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Evidence (15198 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 806 212 105 975 2164
Governance & Regulation 898 417 197 128 1671
Organizational Efficiency 865 210 132 88 1306
Technology Adoption Rate 703 265 130 115 1224
Research Productivity 474 140 65 350 1041
Output Quality 507 197 61 53 818
Decision Quality 358 181 86 52 684
AI Safety & Ethics 245 294 71 34 650
Firm Productivity 465 60 93 22 646
Market Structure 188 173 126 25 517
Task Allocation 225 72 78 34 414
Innovation Output 246 30 48 18 344
Skill Acquisition 182 67 62 18 329
Employment Level 112 57 110 13 294
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 137 72 45 28 289
Firm Revenue 175 50 28 5 259
Consumer Welfare 122 71 46 13 252
Task Completion Time 187 34 10 14 246
Inequality Measures 45 127 50 6 228
Worker Satisfaction 95 75 23 12 205
Error Rate 77 98 11 4 190
Regulatory Compliance 84 73 17 7 181
Automation Exposure 61 63 27 14 168
Training Effectiveness 98 21 14 19 154
Team Performance 93 18 28 11 151
Wages & Compensation 79 39 25 7 150
Developer Productivity 105 18 14 6 144
Job Displacement 12 84 23 1 120
Hiring & Recruitment 53 8 8 3 72
Skill Obsolescence 6 51 9 1 67
Social Protection 40 17 8 2 67
Creative Output 32 20 8 3 64
Labor Share of Income 17 20 17 1 55
Worker Turnover 15 15 3 33
Industry 1 1
Cognitive biases and inappropriate trust (both overtrust and distrust) distort decision outcomes and limit the benefits of AI-assisted decision-making.
Qualitative interview evidence describing instances of cognitive bias and misplaced trust; some quantitative indicators of decision distortion and risk where operational performance/risk metrics were available; sample: finance professionals across multinational institutions (detailed metrics not specified).
medium negative Human-AI Synergy in Financial Decision-Making: Exploring Tru... decision quality/distortion; systemic risk indicators
Market dominance by global platforms can stifle local entrants and distort competition; policies should address market power and data monopolies.
Review of platform economics and competition policy literature; policy argumentation rather than new empirical competition analysis in this paper.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... market concentration indices, entry/exit rates of local firms, measures of compe...
If local data ownership, capacity and governance are weak, economic gains from AI risk accruing to foreign firms and exacerbating income and wealth concentration.
Conceptual synthesis referencing empirical studies on platform rents and data monetization; no original economic distribution analysis presented.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... distribution of AI-related revenues, market share of foreign vs local firms, mea...
AI and automation can displace labour—particularly routine tasks—heightening the need for retraining, active labour policies and social protection.
Review of literature on automation and labour markets combined with normative inference for African contexts; no primary labour market data presented.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... job displacement rates, changes in task composition, employment levels in routin...
AI adoption raises a risk of digital colonialism: foreign control of data, platforms, and value capture may divert economic gains away from local actors.
Conceptual analysis drawing on policy documents and empirical literature about data flows, platform economics, and international investment; no original quantitative measurement in this paper.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... data ownership, revenue capture by foreign firms, local value capture, concentra...
Increased monitoring and algorithmic management raise concerns about worker autonomy and privacy and will prompt regulatory responses (data protection, algorithmic transparency) that shape adoption costs and trajectories.
Recurring concerns reported across included studies and the review's policy implication section; grounded in qualitative and normative discussions within the literature.
medium negative Data-Driven Strategies in Human Resource Management: The Rol... worker autonomy/privacy incidents, regulatory actions, adoption costs
Over-standardisation of curricula can create mismatches between certified competencies and firm-specific needs.
Stated in Risks: the paper warns that overly standardized curricula may not fit firm-specific requirements. This is a conceptual caution, not supported by within-paper empirical comparisons.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... alignment between certified competencies and firm-specific job demands (skill-ma...
High fixed costs may concentrate training capacity among a few providers, risking reduced competition.
Listed under Risks to Watch: the paper warns that high fixed costs could concentrate capacity. This is a theoretical market-concentration risk; no empirical market analysis is provided.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... market concentration (Herfindahl index), number of active training providers
Upfront and maintenance costs are substantial; economic evaluation should compare these costs to downstream benefits such as placement rates and productivity gains.
Paper recommends economic evaluation, lists cost-per-curriculum and other cost metrics; presented as advice rather than results. No empirical cost–benefit data provided.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... cost-per-curriculum, ROI metrics, placement rates, productivity measures
Complexity and lock-in to specific standards may raise barriers to innovation and increase switching costs.
Discussed in Regulation and compliance economics and Risks: claims that standardisation and embedded processes could produce vendor/standard lock-in. This is a theoretical risk flagged by the authors, not supported by empirical data in the paper.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... switching costs, rate of innovation adoption, vendor dependence indicators
Model risk, bias, and privacy concerns impose negative externalities (e.g., systemic risk in supply chains, discrimination), motivating governance standards, auditing, and possibly regulation.
Documentation in standards, practitioner reports, and conceptual literature within the 2020–2025 review describing incidents, risks, and calls for governance/regulation.
medium negative Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Resource ... externality indicators (e.g., cross-firm contagion incidents, measured discrimin...
Biased training data or objective functions in AI models could perpetuate gender disparities by offering different products or risk scores to men and women.
Review of AI fairness literature and examples of algorithmic disparate impacts summarized in the paper (conceptual and case evidence; not an empirical test tied specifically to fintech products in the review).
medium negative Women's Investment Behaviour and Technology: Exploring the I... differences in product recommendations, risk scoring disparities, disparate outc...
Firms will need to invest in new control technologies, governance structures, and personnel (AI auditors, red teams), increasing the total cost of GenAI adoption.
Economic reasoning and implications section; no empirical cost estimates or survey data; projection based on anticipated control needs.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... total cost of GenAI adoption including ongoing control and governance expenditur...
Malicious insiders, external actors (vendors, consultants, customers), shadow AI (unsanctioned consumer-grade GenAI use), and supply-chain/third-party prompt templates are plausible attack vectors for prompt fraud.
Threat taxonomy and scenario mapping with case-style examples; conceptual identification of actors rather than documented incident attribution.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... range of plausible adversary vectors capable of injecting malicious prompts
Poor logging, weak prompt governance, and over-reliance on machine-generated artifacts increase organizational vulnerability to prompt fraud.
Control gap analysis and prescriptive argumentation; examples of weak controls used to illustrate exploitability; no empirical measurement of effect sizes.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... organizational vulnerability/risk exposure to prompt fraud given control quality
Because prompt fraud operates at the linguistic/procedural surface rather than the network/technical surface, existing control frameworks are ill-prepared to address this new attack surface.
Control gap analysis comparing conventional internal controls to the linguistic attack surface; conceptual rather than empirical evaluation.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... adequacy of existing internal control frameworks to mitigate prompt-driven risks
Upfront governance costs (policy, tooling, staff) become a key part of adoption cost and affect ROI calculations and payback periods for automation investments.
Economic reasoning and implications discussed in the paper; no empirical cost data provided—recommendation based on practitioner experience and theoretical cost accounting.
medium negative Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... adoption costs, ROI, payback periods (economic outcomes, not empirically measure...
Traditional automation governance is often ad hoc, underestimates security and compliance risks, and does not scale safely for mission-critical enterprise systems.
Synthesis of industry best practices and practitioner-sourced lessons (qualitative observations and case illustrations). No systematic survey or quantitative incidence rates provided.
medium negative Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... quality of governance practices; prevalence of security/compliance risk awarenes...
Prompt fraud reduces the marginal cost of producing convincing fraudulent artifacts, which may increase fraud frequency and expected losses absent mitigations.
Economic reasoning and conceptual modeling of incentives; no empirical estimates of frequency or losses included.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... expected frequency of fraud and expected losses under unchanged mitigation effor...
Lack of prompt provenance, versioning, and validation practices increases organizational exposure to prompt fraud.
Conceptual analysis and recommended controls (provenance/versioning) drawn from audit-framework comparisons and threat modeling.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... existence of prompt-provenance/versioning/validation practices and associated ri...
There is insufficient logging/traceability of prompts, responses, and model versions in many workflows, creating a control weakness for detecting prompt fraud.
Observations from literature/regulatory review and the paper's threat/control mapping; asserted as a common operational gap (no systematic measurement).
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... presence/quality of prompt/response/model-version logging and its sufficiency fo...
Shadow AI — unsanctioned, decentralized use of GenAI tools — amplifies prompt-fraud risk by bypassing central controls and audit trails.
Conceptual analysis and organizational risk reasoning; references to common practices of unsanctioned tool use (no empirical prevalence data).
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... increase in unmonitored prompt activity and corresponding reduction in detectabi...
External actors can commit prompt fraud via customer-facing systems or social-engineering prompt chains.
Conceptual threat scenarios and mapping of attack surfaces (customer-facing interfaces, input channels); illustrative examples provided.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... risk of prompt-fraud initiated through external-facing inputs or social-engineer...
Internal actors manipulating prompts within authorized AI workflows are a realistic and important threat vector for prompt fraud.
Threat modeling and scenario-based analysis highlighting insiders with authorized access who can craft prompts.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... risk or incidence of prompt-fraud events originating from internal actors
Prompt fraud can defeat controls that rely on plausibility, standard formatting, or human review that trusts model-like language.
Threat mapping and literature on automation bias; illustrative vignettes showing how machine-like outputs mimic authoritative formats.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... effectiveness of plausibility/format/human-review-based controls in identifying ...
Prompt fraud lowers the entry cost of producing convincing fraudulent artifacts, increasing the ease with which attackers can create plausible forgeries.
Economic reasoning and conceptual analysis based on GenAI behavior and illustrative scenarios (no empirical cost or frequency data).
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... marginal cost (effort/resources) required to produce convincing fraudulent artif...
Prompt fraud — the intentional manipulation of natural-language prompts to cause generative AI systems to produce misleading, fabricated, or deceptive artifacts that bypass internal controls — constitutes a novel, low-cost fraud vector that traditional IT- and process-focused controls are ill-equipped to detect or prevent.
Conceptual analysis and threat modeling grounded in literature/regulatory review and illustrative vignettes; no systematic empirical incidence data provided.
medium negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... ability of existing IT/process controls to detect or prevent fraud produced via ...
Secure infrastructure (including SECaaS-provided tools) affects the availability and trustworthiness of AI training data and models; breaches reduce returns to AI R&D via direct losses and reduced trust.
Conceptual linkage supported by case studies of data/model theft and technical literature on secure enclaves, differential privacy, federated learning; no broad quantitative estimate provided.
medium negative Security- as- a- service: enhancing cloud security through m... incidence of data/model breaches, economic returns to AI R&D
Security externalities (one firm's breach raising ecosystem risk) complicate private incentives and may justify policy interventions such as standards or mandatory reporting.
Economic theory on externalities, case studies showing spillovers from breaches, and policy analyses recommending interventions.
medium negative Security- as- a- service: enhancing cloud security through m... spillover risk, incentive alignment, justification for regulation
Concentration among large cloud/SECaaS providers can create market power, platform dependency, and affect competition in AI markets.
Market-structure theory, observed concentration patterns in industry reports, and qualitative case studies; no causal estimates provided in the chapter.
medium negative Security- as- a- service: enhancing cloud security through m... market power indicators, competition measures in AI markets
Latency and integration frictions can limit the suitability of SECaaS for specialized workloads, including some AI pipelines.
Technical evaluations and benchmarks that measure latency/resource overhead; reports and case studies noting integration challenges for high-throughput or low-latency workloads.
medium negative Security- as- a- service: enhancing cloud security through m... latency, integration overhead, suitability for AI workloads
Reliance on a small set of major cloud/SECaaS providers creates vendor lock-in, concentration risk, and systemic vulnerability if a major provider is compromised.
Market-structure discussions, observed provider outages and incidents (case studies), and theoretical arguments about concentration; no single causally identified empirical estimate provided.
medium negative Security- as- a- service: enhancing cloud security through m... market concentration, systemic risk, dependency risk
Without improvements in robustness, consistency, and neuroscientific validity of explanations, clinical uptake will be constrained, slowing commercialization and reducing returns for developers focused only on performance.
Synthesis and forward-looking argument linking methodological deficits documented in the literature to likely reduced market adoption; no direct empirical market impact measurement provided.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... clinical uptake, commercialization pace, developer returns
Weak or inconsistent explanations increase regulatory and medico-legal risk; standardized, validated XAI can lower compliance costs and liability exposure.
Logical inference connecting explanation reliability to regulatory scrutiny and liability concerns, presented as an implication in the review (no direct empirical legal analysis provided).
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... regulatory/compliance and legal risk
Preprocessing pipelines (filtering, artifact removal such as ICA, re-referencing, segmentation) materially affect XAI outputs.
Review cites multiple studies and methodological notes showing explanation maps vary with preprocessing choices; effect reported qualitatively across papers.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... sensitivity of explanation outputs to preprocessing steps
There is a scarcity of human/clinical validation studies testing whether explanations improve clinician decision-making or align with clinical reasoning.
Observation from literature survey: few reviewed works include clinician studies or longitudinal/clinical impact evaluations.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... presence/absence of human/clinical validation
Identified methodological limitations include sensitivity of explanations to hyperparameters and preprocessing choices, inconsistent explanations across similar inputs, and poor correlation with known neurophysiology.
Synthesis of reported failure modes and limitations from multiple EEG-XAI studies reviewed in the paper.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... stability/consistency of explanations and alignment with neurophysiological know...
Most studies focus on qualitative visualizations (e.g., heatmaps) rather than quantitative, reproducible metrics for explanation quality; few evaluate neuroscientific validity or clinical usefulness, and robustness to noise and preprocessing is often untested.
Review-level assessment of evaluation practices across papers, noting prevalence of visual inspection and scarcity of standardized quantitative metrics or clinical validation.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... evaluation rigor: qualitative vs quantitative; assessment of robustness and clin...
Current explainability methods for EEG frequently lack robustness, consistency, and alignment with neuroscientific knowledge, limiting their trustworthiness and practical utility.
Aggregate observations from reviewed EEG-XAI studies noting inconsistent attributions, sensitivity to analysis choices, and few studies that validate explanations against neuroscientific markers or clinical endpoints.
medium negative Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... robustness/consistency/neuroscientific validity of explanations (trustworthiness...
Divergent governance regimes increase the risk of data localization, interoperability frictions, and regulatory fragmentation — raising costs for multinational AI development and limiting global model generalizability.
Policy‑level comparative inference from contrasting national approaches identified in the document analysis and related literature on cross‑border data governance; no direct measurement of costs or model generalizability in the paper.
medium negative Balancing openness and security in scientific data governanc... data localization, interoperability frictions, regulatory fragmentation, costs t...
State‑led coordination can rapidly mobilize resources and scale national champions, altering competitive dynamics and potentially creating winner‑take‑most outcomes.
Theoretical inference from document evidence of state mobilization and developmentalist goals in Chinese texts, combined with literature on state coordination and industrial scaling (no empirical competition measures in the paper).
medium negative Balancing openness and security in scientific data governanc... market concentration / competitive dynamics (winner‑take‑most)
AI systems trained on incomplete, adult-centric, or high-income–biased data risk perpetuating inequities in prediction, resource allocation, and policy recommendations for children and LMICs.
Data-justice and algorithmic fairness literature cited conceptually in the review; applies generalizable concerns about biased training data to the One Health/child-health context without empirical bias audits in this paper.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... equity and fairness of AI-driven predictions and allocation decisions affecting ...
Data gaps, especially child-specific and cross-sectoral One Health data, reduce the reliability and fairness of AI-driven disease prediction and economic models.
Methodological argument grounded in the review of data availability; authors connect observed surveillance gaps to model limitations—no empirical model performance analyses presented.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... reliability and fairness metrics of AI-driven disease forecasting and economic m...
Fragmented governance and funding structures hinder cross-sectoral prevention and response for child-centered One Health challenges.
Policy analyses and governance literature synthesized in the review; narrative evidence of siloed funding and governance limiting cross-sector action (no quantitative governance metrics provided).
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... effectiveness of cross-sector prevention and response mechanisms for child healt...
Integrated One Health research and policy implementation are limited—particularly in LMICs—creating gaps in prevention and response for children.
Policy, programmatic, and academic literature reviewed; authors note under-representation of LMIC contexts and limited cross-sectoral integration in the published literature and surveillance systems.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... degree of One Health research integration and policy implementation affecting ch...
Geographic ranges of many vectors and zoonoses are shifting (due to climate and land-use change), increasing children's exposure in new areas.
Ecological and epidemiological modeling studies and surveillance trends cited in the review indicating range shifts for some vectors/zoonoses; evidence is region- and agent-specific and heterogeneously reported.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... geographic incidence and exposure risk of vector-borne and zoonotic infections a...
Extreme weather events amplify children's exposure to pathogens and degrade health infrastructure and services.
Disaster and public-health case studies and surveillance reports summarized in the review documenting post-event increases in infectious disease exposure and disruptions to services; narrative evidence, context-dependent.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... post-disaster infectious disease incidence and health-service disruption metrics...
Climate change intensifies direct harms to children (heat injury, extreme weather injury) and indirect harms (food insecurity, mental health impacts, shifting disease ecologies).
Climate-health literature and sectoral reports synthesized; references to observational studies and modeling showing associations between climate events and the listed harms (no pooled effect sizes).
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... incidence of heat-related illness, injury from extreme weather, food insecurity ...
Pediatric and neonatal AMR pose distinct clinical and surveillance challenges compared to adult AMR.
Clinical literature and surveillance reports synthesized in the review highlighting differences in pathogen spectra, dosing, diagnostics, and reporting for pediatric/neonatal populations; narrative description without quantitative synthesis.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... adequacy of clinical management and surveillance sensitivity for AMR in pediatri...
Children are disproportionately exposed to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens via clinical care, community transmission, food chains, and environmental contamination.
Synthesis of clinical studies, community surveillance reports, food-safety literature, and environmental microbiology studies; review notes pediatric and environmental sources but provides no pooled prevalence estimates.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... exposure/infection rates with antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in children