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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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The comparative evaluation shows differences in economic inclusiveness between ML, DL, and Generative AI.
Abstract states differences in economic inclusiveness found in the review; no quantitative inclusiveness metrics or sample sizes provided in abstract.
The comparative evaluation shows differences in explainability among ML, DL, and Generative AI.
Abstract notes comparative differences in explainability as part of review findings; no empirical measures of explainability included in abstract.
high mixed AI Technologies and Economic Transformation: A Systematic Re... explainability / interpretability of AI approaches
The comparative evaluation shows differences in patterns of substituting labor across ML, DL, and Generative AI.
Abstract states comparative differences in labor-substitution patterns based on the systematic review of literature; no empirical counts or sizes in abstract.
high mixed AI Technologies and Economic Transformation: A Systematic Re... labor substitution / displacement patterns
The comparative evaluation shows differences in scale of impact across ML, DL, and Generative AI.
Abstract reports a comparative evaluation highlighting scale differences across AI phases; no quantitative scale measures given in abstract.
high mixed AI Technologies and Economic Transformation: A Systematic Re... relative scale of economic impact
Generative AI brings innovative disruption with profound effects on the structure of employment, knowledge-based ecosystems, and high-skill industries.
Synthesis claim in abstract based on reviewed peer‑reviewed literature; no specific studies, sample sizes, or quantitative effects reported in abstract.
high mixed AI Technologies and Economic Transformation: A Systematic Re... innovative disruption and employment structure
For all the hype, today's scientific AI still represents a collaborator whose imagination, outputs and judgment benefit from human grounding.
Synthesis of study findings: limited diversity in non-reasoning models, field-specific failures, weak agreement of automated evaluators with experts, and modest gains from augmentations, all supporting the conclusion that human grounding improves AI outputs and judgment.
high mixed Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... overall utility of AI as scientific collaborator (need for human grounding)
Reasoning models roam a wider hypothesis space, yet no model class spontaneously proposes null hypotheses — a move humans make more freely.
Model-output analysis comparing 'reasoning' vs 'non-reasoning' classes on hypothesis-space breadth and presence/absence of null hypotheses; human responses used as comparison.
high mixed Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate i... breadth of hypothesis space and frequency of null-hypothesis proposals
Coding agents already know how to navigate files, edit code, run commands, and repair outputs, but lack the simulator's executable contract (vocabulary, structural constraints, validation rules, termination conditions).
Framing/assumption presented in the paper motivating the approach (not an empirical claim).
high mixed SIGA: Self-Evolving Coding-Agent Adapters for Scientific Sim... agents' pre-existing capabilities vs missing simulator-specific contract
There is a significant U-shaped relationship between AI application and employees' job insecurity: moderate AI application reduces insecurity, whereas excessive application heightens it.
Empirical analysis of cross-sectional self-reported questionnaire data collected from employees (411 valid responses) using regression-type analyses reported as showing a significant U-shaped relationship between AI application intensity and job insecurity.
The paper characterises the Glassbox architecture and grounds it in a benefit eligibility scenario, identifying foundational challenges — semantic alignment, dynamic model construction, probabilistic grounding, and human governance — that must be solved to realise it at scale.
Descriptive summary of the paper's contributions and identified research/engineering challenges; based on the authors' conceptual analysis and scenario exposition.
high mixed Beyond Post-hoc Explanation: Toward Glassbox AI via Probabil... identification of foundational challenges to scalable implementation
Both risk perception and guilt play a role in GenAI adoption (they are relevant predictors of employees' intention to continue using the technology).
Empirical finding reported from the vignette experiment linking risk perception and guilt to GenAI adoption intention (paper states 'highlight the role of both risk perception and guilt in GenAI adoption').
high mixed The Role Of Embeddedness In Generative Ai Adoption: A Perspe... intention to continue using GenAI (adoption intention)
The effect of embeddedness (GenAI being integrated into internal software environments) on employees depends on the presence of organizational authorization.
Reported empirical result from the vignette experiment indicating an interaction effect between embeddedness and organizational authorization (text states 'the effect of embeddedness depends on the presence of organizational authorization').
high mixed The Role Of Embeddedness In Generative Ai Adoption: A Perspe... occurrence of guilt and risk perception (interaction effect)
This research employed a vignette experiment to investigate how the embeddedness of GenAI and organizational authorization impact employees' negative emotion (specifically guilt) and risk perception.
Stated method in paper: a vignette experiment was used to test effects on guilt and risk perception. (No sample size reported in the provided text.)
The research contrasts tool-shaping (AI behavior/prototype) and mind-shaping (user strategy training) pathways and reports differing effects between them.
Paper presents both a tool-shaping experiment (Study 1) and a mind-shaping experiment (Study 2) and discusses comparative findings across these pathways.
high mixed Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... differences in outcomes (information elaboration and cognitive load) between too...
Cognitive flexibility is examined as a moderator (boundary condition) of the interventions' effects.
Paper reports including cognitive flexibility as an individual-differences moderator in analyses across the two studies (moderation analysis planned/reported).
high mixed Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... moderation of intervention effects by cognitive flexibility (on information elab...
Reasoning scaffolds (public tools, playbook, verifier, objectivity policy, red-team) improve calibration and audit discipline, but proprietary evidence sets the upper bound of what the AI Scientist can know and therefore decide.
Synthesis of experimental results showing B improved calibration/audit metrics while C (with proprietary data) markedly increased coverage and informed decision-quality.
high mixed AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratifi... calibration/audit discipline improvements vs. upper bound of knowledge/decision ...
Under capability-superset accounting on the curated gold competitive record, agent A recovers only 0.25, agent B recovers 0.38, while agent C recovers 0.96 (overall).
Capability-superset accounting comparison of fraction of a curated gold competitive record recovered by each agent on the benchmark.
high mixed AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratifi... fraction of curated gold competitive record recovered (gold-coverage)
The prominence of machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and cybersecurity varies depending on organisational context and role requirements within the wind sector.
Paper reports variation across data sources and organisational contexts based on interviews, surveys, and job-posting patterns; no subgroup sample sizes or statistical tests reported in summary.
high mixed Advanced digital skills demands and priorities in wind energ... prominence of ML, IoT, and cybersecurity skills
The Recuse Signal behaves as a cooperative rather than absolute signal: an explicit operator-authorization framing flips the most capable model to proceed, while other agents continue to defer to the on-host policy.
Observation from the pilot experiment (SSH) with multiple deployed agents (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Claude Code); experiment included alternate framing where operator authorization was explicit.
high mixed Will the Agent Recuse Itself? Measuring LLM-Agent Compliance... compliance with the Recuse Signal under different operator-authorization framing...
Data contamination (training-data overlap) complicates interpretation of the models' performance.
Author notes the possibility that models' training data may have contained the target papers or related material, making results ambiguous.
high mixed Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Know... validity_of_experimental_interpretation_due_to_data_contamination
The same practice input carries opposite signs depending on whether the environment screens for it.
Synthesis of empirical patterns: in unscreened CF environment AI-style practice predicts smaller rating gains (for non-affiliated users) while in screened ICPC environment it predicts higher non-AI-aided scores.
high mixed When the Scaffold Stays On: AI, Practice Style, and Screenin... effect of AI-style practice on performance (rating gains or non-AI scores)
In open Codeforces contests a stronger AI-style signature predicts smaller rating gains for users with no ICPC/IOI affiliation, but not for those who qualified for the AI-prohibited contests.
Comparative empirical analysis of CF contest rating gains by users' affiliation (ICPC/IOI qualification status) and individual AI-style signature strength; methods likely regression/heterogeneity analysis—sample sizes not reported in abstract.
high mixed When the Scaffold Stays On: AI, Practice Style, and Screenin... rating gains in open CF contests
A safety monitor condition reduces sabotage success, but 56% of participants still accept the malicious code, ignoring its warnings.
Experimental manipulation: one condition included a safety monitor. Authors report that the monitor reduced sabotage success (no absolute reduction magnitude reported here) and that 56% of participants in that context accepted malicious code despite warnings.
high mixed Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sa... acceptance of malicious code / sabotage success under safety monitor
Analysis of recent benchmark evidence including SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain's multi-agent coordination studies demonstrates both the transformative potential of the agentic paradigm and its current limitations.
Empirical/benchmark analysis referencing SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain multi-agent studies as sources of evidence; the paper analyzes these benchmarks qualitatively or comparatively (specific sample sizes and quantitative effect sizes not stated in the abstract).
high mixed The End of Software Engineering: How AI Agents Are Fundament... agentic systems' capabilities and limitations as measured in benchmarks
Collective practices that emerge in response (from shared prompt strategies to jailbreaking techniques) represent vernacular knowledge formations that, while often exhibiting magical thinking, contain resources for 'revolutionary prompting' and the transformation of individual prompt anxiety into collective political critique.
Qualitative/interpretive claim based on observed user practices and collective responses to LLM behaviour; no systematic survey or sample sizes reported in the abstract.
high mixed Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty emergence of collective prompt practices and their political potential
Grounding the concept of defensive AI governance in organisation-level evidence from the Global South contributes to debates on platform power, journalistic agency, and AI governance in journalism.
Theoretical/interpretive claim based on the study's case of Al-Masry Al-Youm and its empirical insights; presented as a contribution to scholarly debates. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... scholarly contribution to debates on platform power and AI governance in journal...
The authors introduce the concept of 'defensive AI governance' to describe how AI adoption is managed through organisational practices of limitation, supervision, and infrastructural self-protection.
Conceptual contribution grounded in organisation-level qualitative evidence from interviews and analysis of Al-Masry Al-Youm's practices; the concept is derived from the study's empirical findings. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... organisational AI governance practices (limitation, supervision, infrastructural...
The newsroom adopts, adapts, and governs AI across data journalism, fact-checking, and generative applications.
Empirical observations and interview data from Al-Masry Al-Youm detailing specific domains of AI integration (data journalism, fact-checking, generative tools). Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... scope and domains of AI adoption within newsroom workflows
Human and algorithmic actors jointly influence strategic outcomes, motivating the concept of 'hybrid upper echelons' in which executive influence increasingly shifts from making decisions to configuring and governing AI-enabled decision processes.
Theoretical contribution based on integration of management and IS literature in the concept-centric review; proposition of a new conceptual framework ('hybrid upper echelons') rather than primary empirical validation.
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... role of executives (shift from direct decision-making to configuring/governing A...
AI reconfigures UET through discretion reconfiguration: AI enables delegation and embedding of decision authority, redistributing managerial discretion.
Concept-centric literature review synthesizing studies on delegation/automation of decision authority and managerial discretion (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... managerial discretion (delegation/embedding of decision authority)
AI reconfigures UET through evaluation reconfiguration: AI partially substitutes human judgment with algorithmic decision logic and thereby shapes how alternatives are evaluated.
Conceptual synthesis from the literature review integrating findings from management and IS studies on algorithmic decision logic and judgment substitution (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... degree to which algorithmic logic substitutes human judgment and alters evaluati...
AI reconfigures upper echelons theory (UET) through cognition reconfiguration: AI mediates information and attention, expanding analytical capacity while introducing new constraints on executive cognition.
Synthesis of management and IS research in a concept-centric literature review; conceptual argument drawing on prior studies about information mediation and attention (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... executive cognitive processes (information and attention mediation; analytical c...
An explicit thinking mode raises rank-order correlation without moving accuracy.
Empirical comparison of reasoning modes showing increased rank-order correlation (e.g., Spearman/Fisher-z) when explicit 'thinking' mode is used, with no significant change in accuracy.
high mixed Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... rank-order correlation (and accuracy) under explicit thinking mode vs. other rea...
Most published twins are either coarse persona bots conditioned on a few demographic questions or detailed individual-level twins built on purpose-collected surveys and interview transcripts.
Author's literature summary / positioning statement in paper (qualitative assessment of existing published twins).
high mixed Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... types of published digital twins (coarse persona bots vs. detailed individual-le...
AI-mediated financial decisions are reflexive: they reshape organizational workflows, prices, liquidity, credit allocation, and the future data on which subsequent decisions rely.
Conceptual argument supported by literature across finance and related fields (review-level synthesis; no single empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems changes to organizational workflows, market prices, liquidity, credit allocation...
Human–AI complementarity in finance is conditional rather than automatic, depending on task structure, private information, feedback quality, incentives, explanation design, and governance.
Synthesis of literature from finance, management, HCI, and AI showing moderating factors for complementarity (conceptual integration; no unified empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems degree of human–AI complementarity in financial decision-making
Overall, complementarity is attainable in multi-agent regression but obstructed in classification under natural conditions on local aggregation and loss functions.
Synthesis of the paper's proved positive results for regression and negative impossibility results for classification within the tree-based HAI framework (theoretical proofs; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... attainability of complementarity across problem classes (regression vs classific...
In regression under squared loss, complementarity is equivalent to Euclidean distance minimization from the ground-truth vector.
Analytic equivalence proved in the paper for the tree-based model under squared loss (mathematical derivation; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... complementarity (as characterization via Euclidean distance)
As a representative of new quality productive forces, brain–computer interface (BCI) technology raises high expectations but also acute concerns about brain‑privacy protection.
Statement in paper's introduction/abstract; conceptual observation based on literature and contextual analysis (no empirical study reported).
high mixed Empowerment or behavioral regulation? governing brain–comput... public expectations and privacy concerns regarding BCI
AI will have social, economic, and political impacts on work, inequality, democracy and power.
Author's projection of the domains affected by AI (stated as a subject of later chapters; no empirical evidence provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... impacts of AI on employment (work), inequality, democratic processes and power d...
The opportunities of AI in human good are real and vast; and the opportunities in human ill, in human society, in human institutions of government, and in the longer term in the environment in which humanity thrives are real and underestimated.
Author's evaluative judgment asserting both substantial benefits and substantial underestimated harms of AI (normative claim without empirical substantiation in the excerpt).
high mixed Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... magnitude of benefits and harms from AI across society, governance, and environm...
These behavioral differences have implications for deployment of agentic AI in scientific computing workflows, such as trade-offs between speed versus auditability, silent versus transparent error handling, instruction interpretation, and the criticality of intermediate data representations in multi-model pipelines.
Authors' discussion and interpretation based on observed experimental differences between the two agents across the runs.
The autonomously generated manuscripts also diverged in length, details, and quality.
Reported qualitative comparison of the LLM-assisted manuscripts produced by each agent indicating differences in length, level of detail, and overall quality between the two agents' outputs.
The agents exhibited substantially different behaviors and computational costs.
Overall observation from the two runs: distinct behavioral patterns (silent reinterpretation vs explicit restarts), different execution times, and differing computational actions (optimization introduced by Codex).
Claude Code completed the pipeline in ~3.4 minutes with silent deviations from the specification, while Codex required ~16 minutes across explicit self-correcting restarts, including an unsolicited performance optimization of the matched filter inner loop.
Reported run-time measurements and qualitative behavior descriptions in paper: timing values (~3.4 min vs ~16 min) and observed behaviors (silent deviations for Claude Code; explicit restarts and an unsolicited optimization by Codex).
Any measurement of AI brand perception must condition on the buyer persona supplying the query: the same prompt produces materially different recommendation sets depending on who the model thinks is asking, and a measurement protocol that aggregates across personas systematically obscures that variation.
Argument based on observed persona-driven variation in recommendation sets across the audit; policy/methodological recommendation derived from empirical results.
high mixed Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-A... validity of AI brand-perception measurement protocols
The Anthropic model shows a larger point-estimate effect than the OpenAI configurations, though clustered CIs overlap for the closer contrast (sonnet vs. OpenAI/high).
Comparison of point estimates and clustered confidence intervals across model configuration cells in the audit.
high mixed Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-A... magnitude of persona-driven recommendation-set change by model
No single LLM dominates across engine types, highlighting the importance of specific tasks and tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.
Empirical observation from cross-engine evaluations reported in the paper; descriptive conclusion without numeric dominance metrics or sample sizes in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... relative dominance/performance of different LLMs across engine types and task tr...
The evaluations implemented by the initiative demonstrate that AI enabled modeling tools perform better at discussion and basic qualitative tasks than with causal reasoning and quantitative error fixing.
Result reported from the implemented evaluations comparing relative performance across task categories (discussion/qualitative vs causal reasoning/quantitative error fixing); no quantitative effect sizes or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... relative performance of AI modeling tools across task types (qualitative discuss...
When engines from the sd ai project are coupled with different LLMs, their performance on these evaluations reveals variability across different AI tools.
Empirical statement in the paper based on applying the implemented evaluations to different engine+LLM combinations; no numeric performance metrics or sample sizes reported in the excerpt.
high mixed BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simul... performance variability across engine and LLM combinations on benchmark evaluati...