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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
Deployed on a network of machines spanning Linux, Windows, and IoT devices, the worm propagated by exploiting common, real-world corporate network vulnerabilities.
Empirical deployment/demonstration on a heterogenous network (Linux, Windows, IoT) reported in the paper; propagation achieved via exploitation of common corporate network vulnerabilities.
high negative AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms propagation across heterogeneous devices by exploiting common vulnerabilities
The worm parasitically uses compromised machines to run open-weight large language models (LLMs) to sustain its reasoning, or extend its reach for further attacks.
Implementation described where compromised hosts execute open-weight LLMs (i.e., LLMs run on stolen compute on infected machines) as part of the worm's attack pipeline.
high negative AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms use of compromised hosts to run LLMs
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents enable a fundamentally new threat: a worm that generates tailored attack strategies to each target it encounters.
Paper reports a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that reasons about targets and synthesizes attack logic in real time (implementation and demonstration described).
high negative AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms ability of worm to generate tailored attack strategies
This phenomenon is the self-undermining property of unilateral optimization.
Terminology/label introduced by the authors to describe the preceding conceptual phenomenon; no empirical validation provided in the excerpt.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative conceptual identification of unilateral optimization leading to self-undermining...
Deploying AI systems induces endogenous non-stationarity, resulting in a train-test-deploy gap where historical distributions diverge from the deployment context.
Conceptual claim offered in the paper about deployment feedback effects; presented as an argument rather than supported by reported empirical measurement.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative distributional shift (train-test-deploy gap) induced by AI deployment
Superintelligence, an extremely capable task solver, born out of such a solipsistic approach to AI design, is unlikely to be cooperative.
Theoretical/argumentative claim in the paper linking design assumptions to likely cooperative behavior; no empirical evidence or formal model reported in the excerpt.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative cooperativeness of superintelligent AI
The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous and stationary source of feedback.
Paper's critique/characterization of current research paradigms; presented as an observed trend without empirical backing.
high negative Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative research paradigm focus (solipsistic/stationary world assumption)
Even creating a new brain‑privacy right would invite weak protection and insufficient incentives for brain‑data supply.
Argumentative claim in the paper based on normative analysis of legal incentives and data-supply dynamics (no empirical data or quantified modeling provided).
high negative Empowerment or behavioral regulation? governing brain–comput... strength of legal protection and incentives for supplying brain data
Privacy rights under the empowerment model cannot fully protect brain privacy.
Theoretical/legal critique in the paper contrasting empowerment-style privacy rights with the nature of brain data (argumentative, no empirical validation).
high negative Empowerment or behavioral regulation? governing brain–comput... effectiveness of empowerment-model privacy rights in protecting brain privacy
Much of the literature on AI systems has focused on aligning users' goals with the agents that act on their behalf, and this work may overlook the need to establish a new normative baseline.
Characterization of existing literature (literature-review/position claim) presented in the paper; no systematic review or quantification provided in the excerpt.
high negative Who Does Your AI Work For? Designing Conversational Agents a... focus of AI literature (alignment) versus attention to normative baseline
These systems have access to reams of sensitive user data.
Stated as a factual consequence of the described integration (conceptual observation in the paper); no empirical measurement or dataset cited in the excerpt.
high negative Who Does Your AI Work For? Designing Conversational Agents a... access by conversational agents to sensitive user data
In the second run, a subtle difference in the interpretation of the SNR range instruction led to a genuine scientific divergence: Claude Code silently reinterpreted the instructions, while Codex followed the specification literally.
Reported result from the second run contrasting the two agents' interpretations of the SNR instruction and the resulting divergence in scientific outcome; based on the two experimental runs with physically motivated SNR scaling.
In the absence of general design principles, hybrid components are typically introduced through ad hoc decisions tailored to specific domains.
Observational/literature-framing claim in the abstract describing current practice; not presented as a quantified empirical result in this paper.
high negative When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... design practices for hybrid MAS component selection
An analysis of LL144 audit reports reveals demographic missingness ranging from under 3% to over 50%, which reduces the applicant pool used for fairness calculation and undermines the metrics.
Empirical analysis of LL144 audit reports reported in the paper (specific sample size not given in the excerpt); quantitative range for missingness reported as 'under 3% to over 50%'.
high negative Towards Using Ai Bias Audits As Inputs For Red Teaming And P... demographic data completeness (missingness) and its impact on fairness metric re...
AI adoption has the potential to amplify systemic vulnerabilities in financial markets.
Comparative institutional analysis and qualitative evidence across China, the United States, and the United Kingdom (2022–2025) reported in the abstract noting potential amplification of systemic vulnerabilities linked to AI.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Financial Security Markets: Catal... systemic vulnerabilities (systemic risk exposure)
AI adoption introduces governance challenges related to algorithmic bias.
Comparative mixed-methods evidence (secondary quantitative indicators and documentary qualitative evidence) across China, the United States, and the United Kingdom (2022–2025) as summarized in the abstract.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Financial Security Markets: Catal... algorithmic bias (governance challenge)
AI adoption introduces governance challenges related to model opacity.
Qualitative documentary evidence and comparative analysis across the three jurisdictions (China, US, UK, 2022–2025) reported in the abstract indicating governance concerns, including model opacity.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Financial Security Markets: Catal... model opacity (governance challenge)
These systems create governance challenges that are not fully captured by traditional software or predictive ML technical debt.
Argumentative claim in the paper contrasting agentic-system risks with traditional software/ML technical debt; no empirical validation or comparative study reported.
high negative Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems extent to which governance challenges are captured by existing technical-debt fr...
The effect concentrates at mid-market and is largest on the most priors-reliant generation route in our audit.
Cross-analysis within audit linking where recommendation-set changes occur (mid-market) and magnitude by generation route (priors-reliant routes show larger effects).
high negative Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-A... concentration of persona effect across brand market segments and generation rout...
Mid-market brands swap up to 75% of the recommendation set as the persona changes.
Empirical observation from audit showing proportion of mid-market recommended brands that change when persona is prefixed; reported maximum swap percentage.
high negative Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-A... proportion of recommendation-set changed for mid-market brands
Prefixing the user message with a persona drops the recommendation-set similarity (Jaccard) by Delta = -0.12 to -0.20 relative to a same-persona baseline.
Empirical comparison of recommendation-set Jaccard similarity between persona-prefixed prompts and same-persona baseline across audit runs; reported effect range and baseline comparison.
high negative Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-A... recommendation-set similarity (Jaccard index)
Pure implementations of the data mesh paradigm frequently underdeliver because teams inherit new responsibilities without the platform maturity, tooling, or coordination mechanisms to exercise them effectively.
Argument/observation presented in the paper as rationale for proposing a new architecture (anecdotal/experience-based reasoning rather than reported empirical trial).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... effectiveness of data mesh decentralization (ability of teams to exercise respon...
Enterprise data platforms face an enduring tension between domain self-service and holistic governance (a flexibility-versus-control trade-off).
Conceptual statement in the paper describing the problem motivating the work (literature/architectural framing).
high negative Beyond the Data Mesh Illusion: Designing Modern AI-augmented... flexibility-versus-control trade-off between domain self-service and centralized...
Post-merger IS integration often threatens the human-centered and IT-embedded knowledge of acquired firms.
Statement based on literature and the authors' framing; supported by observations in the paper's case discussion about two acquisitions (qualitative, case-based).
high negative From Knowledge Loss To Knowledge Leverage: How Gen Ai Afford... loss/threat to human-centered and IT-embedded knowledge
Cloud orchestrators follow efficiency-oriented logics of integration and standardization with limited openness.
Claim presented as a finding from the paper's comparative taxonomy and qualitative analysis of platform business models; method appears to be conceptual/qualitative comparison rather than a reported quantitative sample (no sample size in abstract).
high negative An Ai Economy Beyond Big Tech Hyperscalers? A Taxonomy Of Ma... level_of_integration/standardization and degree_of_openness of cloud-orchestrato...
There is a ceiling effect where excessive linguistic expansion yields diminishing marginal utility.
Empirical observation reported in the abstract that overly expanding linguistic output leads to diminishing marginal gains; presumably derived from analysis of the dataset and evaluation framework.
high negative Double-Edged Sword or Sharp Tool? Designing and Evaluating T... marginal gains in writing quality from linguistic expansion
Achieving this system-level transformation takes time: it requires trust and accountability infrastructure, machine-legible and interoperable data and interfaces, the design and adoption of these new workflows, and economic incentives that favor reconstruction rather than local optimization.
Argumentative claim listing necessary preconditions and complementary investments; presented conceptually without reported empirical measurement in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... time and prerequisites required for system-level AI transformation
The main reason [the disruption has not fully arrived] is not model capability, nor even the tools built to harness those models; rather, most organizations are still using AI to accelerate workflows designed for a pre-AI world.
Argued in the paper as an explanatory thesis; supported by conceptual argument and illustrative examples (consumer markets, education, news, coding) rather than reported empirical analysis in the provided text.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... degree to which organizations adapt workflows versus using AI to accelerate pre-...
The disruption many expect has not fully arrived.
Stated as an observation in the paper's introduction/abstract; no empirical method, sample size, or data reported in the excerpt.
high negative From Augmentation to Reconstruction: Guiding the AI Disrupti... extent/arrival of AI-driven disruption
Cafeteria demand planning requires both algorithmic pattern recognition and human expertise, yet current systems treat these separately, which generates significant food waste.
Statement in the paper's motivation/background; presumably grounded in literature review and problem framing rather than new empirical measurement in this study.
Reputation mechanisms presuppose persistent identity, behavioral continuity, sanction sensitivity, and costly non-fungibility; absence of any of these undermines reputation systems.
Analytic claim in the paper articulating necessary conditions for reputation mechanisms to function; presented as theoretical grounding rather than empirically tested criteria.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... operational conditions for reputation system effectiveness
The analogy from human identity verification and reputation mechanisms (e.g., 'Know Your Customer', credit scores) to 'Know Your Agent' regimes is fundamentally incomplete.
Comparative conceptual argument in the paper highlighting disanalogies between human actors and modular language model agents; no empirical comparison or data provided.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... validity/completeness of the human-to-agent governance analogy
Identity-based, ex post, regulative, sanction-based governance, such as reputation, is structurally inapplicable to dissociative agents.
Normative/theoretical argument in the paper deduced from properties of dissociative agents and requirements of identity-based governance; no empirical or experimental support reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... applicability/effectiveness of identity-based governance mechanisms
Dissociativity leaves agents without grounding for identifiability, predictability, credibility, and rehabilitability — the very properties that reputation mechanisms aim to sustain — thereby collapsing trust.
Conceptual inference in the paper combining the dissociative characterization of agents with the functional requirements of reputation systems; no empirical validation provided.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... identifiability, predictability, credibility, rehabilitability, and resultant tr...
An agent's persona is fluid, vulnerable to adversarial attack, and may not internalize sanctions.
Argumentative claim in the paper citing susceptibility of modular agent components (prompts, tools, memory) to manipulation; no empirical attack experiments or sample sizes reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... agent robustness to adversarial manipulation and responsiveness to sanctions
Language model agents are ontologically dissociative: they are essentially an assemblage of mutable modules -- foundational models, system prompts, tool-access policies, external memory, and, in some cases, a multi-agent system as a whole -- any of which may change agent behavior.
Theoretical characterization and system-level description in the paper; lists components that can be changed to alter behavior; no empirical measurement or sample reported.
high negative Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding ... ontological stability/identity of agents
Human-only teams commit more errors than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported counts/observations of errors made by team type in the escape room experiment; the abstract does not include numerical error counts or significance levels.
Human-only teams take longer to complete the escape room than mixed human–AI teams.
Reported comparison of time-to-complete between human-only and mixed teams in the experiment; specific times or statistical tests are not provided in the abstract.
The share of diffs receiving timely review has declined, exposing a widening gap between code supply and reviewer bandwidth.
Observational telemetry/operational metrics reported in the paper indicating a decline in timely reviews relative to diff supply. No specific numeric sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative Automating Low-Risk Code Review at Meta: RADAR, Risk Calibra... share of diffs receiving timely review
Differences in patent and trademark classification systems represent a challenge to linking patent and trademark data.
Stated methodological challenge in paper; no quantified measure of the challenge provided in excerpt.
high negative A concordance between patent and trademark classes to link t... difficulty of linking patent and trademark records due to classification differe...
The economic impact of patented technologies remains unclear unless patent data is linked to other data, which can reveal the mechanisms through which new technology diffuses.
Argumentative claim in paper asserting need for linked data to understand economic impact; no empirical sample or specific method reported in excerpt.
high negative A concordance between patent and trademark classes to link t... clarity of economic impact of patented technologies
These results suggest the problem is not in any specific auditor but in any audit whose evidence comes from the audited party.
Synthesis and conclusion drawn from the authors' analyses and experiments across the studied auditing frameworks.
high negative Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for ... robustness of auditing approaches that rely solely on provider-supplied evidence
We call this a trust paradox: every audit must trust some artifact, but current frameworks trust exactly the ones a provider has the strongest reason to manipulate.
Conceptual framing and critique of existing auditing frameworks (argument/analysis in paper).
high negative Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for ... trust dependencies in auditing frameworks
The audit therefore reduces to a consistency check on the provider's own reports.
Logical implication derived from the provider-controlled hiding of model/tokenizer/execution (argument/analysis in paper).
high negative Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for ... audit method (reliance on provider-supplied reports)
Providers hide the model, the tokenizer, and the execution to protect their IP, mitigate jailbreaks, and preserve user privacy, which means an auditor can only inspect proofs the provider supplies.
Conceptual/architectural claim about current commercial provider practices and their implications for auditability (argumentation in paper).
high negative Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for ... auditability (availability of independent evidence)
Total compensation declines persistently in the short and medium run following AI adoption.
Panel local projections indicating persistent declines in total compensation associated with higher establishment-level shares of AI-skill job postings (13 industries, 2017-2025).
Employment declines persistently in the short and medium run following AI adoption.
Panel local projection results showing persistent negative responses of employment to increases in the share of AI-skill job postings (13 industries, 2017-2025).
Limited data, resource constraints and skill gaps significantly influence the pace and form of AI adoption in SMEs.
Synthesis of barriers identified across multiple studies in the 2016-2024 literature (review-level claim without a single quantitative estimate).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... pace and form of AI adoption
Ethical concerns—especially algorithmic bias—and the need for human oversight remain essential for ensuring positive financial outcomes.
Argument and synthesis from the reviewed literature highlighting ethical risks and recommended governance (conceptual and empirical discussions across studies).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... ethical risks (algorithmic bias) and governance needs (human oversight)
SMEs face barriers to AI adoption such as limited data, skill shortages, and high implementation costs.
Review synthesis of barriers reported in multiple studies from 2016-2024 (no pooled quantitative prevalence reported).
high negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strengthening Financi... barriers to AI adoption (data availability, skills, costs)