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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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Conditional on the rapid scenario, economists forecast the labor force participation rate falling from its current level of 62% to 55% 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 labor force participation rate (LFPR) by 2050 under rapid scenario
There are macroeconomic risks associated with AI-led unemployment.
Paper's macroeconomic analysis drawing on labor economics and technology adoption research; no quantitative estimates or sample sizes provided in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... macroeconomic risk indicators (e.g., unemployment, aggregate demand shortfalls)
Managerial incentives drive premature workforce contraction during AI adoption.
Analytical claim grounded in labor economics and organizational behavior review; the summary indicates examination of managerial incentives but does not report primary empirical tests or sample sizes.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... timing and extent of workforce contraction
Premature workforce contraction in response to AI adoption foreshadows deeper structural challenges as AI systems mature.
Forward-looking claim based on synthesis of literature and theoretical projection; no empirical quantification or sample provided in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... long-run structural economic challenges (e.g., systemic instability, labor marke...
This pattern of premature workforce reductions reflects longstanding corporate short-termism rather than genuine technological displacement.
The paper's interpretation drawing on labor economics and organizational behavior literature; no empirical study or sample size reported in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... drivers of workforce reduction (managerial incentives vs. actual automation capa...
Organizations face mounting pressure to demonstrate immediate returns on AI investments, often through workforce reductions that outpace actual automation capabilities.
Argument in paper citing accelerating AI adoption across sectors and observed managerial responses; no primary dataset or sample size reported in the text.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... workforce reductions / layoffs
Applying the Auditor-Corrector methodology to ELT-Bench uncovers that most failed transformation tasks contain benchmark-attributable errors — including rigid evaluation scripts, ambiguous specifications, and incorrect ground truth — that penalize correct agent outputs.
Audit results on ELT-Bench identifying categories of benchmark errors (rigid scripts, ambiguous specs, incorrect ground truth) and attributing many failed transformation tasks to these errors; no numeric breakdown or sample count given in the excerpt.
high negative ELT-Bench-Verified: Benchmark Quality Issues Underestimate A... proportion of failed transformation tasks attributable to benchmark errors (qual...
On ELT-Bench, the first benchmark for end-to-end ELT pipeline construction, AI agents initially showed low success rates, suggesting they lacked practical utility.
Reference to initial evaluation results on ELT-Bench showing low success rates for AI agents; the provided excerpt does not give numerical success rates or sample size.
high negative ELT-Bench-Verified: Benchmark Quality Issues Underestimate A... agent success rate on ELT-Bench (agent capability / practical utility)
The way we're thinking about generative AI right now is fundamentally individual (this appears in how users interact with models, how models are built, how they're benchmarked, and how commercial and research strategies using AI are defined).
Author's observational/descriptive claim supported by argumentative examples (mentions user interaction patterns, model design and benchmarking practices, and commercial/research strategies); no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported in the excerpt.
high negative The Future of AI is Many, Not One conceptual framing and practices around generative AI (individual-focused design...
Traditional questionnaires yielded slightly higher accuracy in risk assessment.
Result reported from the two experiments comparing traditional questionnaires to adaptive ARQuest versions; no numeric accuracy or sample size provided in the excerpt.
Insurers must blindly trust users' responses, increasing the chances of fraud.
Stated as a motivating problem in the paper; presented as logical/empirical concern rather than supported by a reported study within the paper.
high negative AI in Insurance: Adaptive Questionnaires for Improved Risk P... fraud risk from self-reported responses
Insurance application processes often rely on lengthy and standardized questionnaires that struggle to capture individual differences.
Descriptive claim in paper introduction arguing limitations of standard questionnaires; no experiment or sample size reported for this assertion.
high negative AI in Insurance: Adaptive Questionnaires for Improved Risk P... ability of standardized questionnaires to capture individual differences
Using a stylised inpatient capacity signalling example and minimal game-theoretic reasoning, task optimisation alone is unlikely to change system outcomes when incentives are unchanged.
Theoretical analysis using a stylised inpatient capacity signalling example and game-theoretic reasoning presented in the paper (no empirical data/sample reported in the abstract).
high negative Incentives, Equilibria, and the Limits of Healthcare AI: A G... system-level outcomes in healthcare (response to task optimisation interventions...
Deployment of AI systems carries significant costs including ongoing costs of monitoring and it is unclear whether optimism of a deus ex machina solution is well-placed.
Conceptual/argumentative claim made by the authors in the paper (no empirical study or sample size reported in the abstract).
high negative Incentives, Equilibria, and the Limits of Healthcare AI: A G... costs and uncertainty associated with AI deployment (including monitoring costs)
Improvements in operational resilience (OR) effectively reduce corporate operational risk.
Further analysis reported in the paper linking higher OR to lower operational risk measures for firms in the sample.
high negative Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... corporate operational risk (reduction)
AI promotes operational resilience by reducing management agency conflicts.
Mechanism (mediation) tests reported in the paper showing AI associated with reductions in measures of agency/management conflict, which in turn relate to OR improvements.
high negative Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... management agency conflicts (reduction)
No regulatory framework requires disclosure of machine/AI labor output.
Author's assertion in the paper (policy claim; no legislative survey or quantification reported).
high negative HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... presence of regulatory disclosure requirements for machine labor
No index tracks machine labor output over time.
Author's assertion in the paper (stated lack of existing indices; no systematic review/sample reported).
high negative HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... existence of time-series index for machine labor output
This labor force is entirely invisible to the economic infrastructure humanity has built to measure work: no standardized unit of measurement exists.
Author's assertion/diagnosis in the paper (argumentative/observational, no empirical survey or sample reported).
high negative HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... existence of standardized unit for machine labor
Agent contributions are associated with more churn over time compared to human-authored code.
Longitudinal comparison between agent-generated and human-authored contributions reported in the paper (churn/survival estimates described; association between agent contributions and higher churn asserted).
high negative Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Ac... code churn rate over time (agent-generated vs human-authored)
Unbalanced or poorly governed adoption of Big Data and AI contributes to increased systemic risk, cybersecurity vulnerability, regulatory fragmentation and third-party dependence on BigTech platforms.
Argument based on qualitative literature review and synthesis of international empirical studies and comparative sector analysis; no single-sample empirical study in this paper.
high negative Implications of Big Data Technologies for the Resilience of ... systemic risk; cybersecurity vulnerability; regulatory fragmentation; third-part...
Extreme automation (high AI intensity) causes employment decline.
Part of the U-shaped relationship reported by the paper's empirical results; described qualitatively in the abstract/summary.
high negative Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment employment decline
Task orchestration is the most under-researched dimension among the five workplace-design components.
Finding from the PRISMA-guided systematic review of 120 papers, which mapped coverage across the five dimensions and identified task orchestration as having the least research attention.
high negative From Automation to Augmentation: A Framework for Designing H... volume/coverage of research on task orchestration
Decision authority allocation emerges as the binding constraint for Society 5.0 transitions.
Result synthesized from the systematic review and theoretical analysis mapping the five workplace-design dimensions; stated as the binding constraint in the paper's findings.
high negative From Automation to Augmentation: A Framework for Designing H... constraint on transitions to human-centric (Society 5.0) technology integration
The literature shows persistent gaps in empirical validation, standardized evaluation methods, and sector-specific comparative analyses of agentic AI in financial services.
Review-level assessment noting limited empirical studies, heterogeneous evaluation metrics, and few direct cross-sector comparisons up to mid-2024.
high negative A Comparative & Systematic Review of Literature on the I... availability/quality of empirical validation and evaluation standards
Significant implementation barriers persist, notably workforce transformation challenges, legacy system integration difficulties, and trust deficits.
Thematic synthesis across empirical and conceptual papers in the review reporting implementation barriers and change management issues.
high negative A Comparative & Systematic Review of Literature on the I... implementation barriers (workforce, legacy systems, trust)
Ethical concerns—including bias, lack of transparency, and regulatory compliance risks—remain critical for agentic AI in financial services and necessitate layered governance and human-AI collaboration.
Collation of ethical, legal, and governance issues reported across the reviewed multidisciplinary studies and normative discussions.
high negative A Comparative & Systematic Review of Literature on the I... prevalence/severity of ethical and regulatory risks and governance needs
Insurance is comparatively underrepresented in the literature and in reported agentic AI deployments compared with banking and investment.
Review finding (counts/themes across included studies indicating fewer studies/applications in insurance relative to banking and investment).
high negative A Comparative & Systematic Review of Literature on the I... relative representation/adoption across financial subsectors
A weak manager directing a weak worker achieves a 42% success rate, performing worse than the weak agent alone which achieves 44%.
Empirical comparison across the same 200 SWE-bench Lite instances and pipeline configurations, comparing weak-manager+weak-worker pipeline to weak single-agent baseline.
high negative Can AI Models Direct Each Other? Organizational Structure as... task success rate (percentage of tasks solved)
Task complexity shapes substitution: low-complexity tasks see high substitution, while high-complexity tasks favor limited partial automation.
Calibration of the model to O*NET tasks + expert survey + GPT-4o decompositions; implementation results reported for computer vision showing substitution varies with task complexity.
high negative Economics of Human and AI Collaboration: When is Partial Aut... degree of labor substitution as a function of task complexity
AI systems exhibit predictable but diminishing returns to data, compute, and model size (scaling-law experiments), implying the cost of higher accuracy is convex: good performance may be inexpensive, but near-perfect accuracy is disproportionately costly.
Scaling-law experiments estimating performance as a function of data, compute, and model size; described experimental estimation of production function.
high negative Economics of Human and AI Collaboration: When is Partial Aut... marginal returns to inputs (data, compute, model size) and marginal cost of accu...
The common claim that generative AI simply amplifies the Dunning–Kruger effect is too coarse to capture the available evidence.
Paper's synthesis of heterogenous empirical findings from human–AI interaction, learning research, and model evaluation used to critique the uniform-amplification interpretation; no single empirical countertest reported.
high negative Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... validity of the 'amplified Dunning–Kruger' interpretation
LLM use degrades metacognitive accuracy and flattens the classic competence–confidence gradient across skill groups (i.e., reduces calibration and narrows differences in self-assessed confidence by skill level).
Synthesis of studies from human–AI interaction and learning research reported in the paper that document worsened calibration and a reduction in the competence–confidence gradient when users rely on LLM outputs; the paper does not report a single combined sample size.
high negative Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... metacognitive accuracy / calibration and competence–confidence gradient
The agent team topology exhibits higher operational fragility due to multi-author code generation.
Reported empirical observation from experiments comparing architectures, attributing increased fragility/errors to multi-author code generation in the agent team setup (stated qualitatively; no quantitative failure rates provided in the abstract).
high negative An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent Collaboration for Automate... operational fragility / error-proneness associated with multi-author code genera...
Azar et al. (2023) show that monopsonistic employers have stronger incentives to automate and document that US commuting zones with higher labor market concentration experienced more robot adoption.
Citation reported in the paper summarizing Azar et al. (2023); empirical analysis across US commuting zones (no sample size provided here).
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES robot adoption correlated with labor market concentration; incentives to automat...
Acemoglu and Restrepo (2022) attribute 50–70% of the increase in US wage inequality between 1980 and 2016 to displacement of workers from tasks by automation.
Citation reported in the paper summarizing Acemoglu and Restrepo (2022)'s attribution of the rise in wage inequality to automation-driven task displacement.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES contribution of automation-driven displacement to rise in wage inequality (1980–...
Dechezleprêtre et al. (2025) exploit Germany's Hartz reforms to estimate an elasticity of automation innovation to low-skill wages of 2–5 at the firm level.
Citation reported in the paper summarizing Dechezleprêtre et al. (2025)'s empirical estimate (elasticity 2–5); the paper states this was estimated at the firm level.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES elasticity of automation innovation to low-skill wages
Eloundou et al. (2024) predict that half of US jobs are significantly exposed to recent advances in generative AI.
Citation reported in the paper summarizing Eloundou et al. (2024)'s prediction; no sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES share of US jobs exposed to generative AI
When employers have monopsony power, they choose technologies that expand this power beyond what a social planner would consider optimal.
Model results on monopsonistic employer incentives and their technological choices; discussion supported by citations.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES expansion of monopsony power via technological choice
Profit-maximizing firms pursue innovations that erode workers' market power by making them more easily replaceable, even at the expense of production efficiency; a social planner who values worker welfare would employ technologies that preserve workers' market power.
Theoretical analysis of interactions between technological choice and market power; supported by cited empirical evidence (e.g., Azar et al. 2023) in the paper.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES choice of innovation affecting workers' market power / production efficiency tra...
A welfare-maximizing planner would choose to automate fewer tasks than production efficiency would dictate when workers' welfare is heavily weighted.
Model analysis of welfare-maximizing automation level compared to production-efficient automation; analytical result in the automation application.
high negative NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES extent/level of task automation chosen
Observed declines in browsing time due to ChatGPT adoption are concentrated in website categories such as search and news, which are highly exposed to substitution by generative AI.
Category-level browsing time changes across website classification; concentration of declines in categories identified as highly overlap-exposed to chatbot capabilities using web-scraping and LLM site-level overlap classification.
high negative https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 browsing time on search and news website categories
High-income and younger households adopt generative AI substantially faster than low-income and older counterparts, and this gap is widening over time ('generative AI divide').
Descriptive heterogeneity analysis using Comscore household demographics (income and age bins) and observed adoption trajectories across 2021–2024; authors report widening gap rather than convergence.
high negative https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 heterogeneity in adoption rates by income and age (inequality in adoption)
Diminishing returns are not only a geometric flattening of the loss curve, but also rising pressure for cost reduction, system-level innovation, and the breakthroughs needed to sustain Moore-like efficiency doublings.
Analytical claim in the paper about the implications of diminishing returns for cost pressure and innovation requirements (qualitative; no sample size in excerpt).
high negative The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Scaling Laws in AI pressure for cost reduction and need for system-level innovation/breakthroughs
Prominent studies predict substantial job displacement due to automation.
Paper asserts this as background, referencing the existence of prominent studies in the literature (no specific citations or sample sizes provided in the abstract).
high negative AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work job losses / displacement
For organizations of n humans with AI agents, the optimal team size decreases with agent capability.
Derived implication from the stylized model's analysis of multi-human organizations interacting with AI agents.
high negative The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... optimal team size as a function of agent capability
There is no smooth sublinear regime for human effort; it transitions sharply from O(E) to O(1) with no intermediate scaling class.
Mathematical derivation from a stylized model of human-AI collaboration that assumes tasks decompose into atomic decisions, a fraction ν are novel, and specification/verification/error correction scale with task size.
high negative The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... human effort scaling (human time/effort required as task size E grows)
So far the maintenance and migration work was done largely manually by human experts.
Background assertion in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical backing provided in abstract.
high negative A Multi-agent AI System for Deep Learning Model Migration fr... degree of manual effort for model maintenance and migration historically
The regime divide deepens under AI capital concentration, admits a permanent displacement attractor in shallow markets, and generates equity market participation hysteresis in which the ERP remains elevated after employment has normalised.
Model-based assertions: analysis shows capital concentration magnifies regime separation, yields a permanent displacement attractor in shallow-market parameterizations, and produces hysteresis in participation leading to persistently elevated ERP after employment recovery.
high negative When Does AI Raise the Equity Risk Premium? Displacement, Pa... equity risk premium (ERP) persistence / participation hysteresis
The alignment risk channel is specific to agentic AI: correlated misalignment in AI objectives generates aggregate output shocks with fat left tails; formalised via Hansen-Sargent multiplier preferences, the resulting alignment risk premium (ARP) enters the equilibrium ERP decomposition as a priced factor additively separable from the participation wedge.
Theoretical formalisation in the paper: uses Hansen-Sargent multiplier preferences to capture model uncertainty/robustness and defines an ARP that is additively separable in the ERP decomposition.
high negative When Does AI Raise the Equity Risk Premium? Displacement, Pa... alignment risk premium (ARP) contribution to ERP