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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
Apart from earnings adequacy, occupations characterized by dimensions of precarity were associated with lower LLM exposure (i.e., higher precarity on those dimensions corresponded to lower LLM exposure).
Abstract statement summarizing regression results across separate models for each precarity dimension (exact coefficients not provided in abstract).
Occupations most likely to be exposed to LLM are those where precariousness is lowest.
Summary conclusion based on the reported comparisons of mean LLM exposure across precarity categories using the Labour Force Survey and regression analyses described in methods.
Apart from earnings adequacy, LLM exposure was lower among occupations exhibiting each separate dimension of precarity (contractual instability, schedule unpredictability, working-time mismatch).
Separate multivariate linear regression models (one per precarity dimension) estimated associations between occupational LLM exposure and each dimension using Canada's Labour Force Survey; results reported in abstract (no per-dimension effect sizes provided in abstract).
Using the multidimensional precarity index, occupations characterized by low exposure to precarity had a significantly higher mean LLM exposure (mean 0.386, 95% confidence interval 0.356-0.417) compared to occupations with medium (mean 0.258, 95% CI 0.221-0.295), high (mean 0.260, 95% CI 0.194-0.328) or very high precarity (mean 0.205, 95% CI 0.136-0.275).
Analysis of Canada's Labour Force Survey; constructed multidimensional precarity index; multivariate linear regression models with cluster-robust standard errors; model coefficients used to produce mean estimates of occupational LLM exposure. (Sample size not reported in abstract.)
high negative Large language model exposure and precarious occupations: Un... LLM exposure (mean occupational exposure score)
Algeria lags behind peer countries on key indicators of digital infrastructure, human capital, and institutional frameworks as evidenced by World Bank (2022) and Oxford Insights indices.
Specific comparative claim based on the paper's use of World Bank (2022) indicators and Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index scores; the summary does not report numeric index values or sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Compara... index scores for digital infrastructure, human capital, institutional readiness
Findings reveal that Algeria exhibits significant lag in digital infrastructure, human capital, and institutional frameworks compared to peers (Morocco, Egypt, Turkey).
Result reported from the paper's comparative analysis using World Bank indicators, the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index, and sector-specific studies comparing Algeria to Morocco, Egypt, and Turkey; specific quantitative comparisons not provided in the summary.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Compara... digital infrastructure, human capital, institutional readiness for AI
Participant feedback attributes this vulnerability to minimal code review, plausible cover story, and overtrust in agents.
Qualitative analysis of participant feedback collected during/after the experiment; authors report these thematic attributions as explanations for the high failure-to-detect rate.
high negative Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sa... reasons for failed detection (qualitative themes: minimal review, cover story, o...
94% of developers fail to detect sabotage.
Reported quantitative result from the authors' user study with participants collaborating with the AI coding agents; percentage given in paper. (Sample described earlier as "Over 100 participants" but exact N for this result not stated here.)
high negative Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sa... detection of sabotage (failure to detect)
Algorithmic scenario planning is being used for tax avoidance.
Presented in the abstract as an example of algorithmic technologies applied to international tax purposes (scenario planning for tax avoidance); no empirical details provided in the abstract.
high negative How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains use of algorithmic scenario planning to design or enable tax avoidance
Workers with a higher share of standardized routine tasks face more pronounced downward wage pressure.
Subgroup analysis by share of standardized routine tasks in workers' duties showing larger negative wage effects for those with higher routine-task shares.
high negative Dynamic Evolution and Configurational Heterogeneity of the S... downward wage pressure / wage change for workers with high share of standardized...
The task substitution mechanism is the core channel underlying these effects of automation on wage structure.
Mediation/heterogeneity tests reported in the paper showing stronger automation effects where task substitution (standardized routine tasks) is higher; authors interpret this as the primary channel.
high negative Dynamic Evolution and Configurational Heterogeneity of the S... mediating role of task substitution (standardized routine tasks) on wage impacts
Wage growth for occupational groups with high exposure to automation lags markedly behind that of low-exposure groups.
Heterogeneity analysis across occupational exposure groups using CFPS panel data comparing wage growth trajectories for high- vs low-exposure occupations.
high negative Dynamic Evolution and Configurational Heterogeneity of the S... wage growth for occupational exposure groups
Existing research has significant shortcomings in terms of local empirical evidence, micro task mechanisms, and the impact of cutting-edge AI.
Critical appraisal in the paper's discussion of gaps identified through the systematic literature review; no single-study sample size.
high negative Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market completeness/coverage of empirical research
Skill mismatch constitutes the core contradiction of labor force transformation.
Interpretive conclusion from the literature review asserting that mismatches between worker skills and job/task requirements are central to the labor-market effects of AI.
high negative Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market skill mismatch / skill obsolescence
Despite the growing prevalence of human-AI decision making, the human-AI team’s decision performance often remains suboptimal, partially due to insufficient examination of humans’ own reasoning.
Motivating claim stated in the paper's introduction/abstract (appears to be based on broader literature and motivation rather than a new empirical test in this paper).
high negative Understanding the Effects of AI-Assisted Critical Thinking o... human-AI team decision performance
AACT also triggers higher cognitive load.
Reported measurement of cognitive load in the same house price prediction case study comparing AACT to traditional AI support (details and sample size not provided in abstract).
Current results show that the hardest tier remains far from saturated: across mainstream harness and backbone configurations, the average full pass rate is 2.6%.
Empirical evaluation results reported by the authors summarizing ALE benchmark performance across mainstream harness and backbone configurations (no further detail on exact configurations or task/sample counts in excerpt).
high negative Agents' Last Exam average full pass rate (task success rate) on the hardest tier
The gap is largely an evaluation problem: widely used benchmarks lack sustained performance measurement on real and economically valuable workflows.
Author argument presented in the paper; motivated by benchmarking limitations rather than an empirical test in the excerpt.
high negative Agents' Last Exam coverage and sustained measurement of benchmarks on real workflows
These gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains.
Assertion in paper arguing a deployment gap between benchmark performance and real-world economic adoption; no quantitative deployment data provided in the excerpt.
high negative Agents' Last Exam translation of benchmark gains into economic deployment
Manual processing of these documents is time-consuming, inconsistent across reviewers, and unscalable.
Author claim / background motivation; no quantitative time or consistency metrics reported in the statement.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis effort, consistency, and scalability of manual document processing
Actuaries rely primarily on structured numerical data for reserving and ratemaking, while valuable predictive information in unstructured text including medical records, adjuster notes, and call transcripts remains largely unused.
Author statement/observation in paper introduction; no empirical data or sample size provided to support prevalence claim.
high negative Leveraging LLMs for Unstructured Claims Data Analysis use of unstructured text in actuarial processes
The paper critically analyzes the implications of LLM-integrated search for brand trust, content authenticity, algorithmic bias, and market concentration.
Stated scope of analysis in the paper; presented as critical analysis rather than empirical claims in the provided text.
high negative SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... implications for brand trust, content authenticity, algorithmic bias, market con...
This paradigm shift raises critical questions regarding brand visibility, content authority, and digital marketing strategy.
Analytical claim in paper discussing implications; supported by theoretical argumentation rather than empirical measurement in the provided text.
high negative SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... brand visibility and content authority
The emergence of AI-generated summaries and answer-driven search experiences is shifting consumer discovery from link-based navigation to synthesized, context-aware responses.
Stated observation in the paper; argued via conceptual reasoning about AI-generated summaries and answer-driven interfaces rather than reported empirical metrics or sample-based experiments in the excerpt.
high negative SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... mode of consumer discovery (link-based navigation vs. synthesized AI responses)
The condition 'prompt anxiety' describes a key feature of how stochastic systems organise cognitive labour under 'vector capitalism.'
Conceptual/theoretical framing introduced by the author to label and analyze user experience and labour organization; no empirical quantification provided in the abstract.
high negative Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty conceptual phenomenon ('prompt anxiety') relating to organization of cognitive l...
AI platforms transform this uncertainty into extractable value through subscription models, token-based pricing, and prompt marketplaces.
Political-economic / theoretical tracing in the paper citing platform business models (subscription, token pricing, prompt marketplaces) as mechanisms that monetize user uncertainty; no quantitative revenue or case-study sample sizes given in the abstract.
high negative Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty transformation of user uncertainty into monetizable value (platform revenue capt...
Analysis through LLMbench demonstrates that the uncertainty users experience corresponds to measurable variation in model confidence across the generated text.
Empirical demonstration using LLMbench visualisations (token probability distributions, entropy curves) to link user-reported uncertainty to measurable changes in model confidence; specific datasets, models, or sample sizes not provided in the abstract.
high negative Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty model confidence (variation across generated text)
Users of large language models have to work with a measurably aleatory process: identical inputs produce different outputs and minor wording changes cascade through the probability field of the generated text.
Empirical analysis using the author's research instrument (LLMbench) for comparative close reading of LLM outputs; specific sample size or number of models/runs not reported in the abstract.
high negative Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty variation in model outputs / model output stability
Prompt engineering resembles the psychological and temporal structures that Walter Benjamin identified in gambling behaviour.
Conceptual/theoretical argument presented in the paper drawing an analogy between prompt engineering practices and Walter Benjamin's analysis of gambling; no empirical sample size reported in the abstract.
high negative Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty analogy between prompt engineering and gambling-related psychological/temporal s...
Major risk pathways for agentic AI include hallucinations, prompt-injection attacks, autonomous decision errors, model drift, dependency failures, and cyber-physical harms.
Enumerative risk analysis within the paper summarizing plausible threat vectors and failure modes; based on theoretical reasoning and analogies to known AI and cyber risks rather than new empirical incident data.
high negative Insurance of Agentic AI identification of principal risk pathways for agentic AI
These agentic-AI capabilities introduce novel exposures that do not fit neatly within traditional insurance categories such as cyber, professional liability, product liability, or directors and officers coverage.
Theoretical and market-structure analysis in the paper comparing agentic-AI exposures to existing insurance lines; illustrative examples and taxonomy rather than quantified empirical tests.
high negative Insurance of Agentic AI fit of agentic-AI exposures within traditional insurance categories
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems are transforming the risk landscape by extending beyond information generation to autonomous planning, tool invocation, decision execution, and persistent modification of digital and physical environments.
The paper's conceptual argument and framing/abstract describing agentic AI capabilities and their implications; theoretical analysis rather than empirical measurement.
high negative Insurance of Agentic AI risk landscape / novel exposures from agentic AI
Collaborative filtering and graph-based recommendation models are highly effective because they leverage observed user interactions, but this dependence creates a fundamental cold-start challenge when newly added content has no interaction history.
Statement in paper framing problem; references to general properties of collaborative filtering and graph-based recommenders (conceptual / literature-backed claim, no specific experiment reported in this excerpt).
high negative Bridging the Semantic-Collaborative Gap: An Asymmetric Graph... cold-start challenge for new content (lack of interaction history)
The determining barrier to adoption observed in the two studied public-service units was not technological but training-related.
Qualitative analysis and intervention observations across two auditable case studies (SES/CONT in 2024 and UCI/SEDET in 2025); author-developed intervention and outcome changes used to support inference.
high negative The Main Barrier to AI Adoption in the Public Sector is Lack... primary barrier to adoption (training vs. technology)
The adoption of generative artificial intelligence in the public sector has been treated predominantly as a technological problem, with the expectation that productivity gains would follow from more capable models.
Author statement / literature-positioning in paper (assertion about prevailing treatment); no quantitative data provided in text to support prevalence.
high negative The Main Barrier to AI Adoption in the Public Sector is Lack... framing of AI adoption (technological vs. training-related)
STARA may widen inequalities across occupational groups and cohorts—particularly affecting low- and medium-skill occupations—by fragmenting or limiting career paths and reducing institutional supports.
Concerns and literature synthesis in the editorial citing prior work on inequalities and occupational differences (e.g. Zajko, 2022 and other cited studies).
high negative Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... unequal career opportunities and widened inequalities across occupational groups
AI-based career planning platforms and digital portfolio/performance trackers can embed biases, amplify pressures for self-optimisation, provide only generic recommendations, and risk promoting a narrow view of what constitutes a desirable career.
Conceptual concerns and literature cited in the editorial (Bankins et al., 2024a and other referenced works); argued as potential unintended consequences rather than direct evidence from a single large empirical study.
high negative Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... bias, narrowing of career definitions, and self-optimisation pressures from algo...
Algorithmic gatekeeping in promotion and evaluation processes can privilege certain behaviours or skill sets while limiting transparency and equity in career advancement.
Editorial synthesis referencing recent work (e.g. Hillebrand et al., 2025) and conceptual concerns raised in the literature.
high negative Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... transparency, equity, and fairness in promotion/evaluation (career advancement)
STARA is displacing routine tasks and potentially entire roles, particularly in occupations where automation and robotics can substitute standardized work processes.
Synthesis of existing literature cited in the editorial (e.g. Bahadure et al., 2024; Oosthuizen, 2019, 2022; Singh and Chandra, 2026; Singh et al., 2026).
high negative Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... displacement of routine tasks/roles (job loss/substitution)
By framing AI risk exclusively in cybersecurity terms, the Order constructs an AI-risk universe in which provenance, labor, education, culture, meaning, and the commons are rendered 'not testable' within the policy regime.
Argumentative/theoretical claim backed by textual analysis and the counted absence of relevant terms in the EO.
high negative The Security Frame Is a Selection Kernel: Trump's AI Executi... scope of testable AI risks under the policy
The Executive Order frames AI risk overwhelmingly through cybersecurity language.
Textual analysis of the EO; supported by the paper's verified word-count analysis showing high frequency of security/cyber terms relative to other domains.
high negative The Security Frame Is a Selection Kernel: Trump's AI Executi... policy framing (AI risk framed as cybersecurity)
The COVID-19 pandemic reduced tourism’s GDP share by approximately 37%.
Fixed-effects panel estimation including a COVID-19 indicator on 33 countries (2017–2023); reported coefficient β = –0.455, p < 0.001 (interpreted as ~37% reduction in the dependent variable).
high negative Which dimensions of AI development shape tourism’s direct co... tourism’s direct GDP share
AI adoption intensifies existing sustainability challenges for the newsroom, as journalistic content and labour increasingly support AI systems without corresponding financial return.
Qualitative interview data and organisational analysis from Al-Masry Al-Youm indicating increased use of journalistic outputs for AI purposes and lack of matched revenue; sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high negative Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... financial sustainability / lack of corresponding financial return from AI-relate...
Reliance on global technology providers embeds forms of platform dependency within newsroom operations at Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Qualitative case study based on in-depth interviews with journalists, editors, and technical staff at Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt); analysis of newsroom practices and integration of third-party/global AI tools. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high negative Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... platform dependency within newsroom operations
An incentive sweep reveals Goodhart-style drift where measured performance becomes anti-correlated with true outcomes.
Simulation results in Medi-Sim showing that optimizing measured metrics leads to a decrease (anti-correlation) in true outcomes (Goodhart effect).
high negative Healthcare Mechanisms from Policy-as-Code Search under Strat... correlation between measured performance metric and true patient outcomes
Existing healthcare AI benchmarks hold this [strategic provider] response fixed and so cannot evaluate mechanisms by the equilibrium they produce.
Author statement/argument in the paper about limitations of existing benchmarks (conceptual claim; not an empirical experiment).
high negative Healthcare Mechanisms from Policy-as-Code Search under Strat... ability of benchmarks to evaluate mechanisms by equilibrium response
Research on platform governance remains fragmented and lacks an integrative perspective.
Conclusion drawn from the systematic literature review (644 publications) indicating fragmentation in the scholarly literature.
high negative Mission: Orchestration – Governance Mechanisms And Future Re... degree of fragmentation and lack of integrative perspectives in platform governa...
Participants in platform ecosystems cannot be governed through traditional command-and-control mechanisms.
Conceptual claim supported by the literature synthesized in the systematic literature review (644 publications).
high negative Mission: Orchestration – Governance Mechanisms And Future Re... suitability of traditional command-and-control governance for platform participa...
Government subsidies exert a negative moderating influence on the relationship between fintech development and corporate total factor productivity.
Moderation analysis reported in the paper on Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms (2015–2023); paper states government subsidies weaken the positive fintech–TFP relationship (no numeric interaction estimates provided in the excerpt).
high negative Research on the Impact of Financial Technology on the Total ... corporate total factor productivity (moderated by government subsidies)
Research on AI-enabled decision-making and upper echelons theory (UET) has largely evolved in parallel (i.e., the two literatures are not well integrated).
Concept-centric literature review mapping management and IS literatures and identifying lack of integration (no quantitative meta-analysis or sample size reported).
high negative Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... degree of integration between AI-enabled decision-making and UET research stream...