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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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No large empirical dataset or large-scale field experiments were used; the work is primarily theoretical/formal with simulations and worked examples rather than empirical validation.
Paper's Methods/Data section explicitly states the work is theoretical/formal and lists reference implementation and simulations instead of large empirical studies.
high null result Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policies on Paths use of empirical data (presence/absence of large-scale empirical evaluation)
Risk calibration—mapping violation probabilities to enforcement actions and thresholds—is a key unsolved operational problem for runtime governance.
Paper highlights open problems including risk calibration; argued via conceptual analysis and operational concerns (false positives/negatives, costs of blocking actions).
high null result Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policies on Paths existence of calibrated thresholds and procedures (presence/absence)
BenchPreS defines two complementary metrics—Misapplication Rate (MR) and Appropriate Application Rate (AAR)—to quantify over‑application and correct personalization, respectively.
Methodological contribution described in the paper: explicit definitions of MR as fraction of inappropriate applications and AAR as fraction of appropriate applications, used to score model behavior.
high null result BenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Prefer... Definition and use of MR and AAR metrics
Pilot randomized or quasi-experimental implementations of reduced workweeks (across firms, industries, or regions) are needed to measure effects on employment, productivity, wages, and consumption.
Research-design recommendation motivated by lack of contemporary causal evidence; not an empirical finding but a stated priority for rigorous testing.
high null result A Shorter Workweek as a Policy Response to AI-Driven Labor D... measured causal effects of reduced workweeks on employment, productivity, wages,...
There is limited direct causal identification separating technology-driven layoffs from incentive-driven layoffs in current firm-level data, creating a need for new firm-panel datasets linking AI adoption, executive pay/ownership, layoff decisions, and local demand outcomes.
Stated limitation of the paper and research-priority recommendation; assessment based on literature gaps noted in the synthesis rather than empirical gap quantification.
high null result A Shorter Workweek as a Policy Response to AI-Driven Labor D... availability/coverage of firm-level panel data capable of separating AI effects ...
Observed layoffs should be treated in empirical research as outcomes of firm governance and incentive structures; econometric studies estimating displacement from AI must control for managerial incentives and financial pressures.
Methodological recommendation based on the conceptual argument and literature linking governance/incentives to firm behavior; no new empirical demonstration provided.
high null result A Shorter Workweek as a Policy Response to AI-Driven Labor D... bias in estimated causal effect of AI on layoffs when not controlling for manage...
Research priorities include empirical testing and simulation of ISB-based control systems, cost–benefit analysis of proactive versus reactive AI governance, and distributional impact assessments.
Explicit research agenda proposed by the author (conceptual recommendation), not empirical results.
high null result DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S SOCIOECON... n/a (research agenda recommendation rather than an empirical outcome)
This work is conceptual/theoretical and reports no original empirical dataset; it explicitly calls for mixed-methods empirical validation (case studies, field experiments, longitudinal studies), measurement development, and multi-level data collection.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper describing its nature as a theoretical synthesis and listing empirical needs; no empirical sample provided.
high null result Revolutionizing Human Resource Development: A Theoretical Fr... presence/absence of original empirical data in the paper (none)
Empirical strategy: the main identification strategy uses panel regressions with quadratic AI specification and interaction terms, controlling for firm covariates, employing fixed effects and robustness checks (alternative measures, sub-samples).
Methods section description: panel regressions including AI and AI^2, interactions for moderators, controls, fixed effects, and robustness analyses reported in the paper.
high null result Attention to Whom? AI Adoption and Corporate Social Responsi... N/A (methodological claim)
Data/sample claim: the empirical analysis uses a panel of 2,575 Chinese listed firms observed from 2013 to 2023.
Paper-stated sample description (panel dataset covering 2013–2023, N = 2,575 firms).
high null result Attention to Whom? AI Adoption and Corporate Social Responsi... N/A (sample description)
The paper recommends an empirical research agenda including field experiments comparing teams with and without AI mediation, structural models of labor supply and wages under reduced language frictions, microdata analysis of adopters, and measurement studies for coordination costs and mediated-action reliability.
Explicit recommendations and research agenda stated in the paper; this is a descriptive claim about the paper's content rather than an empirical finding.
high null result AI as a universal collaboration layer: Eliminating language ... existence of the recommended research agenda items in the paper
The paper's primary approach is conceptual/theoretical development and agenda-setting; it does not report large-scale empirical or experimental data.
Explicit methods statement in the paper: synthesis, illustrative examples, framework development; absence of reported empirical sample or experiments.
high null result AI as a universal collaboration layer: Eliminating language ... presence/absence of empirical/experimental data in the paper
The study's empirical base consists of 40 semi-structured interviews with cross-industry project practitioners in the UK, analyzed using thematic qualitative methods.
Stated data and methods in the paper: sample size (40), interview method, cross-industry sampling, and thematic analysis.
high null result AI in project teams: how trust calibration reconfigures team... study sample and methodology (empirical basis)
Limitation: Implementation heterogeneity — the costs and feasibility of the recommended HR changes vary by context and may affect generalisability.
Explicit limitation acknowledged in the paper; drawn from theoretical reasoning about contextual heterogeneity and practitioner variability.
high null result Symbiarchic leadership: leading integrated human and AI cybe... implementation costs; feasibility; effect on generalisability
Limitation: The framework is conceptual and requires empirical validation across sectors, firm sizes and AI‑intensity levels.
Explicit limitation acknowledged by the authors; based on the paper's method (theoretical synthesis, no original data).
high null result Symbiarchic leadership: leading integrated human and AI cybe... generalizability and empirical validity across contexts
The paper generates empirically testable propositions (e.g., how leader practices affect AI adoption speed, task reallocation, productivity, error rates, employee well‑being and turnover) and suggests natural‑experiment settings for evaluation.
Stated methodological output of the conceptual synthesis; the paper lists candidate empirical tests and research opportunities but contains no original empirical tests.
high null result Symbiarchic leadership: leading integrated human and AI cybe... AI adoption speed; task reallocation; productivity; error rates; employee well‑b...
Typical methods used are deep learning for property prediction and representation learning, protein-structure modelling tools, generative models for de novo design, NLP for knowledge extraction, and ADME/Tox in silico models integrated with traditional computational chemistry.
Methodological survey in the paper listing these approaches and examples of their application.
high null result Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... methods deployed in AI-driven drug discovery workflows
Commonly used data types in AI-driven drug discovery include biochemical/binding assay data, protein structural data, HTS results, ADME/Tox and PK datasets, omics/phenotypic readouts, and scientific literature/patents.
Cataloguing of data sources used across studies and company pipelines described in the paper.
high null result Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... types of datasets employed in model training and discovery workflows
AI became widely adopted in pharmaceutical discovery during the 2010s, driven by greater compute, larger datasets, and advances in deep learning.
Historical overview and trend analysis in the paper referencing increased compute availability, growth in public and proprietary datasets, and the rise of deep-learning publications and tools over the 2010s.
high null result Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... timeline and adoption rate of AI methods in pharmaceutical discovery
Current evidence is illustrative rather than systematic; there is a lack of long-run, quantitative measures of AI’s effect on late-stage clinical outcomes in the literature reviewed.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper: study is an expert/opinion synthesis and narrative review with no new causal econometric estimates or primary experimental data.
high null result Learning from the successes and failures of early artificial... existence/availability of long-run quantitative measures linking AI adoption to ...
The paper identifies three core mechanisms underlying calibrated trust and complementarity: (1) calibrated trust balancing reliance and oversight, (2) complementarity–trust interaction for optimal performance, and (3) dynamic feedback loops producing reinforcing learning cycles.
Explicit identification of mechanisms claimed in the paper's synthesis; this is a descriptive claim about the paper's content rather than an empirical finding—no sample or empirical test reported in the abstract.
high null result Optimising Human– AI Decision Performance: A Trust and Cap... n/a (identification of theoretical mechanisms)
The authors surveyed workers and developers on a representative sample of 171 tasks and used language models (LMs) to scale ratings to 10,131 computer-assisted tasks across all U.S. occupations.
Study methodology reported in the paper: surveys of 'workers and developers' on 171 tasks, plus LM-based scaling to 10,131 tasks (coverage claims across U.S. occupations).
high null result Are We Automating the Joy Out of Work? Designing AI to Augme... coverage and scaling of task-level ratings (number of tasks surveyed and number ...
The study uses a game-theoretic model involving a foundation model provider and two competing downstream firms to analyze how policy interventions affect consumer surplus in the AI supply chain.
Methodological description in the paper: a formal game-theoretic model with one upstream provider and two downstream competing firms; equilibrium analysis and comparative statics are performed on model outcomes (prices, qualities, profits, consumer surplus).
high null result The Economics of AI Supply Chain Regulation model equilibrium outcomes (prices, qualities, provider profit, downstream profi...
Foi realizada etnografia organizacional orientada ao SCF, com roteiro e triangulação de evidências.
Método qualitativo divulgado no resumo: etnografia organizacional com roteiro e triangulação; o resumo não fornece número de organizações, duração ou amostragem.
high null result A FRICÇÃO PSICOANTROPOLÓGICA (SCF - Symbolic-Cognitive Frict... evidências qualitativas da existência e manifestação da fricção psicoantropológi...
Foi construído e validado um instrumento psicométrico (escala SCF-30) e calculado um índice 0–100, com modelagem por Equações Estruturais (SEM) e testes de confiabilidade/validade.
Descrição metodológica explícita no resumo: construção e validação da escala SCF-30, uso de SEM e testes de confiabilidade e validade. O resumo não detalha estatísticas, amostra ou resultados numéricos.
high null result A FRICÇÃO PSICOANTROPOLÓGICA (SCF - Symbolic-Cognitive Frict... pontuação SCF (índice 0–100) e propriedades psicométricas da escala SCF-30 (conf...
O SCF é operacionalizado por três vetores centrais: Percepção de Complexidade (PC), Aversão ao Risco Institucional (AR) e Inércia Cultural (IC).
Estrutura conceitual e operacional apresentada no artigo; especificação explícita dos três vetores como componentes do construto SCF.
high null result A FRICÇÃO PSICOANTROPOLÓGICA (SCF - Symbolic-Cognitive Frict... componentes constituintes do construto SCF (PC, AR, IC)
Degree, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality metrics were used to identify structural vulnerabilities and leverage points in the construction supply chain network.
Paper reports calculation of degree, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality to outline vulnerabilities; specific metrics and interpretations are reported (e.g., degree centrality value for brokers).
high null result Social-Network Analytics of Construction Supply Chain network centrality measures (degree, betweenness, eigenvector) as indicators of ...
Thematic coding translated reported interactions into nodes and edges of a complex network and grouped challenges into thematic categories.
Methods described: thematic coding applied to interview data to create network structure and to generate challenge categories (six main categories, 16 open codes reported).
high null result Social-Network Analytics of Construction Supply Chain conversion of qualitative interactions into network structure and thematic categ...
This study combines empirical, semi-structured interviews with social network analytics to map construction supply chain relationships and vulnerabilities.
Methods reported in the paper: use of semi-structured interviews plus social network analysis (thematic coding to create nodes/edges, calculation of network metrics). Sample size not specified in the abstract.
high null result Social-Network Analytics of Construction Supply Chain research method integration (interviews + social network analytics)
Extensive experiments were conducted using both synthetic and real hospital datasets to evaluate the framework.
Statement in the paper indicating experiments on synthetic and real datasets; exact sizes, sources, and composition of these datasets are not provided in the excerpt.
high null result Enhancing hospital workforce planning, scheduling, and perfo... breadth of experimental evaluation (use of synthetic and real datasets)
Coordination is treated as a structural property of the coupled dynamics (agents + incentives + persistent environment) rather than as the solution to a centralized global optimization objective or purely agent-centric learning problem.
Conceptual framing supported by the formal dynamical model and theorems showing properties of the closed-loop dynamics that do not rely on an underlying global objective.
high null result How Intelligence Emerges: A Minimal Theory of Dynamic Adapti... conceptual characterization of 'coordination' as a structural dynamical property
The persistent environment component of the model stores accumulated coordination signals, and a distributed incentive field transmits those signals locally to adaptive agents, which update their states in response.
Model construction and definitions in the paper describing (i) an environmental state variable with persistent dynamics that accumulates signals, (ii) a spatially/distributed incentive field mapping environmental memory to local agent inputs, and (iii) adaptive update rules for agents.
high null result How Intelligence Emerges: A Minimal Theory of Dynamic Adapti... model components: environmental memory, incentive field, and agent update mappin...
The paper formalizes agents, incentives, and the environment as a recursively closed feedback architecture (i.e., a coupled dynamical system in which agents adapt to incentive signals that themselves depend on a persistent environmental memory produced by agent actions).
Mathematical model and definitions presented in the paper (formal system specification of agent states, incentive field, and persistent environment; no empirical data).
high null result How Intelligence Emerges: A Minimal Theory of Dynamic Adapti... existence and specification of a recursively closed feedback architecture (model...
In a field experiment on the DiagnosUs medical crowdsourcing platform, the authors held the true prevalence in the unlabeled stream fixed at 20% (blasts) while varying the prevalence of positives in the gold-standard feedback stream (20% vs. 50%) and the response interface (binary labels vs. elicited probabilities).
Field experiment conducted on the DiagnosUs platform with experimental manipulations: (i) true prevalence in unlabeled stream fixed at 20% blasts, (ii) feedback-stream prevalence manipulated to 20% vs 50%, (iii) response interface manipulated between binary labels and elicited probabilities. (Sample size and number of workers not specified in the provided excerpt.)
high null result Managing Cognitive Bias in Human Labeling Operations for Rar... experimental manipulations (true prevalence, feedback prevalence, response inter...
The framework was evaluated on 2,847 queries across 15 task categories.
Paper reports an evaluation dataset consisting of 2,847 queries spanning 15 task categories; used as the sample for reported empirical results.
high null result One Supervisor, Many Modalities: Adaptive Tool Orchestration... evaluation sample size and task-category coverage (2,847 queries, 15 categories)
Non-text processing paths use SLM-assisted modality decomposition.
Paper reports that non-text queries are decomposed using SLM-assisted modality decomposition; described as the non-text routing approach in the framework.
high null result One Supervisor, Many Modalities: Adaptive Tool Orchestration... modality decomposition approach for non-text queries (SLM-assisted decomposition...
For text-only queries, the framework uses learned routing via RouteLLM.
Paper states text-only routing is handled by a learned model named RouteLLM; presented as part of the system architecture.
high null result One Supervisor, Many Modalities: Adaptive Tool Orchestration... routing method used for text-only queries (RouteLLM learned routing)
A central Supervisor dynamically decomposes user queries, delegates subtasks to modality-appropriate tools (e.g., object detection, OCR, speech transcription), and synthesizes results through adaptive routing strategies rather than predetermined decision trees.
Methodological description in the paper of a Supervisor component that performs dynamic decomposition, delegation to modality-appropriate tools (examples given), and adaptive routing; supported by the framework's implementation details.
high null result One Supervisor, Many Modalities: Adaptive Tool Orchestration... dynamic query decomposition and task delegation behavior of the system
We present an agentic AI framework for autonomous multimodal query processing that coordinates specialized tools across text, image, audio, video, and document modalities.
Paper describes the framework design and components (Supervisor, modality-specific tools) and states support for text, image, audio, video, and document modalities; no external benchmark cited for this capability beyond the paper's own implementation.
high null result One Supervisor, Many Modalities: Adaptive Tool Orchestration... ability to coordinate specialized tools across multiple modalities (multimodal q...
The essay reviews seven books from the past dozen years by social scientists examining the economic impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
Qualitative book-review performed by the author; sample size explicitly stated as seven books published within the last ~12 years; method = synthesis/assessment of those seven books.
high null result The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisc... number and temporal scope of books reviewed (coverage of literature)
The study is limited by the scope of available industry data and the generalisability of case study findings.
Explicit limitation reported in the paper summary stating constraints related to industry data availability and generalisability of case studies.
high null result Artificial intelligence and organisational transformation: t... generalizability / external validity
The research adopts a mixed-method approach, combining theoretical analysis with empirical insights, and uses data gathered from the 'AI-driven transformation' Scopus database.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper summary: mixed-method design and Scopus database as the data source. (No further methodological details or sample counts provided in the summary.)
high null result Artificial intelligence and organisational transformation: t... N/A (methodological description)
The experimental sample underlying the statistical tests comprised 20 observations (implied by ANOVA degrees of freedom: df between = 1, df within = 18).
Interpretation of the reported one-way ANOVA degrees of freedom (F(1,18) for multiple outcomes) indicating total N = 20 observations.
high null result Economic Analysis of AI‐Driven Resource Efficiency in Sustai... sample size (number of experimental observations)
Field experiments at the Al‐Ra'id Research Station in Baghdad during the 2025 season compared conventional diesel‐based irrigation with AI‐assisted irrigation using soil moisture sensors, IoT controllers, and predictive weather algorithms.
Reported field experiment design in the paper (Al‐Ra'id Research Station, Baghdad, 2025 season) specifying two treatments: conventional diesel irrigation vs AI-assisted irrigation using soil moisture sensors, IoT controllers, and predictive weather algorithms.
high null result Economic Analysis of AI‐Driven Resource Efficiency in Sustai... experimental treatment comparison / intervention description
By integrating dynamic capabilities theory with a micro foundations perspective, the study proposes a conditional model that reframes the essential challenge from technology adoption to organizational adaptation.
Model/theory construction presented in the paper (conceptual integration). This is a methodological/theoretical claim about the paper's contribution; no empirical validation provided.
high null result Resilience Coefficient: Measuring the Strategic Adaptability... conceptual reframing (adoption → adaptation) as articulated in the proposed mode...
This study identifies three types of AI triggers that target routines, cognitive frameworks, and resource allocation.
Proposed taxonomy / typology presented in the paper (theoretical classification). The claim is descriptive of the paper's contribution rather than empirically validated.
high null result Resilience Coefficient: Measuring the Strategic Adaptability... categorization of AI triggers (routines, cognitive frameworks, resource allocati...
The study treats AI-agent populations as a system in which four key variables governing collective behaviour can be independently toggled: nature (innate LLM diversity), nurture (individual reinforcement learning), culture (emergent tribe formation), and resource scarcity.
Study design described in the paper (experimental setup allowing independent manipulation of the four variables: model diversity, individual RL, emergent tribe formation, and resource scarcity).
high null result Increasing intelligence in AI agents can worsen collective o... ability to independently manipulate the four experimental variables (nature, nur...
The study integrates Fuzzy Best Worst Method (BWM), PROMETHEE II, and DEMATEL (Fuzzy BWM-PROMETHEE II-DEMATEL) as a three-stage MCDM framework for prioritization and causal analysis of barriers.
Methodology explicitly described in paper: literature survey + expert knowledge feeding into integrated Fuzzy BWM, PROMETHEE II, and Fuzzy DEMATEL analyses.
high null result Evaluating Critical Barriers to Industry 4.0 Adoption in the... methodological framework for ranking and causal mapping of barriers
This study investigates the barriers to the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in the Thai automotive industry to inform firms and policymakers.
Stated research aim in paper; approach based on literature survey and expert knowledge; three-stage multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model used. (Sample size of experts / respondents not specified in the provided text.)
high null result Evaluating Critical Barriers to Industry 4.0 Adoption in the... identification/prioritization of I4.0 adoption barriers in the Thai automotive i...
The paper's findings are based on a combination of literature review, data analysis, and an empirical study involving HR professionals.
Methodological description given in the paper's summary (no further methodological details, sample size, instruments, or statistical methods provided in the summary).
high null result AI-Driven Decision Making and Digital Recruitment: Transform... methodological basis of the reported findings