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Evidence (8807 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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AI-adopting firms anticipate smaller increases in their own prices and lower medium- to long-term inflation than non-adopters.
Survey questions on firms' price-change expectations and macro inflation expectations, comparing responses of adopting vs non-adopting firms.
high negative The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... firms' expected own price increases and medium- to long-term inflation expectati...
AI adoption leads to a contraction of blue-collar employment.
Difference-in-differences analysis of administrative employer–employee records showing decreases in blue-collar employment associated with adoption.
high negative The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... blue-collar employment (count or share)
Boundary conditions limit UCF applicability in contexts requiring human accountability or embodied knowledge.
Author-stated caveat in the abstract identifying contexts (accountability, embodied knowledge) where the framework may not apply; theoretical reasoning, no empirical tests.
high negative Beyond markets and hierarchies: How GenAI enables unbounded ... limits to applicability of UCF where human accountability or embodied knowledge ...
Existing frameworks (Transaction Cost Economics and Electronic Markets Hypothesis) cannot explain emerging organizational phenomena like GitHub Copilot’s recursive value creation or AI-mediated expert networks.
Conceptual critique in the position paper using illustrative examples (GitHub Copilot, AI-mediated expert networks); no empirical testing or sample provided.
high negative Beyond markets and hierarchies: How GenAI enables unbounded ... theoretical explanatory adequacy of extant organizational frameworks
AI governance, ethical concerns, openness, workforce adjustment, and integration complexity are crucial concerns that managers must consider when implementing AI.
Synthesis of risks and challenges reported across the reviewed literature (paper's discussion/conclusion); no specific counts of studies or empirical measures provided in the abstract.
high negative Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning... governance and ethical risks, workforce adjustment challenges, system integratio...
Conventional managerial practices usually encounter difficulties dealing with the flow of information, ineffectiveness of workflow, slow decision making, and redundant administrative processes.
Background statement in the paper's introduction / literature review (narrative claim based on surveyed literature); no specific empirical study or sample size reported in the abstract.
high negative Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning... information flow, workflow effectiveness, decision speed, administrative redunda...
Vulnerable populations—including low-skill workers, aging labour forces, and developing economies—are especially affected by AI-driven changes.
Abstract highlights special attention to vulnerable populations in the review and asserts differential impacts; no specific empirical estimates or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... distributional effects / disproportionate adverse impacts on vulnerable groups
AI displaces routine cognitive and manual tasks.
Explicit finding reported in abstract based on the paper's systematic review of empirical studies (no individual study sample sizes or quantitative estimates provided in abstract).
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... displacement of routine tasks / job_displacement for routine roles
Persistent AI memory reduced to a retrieval problem (store prior interactions as text, embed them, and ask the model to recover relevant context later) is mismatched to the kinds of memory that agents need in production: exact facts, current state, updates and deletions, aggregation, relations, negative queries, and explicit unknowns.
Argument and conceptual analysis presented in the paper describing types of operations (exact facts, updates/deletions, aggregation, relations, negative queries, explicit unknowns) that retrieval-style memory fails to satisfy; no sample size or quantitative evaluation provided for this specific claim in the excerpt.
high negative From Unstructured Recall to Schema-Grounded Memory: Reliable... suitability of retrieval-only memory designs for production agent memory needs
This stratification produces trust-based inequality in who can leverage AI while sustaining credibility, voice, and liveness.
Analytical claim based on patterns in 16 interviews indicating differential capacities to conceal/humanize AI lead to unequal ability to both use AI and maintain audience trust and perceived authenticity.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... inequality in access to benefits of AI conditioned on ability to sustain trust/c...
Passing capacity is stratified by educational and professional capital, economic resources and team support, and platform position.
Interview evidence (n=16) showing creators with higher education/professional capital, more economic resources, team support, or advantageous platform positions report greater ability to conceal and perform AI-assisted content.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... variation in ability to perform 'AI passing' across creators
These invisible authenticity practices reallocate work from generation to downstream repair and performance, complicating claims that AI simply improves efficiency.
Derived from creators' accounts in 16 interviews describing extra downstream editing, verification, and performance labor required after AI generation.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... shift in locus of work and implications for efficiency
Creators associate legible AI assistance with intertwined trust vulnerabilities, including epistemic unreliability, anticipated relational penalties, and platform authenticity regimes.
Thematic findings from 16 interviews in which creators express concerns about AI-generated content being epistemically unreliable, damaging relationships with audiences, and conflicting with platform authenticity norms.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... perceived trust vulnerabilities tied to visible AI assistance
On authenticity-oriented platforms, visible use of AI can be discrediting for creators.
Reported by creators across 16 in-depth interviews on Xiaohongshu and Douyin; qualitative thematic analysis identifying platform-specific authenticity norms and reputational consequences.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... perceived reputational/discrediting effects of visible AI use
Leaderboard rank alone is insufficient because models with similar pass rates can diverge in overall completion, and task-level discrimination concentrates in a middle band of tasks.
Analytical observations from benchmark results comparing pass rates, overall completion metrics, and per-task discrimination patterns across models; based on the 13-model leaderboard analysis.
high negative Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-Wor... correspondence between leaderboard rank, pass rate, and overall completion; task...
Experiments reveal that reliable workflow automation remains far from solved: the leading model passes only 66.7% of tasks and no model reaches 70%.
Experimental evaluation of 13 frontier models on 105 tasks; reported pass rates from the benchmark runs (leading model pass rate 66.7%, no model >=70%).
high negative Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-Wor... task pass rate (task completion success)
Many agent benchmarks freeze a curated task set at release time and grade mainly the final response, making it difficult to evaluate agents against evolving workflow demand or verify whether a task was executed.
Qualitative critique in the paper comparing existing benchmark design choices; based on authors' survey/analysis of prevailing benchmark practices (no explicit systematic review sample size reported).
high negative Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-Wor... benchmark design adequacy for evolving workflow demand and execution verifiabili...
The 2026 Amazon outages illustrate how 'mechanized convergence' (homogenization of code/engineering practices via AI) leads to systemic fragility.
Case study analysis using the 2026 Amazon outages as a single illustrative example; implies qualitative examination of that event.
high negative Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Soft... systemic fragility as evidenced by outage events (2026 Amazon outages case study...
Recursive training on synthetic code threatens to homogenize the global software reservoir, diminishing the variance required for robust engineering.
Theoretical claim about dataset/model feedback loops; no empirical quantification provided in the text excerpt (argumentative risk assessment).
high negative Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Soft... variance/diversity in global software codebase
This epistemological debt erodes the mental models essential for root-cause analysis, widening the gap between system complexity and human comprehension.
Argumentative/theoretical claim supported by reasoning in the paper; no quantified measurement of mental-model erosion reported.
high negative Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Soft... quality/robustness of engineers' mental models and root-cause analysis capabilit...
Substituting logical derivation with passive AI verification creates an 'Epistemological Debt' — a hidden carrying cost incurred by engineers.
Theoretical/conceptual assertion within the paper; argued qualitatively rather than demonstrated with controlled empirical data.
high negative Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Soft... accumulation of epistemic/knowledge debt among engineers
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) masks a critical socio-technical failure the authors term 'Cognitive-Systemic Collapse.'
Conceptual/theoretical claim presented in the paper's argumentation; no empirical sample or quantitative study reported for this specific naming claim.
high negative Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Soft... socio-technical system failure risk (Cognitive-Systemic Collapse)
Most studies are exploratory (59%) and methodologically diverse, but there is a lack of longitudinal and team-based evaluations.
Authors report study typology counts and note the absence of longitudinal and team-based designs across the reviewed literature.
high negative The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... study design types and presence/absence of longitudinal or team-based evaluation...
Studies highlight concerns around cognitive offloading and reduced team collaboration when using LLM-assistants.
Synthesis of reported negative effects in included studies (themes extracted by the authors).
high negative The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... cognitive processes and team collaboration
A notable subset of studies identifies critical risks associated with LLM-assistants.
Synthesis across included studies noting reported risks (e.g., cognitive offloading, collaboration issues).
high negative The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... reported risks and negative impacts
Answer completeness averages 0.40.
Reported average completeness metric for system answers on EnterpriseDocBench (method for computing completeness not given in excerpt).
high negative Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... answer completeness (average completeness score)
Hallucination rate does not grow monotonically with document length: short documents and very long ones both hallucinate more than medium ones (28.1% and 23.8% vs. 9.2%).
Empirical measurement of hallucination rates by document-length buckets on EnterpriseDocBench; percentages reported in paper. Sample sizes per bucket not provided in excerpt.
high negative Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... hallucination rate (fraction of generated outputs judged hallucinated)
Strong heuristic, single-agent RL, and multi-agent RL baselines (including Greedy, SAC, MAPPO, and MADDPG) achieved net profit in the range $0.58M--$0.70M in the same experiments.
Empirical comparison in the paper's experiments on the NYC-taxi-based EV fleet simulator listing baseline methods and their reported net profits ($0.58M--$0.70M).
high negative Semi-Markov Reinforcement Learning for City-Scale EV Ride-Ha... net profit of baseline methods (Greedy, SAC, MAPPO, MADDPG)
Monthly operational cost of running the system is approximately USD 4,000.
Full-scale performance characterization reports monthly cost estimate of approximately USD 4,000.
Prior work has largely focused on developing novel cooperative architectures while overlooking the question of when joint training is necessary.
Literature-review style claim made in the paper asserting a gap in prior research emphasis (novel cooperative architectures) versus investigation of training modality necessity.
high negative An Analysis of the Coordination Gap between Joint and Modula... research focus (coverage of training-modality necessity in prior literature)
The coordination gap advantage (between joint and modular training) diminishes in bottleneck environments, particularly under severe transport and processing constraints.
Results from a sensitivity analysis varying resource scarcity and temporal dominance showing the relative performance gap shrinks under bottleneck conditions with tight transport and processing constraints. Details on experimental scenarios not provided in the abstract.
high negative An Analysis of the Coordination Gap between Joint and Modula... coordination gap (performance difference between training modalities)
The framework addresses emerging tensions captured in the Creativity Paradox, whereby GenAI may weaken intrinsic motivation, conceptual risk-taking, and evaluative depth.
Theoretical extension of paradox theory and conceptual discussion of potential negative effects; presented as conceptual risks rather than empirically demonstrated outcomes.
high negative Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... intrinsic motivation, conceptual risk-taking, evaluative depth
Manual tools like mind maps support structure creation but lack intelligent (AI) assistance.
Paper's comparison of manual tools versus AI-augmented tools (background/related-work discussion; no empirical evaluation reported for this claim).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... presence of intelligent assistance in manual structure-creation tools
Current LLM-based systems let users query information but do not let users shape how knowledge is organized.
Paper's analysis of existing tools and limitations (literature/feature comparison described in introduction; no new empirical test reported).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... capability to shape knowledge organization in LLM-based systems
Knowledge workers face increasing challenges in synthesizing information from multiple documents into structured conceptual understanding.
Statement in paper's introduction/motivation; conceptual observation (no empirical data reported here).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... ability to synthesize information from multiple documents into structured concep...
The near-uncorrelated rankings and rank shifts on the n=11 subset are driven by a strong negative Adoption-Capability correlation among closed-source high-capability agents within this subset.
Subgroup analysis/observation within the 11-agent SWE-bench overlap indicating a negative correlation between Adoption and Capability for closed-source high-capability agents (no numerical coefficient reported in the excerpt).
high negative AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... Adoption-Capability correlation among closed-source high-capability agents
Static benchmarks measure what AI agents can do at a fixed point in time but not how they are adopted, maintained, or experienced in deployment.
Conceptual statement in the paper; no empirical sample cited for this specific claim (framing/argumentation).
high negative AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... scope of measurement of static benchmarks (capability vs. deployment/adoption)
Standard PayGo degrades substantially under classroom-scale concurrency.
Empirical latency measurements and comparative analysis across throughput tiers and concurrency levels in the instrumented deployment.
high negative Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response time (latency) degradation under concurrency
Each student query triggers several concurrent API calls whose latencies compound through a parallel-phase maximum effect that single-agent systems do not face.
Architectural description and instrumentation of the four-agent ITAS system (paper reports measurements and latency analysis across tiers and concurrency levels).
high negative Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response latency (task completion time)
In the absence of intervention, individually rational adoption of genAI will assuredly and profoundly reduce collective welfare.
Conclusion drawn from the paper's theoretical model (normative/predictive claim based on model dynamics; no empirical validation or sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... collective (social) welfare
Habit formation around genAI use can couple otherwise separate domains, so that adoption in low-stakes tasks spills over into high-value tasks and amplifies welfare losses.
Theoretical/model-based claim showing coupling across domains via habit formation (model extension; no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... spillover adoption and amplified welfare losses
The introduction of genAI—while initially beneficial at the individual level—will reduce social welfare for the most important types of tasks.
Model-derived result: theoretical analysis indicates social-welfare reductions in high-value tasks despite individual gains (no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... social welfare for high-value tasks
Generative models are vulnerable to model collapse: when trained on data generated by earlier versions of themselves, their outputs can lose diversity and accuracy.
Theoretical claim / conceptual claim presented in the paper (no empirical sample size given in abstract); refers to degradation of model outputs when trained on self-generated data.
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... output diversity and accuracy
Frontier models fail to accurately predict their own token usage (with weak-to-moderate correlations, up to 0.39) and systematically underestimate real token costs.
Evaluation of models' self-predicted token cost versus realized token usage across agentic runs on SWE-bench Verified; reported correlations up to 0.39 and systematic underestimation bias.
high negative How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... correlation and bias between model self-predicted token usage and actual token u...
Models vary substantially in token efficiency: on the same tasks, Kimi-K2 and Claude-Sonnet-4.5, on average, consume over 1.5 million more tokens than GPT-5.
Cross-model comparisons of average total token consumption per task run across the eight evaluated LLMs on SWE-bench Verified; paper reports average differential between named models and GPT-5.
high negative How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... average total token consumption per model (tokens consumed by model A minus mode...
Input tokens rather than output tokens drive the overall cost of agentic tasks.
Breakdown of token usage into input vs output token components from the analyzed agentic task trajectories on SWE-bench Verified (across the eight LLMs evaluated).
high negative How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... share/contribution of input tokens vs output tokens to total token consumption
Agentic tasks are uniquely expensive, consuming 1000x more tokens than code reasoning and code chat.
Empirical measurement of token counts from agentic coding task runs compared to runs labeled as code reasoning and code chat across the evaluated trajectories (paper reports comparisons on SWE-bench Verified across eight frontier LLMs).
high negative How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... total token consumption (agentic vs. code reasoning/code chat)
Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes.
Background statement in the paper's introduction; general literature/field observation (no new primary data reported for this claim in the abstract).
high negative Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufac... robustness of fixed waypoint script manipulation
Each new task domain requires painstaking, expert-driven harness engineering: designing the prompts, tools, orchestration logic, and evaluation criteria that make a foundation model effective.
Author assertion in the paper's introduction/abstract describing the state of practice; no empirical method, dataset, or sample size reported in the excerpt.
high negative The Last Harness You'll Ever Build need for human (expert) harness engineering
Vibe coding (unstructured GenAI-driven coding) promises rapid prototyping but often suffers from architectural drift, limited traceability, and reduced maintainability.
Paper asserts this as a motivating observation and characterizes vibe coding's weaknesses; the abstract frames these as commonly observed problems motivating the Shift-Up approach (no sample size given in abstract).
high negative Shift-Up: A Framework for Software Engineering Guardrails in... architectural drift, traceability, maintainability