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Evidence (16496 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
Frontier models still make some basic mistakes that occasionally result in irreversible harm (for example, sending an email to the wrong person).
Reported observed incidents from WorkBench evaluations indicating that even top-performing models sometimes make mistakes that can cause irreversible harm; no incident counts or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On incidence of serious irreversible errors (e.g., misdirected emails)
In June 2026 the best agent to date, Claude Opus 4.8, took an unintended harmful action on 2.5% of tasks.
Reported evaluation result on the WorkBench benchmark (June 2026) measuring incidence of unintended harmful actions by agents; exact sample size not stated in the excerpt.
high negative WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On rate of unintended harmful actions
In March 2024 the best agent on WorkBench, GPT-4, took an unintended harmful action (such as emailing the wrong person) on 26% of tasks.
Reported evaluation result on the WorkBench benchmark (March 2024) measuring incidence of unintended harmful actions by agents; exact sample size not stated in the excerpt.
high negative WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On rate of unintended harmful actions
A lack of strategic alignment is a critical barrier that leads AI initiatives to be unused despite technical success.
Paper identifies misalignment between AI projects and organizational strategy as a failure mode in its failure analysis; methodological details not specified in the summary.
high negative Zombie Ai Investments: From Technical Success To Business Fa... alignment with business strategy / adoption and value realization
User resistance is a critical barrier that prevents AI initiatives from delivering business value.
Paper lists user resistance among critical barriers based on analysis of failed projects; no sample size or quantitative method stated in the summary.
high negative Zombie Ai Investments: From Technical Success To Business Fa... user uptake / adoption of AI systems
Siloed deployments are a critical barrier causing AI initiatives to remain unused.
Identified in the paper's analysis of failure modes; presented as a key barrier (method and sample size not provided in the summary).
high negative Zombie Ai Investments: From Technical Success To Business Fa... barriers to adoption / integration of AI
AI initiatives meet functional specifications yet remain unused.
Paper's examination of AI projects that passed technical/functional tests but were not adopted; method/sample size not stated in the summary.
high negative Zombie Ai Investments: From Technical Success To Business Fa... actual usage / adoption of deployed AI systems
Organizations struggle with "zombie AI investments" that succeed technically but fail to generate tangible business value.
Paper's analysis of failed AI initiatives and described observations; methods not specified in the summary (likely qualitative/case analysis).
high negative Zombie Ai Investments: From Technical Success To Business Fa... generation of tangible business value / adoption of AI outputs
Aligning the dimensions with the regulatory frameworks above identifies overlapping gaps neither side currently closes.
Result claimed in abstract that mapping taxonomy dimensions to listed regulatory frameworks reveals overlapping unattended gaps; no detailed counts or specific gaps listed in the abstract.
high negative Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... coverage gaps in policies and regulatory frameworks when aligned
Several open-source organisations have responded with contribution policies, but the result is fragmented, and its alignment with emerging AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF with the UC Berkeley Agentic AI Profile, ISO/IEC 42001 and 23894) is unmapped at the contribution level.
Paper states that multiple organisations adopted policies and that alignment with listed regulatory frameworks is unmapped; the paper reports a comparative study across six organisations (names given).
high negative Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... policy adoption and alignment (fragmentation and lack of mapped alignment to reg...
Autonomous and semi-autonomous AI contributors strain those assumptions
Stated in abstract as an observed tension between agent capabilities and human-focused contribution norms; no quantified incidents or metrics provided in the abstract (but paper indicates mapping of documented agent incidents).
high negative Regulating the Machine Contributor: Governance and Policy Al... compatibility between AI contributors and human-centered contribution norms
These mechanisms produce ethical harms such as accountability deficits, epistemic injustice, labour precarity, and constrained sovereignty.
Reported synthesis finding drawing on the reviewed literature (50 articles) linking the named mechanisms to listed ethical harms.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... ethical harms (accountability deficits, epistemic injustice, labour precarity, c...
These dynamics operate through four mechanisms: epistemic templating, governance transfer, infrastructural lock-in, and labour opacity.
The paper reports these four mechanisms as the pathways identified via the critical synthesis of the 50 articles.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... mechanisms by which power asymmetries are reproduced
The analysis identifies four interrelated dynamics—algorithmic colonialism, data colonialism, platform imperialism, and platform sub-imperialism—through which dependency and domination are reproduced across global and intra-South contexts.
Synthesis of the 50 reviewed peer-reviewed articles; these dynamics are reported as the paper's analytical findings.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... dynamics reproducing dependency and domination
AI adoption may reproduce entrenched inequalities in postcolonial contexts.
Critical synthesis (literature review) of 50 peer-reviewed articles from 2019–2025 reported by the paper.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... reproduction of entrenched inequalities
A perfect verifier cannot substitute for taste: the unbounded stream of correct-but-worthless statements is not an engineering accident but a provable necessity, since covering unrecorded valuable mathematics requires an infinite, but asymptotically negligible, stream of certified trivia.
Theoretical proof within the model that achieving coverage of unrecorded valuable mathematics necessitates an infinite stream of verifiable-but-trivial outputs; argument that these outputs must be asymptotically negligible in rate yet unbounded in total count.
high negative Flood and Harvest: The Provable Necessity of Trivia for Gene... necessity of an unbounded stream of trivial (correct-but-worthless) outputs to c...
The verifier is not taste: the collections admitting generation with breadth are exactly those of the oracle-free model, characterized fiber-wise by Angluin's condition.
Theoretical model and proofs in the paper comparing a verifier-equipped nested-language generation model to an oracle-free model; characterization via Angluin's condition (formal, fiber-wise).
high negative Flood and Harvest: The Provable Necessity of Trivia for Gene... which collections (languages) can be generated with breadth
Those valuable signals are entangled with framework churn, naming drift, generated-source ambiguity, dependency rituals, CI dialects, weak proof routes, and human-oriented review customs.
Qualitative claim/analysis in the paper describing entanglement of signal and accidental complexity; no empirical quantification provided.
high negative No Accidental Software Agent First Canonical Code for Human ... degree of entanglement between signal and accidental repository noise
Frontier coding models may spend substantial capacity learning not only program behavior, but also accidental entropy in human repositories.
Conceptual/theoretical assertion presented in the paper (no empirical sample or experiment reported for this claim).
high negative No Accidental Software Agent First Canonical Code for Human ... model_capacity_usage (learning wasted/noisy patterns)
The review highlights critical challenges related to privacy, emotional surveillance, algorithmic bias, and employee trust associated with emotional AI in the workplace.
Aggregated observation from the systematic review; these concerns are reported as recurring themes across the surveyed literature (specific counts/examples not given in the abstract).
high negative Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... privacy concerns / emotional surveillance / algorithmic bias / employee trust
The study identifies specific retention issues including rigid work practices, a predominantly masculine culture, and occurrences of bullying and harassment.
Findings from thematic analysis of 23 interviews using NVivo 13; participants' accounts raised these specific themes as retention-related issues.
high negative Exploring digital’s role in retaining women in construction presence of workplace practices and culture (rigid practices, masculine culture,...
Women in UK construction continue to face major retention challenges driven by structural biases that lead to feelings of disrespect, insufficient support, and being undervalued.
Thematic analysis of 23 qualitative interviews with women involved in digitally enabled projects; participants reported experiences and perceptions related to retention and workplace culture.
high negative Exploring digital’s role in retaining women in construction feelings of respect, support, and value (RSV) as drivers of retention
Women make up less than 15% of the UK construction workforce.
Statement in the paper likely citing national labour/industry statistics or prior literature (not primary data from this study).
Interactive effects and dynamic vicious cycles exist among the three mechanisms: temporal loss of control amplifies the physiological effects of temporal predation, while temporal acceleration intensifies the psychological effects of temporal loss of control.
Theoretical interaction hypotheses articulated in the framework based on cross-model synthesis and literature discussion; no empirical interaction tests presented in the abstract.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... amplified physiological and psychological harms (interaction effects between mec...
Temporal loss of control is expected to contribute to depression and to heighten occupational injury risk, with learned helplessness and the depletion of cognitive resources as key mediating processes.
Theoretical claim derived from integrating Karasek’s demand-control model and job demands-resources literature; proposed mediators and outcomes come from conceptual argument and cited studies rather than new empirical tests.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... depression and occupational injury risk
Temporal acceleration and discipline are theorized to undermine mental health, giving rise to anxiety and burnout via time panic and emotional exhaustion.
Framework/theoretical argument grounded in integration of Rosa’s social acceleration and psychological job-stress models; claim supported by referenced literature but no new empirical data reported in the abstract.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... anxiety and burnout (mental health outcomes)
Temporal predation primarily damages physiological health—manifesting as cardiovascular strain and musculoskeletal injuries—through the mediating pathway of chronic fatigue.
Theoretical proposition based on literature synthesis and mediation logic presented in the framework; no primary empirical data or sample size reported in the article text provided.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... cardiovascular strain and musculoskeletal injuries (physiological health outcome...
Algorithmic time politics damages occupational health through three interconnected mechanisms—temporal predation, temporal acceleration and discipline, and temporal loss of control—which form a progressive chain from 'the quantity of time' through 'the quality of time' to 'the sovereignty over time.'
Theoretical multilevel framework developed by the article combining disciplinary theory, social acceleration theory, job demand-control and job demands-resources models and literature review; no empirical testing reported.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... occupational health (aggregate of physical and mental health outcomes of platfor...
In platform labor, algorithms reshape workers’ perception and control of time through mechanisms such as dynamic pricing, compulsory task assignment, time-limit compression, and real-time surveillance, giving rise to a novel power formation—“algorithmic time politics.”
Conceptual/theoretical claim constructed by the article via literature integration and argumentation (synthesis of Foucault, Rosa, Karasek, Bakker & Demerouti); no empirical sample or quantitative study reported.
high negative Predation, acceleration, and loss of control: a multilevel t... workers' perception and control of time (time sovereignty/autonomy)
A rise in firm age by one standard deviation reduces the share of AI workers by 5.2%.
Quantitative estimate reported in abstract based on the paper's empirical analysis of the novel dataset (Babina et al., 2024).
Older firms often encounter difficulties integrating AI talent, possibly due to entrenched practices, outdated systems, and resistance to change.
Empirical analysis described in abstract using the novel resume/job-posting dataset for U.S. firms; mechanism explanations provided in text.
high negative The AI workforce and firm maturity: old firms, new tech ability to integrate AI talent / share of AI workers
The economy is generically inefficient (under the laissez-faire equilibrium) and a planner can optimally tilt the direction of data accumulation to improve outcomes.
Welfare analysis within the model: comparison of decentralized equilibrium and planner's problem, demonstrating inefficiency and characterizing planner's optimal policy for directing data accumulation (analytical welfare results).
high negative Data-Driven Automation welfare/efficiency; direction of data accumulation under planner vs equilibrium
In the fully automated long-run case, short-run dynamics depend on the pattern of data spillovers, but automation is always slow in the long run: the share of tasks produced by labor decays asymptotically as a power law in time.
Analytical asymptotic result from the dynamic model showing that, under full automation, the labor-produced task share follows a power-law decay; short-run behavior is shown to depend on spillover structure (model derivation and asymptotic analysis).
high negative Data-Driven Automation share of tasks produced by labor over time (decay rate)
At min-cost, Brick incurs 11.85 points accuracy loss.
Empirical evaluation on the 5,504-query benchmark reporting accuracy loss at the min-cost operating point.
high negative Brick: Spatial Capability Routing for the Mixture-of-Models ... accuracy loss (percentage points)
Frontier models cost ten to one hundred times more than local open-weight models.
Cost comparison statement in the paper (asserted market/commercial cost multiples).
Existing LLM routers rely on surface features such as domain labels, keywords, and token count, ignoring the within-domain variance that actually determines model success.
Claim about prior work / existing systems presented in the paper; no explicit empirical test shown in the abstract.
high negative Brick: Spatial Capability Routing for the Mixture-of-Models ... router_feature_use_vs_within-domain_variance
AI adoption is significantly hampered by a lack of workforce skills and supporting infrastructure in these accounting organizations.
Qualitative interview findings and questionnaire responses synthesized via thematic analysis and inferential/statistical analysis (sample size not reported).
high negative Utilization of Artificial Intelligence Technology among Acco... barriers to AI adoption (skills and infrastructure)
Accounting organizations in the study are still in the early stages of AI adoption.
Synthesis of questionnaire and interview findings with thematic analysis indicating limited breadth/depth of AI use (sample size not reported).
high negative Utilization of Artificial Intelligence Technology among Acco... stage/level of AI adoption
AI is used mainly for repetitive and routine accounting tasks, with very little use for higher-level work.
Questionnaire responses and interview data summarized with descriptive statistics and thematic analysis (sample size not reported).
high negative Utilization of Artificial Intelligence Technology among Acco... types of tasks for which AI is used (routine vs higher-level)
As the "Twin Transition" of green and digital transformation accelerates, the industry faces technology gaps - including Scope 3 emissions and e-waste recycling - that impede sustainable scaling and lead to social tensions.
Author's synthesis and argument drawing attention to technology gaps (Scope 3 emissions, e-waste) as barriers; presented as a conceptual finding rather than empirical measurement.
high negative From Stacks to Circuits: A Regenerative Socio-Technical Road... impediment to sustainable scaling / social tensions
Current scaling trajectories for Generative AI, typified by linear supply-side "stacks," prioritize performance density while externalizing significant thermodynamic and material costs.
Author's stated analysis/observation in the paper (conceptual critique of current industry scaling practices); no empirical sample or quantitative study reported.
high negative From Stacks to Circuits: A Regenerative Socio-Technical Road... thermodynamic and material costs (environmental externalities)
The absence of standardized data governance policies and localized, language-accessible software platforms exacerbates the technological divide in digital agriculture.
Review synthesis identifying governance and software-localization as structural barriers; no empirical governance-audit sample sizes provided in the abstract.
high negative Digital Agriculture and Smart Farming: A Review of Emerging ... technological divide / barriers to adoption linked to governance and software lo...
In India, where the sector is dominated by smallholder farmers with fragmented landholdings, the transition to digital agriculture is significantly hindered by severe economic constraints, a lack of robust rural digital infrastructure, and pervasive digital illiteracy.
Targeted review analysis focusing on the Indian agricultural context; claim draws on country-specific literature but the abstract does not report specific empirical sample sizes or quantified barriers.
high negative Digital Agriculture and Smart Farming: A Review of Emerging ... adoption of digital agriculture technologies by Indian smallholder farmers
Despite these proven agronomic and environmental benefits, the global diffusion of digital agriculture remains highly uneven.
Review assertion based on cross-study synthesis that diffusion/adoption is not uniform globally; abstract provides no country-by-country adoption statistics or sample sizes.
high negative Digital Agriculture and Smart Farming: A Review of Emerging ... diffusion/adoption of digital agriculture
Synthetic data can be biased, noisy, and misspecified.
Background claim in the paper describing failure modes of synthetic data; motivated as a fundamental concern motivating the methodological work. No empirical quantification provided in the excerpt.
high negative Valid Inference with Synthetic Data via Task Exchangeability quality/validity of synthetic data (bias, noise, misspecification)
Existing evaluations of autonomous penetration capabilities often employ opaque methodologies, rely on unrealistic or overly simplified penetration-testing scenarios, or provide LLMs with excessive prior knowledge and task-specific guidance, and cannot accurately capture the extent to which modern AI systems can autonomously perform this capability in high-impact scenarios.
Statement in paper's introduction/abstract summarizing limitations of prior work (literature review / critique of evaluation practices).
high negative The Emergence of Autonomous Penetration Capabilities in Larg... quality/realism of prior evaluation methodologies for autonomous penetration
API-based approaches struggle with heterogeneous protocols and inaccessible commercial interfaces.
Author assertion contrasting API-based approaches with GUI and COM approaches (conceptual/architectural argument rather than specific experiment).
high negative ComAct: Reframing Professional Software Manipulation via COM... difficulty/adoption barriers due to heterogeneous protocols and inaccessible com...
GUI-based agents suffer from fragile visual grounding and long-horizon error accumulation.
Author assertion in paper introduction describing limitations of GUI-based agents (conceptual analysis / literature-grounding rather than new experimental data).
high negative ComAct: Reframing Professional Software Manipulation via COM... fragility of visual grounding and accumulation of errors over long-horizon GUI i...
Research on embedded finance emphasizes modularity but offers limited insight into how systems evolve when AI-driven inference and platform environments jointly structure financial action.
Literature-based critique in the paper's theoretical review of embedded finance research; no empirical sampling reported.
high negative Embodied Finance: A Conceptual Framework for Agency, Value, ... completeness/insightfulness of existing embedded finance research regarding syst...
An unconstrained multi-agent baseline produced critical failures in 72% of runs.
Reported experimental result from the 2x4 factorial experiment (failure rate for the unconstrained multi-agent baseline reported as 72%).
high negative (Human) Attention Is (Still) All You Need: Human oversight m... critical failure rate (binary outcome: critical failure vs. not)