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Evidence (7560 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

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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These negative effects (reduced persistence and impaired unassisted performance) emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes).
Experimental manipulation / exposure in RCTs where participants interacted with AI for about 10 minutes and subsequent outcomes were measured.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... onset/time to observable effect (persistence and unassisted performance after ~1...
People are more likely to give up after interacting with AI (increased likelihood of quitting tasks unassisted).
Randomized controlled trials (N = 1,222) measuring rates of task abandonment/giving-up after AI interaction vs. control.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... likelihood of giving up / task abandonment
AI assistance impairs unassisted performance: although AI improves short-term performance, people perform significantly worse without AI after interacting with it.
Randomized controlled trials (N = 1,222) comparing performance with and without AI assistance across tasks; causal inference from randomized assignment.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... unassisted task performance (accuracy/quality when working without AI after prio...
Through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N = 1,222), we provide causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on human-AI interactions with total sample size N = 1,222; persistence measured after AI interaction across tasks.
high negative AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... persistence (willingness to continue working on tasks without AI)
AI-assisted evaluation reduces variance in research quality.
SEM and regression analyses on OECD panel data report a decrease in variance of research quality measures associated with higher AIRC.
high negative AI-Augmented Peer Review and Scientific Productivity: A Cros... variance in research quality
High-risk agentic systems with untraceable behavioral drift cannot currently satisfy the AI Act's essential requirements.
Authors' legal and normative conclusion based on their regulatory mapping and analysis (argumentative/legal reasoning rather than reported empirical testing).
high negative AI Agents Under EU Law compliance feasibility of high-risk agentic systems with untraceable behavioral ...
The paper identifies agent-specific compliance challenges in cybersecurity, human oversight, transparency across multi-party action chains, and runtime behavioral drift.
Author-stated findings from the regulatory mapping and analysis; specific challenge areas listed without reported quantitative measurement.
high negative AI Agents Under EU Law compliance challenges (cybersecurity, human oversight, transparency, runtime dri...
The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) regulates these systems through a risk-based framework, but it does not operate in isolation: providers face simultaneous obligations under the GDPR, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the Data Governance Act, sector-specific legislation, the NIS2 Directive, and the revised Product Liability Directive.
Legal/regulatory mapping asserted by the authors listing specific EU regulations and directives that impose obligations on providers.
high negative AI Agents Under EU Law regulatory obligations faced by AI agent providers
Multiple distinct contexts tend to collapse into one another or 'rot', degrading over time and reducing the utility of efforts to account for context.
Theoretical and empirical claim supported by interviewee reports and the authors' analytic synthesis; presented as observed pattern across cases (qualitative; sample size not specified).
high negative Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in ... durability and distinctness of contextual representations and their utility for ...
Generative AI tools fail to account for users' context in workplace settings.
Findings from expert interviews reporting concrete examples where tools did not incorporate or respect relevant contextual information; qualitative analysis (sample size not provided in the summary).
high negative Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in ... degree to which tools incorporate relevant contextual factors
Current approaches to account for the contexts in which generative AI technologies are used fall short of users' expectations and needs.
Qualitative empirical study based on expert interviews and analysis of user/developer perspectives (method described as expert interviews; exact sample size not stated in provided summary).
high negative Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in ... fit between system behavior and users' expectations/needs (contextual appropriat...
Occupations are not eradicated instantaneously, but gradually encroached upon via atomic actions.
Conceptual argument presented by the authors as part of their theoretical framing (Tech-Risk Dual-Factor Model); no empirical count reported for this specific claim.
high negative Bounded by Risk, Not Capability: Quantifying AI Occupational... process of occupational change / displacement
Existing task-based evaluations predominantly measure theoretical "exposure" to AI capabilities, ignoring critical frictions of real-world commercial adoption: liability, compliance, and physical safety.
Authoritative statement in paper contrasting prior task-based exposure evaluations with the paper's focus on business/institutional frictions (liability, compliance, physical safety). No numeric sample; literature critique based on conceptual analysis.
high negative Bounded by Risk, Not Capability: Quantifying AI Occupational... theoretical automation exposure measurement practices
Current research has largely focused on short-horizon tasks over a limited set of software with limited economic value (e.g., basic e-commerce and OS-configuration tasks).
Narrative literature/field observation reported in paper introduction (no numeric study reported in excerpt).
high negative Gym-Anything: Turn any Software into an Agent Environment scope and horizon of existing research tasks
There is a fundamental gap in current agent capabilities: functional correctness alone is insufficient for design-aware issue resolution, motivating design-aware evaluation beyond functional correctness.
Synthesis of experimental findings: low design-satisfaction despite functional correctness, prevalence of design violations, and only partial improvement from guidance support the conclusion.
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... agent capability for design-aware issue resolution
Design violations are widespread in agent-produced patches.
Empirical results from experiments on the benchmark showing many patches violate validated design constraints; backed by counts/percentages in evaluation (as summarized in abstract).
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... number/occurrence of design violations
Test-based correctness substantially overestimates patch quality: fewer than half of resolved issues are fully design-satisfying.
Experimental evaluation with state-of-the-art LLM-based agents on the benchmark (reported in paper). Sample implicit: benchmark issues (495) used to evaluate agents; comparison between test pass rates and design-satisfaction measured by verifier.
high negative Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... design-satisfaction of patches (design compliance)
Despite growing investment in data analytics, the decision-making and coordination layers of these workflows remain predominantly manual, reactive, and fragmented across outlets, distribution centers, and supplier networks.
Stated as an observation in the paper (abstract); no quantitative evidence, metrics, or comparative analysis provided in the excerpt.
high negative Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... degree of manual decision-making and coordination (fragmentation/reactivity)
Retail supply chain operations in supermarket chains involve continuous, high-volume manual workflows spanning demand forecasting, procurement, supplier coordination, and inventory replenishment.
Descriptive claim stated in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical data, sample, or methods reported to substantiate this characterization within the text provided.
high negative Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through A... degree of manual operations / automation exposure
The two margins interact through a self-undermining feedback that can generate low-archive traps (multiple equilibria with low accumulated public archive).
Dynamic equilibrium analysis in the theoretical model showing interacting feedbacks and possible trap equilibria (model-derived result).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... accumulated archive size / equilibrium archive level
Resolution margin: the probability that posted queries are resolved declines because AI raises contributors' outside options, thinning the contributor pool and creating congestion on the platform.
Mechanism and comparative-static implication produced by the paper's theoretical model; no empirical sample provided in the excerpt.
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... probability that posted queries are resolved (conditional resolution rate)
Flow margin: the posted volume of knowledge-enhancing queries declines as AI resolves more problems privately before they reach the platform.
Mechanism derived in the theoretical model; stated as the flow-margin channel (no empirical quantification in the provided text).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... posted volume of knowledge-enhancing queries
AI reduces archive creation through two distinct margins: a flow margin and a resolution margin.
Analytical decomposition derived within the paper's theoretical model (mechanism claimed by the model).
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... archive creation (rate and quality of accumulated solutions)
Generative AI resolves user problems without leaving a public trace, so fewer discussions and solutions reach public platforms.
Stated as an empirical motivation in the paper; no empirical sample or quantified measurement reported in the provided text.
high negative When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... volume of public posts / archival content
The literature remains fragmented, with limited integrative frameworks to explain how AI-human dynamics and decision-making typologies shape outcomes.
Conclusion drawn from the systematic review and bibliometric analysis of the 627-article corpus as reported in the abstract.
high negative Advancing Decision-Making through AI-Human Collaboration: A ... degree of integration/coherence of the academic literature; presence of integrat...
Green AI research has largely measured the footprint of models rather than the downstream workflows in which GenAI is a tool.
Literature review / mapping of recent Green AI literature reported in the paper; descriptive claim about the focus of the field (no sample size or numerical counts reported in the abstract).
high negative On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of G... scope/emphasis of Green AI research (model-level vs. workflow-level measurement)
Existing benchmarks differ from real usage in programming language distribution, prompt style and codebase structure.
Paper asserts mismatch between existing benchmarks and production usage as motivation for producing a production-derived benchmark (stated differences: language distribution, prompt style, codebase structure).
high negative ProdCodeBench: A Production-Derived Benchmark for Evaluating... representativeness of benchmarks relative to real usage
Replacing deterministic components with probabilistic workflows changes the failure mode: LLM pipelines may generate plausible but incorrect outputs that pass superficial checks and propagate into irreversible actions such as DOI minting and public release.
Conceptual argument supported by the paper's incident descriptions (e.g., a detected coordinate transformation error); the statement is presented as a general risk rationale.
high negative Exploring Robust Multi-Agent Workflows for Environmental Dat... propensity for plausible-but-incorrect outputs to bypass checks and propagate to...
Up to 25% of routine administrative tasks face high automation risk.
Quantitative survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms across finance, tech, and manufacturing reporting the share of tasks at high automation risk.
high negative Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... share of routine administrative tasks at high automation risk
There is a significant deficit in high-demand technical competencies such as data engineering, machine learning maintenance, and AI ethics within the Nigerian workforce.
Findings reported from the quantitative survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms (finance, tech, manufacturing) supplemented by qualitative workforce interviews and policy analysis.
high negative Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... availability/deficit of technical competencies (data engineering, ML maintenance...
The remaining 26 barriers are carried over from prior digital transformation waves — 22 in amplified form and 4 unchanged.
Comparative coding/classification within the review corpus indicating whether each barrier is novel or carried over, and whether it is amplified versus unchanged.
high negative BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION novelty_vs_carried_over_of_barriers
Three barriers were identified as agentic-specific: error propagation in multi-agent systems, role ambiguity, and accountability diffusion.
Classification of the 29 coded barriers by 'agentic specificity' within the literature review; these three barriers were labeled agentic-specific by the authors.
high negative BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION agentic_specific_barriers
Occupations whose AI-exposed steps are more dispersed across the production workflow (higher fragmentation) exhibit a substantially lower share of their steps actually executed by AI, conditional on AI exposure share.
Empirical regression analysis controlling for share of AI-exposed steps; uses dataset linking O*NET tasks, human AI exposure assessments, Anthropic Economic Index execution outcomes, and GPT-generated workflow orderings (details in Sections 5.1 and 7).
high negative Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation share (fraction) of steps executed by AI at the occupation/job level
In the limiting case of full automation, the model predicts that optimal recombination distance collapses to zero, suggesting that fully AI-driven research would undermine the very knowledge creation that it seeks to accelerate.
Limiting-case analytical result of the model: as the share of AI-automated tasks approaches 1 (full automation), the derived optimal recombination distance converges to zero.
high negative Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... optimal recombination distance (approaches zero under full automation)
Excessive reliance on AI may reduce the originality of research and lead to duplication of research efforts.
Model implication: as the share of tasks automated by AI increases, the paper shows analytically that originality can decline and firms may duplicate research efforts (due to homogenization of methods or search), reducing novel knowledge creation.
high negative Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... originality of research; duplication of research efforts
AI increases the aggregate rate of creative destruction, shortening the monopoly duration that rewards radical innovations.
Analytical result from the model: introducing AI raises the aggregate creative-destruction rate in the Schumpeterian framework, which reduces the expected monopoly duration and thus the rents that sustain radical innovation.
high negative Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... aggregate rate of creative destruction and monopoly duration (rents for radical ...
LLM uncertainty estimates require statistical correction before they can be used in decision-making.
Empirical finding of severe undercoverage of nominal 95% intervals and demonstration that conformal recalibration is needed to achieve intended coverage.
high negative Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... adequacy of raw LLM uncertainty estimates for decision-making (calibration/cover...
All models are severely overconfident: their 95% intervals contain the true value only 9--44% of the time, far below the expected 95%.
Analysis of model-produced 95% credible intervals across elicited population statistics, measuring empirical coverage rates reported between 9% and 44%.
high negative Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... empirical coverage rate of 95% credible intervals
There is a governance window—estimated at 10–15 years—before current deployment trajectories risk path-dependent social, economic, and institutional lock-in.
Forward-looking estimate/projection provided in the paper based on the authors' characterization of deployment trajectories and governance dynamics (no empirical sample size provided in the excerpt).
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... time remaining before risk of path-dependent lock-in of harmful AI governance/st...
Societal consequences of labor displacement intensify the governance gap by concentrating consequential AI decision-making among an increasingly narrow class of technical and capital actors.
Analytic/theoretical claim in the paper drawing on the paper's multi-domain argument (no empirical sample size or quantified concentration metrics provided in the excerpt).
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... concentration of AI decision-making authority and its amplification of governanc...
This nominal-vs-genuine oversight distinction represents the primary architectural failure mode in deployed AI governance.
Argumentative claim based on the paper's multi-domain synthesis and theoretical analysis; no empirical sample size or quantified causal inference provided in the excerpt.
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... dominant failure mode in AI governance architectures
The distinction between nominal and genuine human oversight is largely absent from current governance frameworks, including the EU AI Act and NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0.
Comparative policy/regulatory review claimed in the paper (explicit reference to the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF 1.0); no sample size—based on textual/regulatory analysis rather than statistical data in the provided excerpt.
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... coverage of genuine human oversight concepts within major AI governance framewor...
There exists a critical and underexamined governance gap between nominal human oversight of AI systems (humans in formal authority positions) and genuine human oversight (humans with cognitive access, technical capability, and institutional authority to understand, evaluate, and override AI outputs).
Conceptual/qualitative analysis and argumentation presented in the paper; implied synthesis of case examples and theoretical considerations rather than a quantified empirical study in the provided excerpt.
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... quality/effectiveness of human oversight over AI systems (cognitive access, tech...
The accelerating displacement of human labor by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic systems represents a structural transformation whose societal consequences extend far beyond conventional labor market analysis.
Stated as a framing claim in the paper; supported by the paper's literature review and multi-domain conceptual argument (no empirical sample size or quantitative data reported in the provided excerpt).
high negative Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... displacement of human labor and broader societal consequences
Sustaining such cooperative informational systems has historically proven difficult due to structural incentives that gradually erode transparency and trust.
Historical/analytical assertion in the paper; presented as a high-level observation (no dataset or empirical historical analysis provided in the excerpt).
high negative A Case for Coevolution persistence/stability of cooperative informational systems (affected by incentiv...
The interaction between strict algorithmic control and worker counter-strategies leads to persistent limit cycles in strategy frequencies rather than convergence to a stable compliant workforce.
Dynamical systems analysis and simulation trajectories from the EGT model showing limit cycles / oscillatory equilibria in strategy proportions; model-based (no empirical sample).
high negative THE RED QUEEN in the DASHBOARD: CO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS of ... dynamical behavior of strategy frequencies (limit cycles vs. stable equilibrium)
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