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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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Integration costs—domain modeling, human-in-the-loop protocols, and regulatory/liability frameworks—are significant barriers to deployment.
Conceptual assessment of operational and regulatory requirements; no quantified cost studies provided.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... implementation cost and organizational burden for deploying argumentative AI sys...
AFs and LLMs may be gamed or misled; adversaries may exploit systems leading to strategic argumentation or manipulation.
Conceptual security/adversarial concern based on known vulnerabilities in ML and strategic behavior; no adversarial tests reported.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... system vulnerability metrics / susceptibility to adversarial manipulation
Faithful extraction—aligning LLM-extracted arguments with formal AF primitives and ensuring fidelity to source evidence—is a key technical challenge.
Paper's explicit identification of failure modes and alignment issues; grounded in documented limitations of IE/LLMs (no empirical quantification here).
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... fidelity/alignment error rate between extracted elements and source evidence
Computational argumentation approaches have required heavy feature engineering and domain-specific knowledge to be effective.
Conceptual claim grounded in prior work and practical experience reported in the literature; no quantitative cost estimates provided in the paper.
high negative Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... engineering cost / domain modeling effort required for AF-based systems
Automation bias (human tendency to defer to automated outputs) compounds the risk that GLAI errors become embedded in legal processes.
Behavioral literature review on automation bias and trust in AI systems; applied to legal-context vignettes. No primary empirical test within the paper.
high negative Why Avoid Generative Legal AI Systems? Hallucination, Overre... likelihood of human operators deferring to GLAI outputs (automation bias effect)
Cooperation with the AI plateaus and never reaches the near-complete cooperation levels observed in human–human interactions.
Time-series/trajectory analysis of cooperation rates in the lab human–AI experiment (n = 126) compared to the human–human benchmark (n = 108); reported convergence/end-state cooperation levels show AI condition asymptotes below the human–human condition.
high negative Playing Against the Machine: Cooperation, Communication, and... cooperation rate over time and asymptotic/end-state cooperation level
Adoption requires hardware (VR headsets, capable GPUs) and integration effort, implying upfront capital expenditure for labs/observatories.
Paper explicitly notes hardware requirements (VR headsets, capable GPUs) and integration effort as part of adoption considerations; common-sense assessment of required capital.
high negative iDaVIE v1.0: A virtual reality tool for interactive analysis... upfront capital expenditure and integration effort required for adoption
Current models heavily rely on large static datasets and batch training and exhibit poor lifelong/continual learning.
Synthesis of common practices in contemporary ML (supervised pretraining and offline training paradigms); no new experiments provided.
high negative Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons ... continual learning performance; dependence on dataset size and batch training
When identical replies are labeled as coming from AI rather than from a human, recipients report feeling less heard and less validated (an attribution effect).
Controlled attribution labeling experiment within the study: identical replies presented with different source labels (AI vs. human) and recipient-rated perceptions of being heard/validated measured.
high negative Practicing with Language Models Cultivates Human Empathic Co... recipient-rated feelings of being heard and validated
The empirical validation is performed only on synthetic text-preference data rather than real-world user populations, so field deployment effects and richer preference models remain to be tested.
Experiments section states synthetic dataset for text preferences and notes absence of field experiments on real user populations.
high negative Finding Common Ground in a Sea of Alternatives scope of empirical validation (synthetic dataset vs. real-world data)
The theoretical results (algorithms and sample-complexity bounds) assume truthful, exogenous preferences and simple sampling access; strategic behavior or costly reporting could change the information requirements.
Modeling assumptions explicitly stated in the paper (sampling access to truthful preferences) and discussion in the implications/limitations section noting the need to consider strategic behavior and reporting costs.
high negative Finding Common Ground in a Sea of Alternatives applicability limitations given model assumptions (truthful sampling access vs. ...
Matching information-theoretic lower bounds are proved, establishing that no algorithm can guarantee finding an (approximate) proportional veto-core element with fewer queries than the stated bounds (i.e., the sample complexity is optimal).
Lower-bound proofs in the theoretical section of the paper showing impossibility results that match the upper-bound rates.
high negative Finding Common Ground in a Sea of Alternatives information-theoretic lower bound on sample/query complexity (optimality claim)
Agent performance degrades markedly as environment complexity, stochasticity, and non-stationarity increase, revealing core limitations of current LLM-based agents for long-horizon, multi-factor decision problems.
Experimental results across progressively harder RetailBench environments showing performance falloff for multiple LLMs under increased task complexity and non-stationarity.
high negative RetailBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Autonomous Decision-Mak... overall agent performance across increasing environment complexity (e.g., fulfil...
There are limited randomized controlled trials or longitudinal evaluations; few studies measure patient-relevant outcomes or economic impacts.
Literature synthesis noting scarcity of RCTs and long-term observational studies, and absence of widespread patient-outcome and cost-effectiveness evaluations in existing publications.
high negative Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... number of RCTs/longitudinal studies, frequency of patient outcome and economic o...
Many published studies focus on standalone algorithm accuracy rather than clinician–AI joint performance in routine workflows.
Review of the literature categorizing study designs (preponderance of algorithm development/validation studies, fewer reader-in-the-loop, simulation, or deployment studies).
high negative Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... proportion of studies reporting standalone algorithm metrics versus those report...
Advanced technologies' complexity and lack of explainability create risks for audit reliability and professional judgement.
Findings from literature synthesis and professional/regulatory perspectives included in the review; presented as an identified risk/challenge rather than quantified effect.
high negative Audit 5.0 and the Digital Transformation of Auditing: The Ro... audit reliability and the exercise of professional judgement in presence of opaq...
Audit 5.0 introduces key challenges: data quality and integration issues, complexity and explainability of advanced technologies, regulatory and ethical uncertainty, and skills shortages combined with cultural resistance.
Systematic literature review and synthesis of professional standards and regulatory perspectives; assertions based on reviewed literature rather than a single empirical dataset.
high negative Audit 5.0 and the Digital Transformation of Auditing: The Ro... barriers to adoption/readiness factors (data quality, explainability, regulatory...
At the question level, incorrect chatbot suggestions substantially reduce caseworker accuracy, with a two-thirds reduction on easy questions where the control group performed best.
Question-level analysis from the randomized experiment comparing cases where chatbot suggestions were incorrect versus control; paper reports a ~66% reduction in accuracy on easy questions when chatbot suggestions were incorrect (exact denominators and statistics not provided in the excerpt).
high negative LLMs in social services: How does chatbot accuracy affect hu... caseworker accuracy on easy questions when presented with incorrect chatbot sugg...
When incentive signals depend non-trivially on persistent environmental memory, the resulting dynamics generically cannot be reduced to a static global objective defined solely over the agent state space (i.e., no global potential function over agents exists in the generic case).
A genericity theorem/argument in the paper (mathematical demonstration showing that for nontrivial dependence on environmental memory the closed-loop vector field is, for a generic set of parameterizations, not gradient of any scalar function on agent space).
high negative How Intelligence Emerges: A Minimal Theory of Dynamic Adapti... non-existence of a static global objective (potential) over agent state space in...
AI notably reduces customer stability in sports enterprises (SE).
Empirical estimation using the DML model on the same panel dataset of 45 Chinese listed SEs (2012–2023); authors report a statistically significant negative effect of AI on customer stability.
high negative Can Artificial Intelligence Enhance the Stability of Supply ... customer stability (component of supply chain stability)
The sample is limited to Chinese A-share-listed design enterprises (2014–2023), which may limit generalizability to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or firms in other countries/regions.
Study sample description: A-share-listed design-oriented enterprises in China between 2014 and 2023; authors explicitly note this as a limitation.
high negative AI-driven design management: enhancing organizational produc... External validity / generalizability of results
Using TFP as a proxy for project efficiency aggregates effects at the firm level and therefore lacks micro-level insight into specific project workflows or design iteration processes.
Methodological limitation acknowledged in the paper: TFP is used as a firm-level proxy and the dataset does not include micro-level project workflow or iteration logs.
high negative AI-driven design management: enhancing organizational produc... Granularity of project-efficiency measurement (limitation of TFP proxy)
There exists a systemic governance vacuum around GenAI, including gaps in privacy, accountability, and intellectual property protections.
Authors' synthesis of governance-related gaps reported across the 28 secondary studies and research agendas in the review.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... adequacy of governance mechanisms for privacy, accountability, and intellectual ...
Societal and ethical risks—such as bias, misuse, and skill erosion—constrain GenAI adoption.
Themes synthesized from the reviewed literature (28 papers) reporting societal and ethical concerns associated with GenAI deployment.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... societal-ethical risk level associated with GenAI (bias incidence, misuse potent...
Technical unreliability—manifesting as hallucinations and performance drift—is a major constraint on GenAI adoption.
Recurring identification of technical reliability issues (hallucinations, performance drift) in the 28 reviewed papers and authors' aggregation of technical risks.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... technical reliability of GenAI systems (frequency/severity of hallucinations and...
Adoption of GenAI is constrained by multiple interrelated challenges.
Cross-paper synthesis from the systematic review of 28 studies identifying recurring barriers and constraints reported in the literature.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... level/extent of GenAI adoption (barriers to adoption)
Human judgment is constrained by bounded rationality, cognitive biases, and information-processing limitations.
Cited as established findings from prior research across decision sciences and related fields (extensive literature evidence referenced; no new empirical data in this paper's abstract).
high negative Reframing Organizational Decision-Making in the Age of Artif... human judgment accuracy/quality and cognitive processing capacity
Key implementation challenges include data quality and integration, model interpretability, cybersecurity and privacy, regulatory/compliance uncertainty, skills gaps among accounting professionals, and implementation costs.
Identified by the paper through literature review and practitioner reports; these are presented as recurring barriers rather than quantified with a specific sample.
high negative Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Accounting Sector incidence/severity of implementation barriers (data quality scores, integration ...
Many studies on serious-game DSTs are small-scale or experimental, and long-term impact data on behavioral change and emissions outcomes are sparse, limiting generalizability.
Review of the literature summarized in the chapter showing predominance of case studies, prototypes, and short-term evaluations rather than longitudinal or large-sample studies.
high negative Serious games and decision support tools: Supporting farmer ... Study scale/sample size, duration of follow-up, evidence on long-term behavior c...
Ensuring scientific validity of game models, scaling co-design processes, measuring real-world behavioral change, and aligning incentives (policy/subsidies, markets) are remaining challenges to using serious games for DST uptake.
Chapter discussion of limitations and gaps identified in the reviewed literature; absence or sparsity of long-term validation studies and large-scale co-design implementations documented in existing research.
high negative Serious games and decision support tools: Supporting farmer ... Model validity (accuracy vs. empirical data), scalability of co-design processes...
Current uptake of DSTs for net zero remains limited because of issues of trust, usability, lack of evidence linking actions to farm profitability, and poor integration into farmer workflows.
Literature synthesis, qualitative interviews and surveys, case studies documenting low adoption and barriers; multiple practice reports and studies cited in the chapter. Many studies report limited or uneven adoption across contexts.
high negative Serious games and decision support tools: Supporting farmer ... DST adoption/use rates; reported barriers (trust, usability, integration)
Using LLM participants without rigorous validation can bias external validity and causal inference in economic research.
Review documents cognitive misalignments and distortions that can bias estimated behaviors, preferences, or treatment effects; authors highlight this as a risk.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... bias in estimated behaviors, preferences, or causal effects when using synthetic...
Overfitting/contamination: LLMs can reproduce pre-training or fine-tuning data (stochastic parroting) and leak training-set content into outputs.
Multiple reviewed studies documenting examples of content reproduction and data leakage; categorized as overfitting/contamination in the review.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... occurrence of memorized or training-set-specific content in generated outputs
Misleading believability: LLM outputs may look plausible but be incorrect or unrepresentative, risking overconfidence in synthetic data.
Reported instances in the literature and organized failure taxonomy describing plausible-looking but inaccurate synthetic responses.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... rate of plausible-but-incorrect or unrepresentative outputs (perceived plausibil...
Distortions: LLM outputs can exhibit systematic biases relative to target human distributions.
Empirical findings across reviewed studies showing output distributions from LLMs that deviate from human sample distributions; aggregated in the distortions failure category.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... distributional deviations between LLM-generated responses and human responses (b...
Cognitive misalignments: LLMs differ from humans in reasoning, goals, and bounded rationality, which can alter behavior in economic and strategic tasks.
Multiple studies in the review reported systematic differences in reasoning and goal-directed behavior when comparing LLM outputs to human participants; coded under the cognitive misalignment category.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... alignment of reasoning processes and goal-directed responses between LLMs and hu...
Major failure modes limiting synthetic participants as direct substitutes for humans are: cognitive misalignments, distortions, misleading believability, and overfitting/contamination.
Standardized taxonomy developed by coding the 182 studies into generalizable indicators and organizing failure types into four categories.
high negative Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... types and frequency of fidelity failures (categorical classification of failure ...
No evaluated program reported Kirkpatrick‑Barr level‑4 outcomes (organizational change, patient outcomes, or sustained metacognitive mastery).
Reviewers mapped reported outcomes from all 27 included programs and found none that demonstrated organizational-level impacts or patient‑level outcomes (level 4).
high negative Assessing the effectiveness of artificial intelligence educa... Kirkpatrick‑Barr level‑4 outcomes (organizational impact, patient outcomes, meta...
Because the design is cross-sectional and sampling purposive/geographically constrained, causal inference and generalizability are limited.
Authors' stated limitations in the summary: cross-sectional design and purposive, geographically constrained sample (Karnataka, India).
high negative AI-driven stress management and performance optimization: A ... generalizability / causal inference (methodological limitation)
Workplace stress is associated with lower employee retention.
PLS-SEM analysis on a cross-sectional survey of N = 350 pharmaceutical workers in Karnataka, India (purposive sampling). Reported direct path: Stress → Retention, β = 0.321, p < 0.001. (Note: the paper interprets this as stress reducing retention; sign/coding conventions of the variables are not detailed in the summary.)
high negative AI-driven stress management and performance optimization: A ... employee retention (retention intent/behavior)
If deployed without mitigation, GenAI CDS risks widening disparities by performing worse on underrepresented groups or being unequally distributed across resource-rich versus resource-poor settings.
Fairness literature, subgroup performance concerns, and distributional risk analysis cited in the paper; direct empirical demonstrations of widened disparities due to GenAI CDS are limited in the literature per the paper.
high negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice differences in performance/outcomes across demographic and socioeconomic groups;...
Limited public datasets and vendor lock-in constrain independent reproducible evaluations and audits of current generative models in healthcare.
Observation and policy analysis in the paper noting scarcity of public clinical datasets for state-of-the-art models and proprietary constraints; no dataset counts provided.
high negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice availability of public datasets; reproducibility of model evaluations; number of...
GenAI CDS creates data privacy and security risks because of high-value medical data and use of external cloud services.
Known cybersecurity risks and documented incidents in health IT; the paper cites the general risk context rather than specific breach sample counts tied to GenAI deployments.
high negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice data breaches; unauthorized access incidents; compliance violations
GenAI CDS can amplify bias and inequities if training data underrepresent groups or reflect historical disparities.
Fairness and robustness audit literature and subgroup performance analyses referenced in the paper; specific empirical demonstrations for contemporary GenAI CDS are limited and sample sizes not given.
high negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice performance disparities across demographic subgroups; differential error rates; ...
GenAI CDS systems hallucinate and can produce incorrect but plausible recommendations, which can cause patient harm if trusted unchecked.
Documented failure modes of generative models and examples from controlled evaluations; the paper references known hallucination behavior from model audits and case reports, though it does not quantify incidence rates or provide large-scale observational harm data.
high negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice adverse events; erroneous recommendations; clinician reliance/misuse leading to ...
Inequities in climate-AI systems appear across three development phases—Inputs, Process, and Outputs—creating multiple failure points where Global North advantages propagate into final products.
Conceptual framework developed from cross-disciplinary synthesis, literature review, and illustrative examples (Inputs → Process → Outputs mapping).
high negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Presence of inequities at each phase of the AI development lifecycle (data avail...
Foundation-model development and high-performance computing (HPC) capacity are overwhelmingly located in the Global North.
Descriptive mapping of global HPC infrastructure and foundation-model authorship described in the paper (infrastructure mapping and authorship analysis). No single quantitative sample size reported; evidence based on spatial mapping and documented locations of compute centers and model-development institutions.
high negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Geographic distribution of HPC capacity and foundation-model development (locati...
On the 22 postdating (contamination-free) incidents, no agent achieved end-to-end exploitation success across all 110 agent–incident pairs evaluated.
Empirical evaluation of 110 agent–incident pairs reported in the study (end-to-end exploit attempts on the 22 incidents).
high negative Re-Evaluating EVMBench: Are AI Agents Ready for Smart Contra... end_to_end_exploitation_success_rate (per_agent_per_incident)
The original EVMbench had a data contamination risk because it relied on audit-contest data published before every evaluated model's release, which could have been seen during model training.
Timing relationship between the audit-contest dataset used by EVMbench and the release dates of evaluated models (dataset predated model releases).
high negative Re-Evaluating EVMBench: Are AI Agents Ready for Smart Contra... dataset_contamination_risk (potential_training_data_leakage)
The original EVMbench evaluation was narrow: it evaluated 14 agent configurations and most models were tested only with their vendor-provided scaffold.
Description of the original EVMbench experimental setup (number of agent configurations and scaffold usage) cited in this study.
high negative Re-Evaluating EVMBench: Are AI Agents Ready for Smart Contra... evaluation_breadth (number_of_agent_configurations; scaffold_variety)