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Evidence (4892 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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The paper derives formal conditions under which the inversion (smaller, orchestrated models outperforming frontier models) holds.
Mathematical derivations and stated sufficient/necessary conditions presented in the paper.
high null result Punctuated Equilibria in Artificial Intelligence: The Instit... parameter conditions for comparative performance inversion
We develop the Institutional Fitness Manifold, a mathematical framework that evaluates AI systems along four dimensions: capability, institutional trust, affordability, and sovereign compliance.
Theoretical/model development presented in the paper (formal definition of the manifold and its four dimensions).
high null result Punctuated Equilibria in Artificial Intelligence: The Instit... institutional fitness evaluated across four dimensions
There have been five eras of AI development since 1943, and within the current Generative AI Era there are four distinct epochs, each initiated by a discontinuous event.
Descriptive/historical classification within the paper (counts of eras and epochs; named initiating events such as the transformer and the 'DeepSeek Moment').
high null result Punctuated Equilibria in Artificial Intelligence: The Instit... count and classification of historical AI eras/epochs
Despite fears of mass unemployment, aggregate labor-market data through 2025 show limited labor-market disruption from generative AI.
Review of aggregate employment and labor-market studies and macro-level data through 2025 cited in the brief; methods include analyses of employment statistics and macro labor indicators (no single sample size reported).
high null result AI, Productivity, and Labor Markets: A Review of the Empiric... aggregate employment / labor-market disruption
We scored rule-breaking and abuse outcomes with an independent rubric-based judge across 28,112 transcript segments from multi-agent governance simulations.
Reported methodology: multi-agent governance simulations with agents in formal governmental roles, outcomes evaluated by an independent rubric-based judge; explicit sample count of 28,112 transcript segments.
high null result I Can't Believe It's Corrupt: Evaluating Corruption in Multi... rule-breaking and abuse outcomes (as assessed by rubric-based judge)
Controlled experiments were run with N = 250 across five content types to validate the mechanisms.
Experimental methods reported in the paper: controlled experiments with specified sample size and content-type breakdown.
high null result Governed Memory: A Production Architecture for Multi-Agent W... experimental sample size and content-type breadth (N=250, 5 content types)
Research agenda: empirical microdata on managerial time use, task-level automation, performance outcomes, and wage impacts are needed to quantify substitution versus complementarity and to evaluate human-in-the-loop designs' effects on firm performance and distributional outcomes.
Explicit methodological recommendation within the paper; identifies gaps due to the paper's conceptual (non-empirical) approach.
high null result Comparative analysis of strategic vs. computational thinking... availability and use of microdata on managerial tasks, automation, firm performa...
There is a need for longitudinal and cross‑country empirical research to measure how hybrid work and AI tools affect promotion rates, network centrality, productivity, privacy harms, trust, and long‑term career trajectories.
Statement of research gaps derived from the paper's methodological approach (conceptual synthesis and secondary case studies) and absence of longitudinal/cross‑cultural primary data.
high null result The Sociology of Remote Work and Organisational Culture: How... research gap existence (need for longitudinal and cross‑country empirical studie...
Practical recommendations for firms and policymakers include investing in training for AI curation/evaluation/coordination, experimenting with decentralised decision rights and governance safeguards, and monitoring competitive dynamics related to model/platform providers.
Policy and practitioner takeaways explicitly presented in the discussion/implications sections, deriving from the conceptual framework and mapped literature.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... recommended organisational and policy actions
The paper recommends a research agenda for AI economists: causal microeconometric studies (DiD, IVs, RCTs), structural models with hybrid human–AI agents, measurement work on GenAI use, distributional analysis and policy evaluation.
Explicit recommendations listed in the implications and research agenda sections; logical follow‑on from bibliometric findings about gaps in causal and measurement evidence.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... recommended methodological directions for future empirical and theoretical resea...
Bibliometric mapping profiles the intellectual structure and evolution of the field but does not establish causal effects of GenAI on organisational outcomes.
Methodological limitation explicitly stated in the paper; bibliometric approach (co‑word, citation, thematic mapping) is descriptive and historical in scope.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... methodological limitation (inability to infer causality from bibliometric mappin...
Co‑word and thematic analyses reveal six coherent conceptual clusters that bridge technical AI topics (e.g., LLMs, GANs) with managerial themes (e.g., autonomy, coordination, decision‑making).
Thematic mapping and co‑word network analysis performed on the 212‑paper corpus; identification of six clusters reported in results.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... number and thematic composition of conceptual clusters (six clusters linking tec...
Bibliometric and conceptual tools (VOSviewer, Bibliometrix) were used to identify performance trends, co‑word structures, thematic maps, and conceptual evolution in the GenAI–organisation literature.
Methods section: use of VOSviewer for network visualization and Bibliometrix for bibliometric statistics, co‑word analysis, thematic mapping and Sankey thematic evolution.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... types of bibliometric analyses applied (performance trends, co‑word structures, ...
The study analysed a corpus of 212 Scopus‑indexed publications covering 2018–2025 to map emergent literature on Generative AI and organisational change.
Bibliometric dataset constructed from Scopus; sample size = 212 peer‑reviewed articles; time window 2018–2025; analyses performed with Bibliometrix and VOSviewer.
high null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... size and timeframe of bibliometric corpus (number of publications, 2018–2025)
Because the study is cross-sectional and self-report, causal claims are limited and generalizability is restricted to Generation Z (limitation noted in the paper).
Authors' limitations: cross-sectional/self-report design and sample restricted to Generation Z; these constraints are reported in the paper.
high null result Trust in AI-Driven Marketing and its Impact on Brand Loyalty... Inference validity / generalizability
Study design: cross-sectional self-report survey of 450 Generation Z consumers analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SPSS AMOS).
Methods section reporting sample size (n = 450), target population (Generation Z), cross-sectional survey design, and analysis technique (SEM using SPSS AMOS).
The measurement and structural model show good to excellent fit and reliable constructs (CFI = 0.980, TLI = 0.974, RMSEA = 0.062, SRMR = 0.031).
Reported psychometric/model-fit indices from SEM analysis (SPSS AMOS) on sample of 450 respondents.
high null result Trust in AI-Driven Marketing and its Impact on Brand Loyalty... Model fit / construct validity
Outcomes reported are primarily self-reported psychological measures rather than objective productivity metrics.
Paper reports measurement instruments focused on self-reported self-efficacy, psychological ownership, meaningfulness, and enjoyment/satisfaction; no primary objective productivity metrics reported.
high null result Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... measurement type (self-reported psychological outcomes)
The experiment was pre-registered, used occupation-specific writing tasks, and employed a between-subjects design with three conditions (No-AI, Passive AI, Active collaboration).
Study design reported in the paper: pre-registration statement, N = 269, between-subjects assignment to three conditions using occupation-specific writing tasks.
high null result Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... n/a (methodological claim)
Active, collaborative AI use preserves perceived meaningfulness of work at levels comparable to independent work and does not produce the lasting psychological costs seen with passive use.
Pre-registered experiment (N = 269) with post-manipulation and post-return measures; Active-collaboration condition matched No-AI on meaningfulness and showed no persistent declines after returning to manual tasks.
high null result Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... perceived meaningfulness of work (including post-return)
Active, collaborative AI use preserves psychological ownership of outputs at levels comparable to independent work.
Pre-registered experiment (N = 269); Active-collaboration condition reported ownership levels similar to No-AI condition on self-report scales.
high null result Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... psychological ownership of outputs
Active, collaborative AI use (human drafts first, then uses AI to refine) preserves self-efficacy at levels comparable to independent (no-AI) work.
Pre-registered experiment (N = 269) comparing Active-collaboration and No-AI conditions; no statistically meaningful differences in self-efficacy between them (self-reported measures).
high null result Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... self-efficacy (confidence to complete tasks without AI)
The authors propose research priorities for economists: quantify productivity gains from closing the actionability gap; estimate firm-level heterogeneity in evaluation capability and its effect on adoption; and model investment trade-offs between building evaluation-to-action pipelines versus accepting reduced LLM performance.
Paper's concluding recommendations for future research directions (explicitly listed by the authors).
high null result Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... recommended research agenda topics
The paper produces as primary outcomes a taxonomy of ten evaluation practices, the articulation of the results-actionability gap, and recommended strategies observed among successful teams.
Authors report these as the main outcomes of their thematic analysis and syntheses from the 19 interviews.
high null result Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... reported study outputs (taxonomy, articulated gap, recommended strategies)
The study method consisted of semi-structured qualitative interviews with 19 practitioners across multiple industries and roles, analyzed via thematic coding.
Explicit methods section of the paper stating sample size (n=19), participant diversity, interview approach, and coding/analysis procedure.
high null result Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... study design and sample size
The analysis used sentence‑transformer models to produce dense vector representations of article text and UMAP to project those embeddings into a low‑dimensional thematic map for cluster identification and gap detection.
Methods section specifying use of sentence‑transformer embeddings and UMAP for dimensionality reduction/visualization of article text.
high null result Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... analytic techniques applied to article abstracts/text (embedding + dimensionalit...
The study followed a PRISMA protocol for literature selection and included peer‑reviewed journal articles published between 2014 and 2024, with a final sample size of n = 109.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper describing the literature search, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and final sample.
high null result Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... methodological protocol adherence and sample size
Twenty‑seven papers study marketing in banking without using NLP methods.
PRISMA systematic review; categorization of the 109 selected articles into the three coverage groups (8, 74, 27).
high null result Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... count of peer‑reviewed articles on marketing in banking that do not use NLP
Seventy‑four papers study NLP in marketing more broadly (not specifically banking).
Same PRISMA‑based systematic review and manual categorization of the final sample n = 109 into topical buckets (NLP in marketing vs. NLP in bank marketing vs. marketing in banking without NLP).
high null result Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... count of peer‑reviewed articles on NLP in marketing (general)
Only 8 peer‑reviewed papers directly examine NLP in bank marketing (out of a final sample of 109 articles published 2014–2024).
Systematic review following PRISMA protocol; final sample n = 109 peer‑reviewed journal articles published 2014–2024; manual screening and categorization yielding counts by topic.
high null result Natural language processing in bank marketing: a systematic ... count of peer‑reviewed articles focused on NLP in bank marketing
The study's findings are qualitative and case-driven (Xiaomi and Deloitte); generalizability is limited by case selection and the absence of standardized quantitative metrics.
Methods section explicitly states case analysis and literature review as primary methods and notes lack of large-scale quantitative measurement.
high null result Explore the Impact of Generative AI on Finance and Taxation external validity/generalizability of results
The study is qualitative and law-focused and uses Vietnam as a focused case study without collecting primary quantitative field data.
Explicit Data & Methods statement in the paper indicating doctrinal legal analysis, comparative institutional analysis, and normative framework development; no primary quantitative sample.
high null result ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... study design/data type (qualitative, doctrinal, comparative; absence of primary ...
The study recommends empirical metrics for future evaluation of reforms, including processing time per case, reversal rates on appeal, administrative litigation frequency, compliance and procurement costs, investment flows into public-sector AI, and changes in labor composition and wages in administrative agencies.
Methodological recommendation arising from the paper's normative and comparative analysis.
high null result ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE: A CRI... recommended empirical metrics (processing time per case; appeal reversal rates; ...
The paper's argument is principally theoretical and prescriptive and requires empirical validation across domains and at scale.
Author-stated limitation in the Data & Methods section noting that the work is primarily conceptual and that empirical validation is needed.
high null result An Alternative Trajectory for Generative AI existence/absence of empirical validation (current lack of cross-domain, large-s...
Operationalizing DSS requires building domain ontologies/knowledge graphs, designing synthetic curricula, training compact domain models, benchmarking against monolithic LLMs, and measuring total cost-of-ownership (energy, latency, bandwidth, infrastructure).
Paper's recommended experimental and measurement agenda (procedural/methodological prescriptions); this is a proposed research plan rather than an empirical result.
high null result An Alternative Trajectory for Generative AI validation metrics proposed by the paper (benchmark performance, energy/inferenc...
The paper does not claim proprietary deployment metrics beyond qualitative field observations; experimental formalizations are provided for reproducible evaluation instead.
Authors explicitly note they document how to reproduce experiments but do not claim proprietary deployment metrics beyond qualitative field observations.
high null result Bridging Protocol and Production: Design Patterns for Deploy... degree to which empirical claims are qualitative field observations vs. propriet...
The paper recommends tracking specific operational and economic metrics: MTTR for tool failures, per-invocation latency variance, per-interaction operational cost, frequency of identity-related incidents, human remediation hours per 1,000 incidents, and SLA breach rates.
Explicit list of recommended metrics in the implications and metrics-to-track sections of the paper.
high null result Bridging Protocol and Production: Design Patterns for Deploy... the listed operational/economic metrics (MTTR, latency variance, costs, incident...
The paper provides a production-readiness checklist and instructions for reproducible evaluation alongside the proposed mechanisms.
Deliverables enumerated in the paper include a production-readiness checklist and reproducible experimental methodology.
high null result Bridging Protocol and Production: Design Patterns for Deploy... existence of a production-readiness checklist and reproducible evaluation instru...
All three proposed mechanisms (CABP, ATBA, SERF) are formalized as testable hypotheses with reproducible experimental methodology (benchmarks, latency/error models, broker pipeline semantics).
Paper includes formal descriptions and reproducible evaluation instructions and benchmarks; authors state methods to reproduce experiments are provided.
high null result Bridging Protocol and Production: Design Patterns for Deploy... availability and completeness of reproducible experimental methodology for each ...
The paper organizes production failure modes across five dimensions—server contracts, user context, timeouts, errors, and observability—and provides concrete failure vignettes from an enterprise deployment.
Taxonomy and failure vignettes are listed as design artifacts and deliverables in the paper; derived from observational analysis of production logs and incidents.
high null result Bridging Protocol and Production: Design Patterns for Deploy... classification coverage of failure incidents across the five dimensions
Sample sizes reported: human–AI experiment n = 126; human–human benchmark n = 108.
Study's Data & Methods section reporting sample sizes for the human–AI experiment (n = 126) and citing the human–human benchmark (Dvorak & Fehrler 2024, n = 108).
Experimental design: subjects played an indefinitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma in supergames with two between-subjects treatments varying chat timing (chat only before first round of each supergame vs chat before every round); the AI partner was GPT-5.2.
Methods description of the lab experiment reported in the paper: indefinitely repeated PD in supergames, two chat-frequency between-subjects treatments, AI implemented as GPT-5.2; human–AI sample n = 126.
high null result Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... experimental treatment specification (chat-frequency manipulation; AI identity)
Allowing repeated pre-play communication (chat before every round) has no detectable effect on cooperation rates when the partner is an AI.
Between-subjects manipulation within the human–AI experiment comparing chat-before-first-round vs chat-before-every-round treatments (human–AI n = 126 total); statistical comparison of cooperation rates across the two chat-frequency treatments showed no detectable difference.
high null result Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... effect of chat frequency on cooperation rate (difference in cooperation between ...
Initial cooperation rates against the AI (GPT-5.2) are high and comparable to initial cooperation in human–human pairs.
Laboratory experiment with human subjects playing an indefinitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma against an AI chatbot (GPT-5.2); human–AI sample n = 126; human–human benchmark taken from Dvorak & Fehrler (2024) with n = 108; comparison of initial-round / early-round cooperation rates across conditions.
high null result Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... initial cooperation rate (cooperation in early rounds / first round of supergame...
Suggested empirical research directions for AI economists include: comparing LLM performance and economic outcomes on rule‑encodable vs tacit tasks; quantifying performance decline when forcing LLMs into interpretable rule representations; studying contracting/pricing where buyers cannot verify internal rules; and measuring returns to scale attributable to tacit capabilities.
Explicitly enumerated recommended research agenda items in the paper; these are proposed studies rather than executed work.
high null result Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... proposed empirical research topics and corresponding outcomes to measure
New metrics are needed to value tacit capabilities — e.g., measures of transfer, generalization under distribution shifts, ease of integrating with human workflows, and irreducibility to compressed rule representations.
Methodological recommendation in the paper listing specific metric categories for future empirical work.
high null result Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... proposed metrics for assessing tacit LLM capabilities
Suggested empirical validations (not performed) include benchmarking LLMs versus rule systems on allegedly rule‑encodable tasks, attempting rule extraction and measuring fidelity loss, and compression/distillation studies to quantify irreducible task performance.
Recommendations and proposed experimental directions listed in the paper; these are proposals, not executed studies.
high null result Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... types of empirical tests recommended for validating the thesis
The paper contains mostly qualitative and historically grounded empirical content and reports no primary datasets or large‑scale experimental results in support of the formal thesis.
Explicit declaration in the Data & Methods section that empirical content is qualitative/historical and no new datasets were collected.
high null result Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... extent of empirical/quantitative evidence presented
The paper's core methodological approach is conceptual and theoretical argumentation (formal/logical proof, historical examples, and philosophical framing), not empirical experimentation.
Stated Data & Methods description indicating reliance on formal logic, historical case analysis, and philosophical argument; absence of primary datasets.
high null result Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... presence/absence of empirical experiments in the paper
Measuring the marginal cost of runtime governance, the tradeoff curve between task completion and compliance risk, and calibrating violation probabilities are open empirical research questions identified by the paper.
Explicit list of open problems and proposed empirical research agenda in the Implications/Measurement sections of the paper.
high null result Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policies on Paths existence of empirical research gaps (identified/not identified)