory assumptions in presence of agentic ...
The modality gap (weaker penalty for visual vs. textual AI-use disclosure) widens when AI is used in final products but narrows when AI is used in marketing materials.
Interaction analyses across application stages (final product vs. marketing material) within the 41,073 Kickstarter projects, using LLM-assisted classification to label both modality and application stage and entropy balancing for covariate control.
The effectiveness of AI in strategic core functions is contingent upon the human–AI interface.
Stated as a conditional claim in the paper—AI effectiveness depends on the quality of the human–AI interface; no empirical quantification provided in the summary.
high mixed GenAI Agency: Mediating Skill Development and Algorithmic Tr... effectiveness of AI in strategic functions
Bias transfer from the LLM is asymmetric: agency is suppressed in female-target essays while male-target writing remains largely unaffected.
Comparative analysis within the participant data showing differential effects by target gender (female-target vs male-target essays) in the N = 123 study; reported asymmetry in the paper summary.
high mixed Contaminated Collaboration: Measuring Gender Bias Transfer i... agency in essays by target gender (suppression in female-target essays, no chang...
Tranquil periods lower subjective risk assessments, raise AI substitution intensity, and compound leverage, generating a cognitive Minsky moment in which subjective risk falls while true systemic fragility rises.
Derived dynamics and comparative statics in the formal model; stated as one of the paper's propositions. No empirical data.
high mixed Cognitive Debt: AI as Intellectual Leverage and the Dynamics... subjective risk assessments; AI substitution intensity; systemic fragility
Dominant comments shifted in tone from mockery toward gatekeeping and structural protest.
Speech-act coding of 300 confirmed accusations and sentiment/trajectory analysis showing relative decline in mockery-coded acts and increase in gatekeeping/structural-protest acts over time.
high mixed "That's AI Slop, You Bot!" Studying Accusations, Evidence, a... speech-act/tone categories (mockery vs gatekeeping vs structural protest)
Across compression sweeps, real factor archives, and LLM-SRBench tasks, hybrid gains concentrate in weakly represented but target-bearing directions and vanish as the hypothesis space approaches full rank.
Empirical claim based on experiments over compression sweeps, analyses of real factor archives (A-share factor discovery), and LLM-SRBench tasks; no numerical sample sizes or effect magnitudes provided in the abstract.
Forms of resistance exist, including localisation efforts and Indigenous ethical frameworks, but they remain structurally limited.
Synthesis of examples and themes across the 50 reviewed articles noting reported resistance strategies and their limits.
high mixed AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... existence and structural effectiveness of resistance efforts (localisation, Indi...
Frontier proprietary models achieve near-zero success under GUI-based interaction, whereas COM-based execution yields substantial immediate gains.
Experimental comparison reported in the paper on ComCADBench between GUI-based interaction by proprietary models and COM-based execution (authors report success rates and comparative performance).
high mixed ComAct: Reframing Professional Software Manipulation via COM... success rate on CAD tasks under GUI-based interaction vs COM-based execution
Environment engineering can amplify productive behaviors (e.g., open-ended exploration, systematic artifact management, inter-agent collaboration) while suppressing harmful behaviors (e.g., reward hacking and high-friction human oversight).
Framing and argument in the paper describing expected effects of environment design (conceptual; no quantification provided in the excerpt).
high mixed EurekAgent: Agent Environment Engineering is All You Need Fo... agent behavior quality (productive vs. harmful behaviors)
Trust is conceptualized as network-mediated expectation stabilization in the embodied finance framework.
Theoretical claim in the framework articulating trust as stabilized through network interactions among humans, machines, and platforms; no empirical data.
high mixed Embodied Finance: A Conceptual Framework for Agency, Value, ... conceptualization of trust in AI-enabled financial interactions (network-mediate...
The proposed framework—the machine–platform–crowd triangle—reframes agency, trust, and value as emergent properties rather than institutional attributes.
Conceptual framing and argumentation within the paper; synthesis of theory to reconceptualize agency, trust, and value; no empirical testing reported.
high mixed Embodied Finance: A Conceptual Framework for Agency, Value, ... conceptualization of agency, trust, and value in socio-technical financial syste...
Architectural smell density (ASD) declines by 6.7% (p = 0.004), but this decline is a denominator effect resulting from lines-of-code growth rather than an actual architectural improvement.
Observed ASD change computed from estimated smell counts and LOC changes in the 151-repository panel and interpreted by decomposing density into numerator (smells) and denominator (LOC).
high mixed Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... architectural smell density (ASD)
The same observation is seen with the amount of changes (e.g., code churn, number of modified files) and with the efforts to merge an agentic PR (e.g., merge time and number of comments).
Reported that pre/post comparison across projects shows mixed/no consistent improvement patterns for code churn, modified files, merge time, and comment counts after instruction-file creation (analysis over 15,549 PRs in 148 projects).
high mixed Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... amount of changes (code churn, number of modified files) and effort to merge (ti...
Specifying instructions for AI-agents does not necessarily lead to better results.
Project-level before/after comparison of performance metrics for projects that created instruction files (pre/post comparison across 148 projects using the 15,549 PRs).
high mixed Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... overall performance of agentic PRs (merge rate, code churn, merge time, comments...
Du et al. (2026) find that information-based team faultlines can enhance proactive behavior via deep information processing, while AI adoption moderates and mitigates the negative effects of social-based faultlines on team cooperation.
Information-processing theoretical framing and empirical analysis reported in the paper (study type and sample size not specified in the excerpt).
high mixed Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... proactive behavior and team cooperation under team faultlines and AI adoption
Liao et al. (2026) identify multiple equifinal pathways to high performance in digit-oriented spin-offs (parent-oriented, independent-oriented, ambidextrous-oriented configurations) using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).
fsQCA analysis reported in the paper (methodological approach described; sample not specified in excerpt).
high mixed Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... high performance of digit-oriented spin-offs
A store-level policy learned from logged marketplace data selects a discrete multiplier that shifts the dispatch optimizer's tradeoff between delivery quality and batching efficiency.
Methodological description: store-level policy trained from logged data that outputs a discrete multiplier to alter optimizer objective weights; stated design and training approach in paper (no numerical evaluation details provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... tradeoff between delivery quality and batching efficiency (via discrete multipli...
The article develops a conceptual framework linking GenAI use in higher education to knowledge transformation, critical thinking, ethical judgment, digital capability, managerial decision-making, business ethics, workforce readiness, and organizational readiness.
Presentation of a conceptual framework by the authors as part of the review (theoretical/conceptual work; no empirical validation reported).
high mixed Instructing Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI: Im... conceptual linkage among educational inputs and downstream capabilities (knowled...
GenAI should be understood as more than an educational technology: it affects the development of managerial decision-making, business ethics, and workforce readiness for future managers, entrepreneurs, administrators, policymakers, and business professionals.
Conceptual argument and literature synthesis presented in the review article (no primary empirical sample).
high mixed Instructing Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI: Im... managerial decision-making capabilities and ethical judgment
Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping higher education by changing learning practices, academic writing, knowledge access, assessment preparation, research support, and student engagement.
Narrative literature review / synthesis (review article). No primary empirical sample reported — claim drawn from cited literature and conceptual synthesis.
high mixed Instructing Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI: Im... learning practices (academic writing, assessment prep, research support, student...
AI agents can rival or exceed human methodological diversity at the design layer while remaining vulnerable at the verdict layer.
Synthesis of above experimental findings: Claude Code and Codex matched/exceeded human methodological diversity measures (20 runs) but exhibited vulnerability to prompt-induced changes in verdict behavior (especially Claude Code).
high mixed AI Coding Agents in Social Science: Methodologically Diverse... methodological diversity at design layer and vulnerability of final verdicts at ...
Implementation success depends heavily on data quality, workflow redesign, interpretability, governance, and procurement alignment.
Synthesis of factors identified across included studies and supporting regulatory/industry documents as important determinants of successful deployment.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... determinants of implementation success (data quality, workflow redesign, interpr...
However, evidence is uneven: many studies are simulation-based.
Review observation from the synthesis of the 35 included studies noting study designs (simulation prevalence noted but not numerically specified).
high mixed Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... study design composition (simulation vs empirical)
Perkembangan AI mengotomatisasi tugas rutin sekaligus menciptakan peluang pekerjaan baru berbasis digital.
Sistematis studi literatur yang menelaah 33 sumber ilmiah, laporan lembaga internasional, dan kebijakan terkait (n=33).
high mixed Transformasi SDM di Era AI: Strategi Menjaga Daya Saing Tena... perubahan struktur pasar kerja (otomatisasi tugas rutin dan penciptaan pekerjaan...