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Evidence (4892 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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We give two one-shot characterizations, a team optimum and a behaviorally natural myopic rule.
Analytical derivation in the one-shot contextual-bandit game producing two solution concepts/characterizations: the team-optimal policy and a myopic human-rule; presented as theoretical results with formal statements in the paper.
high neutral A Contextual-Bandit Oversight Game with Two-Sided Informatio... policy_characterization (team_optimum vs myopic_rule)
We close by sketching the shape of a harmonised tiered framework and the empirical evaluation needed to calibrate it.
Statement of the paper's concluding contribution in the abstract: a proposed harmonised framework and recommended empirical evaluation; presented as a proposal rather than tested result.
high neutral Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... proposed harmonised framework and specification of needed empirical evaluation
From this we derive a six-dimensional taxonomy (disclosure, responsibility, human oversight, licensing, enforcement, maintainer workload), an ordinal Policy Maturity Score, and a mapping of documented agent incidents onto the dimensions each policy fails to govern.
Stated as study outputs in abstract; indicates development of taxonomy, maturity score, and incident-to-dimension mapping based on the comparative analysis and process tracing.
high neutral Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... policy taxonomy completeness and policy maturity (ordinal score); mapping of inc...
We compare policies across six organisations (SymPy, LLVM, matplotlib, OpenInfra, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Linux Foundation) using Most-Similar Systems Design with indicator-based coding and process tracing for SymPy and LLVM.
Explicit methods statement in abstract describing sample (six organisations) and methods (Most-Similar Systems Design, indicator-based coding, process tracing for two organisations).
high neutral Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... policy characteristics across six open-source organisations
Open-source software, however, evolves through a process designed for humans: contributor agreements, codes of conduct, and review norms all assume a legally accountable person who can attest to provenance and answer reviewer questions.
Descriptive claim about standard open-source governance and contribution processes stated in the abstract; no empirical measurement or coded sample cited in the abstract.
high neutral Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... design assumptions of open-source contribution processes (legal accountability/p...
We run a pre-specified 2*4 factorial experiment with 280 complete research runs across four datasets.
Experimental design and sample size reported in paper: 2x4 factorial experiment, 280 complete research runs, four datasets.
high neutral (Human) Attention Is (Still) All You Need: Human oversight m... number of complete research runs (experimental sample)
We evaluated seven models (including Gemini, Claude, and GPT families) by comparing their zero-shot estimates against self-reported skill ratings from 27 participants.
Method description: evaluation of seven LLMs comparing zero-shot model estimates to self-reported skill ratings; 27 participants provided self-reports.
high neutral Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... comparison between model zero-shot skill estimates and self-reported skill ratin...
AI deployment should be evaluated not only by average task speed, but by its overall effects on congestion, rework, and the robustness of human oversight under load.
Policy/recommendation based on the paper's theoretical results and derived implications from the queueing model (conceptual/prescriptive conclusion; no empirical testing reported).
high neutral Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow organizational_efficiency
The divergence between mean task speed and system-level delay caused by AI assistance is labeled the 'variance wedge'.
Definition/terminology introduced in the paper as part of its conceptual framing; supported by the analytic model description.
high neutral Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow task_completion_time
Structured illustrations across document processing, legal services, audit, clinical decision support, and procurement discipline the boundary logic developed in the theory.
Methodological statement that the paper uses structured cross-domain illustrations to ground and discipline the theoretical claims; no empirical sample reported.
high neutral Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries ... theoretical grounding via domain illustrations
There are three accountability-boundary strategies in agentic ecosystems: component, integrated, and dual-track.
Theoretical categorization introduced by the authors as part of the capability-level theory; illustrated with cross-domain examples rather than empirical testing.
high neutral Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries ... classification of boundary strategy
The paper provides a taxonomy of minimum input artifacts for agentic software, firmware, and hardware work; a conversation-to-contract gate; risk-adaptive workflows; and an evidence-bundle acceptance model for agent-generated artifacts.
Declared contributions in the paper (deliverables/artefacts produced by the research; no empirical validation provided in the abstract).
high neutral Agentic Agile-V: From Vibe Coding to Verified Engineering in... availability of process artifacts and workflow models for agentic engineering
The central problem for agentic engineering is no longer prompt engineering; it is engineering process control.
Argument and synthesis presented by the paper (conceptual claim based on reviewed evidence).
high neutral Agentic Agile-V: From Vibe Coding to Verified Engineering in... primary bottleneck affecting agentic engineering effectiveness (process control ...
Regulatory technology is viewed as a governance arrangement that organizes relations between firms, banks, insurers, logistics actors, buyers, and regulators.
Conceptual framing developed through the interpretive synthesis of multiple literature streams in the paper.
high neutral RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... conceptual role of RegTech in organizing inter-actor relations
The framework reframes the central question of autonomous software engineering from whether a foundation model can produce a patch to whether the model-harness-environment system can produce a verifiably correct, attributed, and maintainable change.
Conceptual reframing and argument presented in the abstract as a conclusion of the proposed framework and evaluation approach.
high neutral AI Harness Engineering: A Runtime Substrate for Foundation-M... ability of the overall system (model+harness+environment) to produce verifiably ...
We formalize this substrate as 'AI Harness Engineering' and identify eleven component responsibilities: task specification, context selection, tool access, project memory, task state, observability, failure attribution, verification, permissions, entropy auditing, and intervention recording.
Methodological/conceptual contribution described in the paper (abstract) that lists eleven component responsibilities as part of the formalization.
high neutral AI Harness Engineering: A Runtime Substrate for Foundation-M... completeness and scope of responsibilities required for a runtime harness
We position DAO-governed decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) within a vertically integrated stack that links energy and sensing to connectivity, storage/compute, models, and robots.
Architectural/framework description in the paper that maps DePIN elements into a vertically integrated stack; conceptual/mapping method without empirical measurement.
high neutral DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI: A new paradigm for hu... conceptual integration of DePIN components into a vertical infrastructure stack
We evaluate four mechanisms to enable cooperation: (1) repeating the game for many rounds, (2) reputation systems, (3) third-party mediators to delegate decision making to, and (4) contract agreements for outcome-conditional payments between players.
Description of experimental design / mechanisms evaluated in the study across four social dilemmas; details on implementation and sample sizes not provided in the excerpt.
high neutral CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and... comparative effectiveness of four cooperation mechanisms
CoCoGen+ formulates each training round as a weighted potential game in which organizations strategically decide how much synthetic data to generate by balancing learning performance gains against computational costs and competition-caused utility losses.
Theoretical formulation and game-theoretic modeling provided in the paper (analytical derivation); no empirical sample size reported.
high neutral Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Data Generation and Incentiv... synthetic_data_generation_quantity (strategy)
Legitimate accountability is axiomatized through four minimal properties: Attributability (responsibility requires causal contribution), Foreseeability Bound (responsibility cannot exceed predictive capacity), Non-Vacuity (at least one agent bears non-trivial responsibility), and Completeness (all responsibility must be fully allocated).
Paper presents an explicit axiomatization listing these four properties as definitions/axioms forming the normative criteria for legitimate accountability.
high neutral The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Gov... formal criteria for legitimate accountability
Collective behaviour is characterised through interaction graphs and joint action spaces.
Paper specifies interaction graphs and joint action spaces as part of the formal model (definitions and formal structure).
high neutral The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Gov... formal representation of collective behaviour
Autonomy is characterised through a four-dimensional information-theoretic profile (epistemic, executive, evaluative, social).
Paper defines autonomy as a 4-dimensional information-theoretic profile (conceptual/mathematical definition within the formal model).
high neutral The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Gov... measure/characterisation of agent autonomy
A life insurance system integrated into an industry partner mobile app was tested in two experiments.
Paper reports two experiments running the ARQuest-enabled life insurance system inside a partner mobile app; experimental setup is stated though sample sizes are not provided in the excerpt.
high neutral AI in Insurance: Adaptive Questionnaires for Improved Risk P... experimental evaluation of system in partner app
The paper's formalism shows that prompt/system messages shape distributions over possible execution paths (indirect control) but do not evaluate actual partial paths at runtime.
Formal mapping in the paper that treats prompts as shaping prior over paths; conceptual argument and illustrative examples.
high neutral Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policies on Paths degree of control over execution path (distributional shaping vs. path-specific ...
Through a thematic review of existing research, the authors identified recurring themes about incentive schemes: their components, how researchers manipulate them, and their impact on research outcomes.
Authors' stated method and findings: thematic review (the scope/number of reviewed papers not specified in excerpt).
high neutral Incentive-Tuning: Understanding and Designing Incentives for... themes in incentive design practices and reported impacts on empirical study out...
A critical aspect of conducting human–AI decision-making studies is the role of participants, often recruited through crowdsourcing platforms.
Claim based on the authors' thematic literature review noting participant sourcing practices (specific studies and counts not given in excerpt).
high neutral Incentive-Tuning: Understanding and Designing Incentives for... participant recruitment source (e.g., crowdsourcing) and its influence on study ...
Researchers conduct empirical studies investigating how humans use AI assistance for decision-making and how this collaboration impacts results.
Statement summarizing the research landscape; supported implicitly by the authors' thematic review of existing empirical studies (number of studies not specified in excerpt).
high neutral Incentive-Tuning: Understanding and Designing Incentives for... human behaviour and decision outcomes when assisted by AI (empirical study outco...
Returns to AI are heterogeneous across firms; estimating treatment effects requires attention to selection, complementarities, and dynamic adoption pipelines.
Methodological argument referencing treatment-effect literature and observed firm heterogeneity; supported by conceptual examples rather than a single empirical treatment-effect estimate.
high neutral Modern Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Str... heterogeneity in returns to AI adoption (firm-level productivity or performance ...
Productivity effects at the aggregate (economy-wide) level are delayed relative to firm-level gains.
Cross-study synthesis noting temporal lags between observed firm-level productivity improvements and measurable aggregate effects in the literature included in the SLR.
high null result Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... timing of aggregate productivity effects
The review followed the PRISMA protocol and synthesized 78 peer-reviewed studies and institutional reports published between 2015 and 2025.
Systematic Literature Review using PRISMA protocol; sample of 78 peer-reviewed studies and institutional reports (2015–2025) as described in the paper.
The study is theoretically anchored in Diffusion of Innovation Theory and the Tigre–Henriques–Curado model of digital leadership.
Theoretical framing described in the paper's introduction/methods (explicit mention of the two theoretical anchors).
high null result Leading in the Digital Age: Digital Leadership Capabilities,... theoretical framework used
Analysis was performed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (WarpPLS 8.0).
Methods statement reporting use of WarpPLS 8.0 PLS-SEM for hypothesis tests and mediation/moderation estimation on the collected survey data (306 valid responses).
high null result Leading in the Digital Age: Digital Leadership Capabilities,... statistical analysis method
Delivery-related digital leadership capabilities did not significantly affect AI adoption intention (β = 0.090, p = 0.057).
PLS-SEM path coefficient and p-value reported for delivery-related capability to AI adoption intention (β = 0.090; p = 0.057), based on the 306 responses.
The measurement instruments demonstrated acceptable reliability and convergent validity: Cronbach's α ranged from 0.69 to 0.84, composite reliability from 0.83 to 0.88, and AVE from 0.56 to 0.67.
Reported scale reliability and validity statistics (Cronbach's alpha, composite reliability, Average Variance Extracted) computed on the study sample (306 responses).
high null result Leading in the Digital Age: Digital Leadership Capabilities,... measurement reliability and convergent validity (Cronbach's α, composite reliabi...
A cross-sectional survey of owner-managers of registered SMEs was drawn from six states; a sample of 390 was derived from a population of 23,290 firms using the Taro Yamane formula with proportionate allocation, and 306 valid responses were retained.
Study sampling and data collection description in the paper's methods: population size stated as 23,290, sampling via Taro Yamane formula (proportionate allocation) yielding 390, with 306 valid survey responses retained.
high null result Leading in the Digital Age: Digital Leadership Capabilities,... sample size / survey responses
The paper formulates a sequence of theoretically based propositions describing how the main constructs of the framework are related and what the main boundary conditions are that determine their applicability in digitally interrelated markets.
Presentation of conceptual propositions and delineation of boundary conditions within the paper; no empirical testing or datasets reported.
high null result Platform Ecosystems, Data-Driven Strategy, and Network Effec... theoretical relationships between constructs and boundary conditions (conceptual...
Existing literature has examined separate aspects (AI capabilities, platform ecosystems, data-driven strategies, and network effects) but has not focused on how these various concepts relate to one another.
Author's literature review and conceptual synthesis presented in the introduction; no systematic review details or empirical bibliometric analysis reported.
high null result Platform Ecosystems, Data-Driven Strategy, and Network Effec... coverage/gaps in prior research (research landscape)
An undirected configuration change in a prior iteration produced zero impact, illustrating the cost of iterating without diagnosis.
Reported observation from an earlier iteration in the case study where a non-diagnostic change had no measurable effect.
high null result EvalLoop: A Methodology for Evaluation-Driven Iterative Impr... overall system performance change after undirected configuration change
The paper combines findings from information systems research, organizational behavior studies, and artificial intelligence literature through its analysis of recent empirical and theoretical studies conducted between 2021 and 2026.
Methodological description provided in the paper (literature synthesis covering 2021–2026).
high null result Human–AI Collaborative Systems for Workflow Optimization: A ... scope and sources of literature reviewed
We observe no differences in productivity across adoption levels.
Authors' empirical comparison reporting null differences in measured firm productivity across adoption categories (based on their matched data).
high null result AI Adoption in S&P 500 Firms firm productivity
We observe no differences in capex across adoption levels.
Authors' empirical comparison reporting null differences in capital expenditures across adoption categories (based on firm financial data matched to adoption measure).
high null result AI Adoption in S&P 500 Firms capital expenditures (capex)
The study used a sequential mixed-methods design (Qual → Quan) consisting of eight expert interviews analyzed with grounded-theory coding and a follow-up survey of 499 AI-aware consumers.
Methods reported in the paper: eight expert interviews (qualitative) and a survey with 499 respondents (quantitative).
high null result Conceptualization of causes and implications of AI adoption ... study design / methodological procedure
From that coded sample the authors built a causal model of 26 constructs and 67 relationships (64 directed, 3 contested).
Reported model construction from the coded sample as stated in the abstract.
high null result 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... causal model complexity (constructs and relationships)
The authors filtered that corpus and coded a stratified random sample of 3,100 documents with an LLM-assisted pipeline.
Reported sampling and coding procedure stated in the abstract.
high null result 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... coded sample size using LLM-assisted pipeline
We collected 38,709 grey-literature documents (engineering blogs and Reddit threads) and filtered to those substantively about code review.
Reported data-collection procedure and corpus size stated in the abstract.
high null result 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal... grey-literature corpus size
We isolate the orchestration layer with a controlled swap: 22 locked evaluation tasks, six foundation models, changing only the orchestration layer (a frozen conventional production loop versus the Writer Agent Harness).
Methodological statement describing experimental design reported in the paper: controlled swap with 22 tasks and six models.
high null result The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token ... experimental design / method
Task-completion quality is at parity between harness and baseline (0.78->0.81), directional at this sample size.
Reported average/directional quality scores from the controlled swap across 22 tasks and six models, showing scores 0.78 (baseline) and 0.81 (harness).
high null result The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token ... task-completion quality (score)
The periodization of US macroeconomic productivity cycles was refined by identifying the new stages 'pandemic and adaptation phase' and 'artificial intelligence phase'.
Calculation of AAPC indices for 1947–2025 and retrospective comparative analysis leading to refinement of periodization and naming of new stages.
high null result Analysis of labor productivity in the context of technologic... identification of new macroeconomic stages in productivity cycles
Eight distinct macroeconomic cycles of productivity change in the United States from 1947 to 2025 are identified.
Secondary data analysis of aggregated US Bureau of Labor Statistics series for 1947–2025; long-term average annual rates of productivity change (AAPC) computed using the index method and geometric mean growth rate; comparative analysis to identify cycle breaks.
high null result Analysis of labor productivity in the context of technologic... macroeconomic cycles of aggregate labor productivity change
Survey data were collected from firms located in major Chinese cities (Beijing, Shenzhen, Xi’an, and Zhengzhou), resulting in 750 valid responses for analysis.
Reported survey sampling and data collection in the paper; explicit statement of cities sampled and number of valid responses (750).