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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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The empirical analysis used archival microdata from 770 large Spanish firms and employed staged OLS regression models.
Statement of data source and method in the paper's abstract.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... methodological description (data and analytical approach)
The complementarity between AI deployment depth and breadth offers a configurational explanation for the AI productivity paradox.
Theoretical interpretation plus empirical finding of a positive interaction between depth and breadth in staged OLS analyses of archival microdata from 770 large Spanish firms.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... explanation for AI productivity paradox (interpretive/theoretical outcome)
AI capability can be conceptualized as two-dimensional: AI deployment depth (technological variety of AI implementations) and AI deployment breadth (organizational scope of AI diffusion).
Theoretical framing drawing on Resource-Based Theory and organizational search theory; conceptual argument presented in the paper.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... conceptualization: AI deployment depth and breadth
Those preliminary experiments do not establish behavior preservation, scaling economics, or verified-change cost.
Authors' explicit limitation statement following the preliminary QLoRA experiments.
high null result No Accidental Software Agent First Canonical Code for Human ... establishment of behavior preservation / scaling economics / verified-change cos...
The study's findings relate to internal AI capability development and may not fully capture firms' reliance on external AI solutions.
Limitation/qualifying statement in abstract about scope—focus on internal capability development rather than external solutions.
high null result The AI workforce and firm maturity: old firms, new tech scope of measurement (internal vs external AI capability)
The analysis draws on a novel dataset (Babina et al., 2024) combining resume and job posting data for U.S. firms.
Statement in abstract describing data source; dataset is cited as Babina et al. (2024) combining resumes and job postings for U.S. firms.
high null result The AI workforce and firm maturity: old firms, new tech dataset / data source
From 2024 to 2026, more than 130 articles were submitted to this Special Issue (SI), and only 18 papers were accepted after rigorous peer review.
Editorial report in the paper describing CFP submissions and acceptance counts.
high null result Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... number of submissions and acceptances for the SI
We conduct a qualitative study on a representative sample of 306 non-merged pull requests created or co-authored by the agents mentioned earlier, followed by a quantitative analysis of the reasons for rejection.
Authors' reported methods: qualitative study of a sample of 306 non-merged PRs and subsequent quantitative analysis.
high null result Understanding the Rejection of Fixes Generated by Agentic Pu... qualitative and quantitative characterization of non-merged PRs
In a production switchback experiment, the offline-trained policy reduces courier-side time costs without degrading customer-facing delivery quality.
Empirical claim supported by production switchback experiment described in the paper; asserts no degradation in customer-facing delivery quality concurrent with courier-side time improvements (no numerical metrics or sample sizes provided in excerpt).
high null result Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... customer-facing delivery quality
After screening, 35 studies were included in the thematic synthesis and supplemented by official regulatory and industry documents.
Review screening result reported in the paper: number of included studies = 35; supplementation by regulatory and industry documents stated.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... number of included studies and supplementary documents
A structured search protocol was designed for Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar covering January 2016 to May 2026, English-language records only.
Methods statement in the review describing the databases, date range, and language restriction used for the systematic search.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... search protocol (databases, date range, language)
The implementation literature on AI for pharmacy inventory and pharmaceutical supply chains remains dispersed across pharmacy operations, operations research, health informatics, and supply chain analytics.
The review's thematic synthesis of the searched literature (review methods described below) identified studies across these disciplinary areas.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... disciplinary distribution of implementation literature
Specification, reference implementation, conformance suite, and worked examples are available at: https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap
Claim of artifact availability hosted on GitHub (URL provided) as part of the paper's resources.
high null result Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) availability of specification and accompanying artifacts
Two protocol standards address adjacent concerns: MCP standardises agent access to tools and data, and A2A standardises agent-to-agent interoperability.
Factual claim referencing existing standards (MCP and A2A) and their scopes; no citations or supporting documentation included in the provided excerpt.
high null result Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) scope of existing protocol standards
Production deployments are no longer one human supervising one model; they are multi-human, multi-agent collaborations that cross teams, time zones, and trust boundaries.
Stated as a general characterization of modern production deployments; no quantitative data or case counts provided in the excerpt.
high null result Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) structure of production deployments (multi-human, multi-agent)
The findings provide empirical insights for managing employee wellbeing and refining human resource strategies during organizational digital transformation.
Authors' stated implications in the discussion, based on the reported empirical associations and moderation results from the survey of 411 employees.
high null result The impact of artificial intelligence application on employe... managerial implications for employee wellbeing and HR strategies
The study draws on the Conservation of Resources Theory and the Cognitive Appraisal Theory of Stress to explain how AI application influences employees' job insecurity via resource gain and resource threat mechanisms.
Theoretical framing stated in the introduction and discussion explaining the mechanisms (resource gain vs. resource threat) underlying the observed U-shaped association.
high null result The impact of artificial intelligence application on employe... theoretical explanation of mechanisms behind job insecurity
Data were collected via mixed online and offline questionnaires: 453 questionnaires were distributed (242 online, 211 offline); 449 were returned (242 online, 207 offline); following validity screening, 411 valid questionnaires were retained (219 online, 192 offline), yielding an effective response rate of 90.73%.
Reported survey administration and response counts provided in the methods section of the paper.
high null result The impact of artificial intelligence application on employe... survey response / valid sample size / response rate
Devil's Advocate (DA) is an AI assistant that critiques the human's initial ideas, whereas Dialectical Inquiry (DI) provides alternatives and synthesizes a resolution.
Conceptual/definitional claim in the paper describing the operationalization of DA and DI for the experiments.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... operational definition of AI-supported conflict techniques
This research empirically compares DA and DI in AI contexts.
Paper reports experimental comparison between AI behaviors implementing Devil's Advocate (DA) and Dialectical Inquiry (DI) across the studies.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... comparative effects of DA vs DI on SDM outcomes
Both studies examine benefit (information elaboration) and cost (cognitive load) pathways when AI supports SDM.
Paper explicitly frames both studies to measure information elaboration as a benefit pathway and cognitive load as a cost pathway; stated measurement plan in methods.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... information elaboration and cognitive load
Study 2 tests mind-shaping interventions through user strategy training.
Study design described in the paper: a second experiment (Study 2) manipulating user strategy training (mind-shaping) to evaluate effects on SDM processes and outcomes.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... effects of user strategy training on information elaboration and cognitive load
Study 1 tests tool-shaping interventions by comparing three AI bot prototype conditions (Information-only, DA, DI) against a control treatment.
Study design described in the paper: randomized/controlled experiment (Study 1) with four conditions (three AI prototype conditions plus control).
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... effects of AI prototype conditions on information elaboration and cognitive load
We evaluate the system on operator feedback and a question set collected from production usage, graded by human and automated panels.
Paper's stated evaluation methodology: operator feedback + production question set, graded by humans and automated panels.
high null result Archi: Agentic Operations at the CMS Experiment evaluation methodology (feedback and graded question set)
Traditional software and agentic systems are distinct: in traditional software code is the carrier of decision logic, whereas in agentic systems code is ephemeral tooling used by an LLM-driven reasoning loop.
Formalization and conceptual definitions developed in the paper (first-principles formal distinction; no empirical sample size reported).
high null result The End of Software Engineering: How AI Agents Are Fundament... architectural role of code (carrier of logic vs ephemeral tool)
For over half a century, software engineering has operated on a foundational premise: human engineers decompose problems, encode decision logic into static code, and manually adapt that code as requirements evolve.
Historical/descriptive claim presented in the paper's framing and literature review; citation of longstanding software engineering practices (qualitative, no empirical sample size reported).
high null result The End of Software Engineering: How AI Agents Are Fundament... software development practice (human-driven decomposition and static code mainte...
We implement a two-stage processing architecture separating document-level extraction (Stage 1) from claim-level synthesis (Stage 2).
Implementation description in paper: architecture design and pipeline stages described by the authors.
high null result Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis system architecture (document-level vs claim-level processing)
Verified word-count analysis of the Executive Order shows the word 'security' appears 17× and the word 'cyber' appears 14×, while there are zero mentions of 'labor', 'education', 'culture', 'fairness', 'transparency', 'attribution', 'provenance', 'meaning', or 'commons'.
Automated/count-based analysis of the EO text (single-document word-count reported in the paper).
high null result The Security Frame Is a Selection Kernel: Trump's AI Executi... term frequency (presence/absence of specific domain terms)
These are mechanism-oriented synthetic results, not estimates of real firm behavior in a jurisdiction or industry.
Explicit qualification in the abstract stating the scope and limits of inference (paper text).
high null result When Firms Learn to Game the Rules external validity / scope of inference
The study uses a synthetic agent-based reinforcement-learning simulation that separates actual conduct near a legal threshold from proximity in the computable enforcement signal.
Methodological description in abstract: ABM/RL simulation with explicit separation of conduct vs. computable signal; run counts reported (150 seed-level scenario runs, 378 computability-sweep runs, 288 Latin-hypercube runs) and a 2,880,000-row firm-period panel.
high null result When Firms Learn to Game the Rules methodological separation of conduct vs enforcement signal (model design)
Ordinary adaptive updates do not reliably reduce boundary search.
ABM/RL simulation experiments reported in the paper (multiple runs and the firm-period panel); qualitative comparative statement from simulation outputs.
high null result When Firms Learn to Game the Rules boundary search (conduct boundary mass / firms' proximity to legal thresholds)
The distinction matters: debt is a stock of design and governance liability, while the tax is a flow of operating cost that arises because stochastic agents act through tools and workflows.
Conceptual argument in the paper articulating difference between two defined concepts (Agentic Technical Debt vs Stochastic Tax); no empirical demonstration.
high null result Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems conceptual distinction between liability (stock) and operating cost (flow)
Stochastic Tax is the recurring operating burden of keeping probabilistic agent behavior within acceptable bounds.
Paper provides a formal definition / conceptual framing of 'Stochastic Tax'; stated as an operational concept (no empirical quantification provided).
high null result Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems operating burden from probabilistic agent behavior
Agentic Technical Debt is the accumulated liability created when prompts, memory, tool schemas, orchestration graphs, control policies, and observability routines are patched together faster than they can be validated, standardized, and governed.
Paper provides a formal definition / conceptual framing of 'Agentic Technical Debt'; presented as a definitional contribution rather than an empirically measured quantity.
high null result Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems conceptual definition of a technical/governance liability
Agentic AI systems reason over multiple steps, call tools, act through workflows, and adapt through memory and feedback.
Descriptive/definitional statement in the paper; presented as characteristics of agentic systems rather than supported by empirical measurement.
high null result Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems architectural/behavioral characteristics of agentic AI systems
Agentic AI systems are increasingly being explored as production infrastructure.
Stated as an observation in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical data, sample, or formal measurement provided (conceptual/observational claim).
high null result Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems exploration/adoption of agentic AI as production infrastructure
The paper evaluates the proposed architecture using the outcome metric 'time-to-insight'.
Methodological statement in the paper listing evaluation metrics.
high null result Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... time-to-insight (time required to generate actionable insight from data)
The paper evaluates the proposed architecture using the outcome metric 'time-to-find'.
Methodological statement in the paper listing evaluation metrics.
high null result Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... time-to-find (time required to locate relevant data/products)
The paper evaluates the proposed architecture using the outcome metric 'data product adoption'.
Methodological statement in the paper listing evaluation metrics.
In the first acquisition the acquirer pursued a disruptive 'rip-and-replace' strategy for the target’s proprietary ERP system.
Empirical observation from the paper's comparative case study of two consecutive acquisitions of the same digital target (qualitative case evidence).
high null result From Knowledge Loss To Knowledge Leverage: How Gen Ai Afford... IS integration strategy (rip-and-replace)
We identify four archetypes (data orchestrators, aggregators, niche specialists, and cloud orchestrators).
Paper states it develops a taxonomy and explicitly lists four archetypes; based on the taxonomy development and conceptual classification reported in the paper (no sample size or quantitative empirical test reported in abstract).
high null result An Ai Economy Beyond Big Tech Hyperscalers? A Taxonomy Of Ma... presence_of_archetypes (data orchestrators, aggregators, niche specialists, clou...
We examined how different degrees of embodiment affect team performance and conversational dynamics in a real-life escape room; teams were composed of either three humans or two humans and an artificial agent (a Box, an Avatar, or a hyper-realistic humanoid).
Experimental field study reported in the paper: a real-life escape room experiment comparing team compositions (3 humans vs. 2 humans + agent of three embodiment types). Sample size not reported in the provided text.
high null result Teaming Up with Artificial Agents in Non-routine Analytical ... team composition / experimental manipulation (embodiment)
To the best of the authors' knowledge, no prior study has examined the psychological mechanism through which algorithmic management shapes employee voice and silence behaviour outside of gig economy and platform work contexts.
Author claim based on literature review (stated gap in existing research).
high null result Algorithmic Management and Acquiescent Silence: The Mediatin... existence/absence of prior studies on psychological mechanisms in non-platform c...
Estimation accuracy depended only weakly on message volume, indicating that more text alone does not guarantee better inference.
Analysis reported in the paper examining the relationship between message volume and estimation accuracy; described as a weak dependency.
high null result Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... relationship between message volume (amount of text) and model estimation accura...
Regression models and moderation analyses were performed in R to examine associations between governance exposure, AI maturity, and adaptation intensity.
Methods statement: 'Regression models and moderation analyses were performed in R (R Computing, Austria) to examine associations between governance exposure, AI maturity, and adaptation intensity.'
high null result Research on the adaptation path of corporate strategy based ... associations_between_governance_exposure_AI_maturity_and_adaptation_indices
Path-specific composite indices for bifurcation, modularity, ethical signaling, and compartmentalization were quantified using validated scales.
Methods description in the paper: 'Path-specific composite indices ... were quantified using validated scales.'
high null result Research on the adaptation path of corporate strategy based ... composite_adaptation_indices (bifurcation, modularity, ethical signaling, compar...
The study coded 500 adaptation events.
Explicit statement: 'and 500 coded adaptation events.'
high null result Research on the adaptation path of corporate strategy based ... adaptation_event_count
The qualitative dataset included 48 executive and technical informants.
Explicit statement: 'including 48 executive and technical informants'.
The study uses a comparative multi-case dataset of 12 multinational firms (4 tri-jurisdictional, 4 Atlantic, 4 China-primary).
Explicit dataset description in the paper: 'A comparative multi-case dataset of 12 multinational firms (4 tri-jurisdictional, 4 Atlantic, 4 China-primary) was analyzed.'
The model introduces the 'Sciencepreneur' as the central human archetype in agentic R&D.
Conceptual/design claim within the HARMONY artifact presented in the paper.
high null result From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... role definition and skill profile for human operators in agentic R&D