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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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Compositional spatial reasoning remains a formidable challenge for state-of-the-art VLMs (as revealed by our evaluation).
Empirical results from the evaluation of the 37 VLMs on the MultihopSpatial benchmark showing poor performance on multi-hop/compositional queries.
high negative MultihopSpatial: Multi-hop Compositional Spatial Reasoning B... performance on compositional/multi-hop spatial reasoning tasks
Existing benchmarks predominantly focus on elementary, single-hop relations and neglect multi-hop compositional spatial reasoning and precise visual grounding needed for real-world scenarios.
Literature/benchmark survey and motivation presented by the authors comparing characteristics of prior benchmarks vs. the proposed needs.
high negative MultihopSpatial: Multi-hop Compositional Spatial Reasoning B... scope/complexity of spatial reasoning tasks in existing benchmarks
Adoption barriers exist, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises and firms in emerging economies, where capability and data constraints limit impact.
Findings reported from the systematic review and mixed-methods assessment (abstract references barriers observed across reviewed studies); number of studies reported in abstract is 104 for the systematic review.
high negative Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for the circular econo... adoption barriers / limitations to AI impact (capability and data constraints)
Significant limitations emerged in case law citations, with most cited cases being non-existent or incorrectly referenced.
Authors' review of the case citations produced by the four AI engines for the single transcript, finding many citations were fabricated or misreferenced.
high negative Robot Wingman: Using AI to Assess an Employment Termination accuracy of case law citations (error rate / hallucination rate)
GDP growth is initially negatively affected by the ageing population.
Estimated negative association reported in panel threshold regressions using provincial panel data (31 provinces, 2000–2022); ageing operationalized (primary specification) as an ageing measure (paper also tests old-age dependency ratio).
Initial adaptation challenges to AI integration were identified among employees.
Participants in semi-structured interviews (n=12) reported initial difficulties adapting to AI tools; themes relating to early adaptation challenges were coded.
high negative AI-AUGMENTED WORKFORCE: THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC... initial adaptation challenges to AI
Past machine learning applications to pricing have produced models that adapt slowly to real-time changes, depend heavily on historical data, and struggle to handle multi-agent scenarios.
Stated as literature/related-work critique in paper; no new empirical evidence or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative The Application of Adaptive Reinforcement Learning in Dynami... model adaptivity to real-time changes and capability in multi-agent scenarios
Traditional methods, such as rule-based algorithms and statistical scale forecasting, struggle to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions, competitive maneuvers, and evolving consumer strategies, leading to sub-optimal pricing and decreased profitability.
Paper asserts this as background/motivation; no detailed empirical study or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative The Application of Adaptive Reinforcement Learning in Dynami... adaptivity of pricing methods and resulting profitability (sub-optimal pricing, ...
In the short term, big data may inhibit welfare growth.
Theoretical comparative-static/dynamic analysis reported in the model showing that initial or short-run effects of increased data sharing can reduce welfare growth (no empirical/sample data).
high negative Study on the impact of big data sharing on individuals’ welf... short-term growth of individuals' welfare
There is a measurement asymmetry in standard LLM evaluation: unconstrained prompts can inflate constraint-adherence scores and mask the practical value of structured prompting.
Analysis of evaluation results from the controlled study showing that unconstrained (simple) prompts sometimes achieve high constraint-adherence scores, leading to misleading evaluation of structured prompts' benefits.
high negative Evaluating 5W3H Structured Prompting for Intent Alignment in... constraint_adherence_scores / evaluation_bias
There is a central design tension in human-AI systems: maximizing short-term hybrid capability does not necessarily preserve long-term human cognitive competence.
Conceptual/theoretical claim derived from the framework and discussion in the paper (argument and mathematical framing), no empirical sample or longitudinal data presented in the excerpt.
high negative Cognitive Amplification vs Cognitive Delegation in Human-AI ... long-term human cognitive competence
The interaction of artificial intelligence and environmental regulation produces a '1 + 1 < 2' crowding-out effect (their combined effect is less than the sum of individual effects).
Spatial Durbin model with interaction term between AI and environmental regulation as summarized in the abstract; reported as a crowding-out interaction.
high negative How artificial intelligence and environmental regulation inf... UCEE index (interaction effect of AI and environmental regulation)
Environmental regulation significantly inhibits local UCEE.
Spatial Durbin model results reported in the abstract indicating a significant negative local coefficient for environmental regulation.
high negative How artificial intelligence and environmental regulation inf... UCEE index (local/provincial effect of environmental regulation)
Artificial intelligence significantly inhibits local UCEE.
Spatial Durbin model results reported in the abstract indicating a significant negative local coefficient for artificial intelligence.
high negative How artificial intelligence and environmental regulation inf... UCEE index (local/provincial effect of AI)
Progress in agentic AI systems that generate and optimize GPU kernels is constrained by benchmarks that reward speedup over software baselines rather than proximity to hardware-efficient execution.
Author argument/observation in paper (conceptual claim about limitations of existing benchmarks); no empirical sample or experiment reported in the provided text.
high negative SOL-ExecBench: Speed-of-Light Benchmarking for Real-World GP... benchmark_alignment_with_hardware_efficiency
Rather than broad job losses, evidence points to a reallocation at the entry level: AI automates tasks typically assigned to junior staff, shifting the nature of entry-level roles.
Synthesis of firm- and task-level empirical studies reported in the brief documenting automation of routine/junior tasks and changes in job-task composition; specific sample sizes vary by cited study and are not provided in the brief.
high negative AI, Productivity, and Labor Markets: A Review of the Empiric... automation of entry-level/junior tasks and changes to entry-level job content
AI-only baselines perform near or below the median of competition participants.
Comparison of AI-only baseline performance to the distribution of competition participant results reported in the paper (competition with 29 teams / 80 participants).
high negative AgentDS Technical Report: Benchmarking the Future of Human-A... relative performance rank of AI-only baselines vs participants
Our results show that current AI agents struggle with domain-specific reasoning.
Outcome of the competition reported in the paper comparing AI-only baselines to participant submissions across the AgentDS tasks (competition data from 29 teams / 80 participants); reported aggregate performance indicating AI weakness on domain-specific tasks.
high negative AgentDS Technical Report: Benchmarking the Future of Human-A... domain-specific reasoning performance
The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise program behavior (the 'intent gap') has always plagued software engineering, but AI-generated code amplifies it to an unprecedented scale.
Conceptual claim and argumentation in the paper; presented as an observed escalation in the scale of the existing 'intent gap' due to AI code generation. No quantitative evidence or sample size given in the excerpt.
high negative Intent Formalization: A Grand Challenge for Reliable Coding ... mismatch between intended and actual program behavior (intent gap) / resulting c...
The capital-output elasticity dropped significantly, from 0.42 in 2010–2015 to 0.35 in 2016–2022.
Estimated from an extended Cobb–Douglas production function applied to China's economy over 2010–2022, with period split 2010–2015 vs 2016–2022 (as reported in the study summary).
high negative Analysis of China's Economic Growth Drivers: An Empirical St... capital-output elasticity (elasticity of output with respect to capital)
Limitations include possible limited organizational generalizability due to a single Fortune 500 lab context; ABS results depend on model specification/calibration; and operational definitions of 'resilience' and 'planning cycle' require careful reading.
Authors' reported limitations based on study design: single lab context (n = 23), dependence of ABS on model choices, and nontrivial operational definitions.
high negative The Algorithmic Canvas: On the Autopoietic Redefinition of S... generalizability and robustness of study findings
Some declines (in self-efficacy and meaningfulness) from passive AI use persist after participants return to manual work.
Within-experiment assessment of outcomes after participants returned to manual (no-AI) tasks following the AI-use manipulation in the pre-registered experiment (N = 269); reported persistent reductions in self-efficacy and meaningfulness for the passive condition.
high negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... self-efficacy; perceived meaningfulness (measured post-return to manual work)
Passive use of AI reduces perceived meaningfulness of work.
Pre-registered experiment (N = 269) with self-reported measure of work meaningfulness; passive-copy condition showed lower meaningfulness ratings than No-AI and Active-collaboration conditions.
high negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... perceived meaningfulness of work
Passive use of AI reduces psychological ownership of the produced outputs.
Same pre-registered experiment (N = 269). Participants in the passive-copy AI condition reported lower psychological ownership of their outputs (self-report scales) relative to No-AI and Active-collaboration conditions.
high negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... psychological ownership of outputs
Passive use of AI (copying AI-generated output) reduces workers' self-efficacy.
Pre-registered between-subjects experiment (N = 269) using occupation-specific writing tasks. Participants assigned to a passive-copy AI condition reported lower self-efficacy (self-reported confidence to complete tasks without AI) compared to the No-AI (manual) and Active-collaboration conditions.
high negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... self-efficacy (confidence to complete tasks without AI)
Large-scale AI models have significant energy and resource costs, creating a notable environmental footprint that must be addressed.
Narrative integration of prior empirical studies measuring compute, energy consumption, and embodied emissions of large models (cited literature); the review does not present new quantitative measurements itself.
high negative The Evolution and Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence... energy consumption, carbon emissions, and resource use associated with large-sca...
As AI is deployed in safety-critical domains, reliability, regulation, and human-oriented system design become essential to avoid harms.
Review of literature on safety-critical systems, human–machine interaction studies, and regulatory policy discussions; the paper reports this as a consensus implication rather than presenting new empirical tests.
high negative The Evolution and Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence... system reliability/safety and risk of harm in safety-critical deployments
The current literature is skewed toward descriptive and engineering work; there is a lack of causal, field‑experimental evidence on NLP interventions' effects on customer behavior and firm profits.
Review coding of study types in the sample (engineering/descriptive vs. experimental/causal) showing few field experiments or causal designs.
high negative Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... presence vs. absence of causal/experimental studies measuring effects on custome...
Important gaps include customer acquisition, personalization at scale, use of external text sources (social media, news, reviews), operational process improvement, and cross‑channel integration.
Gap detection via low‑density regions in the UMAP thematic map of sentence‑transformer embeddings and manual review showing low article counts for these topics within the 109‑article sample.
high negative Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... topical coverage by customer journey stage and source type (acquisition, persona...
Existing literature on NLP in marketing is concentrated around customer retention tasks (e.g., churn prediction, complaint handling, relationship management).
Thematic clustering from sentence‑transformer embeddings of article text combined with UMAP visualization, and manual review of article topics and keywords identifying frequent retention‑related themes.
high negative Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... topical frequency/coverage by customer journey stage (retention)
NLP applications in bank marketing are severely under‑studied.
Descriptive result from the PRISMA review showing only 8/109 articles focused on NLP in bank marketing (≈7%), plus thematic mapping showing sparse coverage in bank‑marketing/NLP intersection.
high negative Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... proportion and absolute count of studies at the intersection of NLP and bank mar...
Jurisdictions are taking divergent policy approaches (e.g., U.S. emphasis on innovation/competition, EU emphasis on rights/standards like GDPR), producing fragmented digital trade rules.
Comparative legal and policy analysis of existing national/regional rules and international instruments (examples cited include GDPR and U.S. policy orientations); descriptive, with specific regulatory texts analyzed.
high negative Path Analysis of Digital Economy and Reconstruction of Inter... regulatory fragmentation / interoperability of digital trade rules
AI creates novel non-tariff frictions, e.g., pressures toward data localization and regulatory requirements for algorithmic transparency.
Comparative legal and policy analysis of emerging regulations (e.g., data localization laws, algorithmic regulation initiatives) and illustrative jurisdictional examples.
high negative Path Analysis of Digital Economy and Reconstruction of Inter... non-tariff regulatory frictions (data-flow restrictions, transparency/compliance...
Vietnam's civil-law features—statutory specificity, formal procedures, and constitutional principles like legal certainty and fairness—make straightforward AI deployment legally fraught.
Close textual analysis of Vietnam's statutes, constitutional provisions, and administrative procedures (doctrinal legal analysis); no quantitative sample.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... legal compatibility of AI deployment (degree of legal obstacles to deployment)
Automated decisions complicate assigning responsibility and hinder judicial and administrative reviewability.
Doctrinal examination of accountability and review mechanisms in administrative law plus comparative institutional analysis of automated decision-making governance.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... clarity of accountability (ability to assign responsibility) and effectiveness o...
Opaque AI models risk violating notice, reason-giving, and appeal rights protected under administrative due process.
Analysis of procedural due-process requirements (notice, reason-giving, appeal) in Vietnam's legal framework and assessment of opacity issues in algorithmic systems; qualitative reasoning, no empirical testing.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... compliance with due-process requirements (notice, reasons, appealability)
Provider incentives may be misaligned (e.g., optimizing for engagement or test performance instead of durable learning), requiring contracts, regulation, or purchaser design to align incentives.
Consensus from interdisciplinary workshop (50 scholars) highlighting incentive risks and market-design considerations; descriptive, not empirical.
high negative The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback t... provider optimization metrics (engagement/test performance) vs. durable learning...
Extensive learner data needed to personalize AI feedback raises privacy and data-governance concerns (consent, storage, usage).
Qualitative consensus from workshop participants (50 scholars) noting data-collection requirements and governance risks; no empirical governance studies included.
high negative The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback t... volume/type of learner data collected; privacy risk indicators; compliance with ...
Automated feedback may not capture pedagogical nuances expert teachers use (motivation, socio-emotional cues, complex reasoning), limiting pedagogical fit.
Expert syntheses from the workshop of 50 scholars highlighting limits of automation relative to expert teacher judgment; no empirical comparisons presented.
high negative The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback t... coverage of socio-emotional and complex-reasoning cues in feedback; corresponden...
AI-generated feedback can be incorrect, misleading, or misaligned with learning objectives; assessing feedback quality is nontrivial.
Repeated concern raised across workshop participants (50 scholars) in qualitative synthesis; noted as a substantive risk and open challenge rather than empirically quantified here.
high negative The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback t... feedback factual correctness; alignment with stated learning objectives; rate of...
Using C.A.P. entails trade-offs: potential increases in latency and compute cost and a risk of over-correction (unnecessary clarification).
Paper explicitly notes these trade-offs as part of the design discussion and proposes measuring latency, compute cost, and unnecessary clarification rate in evaluations; this is an acknowledged design risk rather than an empirically quantified result.
high negative A Context Alignment Pre-processor for Enhancing the Coherenc... response latency, compute cost per session, rate of unnecessary clarifications
Integration costs—domain modeling, human-in-the-loop protocols, and regulatory/liability frameworks—are significant barriers to deployment.
Conceptual assessment of operational and regulatory requirements; no quantified cost studies provided.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... implementation cost and organizational burden for deploying argumentative AI sys...
AFs and LLMs may be gamed or misled; adversaries may exploit systems leading to strategic argumentation or manipulation.
Conceptual security/adversarial concern based on known vulnerabilities in ML and strategic behavior; no adversarial tests reported.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... system vulnerability metrics / susceptibility to adversarial manipulation
Faithful extraction—aligning LLM-extracted arguments with formal AF primitives and ensuring fidelity to source evidence—is a key technical challenge.
Paper's explicit identification of failure modes and alignment issues; grounded in documented limitations of IE/LLMs (no empirical quantification here).
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... fidelity/alignment error rate between extracted elements and source evidence
Computational argumentation approaches have required heavy feature engineering and domain-specific knowledge to be effective.
Conceptual claim grounded in prior work and practical experience reported in the literature; no quantitative cost estimates provided in the paper.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... engineering cost / domain modeling effort required for AF-based systems
Automation bias (human tendency to defer to automated outputs) compounds the risk that GLAI errors become embedded in legal processes.
Behavioral literature review on automation bias and trust in AI systems; applied to legal-context vignettes. No primary empirical test within the paper.
high negative Why Avoid Generative Legal AI Systems? Hallucination, Overre... likelihood of human operators deferring to GLAI outputs (automation bias effect)
A key architectural risk is interoperability failure and fragmentation across vendors and protocols in agent ecosystems.
Comparative analysis with IoT and other platform histories showing vendor/protocol fragmentation; argument is conceptual and illustrative rather than empirically measured for future agent ecosystems.
high negative The Internet of Physical AI Agents: Interoperability, Longev... degree of interoperability and fragmentation across vendors/protocols
Domains such as disaster response, healthcare, industrial automation, and mobility will be affected and are safety‑critical, where failures have high social and economic cost.
Domain examples and policy reasoning; draws on general knowledge about those sectors and potential harms; no new empirical damage quantification provided in the paper.
high negative The Internet of Physical AI Agents: Interoperability, Longev... social and economic costs of failures in safety‑critical domains
IoT digitized perception at scale but exposed limitations such as fragmentation, weak security, limited autonomy, and poor sustainability.
Historical and comparative analysis of IoT deployments and literature cited illustratively in the paper; qualitative evidence from prior IoT incidents and ecosystem studies rather than new empirical data.
high negative The Internet of Physical AI Agents: Interoperability, Longev... levels of fragmentation, security robustness, autonomy, and sustainability in Io...
Adoption requires hardware (VR headsets, capable GPUs) and integration effort, implying upfront capital expenditure for labs/observatories.
Paper explicitly notes hardware requirements (VR headsets, capable GPUs) and integration effort as part of adoption considerations; common-sense assessment of required capital.
high negative iDaVIE v1.0: A virtual reality tool for interactive analysis... upfront capital expenditure and integration effort required for adoption