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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
Industry 1 1
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Baseline (non-structured) interactions had 16 of 50 accepted on first pass.
Reported counts in the paper for the baseline group (16 accepted of 50 baseline interactions).
high negative Context Engineering: A Practitioner Methodology for Structur... first-pass acceptances (count and rate)
In an observational study of documented interactions across four AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cowork, Codex), incomplete context was associated with 72% of iteration cycles.
Observational study reported in the paper covering interactions across four AI tools; the paper reports the 72% figure.
high negative Context Engineering: A Practitioner Methodology for Structur... iteration cycles associated with incomplete context
Job insecurity emerges as a critical mediating factor influencing employee attitudes and behavioural responses to generative AI, including upskilling intentions and resistance to technological change.
Review-level synthesis identifying job insecurity reported in included studies as mediating relationships between AI adoption and employee attitudes/behaviours (e.g., upskilling, resistance).
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... upskilling intentions and resistance to technological change (mediated by job in...
Employees express concerns about role displacement (job loss or role changes) associated with generative AI adoption.
Reported across multiple studies included in the review; the review summarises these concerns as part of mixed employee perceptions.
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... perceived risk of role displacement / job loss
These positive perceptions coexist with employee concerns about skill obsolescence related to generative AI.
Synthesis of studies included in the review documenting worker concerns about skills becoming obsolete due to AI-driven changes.
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... concerns about skill obsolescence
Income inequality, measured by the Gini index, rises moderately in every scenario we examine due to the polarising effect of job losses and wage and capital income increases on the income distribution.
Calculation of Gini index across multiple simulated scenarios using the SWITCH-linked distributional analysis; reported in the report.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland Gini index (income inequality)
The largest average losses are experienced by middle and higher income households, for whom job displacement outweighs any wage or capital income gains. Lower income households also lose, but by much less.
Distributional results from microsimulation (SWITCH) applying scenarioled job displacement, wage and capital effects across income groups; reported in the report.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland change in household disposable income by income group
When these effects are combined, we find an average decline in household disposable income as a result of AI adoption.
Combined scenario simulations incorporating job displacement, wage effects and capital income effects linked to the Irish tax-benefit system using SWITCH; result reported in the report's main findings.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland household disposable income (average change)
These wage gains are not large enough to counterbalance the average fall in income due to job displacement.
Combined simulation results (displacement + wage effects) using scenario assumptions and microsimulation (SWITCH), reported in the report's distributional analysis.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland net effect on household income (wages versus displacement losses)
Those most likely to experience this disruption are found in higher income households, where the share of workers transitioning into unemployment is substantially larger than in lower income families.
Microsimulation (SWITCH) linking simulated job displacement scenarios to household income groups; results reported in the report.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland share of workers transitioning into unemployment by household income
In our central scenario — drawn from credible international estimates — around 7 per cent of current jobs could be displaced in the short–medium run.
Scenario simulation based on international estimates of AI exposure/adoption; central scenario reported in the report (linked to SWITCH microsimulation for distributional analysis).
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland share of jobs displaced
AI tends to place higher earning and highly educated workers at greater risk of disruption, because the occupations most exposed to AI are predominantly in these groups.
Synthesis of international research on occupational exposure to AI and the report's analysis linking exposure to worker characteristics (education and earnings); presented as descriptive finding in the report.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland risk of job disruption / occupational exposure to AI
Result 2: When managers are short-termist or worker skill has external value, the decision-maker's optimal policy can produce the augmentation trap, leaving the worker worse off than if AI had never been adopted.
Analytical result from the dynamic model comparing planner/objective variations (short-termist manager or externalities) and showing an outcome labeled the 'augmentation trap'.
high negative The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker welfare/productivity relative to non-adoption
Result 1: Even a decision-maker who fully anticipates skill erosion rationally adopts AI when front-loaded productivity gains outweigh long-run skill costs, producing steady-state loss: the worker ends up less productive than before adoption.
Analytical result from the dynamic model showing optimal adoption choice can lead to a steady-state where worker productivity is lower than pre-adoption (model-based comparative statics).
high negative The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... steady-state worker productivity (relative to pre-adoption)
Experimental evidence shows that sustained use of AI tools can erode the expertise on which productivity gains depend (deskilling).
Statement in paper referencing experimental studies (no specific study, method, or sample size reported in the excerpt).
high negative The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker expertise / skill level
Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves only 33.3% (completion rate) on ClawBench.
Paper gives a concrete example performance result for Claude Sonnet 4.6 (reported completion percentage on the benchmark).
high negative ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks? task_completion_rate (percentage of tasks completed)
The authors evaluated 7 frontier models on ClawBench and found that both proprietary and open-source models can complete only a small portion of these tasks.
Paper reports evaluations of 7 models on the ClawBench tasks (empirical evaluation across the benchmark).
high negative ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks? task_completion_rate / automation_exposure (how many tasks models can complete)
Aggressive compression increased total session cost by 67% despite reducing input tokens by 17%, because it shifted interpretive burden to the model's reasoning phase.
Result reported from the controlled experiment comparing log-format conditions; four conditions described but specific number of sessions/replications not provided in the abstract.
high negative Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... total session cost (primary) and input token count (secondary)
Evaluation of 17 models reveals severe limitations: no model exceeds 66% overall.
Paper reports an evaluation across 17 models and states the maximum overall score observed was below 66%.
high negative ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptatio... overall accuracy on the implicit memory benchmark
Existing memory benchmarks for LLM agents evaluate explicit recall of facts, yet overlook implicit memory where experience becomes automated behavior without conscious retrieval.
Statement in paper introduction contrasting prior benchmarks' focus on explicit recall with a claimed gap in evaluating implicit (non-declarative) memory; no systematic literature review or quantitative survey reported in the excerpt.
OpenAI o3 achieves only 17% of optimal collective performance.
Experimental measurement of collective performance for OpenAI o3 in the paper's multi-agent setup (value reported in abstract; no sample size provided there).
high negative More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... collective performance (percent of optimal group revenue)
The study observed errors and limitations in both phases (test generation and refactoring), and manual intervention was necessary at times.
Case study observations reported in the paper describing observed model errors/limitations and instances requiring manual developer intervention.
high negative AI-Assisted Unit Test Writing and Test-Driven Code Refactori... occurrence of errors and need for manual intervention
Current AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, emphasize developer speed and convenience, with energy impact not yet a primary focus.
Stated as an observation in the paper; no specific empirical comparison or quantification provided in this excerpt.
high negative EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Fronten... design priorities of AI coding assistants (speed/convenience vs. energy impact)
Frontend code, replicated across millions of page views, consumes significant energy and contributes directly to digital emissions.
Asserted in paper's introduction; no specific empirical data or sample reported in this excerpt.
high negative EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Fronten... energy consumption / digital emissions from frontend code
We posit that persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own.
Authors' proposed psychological mechanism / explanation inferred from observed behavior; presented as a hypothesis rather than directly proven causal mediator.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... mechanistic explanation for reduced persistence (expectation of immediate answer...
These negative effects (reduced persistence and impaired unassisted performance) emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes).
Experimental manipulation / exposure in RCTs where participants interacted with AI for about 10 minutes and subsequent outcomes were measured.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... onset/time to observable effect (persistence and unassisted performance after ~1...
People are more likely to give up after interacting with AI (increased likelihood of quitting tasks unassisted).
Randomized controlled trials (N = 1,222) measuring rates of task abandonment/giving-up after AI interaction vs. control.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... likelihood of giving up / task abandonment
AI assistance impairs unassisted performance: although AI improves short-term performance, people perform significantly worse without AI after interacting with it.
Randomized controlled trials (N = 1,222) comparing performance with and without AI assistance across tasks; causal inference from randomized assignment.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... unassisted task performance (accuracy/quality when working without AI after prio...
Through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N = 1,222), we provide causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on human-AI interactions with total sample size N = 1,222; persistence measured after AI interaction across tasks.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... persistence (willingness to continue working on tasks without AI)
AI-assisted evaluation reduces variance in research quality.
SEM and regression analyses on OECD panel data report a decrease in variance of research quality measures associated with higher AIRC.
high negative AI-Augmented Peer Review and Scientific Productivity: A Cros... variance in research quality
Current research has largely focused on short-horizon tasks over a limited set of software with limited economic value (e.g., basic e-commerce and OS-configuration tasks).
Narrative literature/field observation reported in paper introduction (no numeric study reported in excerpt).
high negative Gym-Anything: Turn any Software into an Agent Environment scope and horizon of existing research tasks
There is a fundamental gap in current agent capabilities: functional correctness alone is insufficient for design-aware issue resolution, motivating design-aware evaluation beyond functional correctness.
Synthesis of experimental findings: low design-satisfaction despite functional correctness, prevalence of design violations, and only partial improvement from guidance support the conclusion.
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... agent capability for design-aware issue resolution
Design violations are widespread in agent-produced patches.
Empirical results from experiments on the benchmark showing many patches violate validated design constraints; backed by counts/percentages in evaluation (as summarized in abstract).
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... number/occurrence of design violations
Test-based correctness substantially overestimates patch quality: fewer than half of resolved issues are fully design-satisfying.
Experimental evaluation with state-of-the-art LLM-based agents on the benchmark (reported in paper). Sample implicit: benchmark issues (495) used to evaluate agents; comparison between test pass rates and design-satisfaction measured by verifier.
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... design-satisfaction of patches (design compliance)
Despite growing investment in data analytics, the decision-making and coordination layers of these workflows remain predominantly manual, reactive, and fragmented across outlets, distribution centers, and supplier networks.
Stated as an observation in the paper (abstract); no quantitative evidence, metrics, or comparative analysis provided in the excerpt.
high negative Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... degree of manual decision-making and coordination (fragmentation/reactivity)
Retail supply chain operations in supermarket chains involve continuous, high-volume manual workflows spanning demand forecasting, procurement, supplier coordination, and inventory replenishment.
Descriptive claim stated in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical data, sample, or methods reported to substantiate this characterization within the text provided.
high negative Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... degree of manual operations / automation exposure
The two margins interact through a self-undermining feedback that can generate low-archive traps (multiple equilibria with low accumulated public archive).
Dynamic equilibrium analysis in the theoretical model showing interacting feedbacks and possible trap equilibria (model-derived result).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... accumulated archive size / equilibrium archive level
Resolution margin: the probability that posted queries are resolved declines because AI raises contributors' outside options, thinning the contributor pool and creating congestion on the platform.
Mechanism and comparative-static implication produced by the paper's theoretical model; no empirical sample provided in the excerpt.
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... probability that posted queries are resolved (conditional resolution rate)
Flow margin: the posted volume of knowledge-enhancing queries declines as AI resolves more problems privately before they reach the platform.
Mechanism derived in the theoretical model; stated as the flow-margin channel (no empirical quantification in the provided text).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... posted volume of knowledge-enhancing queries
AI reduces archive creation through two distinct margins: a flow margin and a resolution margin.
Analytical decomposition derived within the paper's theoretical model (mechanism claimed by the model).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... archive creation (rate and quality of accumulated solutions)
Generative AI resolves user problems without leaving a public trace, so fewer discussions and solutions reach public platforms.
Stated as an empirical motivation in the paper; no empirical sample or quantified measurement reported in the provided text.
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... volume of public posts / archival content
Green AI research has largely measured the footprint of models rather than the downstream workflows in which GenAI is a tool.
Literature review / mapping of recent Green AI literature reported in the paper; descriptive claim about the focus of the field (no sample size or numerical counts reported in the abstract).
high negative On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... scope/emphasis of Green AI research (model-level vs. workflow-level measurement)
Existing benchmarks differ from real usage in programming language distribution, prompt style and codebase structure.
Paper asserts mismatch between existing benchmarks and production usage as motivation for producing a production-derived benchmark (stated differences: language distribution, prompt style, codebase structure).
high negative ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... representativeness of benchmarks relative to real usage
Replacing deterministic components with probabilistic workflows changes the failure mode: LLM pipelines may generate plausible but incorrect outputs that pass superficial checks and propagate into irreversible actions such as DOI minting and public release.
Conceptual argument supported by the paper's incident descriptions (e.g., a detected coordinate transformation error); the statement is presented as a general risk rationale.
high negative Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... propensity for plausible-but-incorrect outputs to bypass checks and propagate to...
Occupations whose AI-exposed steps are more dispersed across the production workflow (higher fragmentation) exhibit a substantially lower share of their steps actually executed by AI, conditional on AI exposure share.
Empirical regression analysis controlling for share of AI-exposed steps; uses dataset linking O*NET tasks, human AI exposure assessments, Anthropic Economic Index execution outcomes, and GPT-generated workflow orderings (details in Sections 5.1 and 7).
high negative Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation share (fraction) of steps executed by AI at the occupation/job level
Treated firms' demand for external capital investment falls by just over $220,000 relative to the control group.
RCT with 515 firms; reported dollar-change in external investment demand between treated and control firms.
high negative Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... change in external capital investment demand (USD)
Despite faster growth, treated firms do not scale inputs proportionally: their demand for external capital investment falls by 39.5% relative to the control group.
RCT with 515 firms; firms reported external capital demand/investment requests; comparison of investment demand between treatment and control groups.
high negative Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Perfo... demand for external capital investment
For the private business sector, if the set of automated tasks were frozen in 1950, 87% of TFP growth between 1950 and 2023 would have been eliminated.
Counterfactual growth-accounting exercise that freezes the set of automated tasks at 1950 while allowing capital, labor, and other productivity growth to follow historical rates (simulation based on calibrated accounting).
high negative Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... fraction of historical TFP growth eliminated by freezing automation
The sum of "other" TFP growth and average labor productivity growth (ˆZt + ˆψℓt) is small — for example equal to -0.1% per year for the private business sector since 1950.
Growth-accounting decomposition for the private business sector since 1950 using BEA/BLS data in the task-based framework.
high negative Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... combined growth rate of other TFP and average labor productivity (ˆZt + ˆψℓt)
Under the rapid scenario, economists forecast the share of wealth held by the wealthiest 10% of households rising to 80.0% by 2050.
Conditional forecasts in Key Findings for the economist respondent group under the rapid AI scenario (2050 horizon).
high negative Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI fraction of wealth held by top 10% of households by 2050 (rapid scenario)