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Evidence (8807 claims)

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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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Infrastructure deficits (unreliable power, inadequate broadband, limited local compute) materially constrain AI uptake by SMEs.
Policy reports and empirical studies in the literature documenting infrastructural limitations in LMIC contexts (including Botswana) that impede digital and AI deployment.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Sustainable Development... infrastructure adequacy metrics (power reliability, broadband access); AI adopti...
Skills shortages (AI literacy, data science, digital management) are a primary constraint on SME AI adoption in developing economies.
Consistent findings across surveys, interviews, and case studies in the reviewed literature highlighting skill gaps as a common barrier; authors note multiple empirical sources pointing to this constraint.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Sustainable Development... availability of AI-relevant skills; reported skills constraints limiting adoptio...
Heterogeneity in study designs and contexts within the literature limits direct comparability and generalizability of findings.
Limitation noted in the paper based on the authors' assessment of diversity across the 103 reviewed studies (varying methods, contexts, metrics).
high negative Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... comparability/generalizability of evidence across studies
Institutional inertia, fragmented governance structures, limited technical capacity, and weak data stewardship impede scale‑up of AI systems in the public sector.
Thematic synthesis of barriers reported across empirical studies and institutional reports within the systematic review (103 items).
high negative Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... ability to scale AI systems / scale‑up rate
Low‑ and middle‑income contexts face persistent gaps—infrastructure, data ecosystems, and talent retention—that slow AI adoption in public governance.
Consistent findings across multiple studies in the 103‑item corpus reporting infrastructure deficits, weak data ecosystems, and brain drain/retention issues in LMIC settings.
high negative Models, applications, and limitations of the responsible ado... rate/extent of AI adoption in public governance in low- and middle‑income contex...
On-Premise RAG requires internal technical capabilities (MLOps, infrastructure engineers) to maintain and update the system.
Organizational evaluation and implementation discussion noting operational responsibilities and skill requirements for on-prem deployment.
high negative An Empirical Study on the Feasibility Analysis of On-Premise... need for technical staff / internal capabilities (MLOps, infra)
On-Premise RAG incurs higher latency compared with cloud RAG.
Technology evaluations included measured system latency comparisons between architectures; exact latency values and statistical details not provided in summary.
high negative An Empirical Study on the Feasibility Analysis of On-Premise... system latency (response time)
On-Premise RAG requires upfront capital expenditure (hardware) and ongoing maintenance (operations, model updates, staff).
Organizational evaluations / cost accounting and implementation discussion indicating hardware, operations, and personnel requirements for on-prem deployment; specific cost figures not provided in summary.
high negative An Empirical Study on the Feasibility Analysis of On-Premise... upfront capital expenditure and ongoing maintenance costs and staffing needs
Risks include bias and discrimination, opacity in decision-making, privacy and cybersecurity threats, liability gaps, and uneven distribution of benefits that can exacerbate inequality.
Compilation from academic and policy literature, regulatory gap analyses, and examples of problematic AI use cases identified in the report's sectoral review.
high negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... bias/discrimination incidents, decision-making opacity, privacy/cybersecurity in...
AI creates significant ethical, legal and distributional risks.
Review of policy documents, academic and policy literature, and documented examples of AI deployment across multiple sectors highlighting harms (bias, privacy breaches, liability gaps, unequal benefits).
high negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... ethical risks, legal gaps, and distributional outcomes (inequality)
Significant financial and implementation barriers (infrastructure, staff, validation) risk worsening access inequities between well-resourced and low-resource providers.
Economic analyses, stakeholder surveys, and deployment trend reports synthesized in the paper showing higher upfront costs and validation burdens for adopters; no randomized trials.
high negative Framework for Government Policy on Agentic and Generative AI... access / equity disparities / adoption gap by resource level
Regulatory fragmentation and lack of harmonized standards increase compliance complexity for healthcare AI deployments.
Policy analyses, regulatory reviews, and industry reports synthesized in the paper describing divergent national/regional regulatory approaches and their operational consequences.
high negative Framework for Government Policy on Agentic and Generative AI... regulatory compliance complexity / administrative burden
Both open-source and proprietary approaches carry risks of algorithmic bias and fairness violations, especially when models are uncontrolled or poorly validated across populations.
Multiple peer-reviewed studies and audit reports summarized in the literature synthesis documenting bias/fairness issues across model types and populations.
high negative Framework for Government Policy on Agentic and Generative AI... bias / fairness metrics / differential performance across populations
Rural digital divides and uneven infrastructure constrain the reach of AI health solutions and risk exacerbating health inequities unless explicitly addressed.
Synthesis of infrastructure and equity literature, national connectivity data referenced in reviewed documents, and policy analyses included in the review period 2020–2025.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... geographic disparities in digital infrastructure (broadband access, device avail...
Regulatory and governance frameworks for health AI in Indonesia are fragmented, with limited requirements for transparency/explainability and weak procurement/governance mechanisms.
Thematic analysis of national policy papers, SATUSEHAT governance reports, and regulatory documents identified in the 42 supplementary documents and literature review (2020–2025).
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... presence/strength of regulation and governance mechanisms (transparency requirem...
AI-generated code can introduce security vulnerabilities and raise licensing/intellectual-property concerns.
Case studies of security incidents, analyses of generated code provenance, and vulnerability-detection studies synthesized in the review.
high negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... incidence of security vulnerabilities in generated code; instances of license or...
LLMs sometimes generate incorrect, nonsensical, or insecure code (hallucinations).
Multiple benchmarks, code-generation accuracy tests, and incident case studies documented in the empirical literature showing incorrect or fabricated outputs.
high negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... code correctness/error rate; incidence of hallucinated outputs (false or fabrica...
Data security, privacy risks, unequal gains, and regulatory shortfalls can undermine the benefits of AI/robotics adoption.
Policy and risk analyses from secondary literature, case studies, and institutional reports synthesized in the paper; examples cited but no original incident-level dataset or incidence rates provided.
high negative AI and Robotics Redefine Output and Growth: The New Producti... data/privacy risk incidence, inequality measures, regulatory adequacy (qualitati...
Transition frictions and skills mismatches are important barriers to workers moving into newly created AI‑related roles.
Qualitative review of workforce and skills literature, case studies, and sector reports; evidence comes from secondary sources with varied methodologies; the paper does not report pooled quantitative estimates.
high negative AI and Robotics Redefine Output and Growth: The New Producti... transition costs, skills mismatch incidence, retraining needs (labor market fric...
International and national legal approaches to these stages are fragmented, creating uncertainty for IP, privacy, liability and evidence law.
Comparative review of international and national legal approaches and judicial responses cited in the paper (secondary legal sources).
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... degree of fragmentation and legal uncertainty across jurisdictions
Output-stage risks include authenticity/deception concerns, attribution and reuse-rights disputes, reputational harms, and broader societal impacts from abundant generated media.
Review of empirical studies on media authenticity, legal cases, and policy analyses included in the narrative review.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... authenticity, deception potential, attribution disputes, reputational and societ...
Process-stage risks include governance of model development, control over deployment, transparency, auditing, and operational safety.
Conceptual synthesis of technical governance literature and policy reports cited in the narrative review.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... governance and operational safety concerns in model development/deployment
Input-stage risks include concerns about consent, copyright, representativeness, bias, provenance and data ownership for training material.
Synthesis of legal and policy literature and documented legal cases/statutes related to training data and IP/privacy issues (secondary sources only).
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... legal/ethical compliance and risk factors in training datasets
Generative audiovisual AI poses material ethical, control, transparency and legal challenges across three stages — input (training data), process (development & deployment), and output (use of artifacts).
Conceptual three-stage framework built from comparative review of literature, legal cases/statutes and policy reports described in the paper.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... presence and types of ethical, governance, transparency and legal risks across i...
Limitations of the study include potential selection bias in reviewed sources and contingency of conclusions on evolving legal decisions and technology developments.
Author-stated limitations section within the paper; qualitative acknowledgement rather than empirical bias assessment.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... reliability and generalizability of the review's conclusions
Output-stage risks include challenges to authenticity and provenance, erosion of trust (deepfakes and misinformation), and potential legal liability for harms caused by generated content.
Synthesis of technical papers on deepfakes, legal analyses of liability, and policy reports referenced in the review; no original incident dataset or quantitative prevalence estimate included.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... authenticity/provenance verification success, consumer trust, incidence of misin...
Input-stage risks include copyright infringement, lack of consent, poor data provenance, and biases/representational harms encoded in training datasets.
Review and synthesis of academic and legal literature on training data issues; examples and case law discussed, but no original dataset audit or sample counts provided.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... legal/compliance risk and bias in generated outputs arising from training data
Use of these models faces significant ethical, control, transparency, and legal challenges across three stages—input (training data), process (development/control), and output (generated artifacts).
Framework constructed from interdisciplinary literature (technical, ethical, legal sources) and review of statutes/judicial approaches; qualitative synthesis rather than primary data.
high negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... presence and severity of ethical/legal/control challenges across input/process/o...
High environmental constraints in many African regions (poor infrastructure, challenging geography, frequent climate shocks) materially affect logistics, resilience, and supply-chain performance.
Review of literature on infrastructure, geography, and climate impacts in the conceptual paper.
high negative Continental shift: operations and supply chain management re... infrastructure and environmental constraints' impact on logistics/resilience
Africa is abundant in natural resources but exhibits relatively low development/outcomes from those resources, creating resource allocation and value-capture problems relevant to OSCM.
Development economics and regional studies literature cited in the paper's synthesis; conceptual claim without new empirical testing.
high negative Continental shift: operations and supply chain management re... resource endowment versus development outcomes (value capture in supply chains)
Africa has a large informal economy and many informal organizations that shape supply-chain behavior and market functioning.
Literature synthesis citing development and institutional studies (no primary data collection in the paper).
high negative Continental shift: operations and supply chain management re... prevalence of informality and its influence on supply-chain behavior
Results reflect small-scale e-commerce use cases; external validity to larger firms, other sectors, or more complex tasks is not established.
Scope of deployments limited to small-scale e-commerce settings as stated in methods; no cross-sector or large-firm samples reported in summary.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Agents in Knowledge Work: Transformi... generalisability/external validity of observed productivity effects
The study's evidence is observational rather than randomized controlled trials, so causal estimates about productivity impacts are suggestive rather than definitive.
Declared study design: applied experimentation and observational analysis of deployments (no randomized assignment); methods section explicitly notes observational limitation.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Agents in Knowledge Work: Transformi... strength of causal inference (ability to attribute observed productivity changes...
High upfront costs, weak digital/physical infrastructure, limited access to credit, low digital literacy, insecure land tenure, and sociocultural factors (including gendered access) limit uptake of digital and precision technologies among smallholders.
Consistent findings across program evaluations, qualitative stakeholder interviews, participatory assessments, and case studies cited in the synthesis.
high negative MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION technology adoption rates (uptake), barriers to adoption
Limited access to capital, data, digital infrastructure, skills, and insecure land tenure reduce adoption rates for advanced innovations among smallholders.
Multiple empirical studies and program evaluations synthesized in the review documenting adoption barriers; policy review identifying structural constraints across regions.
high negative MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION adoption rates of AI/IoT/precision tools, uptake of new practices
Integrating AI raises questions of accountability, transparency, fairness, privacy, and bias; managerial responsibility includes governance design, validation, and audit of AI decisions.
Normative and governance-focused synthesis citing ethical frameworks and illustrative cases; identifies governance tasks and validation/audit needs rather than empirical prevalence rates.
high negative Modern Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Str... presence and quality of AI governance mechanisms (accountability frameworks, tra...
Deficits in governance, auditing, and interpretability constrain the safe deployment of generative AI in firms.
Synthesis of industry reports and conceptual literature noting gaps in governance and interpretability; no quantitative governance dataset reported.
high negative The Use of ChatGPT in Business Productivity and Workflow Opt... presence/absence of governance processes, frequency of audit findings, deploymen...
Algorithmic biases in generative AI can amplify and codify discriminatory patterns in organizational decisions.
Extensive literature on algorithmic bias synthesized in the review and applied to generative models; case examples referenced.
high negative The Use of ChatGPT in Business Productivity and Workflow Opt... disparities in decision outcomes (error rates, disparate impact metrics by group...
Generative AI use introduces significant organizational risks including data privacy breaches and leakage when models or third‑party services are used.
Conceptual analysis and references to documented incidents and industry reports within the review; no single aggregated incident dataset provided.
high negative The Use of ChatGPT in Business Productivity and Workflow Opt... incidence of data breaches/leakage, number of privacy violations
Generated code can introduce security vulnerabilities.
Security analyses and code audits documenting examples where LLM-generated code contains known vulnerability patterns; incident-oriented case studies and controlled experiments assessing vulnerability incidence.
high negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... incidence of security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code
LLMs can produce plausible-looking but incorrect or insecure code (so-called 'hallucinations').
Benchmarks and controlled tests demonstrating incorrect outputs; security analyses and replicated examples showing erroneous or insecure snippets produced by LLMs across multiple models and prompts.
high negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... code correctness/error rate and frequency of insecure code returned
AI-driven impacts will be heterogeneous across education, race, gender, age, firm size, and geography, implying crucial equity concerns and the need for disaggregated reporting and targeted validation.
Policy analysis and literature synthesis in the paper; this claim reflects widely-documented labor economics findings about heterogeneous technological impacts though no new empirical breakdowns provided here.
high negative Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... distribution of employment/wage/transition impacts across demographic and firm/r...
The study is limited by being a single-domain (CMM) case study with a likely modest sample size and dependence on specific AR hardware and MLLM capabilities; further validation across other machines and larger samples is needed.
Authors note these limitations in their discussion; the summary explicitly lists single-case domain, likely modest sample size, and dependency on particular hardware/MLLM as limitations.
high negative Augmented Reality-Based Training System Using Multimodal Lan... External validity/generalizability of findings (limitations stated)
Key failure modes for AI in drug R&D include overfitting, poor generalizability, dataset bias, insufficient external validation, and misalignment with evolving regulatory expectations.
Synthesis of literature and case reports in the narrative review describing observed failures and risks across projects (qualitative evidence).
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Development: R... failure incidence of AI projects (model performance collapse, regulatory rejecti...
Absent rigorous controls (validation, applicability-domain reporting, attention to dataset bias), AI models risk overfitting, producing inequitable outcomes and regulatory friction that can undermine economic benefits.
Theoretical arguments plus case reports and literature cited in the review documenting instances and mechanisms of overfitting, dataset bias, and regulatory challenges; narrative summary rather than systematic quantification.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Development: R... model generalizability (out-of-sample performance), subgroup performance dispari...
Governing-logic stability uncertainty (whether decision logic or objectives remain stationary) is a distinct risk posed by agentic AI.
Conceptual argument and proposed taxonomy; no empirical tests reported.
high negative Visioning Human-Agentic AI Teaming: Continuity, Tension, and... stability of AI decision logic/objectives over time
Epistemic grounding uncertainty (uncertainty about how/why an AI produced a particular output) increases with agentic AI.
Literature synthesis on model-level opacity and causal explanation limits; conceptual reasoning in the paper.
high negative Visioning Human-Agentic AI Teaming: Continuity, Tension, and... ability to explain/ground AI outputs
Behavioral trajectory uncertainty (difficulty predicting long-run actions) is a primary form of uncertainty introduced by agentic AI.
Conceptual classification and argument; proposed as one of three principal uncertainties; no empirical estimation.
high negative Visioning Human-Agentic AI Teaming: Continuity, Tension, and... predictability of long-run agentic AI actions
Integration cost: AI-generated outputs often require human revision, testing, and manual integration into existing systems.
Reported practitioner experience and observed practices from the field study at Netlight; authors note time and effort spent on revision and integration; no quantitative time-cost estimates provided.
high negative Rethinking How IT Professionals Build IT Products with Artif... human time/effort required to adapt AI outputs for production
AI systems lack full project context, design rationale, and long-term constraints, creating context gaps for development tasks.
Interviews and workflow observations at Netlight where practitioners reported contextual limitations of AI tools; qualitative examples provided; single-firm qualitative evidence.
high negative Rethinking How IT Professionals Build IT Products with Artif... degree of project/contextual awareness in AI-produced recommendations