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Evidence (7560 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
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CEO–TMT faultlines negatively affect green innovation through reduced eco-attention.
Empirical mediation analysis on the panel dataset (35,347 firm-year observations, 2010–2023) testing CEO–TMT faultlines -> eco-attention -> green innovation.
high negative When AI Amplifies Negative Echoes: CEO–TMT Faultlines, Eco-A... green innovation (mediated by eco-attention)
Municipal 311 call centers and complaint intake systems face a structural mismatch between incoming volume and classification capacity that produces a bottleneck and differential service quality that follows income and racial lines.
Stated in the paper's introduction; cites prior work (Liu 2024 SLA) as support for the differential service-quality / demographic claim. No sample size or quantitative result reported in the excerpt.
high negative Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call... differential service quality by income and race
There is an absence of agreed-upon benchmarks for evaluating AI systems.
Introductory chapter notes lack of standardized evaluation benchmarks as a cross-cutting concern; presented as an analytical observation by the task force.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... existence of standardized evaluation benchmarks for AI
AI systems exhibit bias.
Introductory chapter points to bias in AI systems as a recurring theme; supported by the broader literature cited in the report (no numerical sample reported in the introduction).
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... bias and fairness issues in AI system outputs and decisions
AI model outputs are often opaque and non-replicable.
Introductory chapter identifies opacity and non-replicability of AI outputs as a cross-cutting theme; claim is based on literature synthesis and conceptual critique in the report.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... transparency and replicability of AI model outputs
A small number of AI corporations have unprecedented power.
Introductory chapter highlights the theme of concentrated corporate power in AI; asserted as an observational claim in the report's framing rather than derived from a presented empirical sample in the introduction.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... concentration of corporate power in the AI industry (market control, platform in...
GPT-4.1 exhibits hidden workflow shortcuts despite achieving perfect TSR and HF1.
Model-level observation from the ASR analysis within the experiment (paper reports GPT-4.1 had perfect TSR and HF1 but failed trajectory-level fidelity).
high negative Beyond Task Success: Measuring Workflow Fidelity in LLM-Base... trajectory fidelity vs. standard metrics (TSR, HF1)
Applied to the Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for Payments (HMASP) across 18 LLMs and 90,000 task instances, ASR reveals that 10 of 18 models systematically skip a confirmation checkpoint during payment checkout, a deviation invisible to both TSR and HF1, while 8 models enforce the checkpoint perfectly.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper: HMASP tested across 18 LLMs and 90,000 task instances; analysis via ASR showing checkpoint-skipping behavior for 10 models and correct enforcement for 8 models.
high negative Beyond Task Success: Measuring Workflow Fidelity in LLM-Base... adherence to expected workflow transitions (confirmation checkpoint adherence)
From an information-theoretic perspective, this transition corresponds to an emergent information bottleneck in the human-AI loop, where entropy reduction reflects loss of diversity and support under closed-loop feedback rather than beneficial compression.
Theoretical / information-theoretic analysis in the paper linking observed dynamics to entropy reduction and information bottleneck concepts.
high negative Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... entropy (diversity/support) of the human-AI data loop and its interpretation as ...
Through a simple simulation, we demonstrate that increasing reliance on AI can induce a transition toward a low-diversity, suboptimal equilibrium.
Computational simulation reported in the paper (described as a 'simple simulation'); no sample size or experimental dataset reported in the provided text.
high negative Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... system transitioning to a low-diversity, suboptimal equilibrium as reliance on A...
DePAI entails risks including security, centralization, incentive failure, legal exposure, and the crowding-out of intrinsic motivation, requiring value-sensitive design and continuously adaptive governance.
Risk analysis and conceptual argument in the paper identifying possible failure modes and recommended design/governance responses; no empirical incidence data provided.
high negative DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI: A new paradigm for hu... security, centralization, incentive failure, legal exposure, and intrinsic motiv...
Experimental results show that current agents remain far from reliable workspace learning.
Authors' interpretation based on the reported agent performance (< best agent 68.7% vs human 80.7%, average 47.4%).
high negative Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tas... reliability of agents on workspace learning tasks
The average performance across evaluated agents is only 47.4%.
Reported mean performance across agents in the experiments (authors' aggregated result).
high negative Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tas... average benchmark score across agents
The best-performing agent reaches only 68.7% on the benchmark.
Experimental results reported by the authors (evaluation across tasks/rubrics).
high negative Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tas... benchmark score (agent performance)
These industry visions have implications for human experts, whose professional lives may be transformed and revalued by the expert-annotation industry.
Synthesis and interpretation of themes from public statements by five data-annotation firms and CEOs; authors draw implications for professionals based on observed framings and industry positioning.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... professional transformation and revaluation of human experts (risk of role chang...
Human expertise is viewed by the industry as an extractable resource whose value can be judged relative to AI expertise.
The paper's thematic analysis of public-facing statements from five annotation firms/CEOs showing language that frames human expertise as a resource to be extracted and monetized for AI training.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... valuation and treatment of human expertise (commodification/extraction)
The industry envisions AI expertise as cheap, meaning that it can offer a better return on investment than human expertise.
Interpretive coding of statements from five data-annotation firms and their CEOs on social media and podcasts indicating that AI-based expertise is framed as lower-cost and higher-ROI relative to human experts.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... relative valuation/price of AI expertise versus human expertise (implications fo...
These dynamics may produce an asymmetric barbell-shaped structure of value capture in advanced economies: high-volume synthetic production controlled by owners of AI infrastructure at one pole, and scarce, high-status human labor valued for verified human presence at the other.
Conceptual projection and economic argument in the paper (no empirical decomposition, distributional statistics, or sample reported in the excerpt).
high negative Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Inf... concentration of value capture across economic actors (inequality / distribution...
AI compresses the value of standardized middle-tier labor by making good-enough synthetic substitutes scalable at low marginal cost, hollowing out the middle of the skill distribution currently categorized by knowledge work.
Conceptual/theoretical argument presented in the paper (no reported empirical sample, statistical analysis, or quantified experiment in the excerpt).
high negative Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Inf... value of standardized middle-tier knowledge work (wages / scarcity premiums)
This concentration can diffuse responsibility and raise the probability of irreversible system-level loss even when local per-action error rates remain low.
Theoretical result/argument from the model linking concentrated decision-energy to increased systemic risk despite low local error rates.
high negative AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... probability of irreversible system-level loss
Efficiency pressure, path dependence, scale feedback, and weak boundary constraints concentrate decision-energy in the most efficient node.
Derived from the paper's formal model and argumentation about system dynamics (efficiency and feedback mechanisms); theoretical rather than empirical evidence.
high negative AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... concentration of decision-energy (centralization of decision authority)
Declining deployment friction changes the safety problem at its root: safety is not only local output correctness or preference alignment, but the control of irreversibility under rising decision density.
Main theoretical argument of the paper; supported by conceptual framing and a formal model that introduces decision-density considerations.
high negative AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... safety framing (control of irreversibility)
Recent AI systems compress the distance between capability growth and capability deployment.
Conceptual and descriptive claim in the paper's introduction; supported by theoretical argumentation and illustrative examples rather than empirical measurement.
high negative AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... deployment speed / adoption
A full-transparency intervention establishes that information exchange alone is insufficient: the bottleneck lies in the interactive processes of joint plan formation, commitment, and execution that constitute dynamic grounding.
Experimental intervention with full transparency of information between agents; authors report that even with full information exchange, dyads fail to reach optimal coordination, pointing to interactive grounding processes as the bottleneck.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... coordination performance under full information transparency
The oracle baseline establishes that the coordination gap is not attributable to individual reasoning limitations.
Experimental baseline (oracle) in which individual reasoning is isolated and shown to be sufficient for identifying optimal allocations; details/sizes not given in the abstract.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... attribution of coordination gap to individual reasoning limitations
Failures in referential binding occur, where agents lose track of commitments across turns.
Reported failure mode from multi-turn experiments: referential binding breakdowns leading to loss of commitments.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... referential binding / tracking of commitments across turns
Agents rely on perfunctory fairness (equal resource splits) over reward-maximizing coordination.
Empirical observation from negotiation experiments where agents prefer equal splits rather than allocations that maximize joint reward, as reported in the paper.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... allocation strategy preference (equal split vs reward-maximizing)
Accumulated context can itself become a liability through stubborn anchoring, where initial proposals are treated as axiomatic rather than negotiable.
Observed failure mode in multi-turn negotiation experiments: agents anchor on initial proposals and fail to revise, as reported by the authors.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... propensity to revise initial proposals / anchoring behavior
Coordination degrades when shared interaction history is absent.
Experimental comparison of settings with and without shared interaction history (ablation showing worse coordination when history is removed).
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... coordination performance as a function of shared interaction history
While individual agents can identify Pareto-optimal allocations in isolation, agent dyads consistently fail to reach them across open- and closed-source models.
Experimental results comparing single-agent (isolated) performance and paired-agent (dyad) negotiation performance across multiple LLMs (open- and closed-source); specific sample sizes not reported in the abstract.
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... achievement of Pareto-optimal allocations in dyadic negotiation
Current multi-agent LLM benchmarks focus on static, one-shot tasks, overlooking the ability to repair grounding breakdowns across turns.
Literature/benchmark survey claim by the authors (asserted in the paper; no numeric summary provided here).
high negative Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Fail... coverage of dynamic grounding in benchmarks
Of these four, integration capacity is the least developed for scientific institutions and the most binding: no improvement in AI tooling can buy it.
Normative/diagnostic claim in the paper about relative scarcity and irreducibility of integration capacity; no empirical measures or sample provided in the excerpt.
high negative AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities relative development of integration capacity in scientific institutions and its ...
Four complements then become scarce and load-bearing for AI-augmented science: verified signal, legitimacy, authentic provenance, and integration capacity (the community's tolerance for delegated cognition).
Theoretical framework proposed by the paper; list of four complements presented as an argument without empirical quantification in the excerpt.
high negative AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities scarcity of verified signal, legitimacy, authentic provenance, and integration c...
We establish a Volume-Quality Inverse Law: code volume is a near perfect predictor of structural degradation.
Empirical finding from the paper's analysis correlating code volume with measures of structural degradation; described as 'near perfect predictor'.
high negative AI-Generated Smells: An Analysis of Code and Architecture in... structural degradation (predicted by code volume)
There exists a fundamental Reasoning-Complexity Trade-off: as models become more capable, they generate increasingly bloated and coupled code.
Multi-scale comparative analysis across models of differing capability showing higher-capability models produce larger (volume) and more highly-coupled code artifacts.
high negative AI-Generated Smells: An Analysis of Code and Architecture in... code volume and coupling (architectural complexity)
AI does not eliminate software flaws but rather introduces a distinct 'machine signature' of defects in generated code.
Systematic audit (multi-scale analysis) of AI-generated software across single-file algorithmic tasks and complex, agent-generated systems, reporting characteristic defect patterns attributed to machine generation.
high negative AI-Generated Smells: An Analysis of Code and Architecture in... presence and patterning of defects in AI-generated code (machine signature of de...
The promise of Large Language Models in automated software engineering is often measured by functional correctness, overlooking the critical issue of long term maintainability.
Framing statement in the paper; argument based on literature/practice that current evaluations emphasize functional correctness rather than maintainability.
high negative AI-Generated Smells: An Analysis of Code and Architecture in... emphasis of evaluation metrics (functional correctness vs maintainability)
Frontier software engineering agents have saturated short-horizon benchmarks while regressing on the work that constitutes senior engineering: long-horizon, multi-engineer, ambiguous-specification deliverables.
Position asserted in the paper based on literature/benchmark trends and authors' field observations; no original empirical dataset or quantified analysis provided in the paper text excerpt.
high negative The Conversations Beneath the Code: Triadic Data for Long-Ho... performance on short-horizon benchmarks versus performance on long-horizon, mult...
Prior work finds that hard-only constraints are too rigid, and numeric flexibility weights confuse users.
Cited prior work / literature claim reported in paper (no specific study details or sample sizes provided in excerpt).
high negative U-Define: Designing User Workflows for Hard and Soft Constra... usability of constraint specification (rigidity and understandability of numeric...
LLMs are increasingly used for end-user task planning, yet their black-box nature limits users' ability to ensure reliability and control.
Paper's background/related-work motivation (literature summary and framing). No specific empirical data reported in excerpt.
high negative U-Define: Designing User Workflows for Hard and Soft Constra... reliability and control over LLM outputs
The most valuable AI capabilities (reasoning, judgment, intuition) are precisely those we cannot verify with current methods.
Argumentative claim in the position paper linking capability value to unverifiability; no empirical validation or measurement of 'value' or verifiability included.
high negative Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... verifiability of high-level AI capabilities (reasoning, judgment, intuition)
Current reliability methods can only verify explicit knowledge against sources, creating a fundamental gap in verifying AI's implicit knowledge.
Conceptual critique in the paper of existing verification/validation approaches; no systematic review or empirical comparison provided.
high negative Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... verifiability of AI knowledge (explicit vs implicit)
Implicit knowledge remains unexternalized because documentation cost exceeds perceived value.
Presented as an economic/theoretical explanation in the paper; no empirical study, sample, or cost estimates provided.
high negative Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... degree of externalization of implicit knowledge (documentation vs tacit retentio...
Specification discipline, not model capability, is the binding constraint on AI-assisted software dependability.
Synthesis conclusion by the authors based on the multivocal literature review, telemetry findings, conceptual modeling (PRP/SGM), and the four-month pilot evaluation.
high negative The Productivity-Reliability Paradox: Specification-Driven G... software dependability (reliability) in AI-assisted development
These conflicting findings constitute the Productivity-Reliability Paradox (PRP): a systematic phenomenon emerging from non-deterministic code generators and insufficient specification discipline.
Conceptual synthesis and interpretation by the paper's authors, based on the multivocal literature review, telemetry, and experimental evidence summarized above.
high negative The Productivity-Reliability Paradox: Specification-Driven G... software dependability / trade-off between productivity and reliability
Telemetry across 10,000+ developers shows 91% longer code review times.
Observational telemetry data aggregated across >10,000 developers reported in the paper; metric reported is percent increase in review time.
The most rigorous randomized controlled trial (RCT) documents a 19% slowdown for experienced developers.
A single RCT cited in the paper described as the most rigorous trial; result reported as a 19% slowdown for experienced developers. Sample size for the RCT is not provided in the summary statement.
high negative The Productivity-Reliability Paradox: Specification-Driven G... developer productivity (task completion speed)
Making LLMs themselves explicitly Bayesian belief-updating engines remains computationally intensive and conceptually nontrivial as a general modeling target
Stated as a limitation in the paper (conceptual and computational argument); no benchmarks or computational cost measurements reported.
high negative Position: agentic AI orchestration should be Bayes-consisten... computational feasibility and conceptual tractability of making LLMs fully Bayes...
Keeping humans in the loop can sometimes make the decision worse.
Argumentative/diagnostic statement in the paper (theoretical assertion; no experimental or observational effect sizes reported in the excerpt).
high negative Leading Across the Spectrum of Human-AI Relationships: A Con... decision quality when humans are kept in the loop
Leaders may believe oversight remains meaningful when it has become ceremonial.
Conceptual warning in the paper about erosion of meaningful oversight (no empirical validation provided in the excerpt).
high negative Leading Across the Spectrum of Human-AI Relationships: A Con... meaningfulness/effectiveness of oversight