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Evidence (7560 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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Human-AI collaboration task complexity (HAI-C task complexity) negatively affects employees' work engagement by amplifying their HAI-C tech-learning anxiety.
Three-wave longitudinal survey of matched data from 497 employees; mediation analysis using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping reported in the Results section.
LLMs are not only less accurate on ideologically contested economic questions, but systematically less reliable in one ideological direction than the other, underscoring the need for direction-aware evaluation in high-stakes economic and policy settings.
Synthesis of empirical findings: lower accuracy on contested items, higher accuracy for intervention-aligned cases in 18/20 models, and error skew toward intervention-oriented predictions; policy recommendation follows from these empirical patterns.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning overall model reliability and directional bias on ideologically contested causal...
This directional skew is not eliminated by one-shot in-context prompting.
Intervention of one-shot in-context prompting applied to models; evaluation shows the intervention-oriented error skew persists despite one-shot prompting.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning effectiveness of one-shot in-context prompting at reducing ideological direction...
Ideology-contested items are consistently harder than non-contested ones.
Comparison of model performance (accuracy) on contested subset (1,056 items) versus non-contested items in the 10,490-triplet benchmark; reported consistent lower accuracy on contested items.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning accuracy (difficulty of items measured by model error rate)
Important boundary conditions include data maturity, process integration, governance discipline, and the degree of functional trust between finance and operating units.
List of boundary conditions reported in the paper based on documentary case analysis and synthesis with literature.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... constraints on GenAI impact on management accounting decision quality
GenAI does not improve management accounting decision quality primarily by replacing managerial judgment.
Interpretive finding based on documentary analysis of disclosures from the three case firms and relevant literature; presented as a summary conclusion in the paper.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... management accounting decision quality
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
Providing agents feedback about past performance makes them worse at information aggregation and reduces their profits.
Experimental condition where agents received feedback about past performance; compared aggregation (log error of last price) and profits with and without feedback and found worse aggregation and lower profits when feedback was given.
high negative Information Aggregation with AI Agents information aggregation (log error of the last price) and profits
Increasing the complexity of the information structure has a significant and negative impact on information aggregation, suggesting AI agents may suffer from the same limitations as humans when reasoning about others.
Experimental manipulation of information-structure complexity in the controlled trading experiment; measured change in aggregation performance (log error of last price) as complexity increases.
high negative Information Aggregation with AI Agents information aggregation (log error of the last price)
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
Evaluation of four leading AI platforms shows that standard RAG-based approaches achieve an average of only 15% accuracy when information is insufficient.
Empirical evaluation described in paper: four AI platforms tested on benchmark; reported average accuracy of 15% for RAG-based approaches on cases with insufficient information.
high negative Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Fact... accuracy on cases where information is insufficient (inconclusive cases)
Unemployment insurance adjudication has seen rapid integration of AI systems and the question of additional fact-finding poses the most significant bottleneck for a system that affects millions of applicants annually.
Contextual/introductory claim in paper; references to domain-scale impact and bottleneck; no specific numeric study sample provided in excerpt.
high negative Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Fact... scale of impact (number of applicants affected) and fact-finding bottleneck in a...
A well-known limitation of AI systems is presumptuousness: the tendency of AI systems to provide confident answers when information may be lacking.
Statement in paper framing the problem; general literature/contextual claim (no specific experiment cited in the excerpt).
high negative Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Fact... tendency to provide confident answers when information is lacking (presumptuousn...
Brevity, semantic isolation and rhetorical register independently predict representational outcome (i.e., which submissions are included/excluded in summaries).
Statistical/semantic analysis (presumably regression or causal inference) reported in the paper linking textual features—brevity, semantic isolation, rhetorical register—to representational outcomes.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... predictive relationship between textual features and representational outcome (c...
Exclusion concentrates in clusters expressing dissent, scepticism and critique of AI, with exclusion rates of 33%–88% in such clusters.
Cluster/semantic analysis reported in the paper showing higher exclusion rates for clusters labeled as dissent/scepticism/critique.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... cluster-level exclusion rate for dissenting/sceptical/critical clusters
In topic B, 15.3% of participants are effectively excluded by the official summary.
Empirical measurement reported in the paper quantifying participants 'effectively excluded' when comparing source submissions to official summary coverage.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... participant exclusion rate
In topic A, 16.9% of participants are effectively excluded by the official summary.
Empirical measurement reported in the paper quantifying participants 'effectively excluded' when comparing source submissions to official summary coverage.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... participant exclusion rate
Both official government summaries underperform a random-participant baseline for topic B (coverage degradation of -8.0%).
Empirical comparison in the paper between official government summary and a random-participant baseline using the n=5,253 consultation responses.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... coverage (coverage degradation relative to random baseline)
Both official government summaries underperform a random-participant baseline for topic A (coverage degradation of -9.1%).
Empirical comparison in the paper between official government summary and a random-participant baseline using the n=5,253 consultation responses.
high negative Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI... coverage (coverage degradation relative to random baseline)
LLMs endorsed fraudulent investments at 0% across all models tested.
Preregistered experiment across seven leading LLMs producing 3,360 AI advisory conversations; reported 0% endorsement of objectively fraudulent opportunities.
high negative Large Language Models Outperform Humans in Fraud Detection a... endorsement rate of fraudulent investments by LLMs
Endorsement reversal occurred in fewer than 3 in 1,000 observations.
Observed incidence reported from the preregistered experiment (3,360 AI advisory conversations); statement in paper reporting incidence <3/1,000.
high negative Large Language Models Outperform Humans in Fraud Detection a... rate of endorsement reversal (AI shifting from warning to endorsing fraudulent o...
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)
A gender gap persists, concentrated in the most exposed occupations.
Stratified/descriptive and regression analyses of the 2024 EWCS showing gender differences in self-reported generative AI adoption, with the gap largest among occupations with highest exposure; sample >36,600 workers across 35 countries.
high negative Generative AI at Work: From Exposure to Adoption across 35 E... self-reported adoption of generative AI by gender
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
Thick subjectivist theories of meaning in life and meaningful work—those theories that emphasize that meaning-conferring activities are historically formed—enable us to appreciate how some losses cannot be made up, even if there are in principle ample alternative sources of meaning to be found elsewhere.
Theoretical claim about the explanatory power of 'thick subjectivist' normative theories; argued via conceptual philosophical analysis in the paper (no empirical testing reported).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... capacity of theoretical framework (thick subjectivism) to account for non-substi...
Even if there are rich non-work sources of meaning, this does not entail that there is not a significant and multi-faceted loss of meaning, one that cannot be compensated for or offset elsewhere.
Normative/philosophical argument presented in the paper (conceptual reasoning rather than empirical measurement; no sample size).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... loss of meaning due to automation and the (in)ability of non-work sources to com...
The argument that non-work goods can replace work-derived meaning fails to consider the embeddedness and thickness of meaning in human lives.
Philosophical/theoretical critique based on conceptual analysis (author's argument invoking the notions of embeddedness and thickness of meaning; no empirical study reported).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... adequacy of non-work sources to substitute for work-derived meaning
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...
Platforms can exploit workers' uncertainty about the cost of labor to effectively suppress wages.
Interpretation / implication drawn from the theoretical model and the result that a platform can achieve coverage while paying only O(log(M)/M) fraction of total labor cost under assumptions about workers' cost estimates.
high negative Stochastic wage suppression on gig platforms and how to orga... worker wages / wage suppression