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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
Wan generates 66.5% of videos in the dataset.
Model-attribution analysis of the video subset of the collected SNEACI items; the paper reports Wan as the generator for 66.5% of videos.
high negative From Celebrities to Anyone: Characterizing AI Nudification C... proportion of videos generated by Wan
Open-source models dominate production, with the Stable Diffusion family generating 42.7% of images.
Model-attribution analysis of the collected SNEACI items; the paper reports that 42.7% of images in the dataset were generated by the Stable Diffusion family.
high negative From Celebrities to Anyone: Characterizing AI Nudification C... proportion of images generated by Stable Diffusion family
Non-celebrity individuals now account for 55.8% of targets, compared to only 4.7% in prior studies.
Analysis of the identified dataset of 24,105 SNEACI items and comparison to figures reported in prior literature (prior studies reported 4.7% non-celebrity targets).
high negative From Celebrities to Anyone: Characterizing AI Nudification C... share of SNEACI targets who are non-celebrities
We identify 24,105 SNEACI items.
Large-scale empirical data collection and content identification in the anonymous content community; the paper reports locating and labeling 24,105 synthetic non-consensual sexually explicit imagery (SNEACI) items.
high negative From Celebrities to Anyone: Characterizing AI Nudification C... count of SNEACI items identified
Traditional dynamic pricing models in large-scale e-commerce suffer from limited interpretability, poor utilization of unstructured information, and misalignment with long-term business objectives such as cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), Return on Investment (ROI) and milestone achievement.
Author statement in paper abstract/introduction asserting limitations of existing dynamic pricing models (literature/motivation claim); no empirical test or sample size reported in the provided text.
high negative AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment i... interpretability; utilization of unstructured information; alignment with long-t...
The review identifies significant compliance challenges related to emerging regulations, including New York City Local Law 144, Illinois HB 3773, and the European Union AI Act.
Legal and policy scholarship included in the systematic review of 34 studies, which discuss regulatory requirements and compliance issues associated with AI-based recruitment.
high negative Predictive Talent Acquisition: AI Governance and Enterprise ... regulatory compliance challenges (with specific laws cited)
AI-based recruitment systems frequently inherit demographic and historical biases embedded within training datasets, potentially leading to discriminatory hiring outcomes when adequate oversight mechanisms are absent.
Synthesis of findings across the systematic review of 34 studies reporting evidence of demographic/historical biases in training data and downstream discriminatory effects in hiring models.
high negative Predictive Talent Acquisition: AI Governance and Enterprise ... presence of demographic/historical bias and resulting discriminatory hiring outc...
There is a global disparity in data centre infrastructure (concentrations favouring some regions over others).
Analysis drawing on external data sources cited in the paper illustrating geographic distribution of data centre infrastructure.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... geographic distribution / concentration of data centre infrastructure
Data workers in Kenya report direct employment by big tech corporations and exposure to graphic content.
Qualitative interviews / responses from data workers in Kenya collected and reported in the paper.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... employment relationship (direct employment by big tech) and exposure to graphic ...
Hyper-datafication systematically redistributes labour risks and representational harms toward the Global South.
Qualitative responses from data workers in Kenya describing labour conditions and exposure; analysis of language data representation; external data on global data centre infrastructure and geography.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... labour risks (e.g., exposure to graphic content) and representational harms in l...
Hyper-datafication drives substantial and growing environmental costs.
Quantitative analysis of dataset growth and estimated storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint across the analysed Hugging Face datasets (≈550k); modelled storage and emissions impacts.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint
Türkiye is one of the most fragile regimes due to its weak regulatory capacity, high algorithmic discipline, and lack of transparency.
Regime assessment in the comparative analysis component of the paper that evaluates Türkiye's regulatory capacity and algorithmic governance characteristics.
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... regime fragility measured by regulatory capacity, algorithmic discipline, and tr...
Regime positioning reveals that despite the EU's partial regulatory capacity, it cannot fully close the collective rights gap.
Comparative normative analysis of EU regulatory frameworks relative to collective algorithmic rights dimensions (paper's regime positioning assessment).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... EU regulatory capacity to close the collective rights gap
Individual-centered regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act, CCPA, LGPD, etc.) are limited in their understanding of the collective operating logic of algorithmic governance.
Normative comparative analysis of existing regulations across the EU, US, Latin America, Asia, and Türkiye as reported in the paper (conceptual/legal analysis rather than empirical measurement).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... adequacy of individual-centered regulatory frameworks to address collective algo...
Algorithmic governance under a data-driven, predictive, and dynamic authority architecture is creating structural transformations that exceed the institutional capacity of the existing individual rights paradigm.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper; theoretical analysis of algorithmic governance and its impacts on institutional frameworks (no empirical sample reported).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... institutional capacity of the existing individual rights paradigm to address str...
Profitability has a negative effect on earnings management (more profitable firms engage in less earnings manipulation).
Regression results showing a statistically significant negative coefficient for profitability in models predicting earnings management.
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Audit Quality and Red... earnings management (discretionary accruals)
AI adoption is strongly negatively correlated with earnings management (discretionary accruals): greater AI use in auditing is associated with lower discretionary accruals.
Empirical results from panel regressions on sample of 680 firm–period observations showing a strong negative correlation between AI usage measures and discretionary accrual measures.
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Audit Quality and Red... earnings management (discretionary accruals)
Re-asking the same GPQA-Diamond questions in free-response rather than multiple-choice form reopens the all-wrong tail: beta is 0.127; a five-judge panel had kappa 0.73 to 0.92, locating co-failure in answer format rather than subject.
Empirical comparison of GPQA-Diamond questions in multiple-choice vs free-response format, with human adjudication by a five-judge panel and reported inter-rater agreement (kappa range).
high negative When Does Combining Language Models Help? A Co-Failure Ceili... all-wrong rate (beta); inter-annotator kappa
On execution-graded code, the observed all-wrong rate beta is 0.079.
Empirical measurement on execution-graded code tasks reported in the paper (dataset/method described in the study).
Across 67 models from 21 providers on open-ended mathematics, observed beta is 0.052 versus 0.023 under the full 67-model Gaussian copula (tetrachoric-calibrated single-factor model underprices the all-wrong tail), about 2.5 times underpricing with 90% CI 1.7 to 3.4 and k = 17.
Empirical evaluation across 67 models from 21 providers on open-ended mathematics; comparison between observed all-wrong rate and rate predicted by a full 67-model Gaussian copula / tetrachoric-calibrated single-factor model; confidence interval reported and k specified (k = 17 as reported).
For any policy whose output is one member model answer, accuracy cannot exceed one minus beta, where beta is the rate at which every model is wrong on the same query.
Theoretical derivation/proof given in the paper (a formal upper bound linking ensemble accuracy to the all-wrong rate beta).
This analysis (identifying robust trait combinations across the full tested space) was infeasible with the mechanistic model alone.
Comparative statement: inability to perform such exhaustive search with APSIM due to computational expense, contrasted with capability of the emulator.
high negative From Simulation to Discovery: AI Enabled Probabilistic Emula... feasibility of exhaustive genotype × environment × management exploration
AI has a significant negative influence on value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries.
Industry-type heterogeneity analysis within the same 30-province panel (2010–2022) showing a statistically significant negative coefficient for labor-intensive subsectors.
high negative The impact of artificial intelligence on value chain upgradi... value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries
This convergence has the potential to lower wages on entry-level thinking jobs.
Theoretical/empirical implication drawn from observed reduction in productivity differences; presented as a potential consequence rather than an established empirical result in the abstract.
high negative THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... wages of entry-level cognitive/thinking jobs
Early evidence indicates AI is reducing the productivity difference between beginner and expert employees.
Reported 'early evidence' from the paper's empirical analysis (difference-in-differences on freelance platforms) indicating convergence in productivity between novices and experts; no numeric effect estimates given in the abstract.
high negative THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... productivity difference between beginner and expert employees
There is a Verifier-Goodharting Floor on flywheel ceilings under imperfect rewards (a formal result showing a lower bound / floor imposed by reward imperfection and verifier limitations).
Formal theoretical result in the paper (derivation showing that imperfect/verifier-mediated rewards create a floor limiting flywheel / self-improvement ceilings).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... maximum achievable flywheel / self-improvement ceiling in presence of imperfect ...
There exists a Determinism-Efficiency Bound on chain-task success (one of three formal results pinning down the regime).
Formal theoretical result presented in the paper (a derived bound relating environment determinism to chain-task efficiency/success).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... chain-task success / efficiency under limited environment determinism
With per-step determinism δ < 1, k-step chain success degrades as δ^k (long-chain agent execution fails exponentially in environments designed for human tolerance).
Formal theoretical statement in the paper: a mathematical characterization of per-step determinism and k-step chain success (Derivation / formal result presented by the authors).
high negative Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environ... k-step chain success probability (chain-task success)
Infrastructural deficiencies, unstable electricity supply, limited technical expertise, and high implementation costs remain major barriers to AI adoption.
Survey responses from 522 participants reporting barriers to AI adoption; descriptive analysis identifying these factors as major barriers.
high negative Cost-Benefit, Energy Sustainability and Technological Assess... barriers to AI adoption / factors limiting adoption
The study identifies feedback loops and conditions for systemic instability, including potential tipping points in environmental and financial regimes.
Analytical/theoretical identification of feedback structures and instability conditions within the model; no empirical testing or sample reported.
high negative Synergy in the economics of sustainable development and Arti... presence of feedback loops, conditions for systemic instability, and potential t...
Artificial intelligence simultaneously increases system coupling and transition sensitivity.
Theoretical claim derived from synergetic theory and the paper's model; no empirical evidence or sample size provided.
high negative Synergy in the economics of sustainable development and Arti... system coupling and transition sensitivity
A strategic AI sender may withhold evidence or garble information in order to steer the human's decision.
Theoretical reasoning and examples within the Bayesian persuasion framework showing that sender-optimal signaling need not fully reveal the state and can be manipulative; supported by model analysis rather than empirical data.
high negative Quantifying Theoretical AI Alignment Guarantees: Receiver-Ut... amount/quality of information reaching the human (information transfer / resulti...
Within the scope studied, these results sit in tension with a strong winner-takes-all narrative around AI recommendation.
Synthesis of empirical findings (moderate Gini, low incidence of vacuums, cross-model disagreement, displacement ratios) contrasted with the expectation of winner-takes-all concentration.
high negative Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical M... degree of winner-takes-all concentration in AI recommendations
Competitive vacuums were rare, appearing in 8.0% of queries; models named at least one sampled brand in most cases.
Empirical count/proportion of queries classified as competitive vacuums using the Competitive Vacuum Index across the study's queries.
high negative Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical M... proportion of queries with no single leader (competitive vacuum)
Recommendation concentration was moderate in the sample: the mean Gini coefficient was 0.28 (95% CI [0.16, 0.41]), below the 0.60 power-law threshold the authors set.
Empirical calculation of Gini coefficients across categories using the study's sample (implied across the 250 brand-free category queries and associated responses).
high negative Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical M... Gini coefficient of brand mentions within categories (recommendation concentrati...
These results demonstrate how people's decision-making processes can be insufficient for overseeing AI in high-stakes domains.
Synthesis/interpretation of experimental findings (longer viewing when no AI, small increases in selection probability with more time for non-recommended candidates, IAT effects) to argue that human decision processes may not adequately supervise biased AI in high-stakes settings. This is an interpretive/concluding claim based on the experiment; not a direct empirical measure. Sample size not stated in the excerpt.
high negative Resume Screening, Fast and Slow: (Biased) AI Recommendations... adequacy of human decision-making processes for overseeing AI
Prior research has largely focused on established firms, with limited attention to startups.
Literature review / gap statement in the paper asserting an imbalance in existing research coverage (no quantitative meta-analysis reported).
high negative AI Capability of Startups in Qatar research coverage of firms (established vs. startups)
In manual jobs, AI compresses the returns to undereducation as tasks become more skill-intensive.
Occupation-specific heterogeneity analysis using CLDS and city AI diffusion showing reductions in the undereducation wage premium within manual-occupation subsamples under higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (occupation-specific interaction effects)
AI diffusion slightly lowers the wage premium for undereducated workers.
Interaction effects from fixed-effects models using CLDS and city AI diffusion indicators showing a small reduction in undereducation-related wage premium with higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (interaction: AI diffusion × undereducation)
Overeducation leads to a significant wage penalty.
Microdata from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) 2014–2018; cohort-based measure of educational mismatch; estimated using extensive fixed-effects models comparing wages by educational mismatch status.
Pooled across five AI coding agents, pull requests (PRs) with a human Co-Authored-By trailer merge less often than purely-autonomous ones (53.8% vs. 79.8%).
Aggregate analysis of PR merge rates across five AI coding agents in the AIDev dataset; pooled sample of PRs (33,596 PRs referenced elsewhere in the paragraph).
high negative Beyond Simpson's Paradox: A Cascade of Confounders in AI Age... PR merge rate (whether a PR was merged)
The Board Interlock Network (BN) acts as a key informal governance mechanism that, together with media attention, produces a synergistic governance effect inhibiting speculative AI-related disclosure.
Theoretical framing and empirical results (causal DML estimates, mechanism tests) presented in the paper highlighting the interaction between internal governance (interlocking directorates) and external information intermediaries (media).
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... speculative AI-related disclosure (AI Wash)
The inhibitory effect of board interlocks on AI Wash is more pronounced in firms facing stronger external monitoring pressures, such as intense market competition.
Heterogeneity analysis reported in the paper comparing subsamples based on market competition intensity, indicating larger BN effects under greater competition.
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... AI Wash (opportunistic disclosure)
The inhibitory effect of board interlocks on AI Wash is more pronounced in firms with more complex governance needs, such as state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
Heterogeneity analysis reported in the paper comparing subsamples (e.g., SOEs vs. non-SOEs) showing stronger BN effects in SOEs.
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... AI Wash (opportunistic disclosure)
The inhibitory effect of board interlocks on AI Wash is more pronounced in firms with greater information asymmetry, for example, high-technology firms.
Heterogeneity analysis reported in the paper comparing subsamples (e.g., high-technology vs. others) showing stronger BN effects in high-tech firms.
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... AI Wash (opportunistic disclosure)
The finding that the BN inhibits AI Wash remains robust after a series of robustness and endogeneity tests.
Reported robustness checks and endogeneity tests applied to the DML estimation on the Chinese A-share sample (2007–2022).
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... AI Wash (opportunistic disclosure)
The Board Interlock Network (BN) significantly inhibits corporate AI Wash.
Causal inference using a Double Machine Learning (DML) model on a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2022; robustness and endogeneity tests reported.
high negative Board interlock network: regulatory allies or collusive push... AI Wash (opportunistic/exaggerated corporate disclosure of AI capabilities)
The paper identifies two distinct gaps that have widened as GPTs exposure scores traveled from their time and place of production: (1) a structural gap between what static exposure scores measure and what policy questions require, and (2) a coordination gap between researchers and policymakers.
Explicit framing and thesis presented in the paper summarizing the central arguments.
high negative AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... alignment between measurement and policy needs; researcher–policymaker coordinat...
Policy-relevant work that asks who is harmed or benefits, how, and when continues to reference static GPTs exposure scores without engaging with methodological updates needed to answer these questions more reliably.
Critical literature review and observed citation practices reported by the authors; claim based on review of how policy analyses cite/ use the scores.
high negative AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... quality of policy-relevant analyses and use of updated methods
These temporal, geographic, and ontological limitations compound when exposure scores are used in policy-facing analyses.
Conceptual argument and case-study approach in the paper showing how limitations interact and worsen policy analysis outcomes.
high negative AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... reliability/accuracy of policy-facing analyses using exposure scores