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Evidence (8807 claims)

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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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Every additional mechanism we test (planner evolution, per-tool selection, cold-start initialization, skill extraction, and three credit assignment methods) degrades performance.
Findings from the nine-variant ablation study reported in the paper; comparison of variants that add each listed mechanism versus the memory+reflection combination.
high negative AEL: Agent Evolving Learning for Open-Ended Environments performance (e.g., Sharpe ratio or other benchmark metrics) relative to memory+r...
There is a stark geopolitical divide between 'AI Core' nations and the Global South; the Global South faces acute risks of 'Digital Dependency' and eroded digital sovereignty.
Cross-study synthesis in the systematic review (2018-2026) identifying geopolitical patterns and risks; abstract does not quantify the number of studies or present empirical effect sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... digital dependency and digital sovereignty
The 'black box' nature of automated systems undermines the democratic social contract and principles of procedural justice, epitomised by the Australian 'Robo-debt' scandal.
Case study material and literature synthesized in the systematic review referencing the Australian Robo-debt case as an exemplar; abstract does not provide primary data or sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... democratic legitimacy and procedural justice
Traditional forecasting and optimization approaches often operate in isolation, limiting their real-world effectiveness in volatile-demand, uncertain-supply industries.
Positioning/background statement in the paper motivating the integrated framework (literature-based claim).
high negative Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Coupled Demand Forecasting... effectiveness of isolated forecasting/optimization approaches
The stakes are particularly high in spreadsheet environments, where process and artifact are inseparable: each decision the agent makes is recorded directly in cells that belong to and reflect on the user.
Conceptual / domain-specific argument made by the authors (no empirical sample attached to the claim).
high negative Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets risk associated with automated changes to user-owned artifacts
AI agents can perform sophisticated, multi-step knowledge work autonomously from start to finish, yet this process remains effectively inaccessible during execution: by the time users receive the output, all underlying decisions have already been made without their involvement.
Author assertion / conceptual description in the paper (no empirical quantification provided for this general statement).
high negative Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets process transparency / accessibility during execution
Advances in AI agent capabilities have outpaced users' ability to meaningfully oversee their execution.
Author assertion / literature-level observation presented in the paper (no empirical sample reported for this claim).
high negative Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets user oversight ability
Selective forgetting remains underexplored compared to retention in LLM agent memory research.
Authors' literature survey / position statement in paper (assertion made in abstract).
high negative FSFM: A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Selective Forget... extent of research coverage on forgetting vs retention
Beyond technical barriers there are organizational ones: a persistent AI literacy gap, cultural heterogeneity, and governance structures that have not yet caught up with agentic capabilities.
Interview data (over 30) reporting organizational challenges including limited AI literacy, diverse cultural attitudes across organizations, and lagging governance relative to agentic AI capabilities.
high negative Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspe... organizational readiness factors (AI literacy, culture, governance alignment)
Adoption is constrained less by model capability than by fragmented and machine-unfriendly data, stringent security and regulatory requirements, and limited API-accessible legacy toolchains.
Stakeholder interviews (over 30) reporting barriers to deployment; qualitative synthesis identifies data fragmentation, security/regulatory requirements, and legacy toolchain access as primary constraints.
high negative Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspe... barriers to AI adoption in engineering/manufacturing
Users push back against agent outputs -- through corrections, failure reports, and interruptions -- in 44% of all turns.
Turn-level coding of user behavior in the SWE-chat dataset: proportion of conversational turns containing correction/complaint/interrupt signals, computed across >63,000 user prompts and sessions.
high negative SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the W... rate of user pushback per interaction turn
Agent-written code introduces more security vulnerabilities than code authored by humans.
Comparative analysis of security vulnerabilities attributed to agent-authored code versus human-authored code within the SWE-chat dataset (method details not specified in excerpt).
high negative SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the W... security vulnerabilities introduced by agent-written code versus human-written c...
Just 44% of all agent-produced code survives into user commits.
Empirical measurement of code provenance and survival within the SWE-chat dataset: proportion of agent-produced code that becomes part of subsequent user commits across sessions.
high negative SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the W... survival/usefulness of agent-produced code (proportion incorporated into commits...
Despite rapidly improving capabilities, coding agents remain inefficient in natural settings.
Authors' summary claim supported by dataset-derived metrics such as agent code survival rate (44%) and user pushback (44% of turns); observational analysis of SWE-chat.
high negative SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the W... overall agent efficiency in natural developer workflows (qualitative synthesis)
Regulated deployment imposes four load-bearing systems properties — deterministic replay, auditable rationale, multi-tenant isolation, statelessness for horizontal scale — and stateful architectures violate them by construction.
Conceptual/architectural argument presented in the paper (theoretical analysis), not an empirical measurement in the abstract.
high negative Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents compatibility of stateful architectures with regulatory/system properties
The policy and research challenge posed by platform-mediated automation is not merely job quantity (technological unemployment) but institutional continuity — how societies reproduce practical competence when platforms optimize for efficiency rather than formation.
Normative and conceptual claim developed through literature synthesis (institutional economics, platform governance, workforce development); presented as an analytical reframing rather than an empirically tested hypothesis.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... institutional continuity and human capital reproduction (quality of workforce fo...
Entry-level roles have historically functioned as apprenticeships in which workers acquire tacit knowledge and critical judgment; if platforms curtail these formative occupational layers, organizations may lack future workers capable of exercising contextual reasoning required to manage complex systems.
Institutional economics and workforce development literature cited in the paper; conceptual synthesis without original empirical measurement reported.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... human capital formation (tacit knowledge acquisition and contextual reasoning ca...
Platform-mediated automation risks hollowing out labor structures from both directions: eroding repetitive, junior roles from below and automating supervisory coordination functions from above.
Theoretical argument synthesizing institutional economics and platform literature; articulated as a conceptual risk rather than demonstrated with original empirical data.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... structural change in occupational layers (hollowing out of junior and supervisor...
Algorithmic systems are displacing routine tasks across both low-wage entry-level work and middle-management functions.
Stated in paper's argumentation; supported by a literature-based review drawing on platform governance literature and recent research on AI-enhanced automation (no original empirical sample or quantitative study reported).
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... displacement of routine tasks (across entry-level and middle-management roles)
The observed negative OPM effect is consistent with short-term 'J-curve' transition costs (process redesign and capability buildup) during early AI adoption.
Interpretation of empirical patterns (short-term decline in OPM concurrent with no ROA change) offered by the authors as an explanatory mechanism; not presented as separately estimated or experimentally tested.
high negative The Dynamic Causal Effects of Corporate AI Adoption on Profi... operating profit margin dynamics / transition costs interpretation
AI adoption had a significantly negative impact on the operating profit margin (OPM).
Causal analysis of KOSDAQ-listed companies (2018–2025) with AI-adoption timing identified via multi-step, contextually validated text analysis of DART business reports; endogeneity addressed using two-way fixed effects (TWFE) and Propensity Score Matching (PSM).
high negative The Dynamic Causal Effects of Corporate AI Adoption on Profi... operating profit margin (OPM)
An alternative specification that makes different choices about the timing of the pervasiveness of AI yields less robust results, though it also suggests that AI is labor saving.
Reported sensitivity analysis / alternative empirical specification in the paper; authors state the alternative yields less robust results but still indicates labor-saving effects.
high negative Early Estimates of the Impact of AI Within BEA’s Industry Ec... labor use (labor-saving effect)
Our baseline model finds evidence that AI is input saving.
Outcome reported from the baseline empirical specification indicating reductions in inputs associated with AI (authors' baseline model results).
high negative Early Estimates of the Impact of AI Within BEA’s Industry Ec... use of inputs (e.g., labor/capital inputs)
The infrastructure for cross-user agent collaboration is entirely absent, let alone the governance mechanisms needed to secure it.
Authoritative claim in paper framing the research gap; presented as observational/argumentative (no empirical audit reported).
high negative ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autono... availability of cross-user collaboration infrastructure and governance mechanism...
Current AI agent frameworks have made remarkable progress in automating individual tasks, yet all existing systems serve a single user.
Statement in paper's introduction/positioning; conceptual survey-style claim (no empirical study or systematic benchmark reported).
high negative ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autono... automation scope (single-user vs multi-user)
Standard benchmarks often fail to isolate an agent's core ability to parse queries and orchestrate computations.
Paper asserts that existing/standard benchmarks do not adequately isolate parsing and computation-orchestration abilities, motivating the new benchmark.
high negative Time Series Augmented Generation for Financial Applications benchmark adequacy for isolating parsing/computation orchestration
As multimodal AI achieves human-parity understanding of speech and gesture, [the keyboard's] necessity dissolves.
Theoretical claim supported by multidisciplinary review (history, neuroscience, technology, organizational studies); no quantified empirical test reported.
high negative The Instrumental Dissolution of Typing: Why AI Challenges th... necessity/usage of keyboard as default input
General-purpose LLMs pose misinformation risks for development and policy experts, lacking epistemic humility for verifiable outputs.
Conceptual/argumentative claim stated in the paper's motivation; no empirical test reported in the abstract.
high negative Learning from AVA: Early Lessons from a Curated and Trustwor... misinformation risk / epistemic humility
There was a nonsignificant absolute retest performance reduction in the AI condition and a larger retest performance decrement in the AI condition (i.e., retention decreased more after using Copilot).
Comparison of retest (one-week) performance across conditions reported in results; authors report a nonsignificant reduction and larger decrement for the AI/Copilot condition (n=22).
high negative Fast and Forgettable: A Controlled Study of Novices' Perform... retest performance (learning retention) after one week
Current operational approaches typically involve scattered testing tools, resulting in partial coverage and errors that surface only after deployment.
Authors' characterization of industry practice and limitations (assertion in paper; no empirical sample size reported in abstract).
high negative Aether: Network Validation Using Agentic AI and Digital Twin test coverage and post-deployment error incidence
Network change validation remains a critical yet predominantly manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process in modern network operations.
Statement in paper framing the problem; based on authors' characterization of current operational practice (no empirical sample size reported in abstract).
high negative Aether: Network Validation Using Agentic AI and Digital Twin manual effort / error-proneness of network change validation
The paper identifies governance challenges such as accountability gaps, digital sovereignty risks, ethical pluralism, and strategic weaponization arising from embedding AI in diplomatic practice.
Conceptual and normative analysis section of the paper outlining risks and governance challenges; illustrated by examples and argumentation.
high negative Strategic Cognition and Artificial Diplomacy: Designing Huma... presence of governance risks (accountability gaps, digital sovereignty, ethical ...
Thin training coverage fosters anxiety about substitution and slows diffusion of AI tools.
Reported associations from surveys of mid-level managers and technical staff, interviews, and document analysis across cases; thematic coding identified links between limited training, worker anxiety, and slower diffusion. (Sample size not reported.)
high negative Overcoming Resistance to Change: Artificial Intelligence in ... worker anxiety and speed of diffusion/adoption
Upstream textile SMEs frequently exhibit constrained supply chain resilience owing to persistent information latency and structural dependence on downstream orders.
Background/contextual claim stated in paper (motivation for study); no specific quantitative test reported in abstract.
high negative Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience in Textile SMEs: A Human-C... supply chain resilience (constrained due to information latency and downstream o...
The pharmaceutical R&D process is persistently challenged by high financial costs, protracted timelines, and remarkably low success rates.
Background statement in the review synthesizing prior literature and field knowledge; no original empirical data or sample sizes reported in the provided text.
high negative Artificial intelligence in drug discovery from advanced mole... financial costs, timelines, and success rates of pharmaceutical R&D
Existing evaluations of large language models remain limited to judgmental tasks in simple formats, such as binary or multiple-choice questions, and do not capture forecasting over continuous quantities.
Literature/benchmark critique asserted in the paper (argument that current benchmarks focus on simple judgmental formats and miss continuous numerical forecasting capabilities).
high negative QuantSightBench: Evaluating LLM Quantitative Forecasting wit... scope/coverage of existing evaluation formats
Calibration degrades sharply at extreme magnitudes, revealing systematic overconfidence across all evaluated models.
Empirical observations from QuantSightBench evaluation showing model calibration performance as a function of magnitude (paper statement noting sharp degradation and overconfidence at extremes).
high negative QuantSightBench: Evaluating LLM Quantitative Forecasting wit... calibration / overconfidence of prediction intervals across magnitudes
The top performers Gemini 3.1 Pro (79.1%), Grok 4 (76.4%), and GPT-5.4 (75.3%) all fall at least 10 percentage points short of the 90% coverage target.
Reported empirical coverage percentages from evaluation on QuantSightBench for the listed models (paper provides these percentage values).
high negative QuantSightBench: Evaluating LLM Quantitative Forecasting wit... empirical coverage (prediction interval coverage) for specific models
None of the 11 evaluated frontier and open-weight models achieves the 90% coverage target.
Empirical evaluation on the newly introduced QuantSightBench benchmark across 11 frontier and open-weight models; models were assessed on empirical coverage of prediction intervals versus a 90% target (paper statement).
high negative QuantSightBench: Evaluating LLM Quantitative Forecasting wit... empirical coverage (prediction interval coverage)
The study identified significant implementation challenges including algorithmic bias, digital divide concerns, data privacy risks, and low technology readiness among HR teams in Tier 2 cities.
Synthesis of qualitative case study findings from 4 organizations plus survey responses (N=150) reporting barriers and risks encountered during adoption.
high negative A Study on the Effectiveness of Technology-Driven Recruitmen... implementation challenges / risks
Current LLMs are unreliable delegates: they introduce sparse but severe errors that silently corrupt documents, compounding over long interaction.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of errors observed across the DELEGATE-52 experiments (19 LLMs) showing sparse, high-severity, and silently introduced errors that accumulate over long workflows.
high negative LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate error severity and silent corruption over time
Degradation severity is exacerbated by document size, length of interaction, or presence of distractor files.
Additional experiments and analyses varying document size, interaction length, and presence of distractor files reported in the paper showing increased degradation under these conditions.
high negative LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate severity of document degradation / error rate
Agentic tool use does not improve performance on DELEGATE-52.
Additional experiments reported in the paper that compare plain LLM delegation vs. agentic tool-using configurations on DELEGATE-52 and find no performance improvement from agentic tool use.
high negative LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate task performance on DELEGATE-52 (document quality/corruption)
Even frontier models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT 5.4) corrupt an average of 25% of document content by the end of long workflows.
Reported results from the experiment evaluating 19 LLMs on DELEGATE-52; these named models are highlighted and an average corruption fraction (25%) is reported at the end of long workflows.
high negative LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate proportion of document content corrupted
Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals that current models degrade documents during delegation.
Large-scale experiment reported in the paper evaluating 19 LLMs on DELEGATE-52 long delegated workflows; observed document degradation across models.
high negative LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate document degradation / output quality
Underreliance on AI might deprive software developers of potential gains in productivity and quality.
Stated in the paper and motivated by themes from twenty-two developer interviews indicating missed benefits when developers underuse LLM tools.
high negative Towards an Appropriate Level of Reliance on AI: A Preliminar... productivity and output quality
Overreliance on AI may lead to long-term negative consequences (e.g., atrophy of critical thinking skills).
Paper explicitly states this risk and grounds the discussion in findings from twenty-two developer interviews (qualitative evidence and participant-reported concerns).
high negative Towards an Appropriate Level of Reliance on AI: A Preliminar... atrophy of critical thinking skills / skill degradation
Small and medium-sized practices face challenges of skill gaps and resource constraints that hinder adoption of technology and data analytics.
Consistent findings across included studies highlighting barriers in small and medium-sized practices (SMPs).
high negative The Use of Technology and Data Analytics in Modern Auditing:... ability to adopt and implement technology/data analytics
AI adoption is reinforcing existing structural disparities within the BRICS bloc, creating a two‑tier productivity hierarchy (China & India vs. Brazil, Russia & South Africa).
Observed divergence in TFP trajectories and differing links between AI indicators and TC/EC across the five BRICS economies; comparative analysis shows stronger frontier-shifting effects in China and India and weaker or negative effects in the other three economies.
high negative AI-driven productivity dynamics in BRICS economies: Evidence... Cross-country divergence in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and its compo...
Brazil, Russia, and South Africa experience stagnation or decline in both efficiency and technological advancement over 2005–2023.
Malmquist TFP decomposition (EC and TC) for each BRICS economy showing flat or negative trends in EC and TC for Brazil, Russia, and South Africa during 2005–2023.
high negative AI-driven productivity dynamics in BRICS economies: Evidence... Efficiency Change (EC) and Technological Change (TC) components of the Malmquist...