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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
Industry 1 1
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A notable subset of studies identifies critical risks associated with LLM-assistants.
Synthesis across included studies noting reported risks (e.g., cognitive offloading, collaboration issues).
high negative The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... reported risks and negative impacts
Pre-launch testing exposed failures that text-only benchmarks rarely measure, including fabricated trading rules, fee paralysis, numeric anchoring, cadence trading, and misread tokenomics.
Outcome of pre-launch test cases and observed failure modes during testing.
high negative Operating-Layer Controls for Onchain Language-Model Agents U... types/frequency of operational failure modes
There is limited but suggestive early evidence of labor market disruption from AI/LLMs.
Paper summarizes emerging empirical research indicating early signs of disruption; the abstract characterizes the evidence as limited and suggestive without presenting numeric estimates or sample sizes.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... labor market disruption (e.g., displacement, reallocation)
Certain occupations face the greatest risk from AI-driven automation (the article examines which occupations are most at risk).
Paper claims to examine occupation-level risk using synthesized empirical studies; the abstract does not list which occupations or quantitative risk estimates.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... occupation-level risk of automation / exposure to AI
There is a gap between theoretical automation potential and observed real-world implementation of AI/LLMs.
Synthesis of recent empirical studies that compare task-level exposure metrics with employment and usage data; no specific sample sizes or numeric estimates provided in the abstract.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... difference between theoretical automation potential and actual adoption/implemen...
Seed quality bounds what search can achieve: evolution can refine and extend an existing mechanism, but cannot compensate for a weak foundation.
Authors' experimental observations and analysis comparing outcomes starting from different seed designs (qualitative conclusion drawn from experimental runs).
Humans are more aggressive negotiators, accepting deals without a counteroffer only 56.3% of the time compared to 67.6% for LM-based agents.
Quantitative comparison reported in the user study (acceptance rates for humans vs LM-based agents).
high negative Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent ... rate of accepting deals without a counteroffer
Monthly operational cost of running the system is approximately USD 4,000.
Full-scale performance characterization reports monthly cost estimate of approximately USD 4,000.
The supply of AI-literate workers attenuates wage inequality effects.
Presented in the article as a distributional mechanism informed by synthesized theoretical and empirical findings; no concrete empirical methods or sample sizes are provided in the excerpt.
The framework addresses emerging tensions captured in the Creativity Paradox, whereby GenAI may weaken intrinsic motivation, conceptual risk-taking, and evaluative depth.
Theoretical extension of paradox theory and conceptual discussion of potential negative effects; presented as conceptual risks rather than empirically demonstrated outcomes.
high negative Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... intrinsic motivation, conceptual risk-taking, evaluative depth
Making AI usable can thus make procedures easier for future governments to learn and exploit.
Synthesis concluding claim based on the paper's formal model and argumentation (theoretical; no empirical testing reported).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... ease with which future governments can learn and exploit administrative procedur...
The model shows why expansions in AI use may be difficult to unwind.
Analytical conclusion from the paper's formal model (theoretical argument without empirical sample).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... persistence/irreversibility of AI adoption (difficulty of unwinding expansions)
The model explains why reforms that initially improve oversight can later increase that vulnerability.
Analytical/theoretical result from the paper's formal model (presented as an explanation; no empirical data).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... long-run effect of oversight-improving reforms on system vulnerability
The model shows when these systems become vulnerable to strategic use from within government.
Analytical result derived from the paper's formal theoretical model (no empirical validation reported).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... vulnerability of automated systems to strategic internal use
The compliance layer can also create a stable approval boundary that political successors learn to navigate while preserving the appearance of lawful administration.
Stated conclusion/insight from the paper's formal argument and conceptual framing (theoretical, no empirical sample).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... creation of a stable approval boundary exploitable by successive governments
Manual tools like mind maps support structure creation but lack intelligent (AI) assistance.
Paper's comparison of manual tools versus AI-augmented tools (background/related-work discussion; no empirical evaluation reported for this claim).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... presence of intelligent assistance in manual structure-creation tools
Current LLM-based systems let users query information but do not let users shape how knowledge is organized.
Paper's analysis of existing tools and limitations (literature/feature comparison described in introduction; no new empirical test reported).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... capability to shape knowledge organization in LLM-based systems
Knowledge workers face increasing challenges in synthesizing information from multiple documents into structured conceptual understanding.
Statement in paper's introduction/motivation; conceptual observation (no empirical data reported here).
high negative MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI throug... ability to synthesize information from multiple documents into structured concep...
In the absence of intervention, individually rational adoption of genAI will assuredly and profoundly reduce collective welfare.
Conclusion drawn from the paper's theoretical model (normative/predictive claim based on model dynamics; no empirical validation or sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... collective (social) welfare
Habit formation around genAI use can couple otherwise separate domains, so that adoption in low-stakes tasks spills over into high-value tasks and amplifies welfare losses.
Theoretical/model-based claim showing coupling across domains via habit formation (model extension; no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... spillover adoption and amplified welfare losses
The introduction of genAI—while initially beneficial at the individual level—will reduce social welfare for the most important types of tasks.
Model-derived result: theoretical analysis indicates social-welfare reductions in high-value tasks despite individual gains (no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... social welfare for high-value tasks
Generative models are vulnerable to model collapse: when trained on data generated by earlier versions of themselves, their outputs can lose diversity and accuracy.
Theoretical claim / conceptual claim presented in the paper (no empirical sample size given in abstract); refers to degradation of model outputs when trained on self-generated data.
high negative Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... output diversity and accuracy
Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes.
Background statement in the paper's introduction; general literature/field observation (no new primary data reported for this claim in the abstract).
high negative Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufac... robustness of fixed waypoint script manipulation
Each new task domain requires painstaking, expert-driven harness engineering: designing the prompts, tools, orchestration logic, and evaluation criteria that make a foundation model effective.
Author assertion in the paper's introduction/abstract describing the state of practice; no empirical method, dataset, or sample size reported in the excerpt.
high negative The Last Harness You'll Ever Build need for human (expert) harness engineering
Ungoverned coupling between humans and AI can produce fragility, lock-in, polarization, and domination basins.
Theoretical/modeling analysis showing destabilizing dynamics and multiple basins of attraction when governance regularization is absent or weak; no empirical sample.
high negative A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... fragility, lock-in, polarization, and domination outcomes in the dynamical model
Classical robot ethics framed around obedience (e.g. Asimov's laws) is too narrow for contemporary AI systems.
Literature synthesis and conceptual argument drawing on developments in adaptive, generative, embodied, and embedded AI; no empirical sample reported.
high negative A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... adequacy of obedience-based ethical framing for contemporary AI
Current evaluation proxies are insufficient for predicting downstream human impact.
Empirical results in the paper showing decoupling between standard quantitative proxies (e.g., sparsity, faithfulness) and human outcomes (clarity, decision utility, confidence) across datasets and analyst reviews.
high negative Rethinking XAI Evaluation: A Human-Centered Audit of Shapley... predictive validity of quantitative evaluation proxies for human impact
A highlighting policy that is optimal for sophisticated agents can perform arbitrarily poorly when deployed to naive agents.
Constructive worst-case examples and theoretical bounds in the paper demonstrating arbitrarily large performance degradation when applying sophisticated-optimal policies to naive agents.
high negative Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human-AI Decision-Makin... performance (loss in decision quality) of highlighting policies when agent type ...
Optimizing highlighting for sophisticated agents can be computationally intractable, even in simple discrete and binary settings.
Theoretical complexity results and proofs in the paper showing hardness of the optimization problem under the sophisticated-agent model; no sample/calibration required (formal/algorithmic analysis).
high negative Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human-AI Decision-Makin... computational tractability of the highlighting optimization problem
Ethical concerns—such as transparency, explainability, psychological effects, and responsible AI governance—are critical factors influencing employability outcomes.
Review synthesis highlighting ethical issues from empirical and industry literature as influential on employability outcomes.
high negative The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... ethical concerns' impact on employability
There are significant AI adoption challenges in education and industry that affect employability and role transformation.
Synthesized evidence from industry reports and empirical studies discussed in the review highlighting barriers to adoption in education and industry.
From the perspectives of 'personal subordination' and 'economic subordination', AIGC deeply and implicitly controls the labor process through mechanisms such as dynamic path planning, blurring the boundaries of determination.
Analytical/legal argument in the paper linking conceptual standards of subordination to specific algorithmic mechanisms (e.g., dynamic path planning); supported by mechanistic discussion but no reported empirical measurement or sample.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... task_allocation / algorithmic control of tasks
AIGC constantly challenges traditional standards for determining labor relations.
Paper's analytic claim based on conceptual/legal argument that algorithmic features of AIGC complicate application of existing labor-relation tests; no quantitative validation or sample size provided.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... employment (classification/determination of labor relations)
The transformation toward algorithmic enterprises raises critical concerns regarding agency, accountability, data monopolization, and algorithmic bias.
Presented as a principal concern in the paper's conceptual discussion and interdisciplinary critique; based on analysis of governance and ethical literature rather than new empirical evidence in the abstract.
high negative Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... risks to agency, accountability, market power (data monopolization), and algorit...
Algorithmic management and monitoring have reduced employees’ autonomy and perceived work meaningfulness, contributing to 'AI anxiety' characterised by concerns about job loss, skill obsolescence, and diminished control.
Qualitative studies, survey evidence, and theoretical literature reviewed that document impacts of algorithmic management on autonomy, meaningfulness, and worker anxiety (mixed-methods literature).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... employee autonomy, perceived work meaningfulness, and AI-related anxiety
Automation has intensified income inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers.
Synthesis of empirical literature linking automation adoption to widening wage and income gaps across skill groups (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... income/wage inequality between skill groups
Displacement effects have extended from manufacturing into cognitive roles such as clerical work and customer service.
Review of empirical studies documenting automation/substitution effects in cognitive, clerical, and customer-service roles (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... occupational displacement in cognitive/clerical/customer-service roles
Automation has put downward pressure on wages.
Cited empirical studies and wage analyses in the reviewed literature indicating wage suppression associated with automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... wage levels / wage pressure
AI and robotics have led to contractions in low-skilled occupations.
Synthesis of empirical literature reporting occupational contractions in low-skilled jobs following automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... contraction in employment in low-skilled occupations
Extensive empirical evidence shows that AI and robotics can substitute for rule-based, codifiable routine tasks.
Review cites extensive empirical studies demonstrating substitution of rule-based, codifiable routine tasks by AI/robotics (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... substitution of routine tasks (automation exposure)
Artificial intelligence and robotic technologies are fundamentally reshaping labour markets and pose multifaceted challenges to workers engaged in routine and low-skilled tasks.
Narrative review of domestic and international scholarly literature over the past decade (literature review / synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... risks to routine and low-skilled workers (labor market disruption / challenges)
Structural barriers, workforce biases, and digital skill gaps affect women’s participation in AI-enabled sectors.
Claim derived from the paper's synthesis of literature (peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, preprints) identifying common barriers; the abstract does not report quantitative meta-analysis or specific sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... drivers of women's participation in AI-enabled sectors (barriers and gaps)
Vibe coding (unstructured GenAI-driven coding) promises rapid prototyping but often suffers from architectural drift, limited traceability, and reduced maintainability.
Paper asserts this as a motivating observation and characterizes vibe coding's weaknesses; the abstract frames these as commonly observed problems motivating the Shift-Up approach (no sample size given in abstract).
high negative Shift-Up: A Framework for Software Engineering Guardrails in... architectural drift, traceability, maintainability
In post-AGI economies the presupposition of agent autonomy becomes nontrivial because artificial systems may exhibit varying degrees of autonomy, functioning as tools, delegates, strategic market actors, manipulators of choice environments, or possible welfare subjects.
Theoretical argumentation and conceptual classification in the paper; no empirical data reported (modeling/motivating discussion).
high negative Post-AGI Economies: Autonomy and the First Fundamental Theor... validity/applicability of the autonomy presupposition in welfare economics
Scalable AI tutoring for procedural skill learning requires structured knowledge representations, yet constructing these representations remains a labor-intensive bottleneck.
Background/claim made in the paper's introduction framing the problem; no specific quantitative evidence reported in the abstract.
high negative Developing Models of Procedural Skills using an AI-assisted ... effort required to construct structured knowledge representations
Under-represented groups tend to be systematically under-observed because of historical exclusion and selective feedback, which exacerbates uncertainty for those groups.
Conceptual claim supported by illustrative examples (e.g., lending context) and simulations demonstrating selective feedback effects; literature citation likely included in paper.
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions observation frequency/data availability for under-represented groups; resulting ...
Policies that ignore the unobserved (counterfactual) space can harm decision makers (via unrealized gains or losses) and subjects (via compounding exclusion and reduced access).
Theoretical argumentation and illustrative examples (e.g., loan denial counterfactuals) and modelled simulations showing downstream harms when ignoring unobserved outcomes.
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions unrealized gains/losses for decision makers; compounding exclusion and reduced a...
Experiments on simulated data with varying bias show that unequal uncertainty and selective feedback produce disparities across groups.
Simulation experiments described in the paper manipulate bias and feedback patterns and report resulting group disparities (synthetic datasets; experiment details in methods/results sections).
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions group disparities (fairness metrics)
The study is framed based on Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, positing that HAI-C task complexity is a job demand and AI self-efficacy/humble leadership act as resources that can mitigate negative effects on engagement.
Introduction states JD-R theory as the theoretical basis and describes job demands (HAI-C task complexity) and job/personal resources (humble leadership, AI self-efficacy) in the hypothesized model.
high negative How does human-AI collaboration task complexity affect emplo... theoretical framing / hypothesized relationships
HAI-C tech-learning anxiety reduces employees' work engagement (serves as the mediator between HAI-C task complexity and work engagement).
Mediation analysis via hierarchical regression and bootstrapping on the three-wave survey sample of 497 employees; reported in Results as the mediating mechanism.