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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
GPT models showed significantly larger discrepancies compared to other evaluated models.
Comparative evaluation reported in the paper indicating GPT-family models had larger errors/discrepancies relative to the best-performing models.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... discrepancy/error between model estimates and self-reported skills
Employees often struggle to identify "who knows what," leading to organizational productivity losses.
Motivating statement in the paper (not an empirical result from this study); general observation cited as motivation for the research.
high negative Can AI Guess What You Know? Performance Comparison of Large ... organizational productivity (general claim about productivity losses due to diff...
Experiments on closed-source and open-source LLMs reveal a clear failure cascade from executable code to valid geometry and finally to engineering-ready design, with even the strongest models achieving limited success on fine-grained engineering criteria.
Experimental results described in abstract comparing multiple LLMs across the three evaluation stages.
high negative MUSE: Benchmarking Manufacturable, Functional, and Assemblab... success rates at stages: code executability, geometry validity, engineering-read...
Existing benchmarks focus primarily on generating single-part CAD models and evaluate them using geometric similarity metrics that fail to capture functionality, manufacturability, and assemblability.
Paper's literature/related-work claim as stated in abstract; critique of existing benchmarks' focus and metrics.
high negative MUSE: Benchmarking Manufacturable, Functional, and Assemblab... adequacy of geometric similarity metrics to capture functionality, manufacturabi...
Results across 15 experimental runs reveal that elderly female occupants consistently experience the lowest satisfaction in initial rounds.
Empirical experiment results reported in abstract: 15 experimental runs; observed satisfaction distribution across demographic profiles with elderly females lowest initially.
high negative OccuReward: LLM-Guided Occupant-Centric Reward Shaping for D... occupant satisfaction (per demographic group)
Existing generative AI models do not directly optimize marketplace performance.
Stated as an observed limitation / motivation for the proposed method in the paper (conceptual claim; not an empirical test reported in the excerpt).
high negative Utility-Aware Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Product Im... marketplace performance (sales / demand)
Existing AI education, AI literacy, and human-AI collaboration frameworks remain centred on prompting, task execution, and productivity support and are poorly equipped to address this tacit layer of expert cognition.
Argumentative critique in the paper drawing on conceptual analysis and review of prevailing frameworks; no empirical evaluation or sample reported.
high negative Tacit Signal Infrastructure: Towards AI Systems that Model E... effectiveness-of-current-training-and-collaboration-frameworks-for-tacit-cogniti...
Existing approaches either require a trusted central coordinator (cloud marketplaces), demand heavy blockchain infrastructure (Golem, BrokerChain), or lack an incentive layer entirely (BOINC, Petals).
Comparative characterization based on named existing platforms; presented as conceptual/qualitative analysis without empirical evaluation or quantified benchmarks.
Vast quantities of compute (GPU cycles on personal workstations, idle inference servers, and edge devices between jobs) go unused because no incentive-aligned protocol exists for their owners to share them safely and profitably.
Asserted in the paper's problem statement; no empirical data, sample, or measurement reported — presented as observed motivation.
Both humans and AI contribute wrong answers.
Reported error contributions from both human participants and AI agents in the experimental task.
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... contribution of incorrect answers by humans and by AI
Humans over-rely on AI when AI misleads them, occurring in 1.7% of opportunities.
Aggregate analysis of adoption decisions in the experiment (reported percentage of over-reliance on misleading AI suggestions).
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... rate of over-reliance on incorrect AI suggestions
Humans under-rely on correct AI suggestions, missing 3.9% of opportunities.
Aggregate analysis of adoption decisions in the experiment (reported percentage of missed opportunities to rely on correct AI suggestions).
high negative AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Huma... rate of missed correct AI suggestions (under-reliance)
The core cause of the R&D productivity paradox is cognitive saturation: researchers spend an increasing share of their effort on coordination, documentation, and data governance—hidden work that displaces high-value hypothesis formation, interpretation, and strategic synthesis.
Argument presented in the paper supported by DSR analysis, triangulated with four expert interviews, foresight scenarios, and pattern matching (causal claim based on qualitative evidence and reasoning).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... researchers' allocation of effort between hidden/administrative work and high-va...
Corporate R&D faces a persistent productivity paradox: rising investment and expanding scientific knowledge have not translated into proportional innovation output (Eroom's Law); analogous patterns appear across engineering, materials science, and healthcare.
Literature reference to Eroom's Law and cross-domain pattern matching described in the paper (conceptual/literature observation).
high negative From Replacement to Orchestration: A Socio-Technical Archite... innovation output relative to R&D investment
Incumbent workforce management frameworks remain anchored to a purely human labor model, rendering AI agents invisible to capacity planning, performance attribution, and governance enforcement.
Stated in paper's problem motivation / literature review; presented as an observed gap motivating the design-science contribution. No sample size or empirical study described in the provided text.
high negative Workforce Unit Abstraction for Governing Hybrid Human and Ar... visibility of AI agents in capacity planning, performance attribution, and gover...
Organizations increasingly deploy separate purpose-built AI tools across professional domains, often hiring domain specialists for each, recreating the staffing models AI was expected to transform.
Stated as an observational/introductory claim in the paper (no empirical data or sample size reported to support the general trend).
high negative Augment Engineering: A Methodology for Multi-Tool AI Orchest... deployment of separate purpose-built AI tools and hiring of domain specialists (...
Such settings abstract away two characteristics of real industrial OR workflows: persistent multi-artifact workspaces and multi-stage task lifecycles.
Argument in the paper identifying gaps in benchmark realism (conceptual claim based on comparison between benchmark setups and industrial workflows).
high negative OR-Space: A Full-Lifecycle Workspace Benchmark for Industria... realism of benchmark scenarios relative to industrial workflows
Existing OR-oriented benchmarks often reduce evaluation to one-shot translation from a self-contained problem statement into a mathematical formulation or solver program.
Claim about the prevailing design of prior benchmarks as stated in the paper (literature survey / critical summary in the text excerpt; no numeric evidence provided here).
high negative OR-Space: A Full-Lifecycle Workspace Benchmark for Industria... scope/coverage of OR benchmarks
The greatest organizational risk of AI may not be technical failure but structural over-optimization (i.e., AI-driven erosion of adaptive openness).
Argumentative claim derived from the AI fragility theory presented in the paper; no empirical validation or quantified risk assessment included.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational risk profile attributable to AI (structural over-optimization vs....
Artificial intelligence functions as a 'hyper-crystallization' engine—by classifying, predicting, standardizing and optimizing it accelerates structural crystallization and may erode local judgment and generative adaptability.
Conceptual theory labeled 'AI fragility theory' developed in the paper; supported by argumentative reasoning rather than empirical testing.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational generative adaptability and local decision-making quality under A...
When digital systems are reified into internal structural optimization and control, transformation efforts can intensify organizational rigidity and failure to adapt.
Theoretical/analytic argument contrasting two modes of digital transformation; no empirical estimates or dataset provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational rigidity and failure to adapt as a consequence of reified digital...
Structurally heavy firms with substantial material and institutional resources frequently experienced paralysis or collapse during the pandemic.
Qualitative claim grounded in the author's reading of pandemic outcomes; the paper does not report systematic data or case counts.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational failure/paralysis during crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with the most optimized structures were not necessarily the most adaptive under radical uncertainty.
Argument based on the COVID-19 pandemic presented as an empirical 'stress test' in the paper; no empirical sample, data, or statistical analysis provided.
high negative The Lantern in the Vault: AI, Crisis, and the Ontology of Or... organizational adaptability/resilience under radical uncertainty
AI may influence society broadly via ethical issues, economic inequality, and social adaptation challenges.
Paper lists ethics, economic inequality, and social adaptation as societal-level areas affected by AI (abstract). Presented as thematic concerns reviewed in the paper; no empirical estimates included in the provided text.
high negative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment and Society ethical risks, economic inequality, societal adaptation needs
AI-driven automation is associated with job loss.
The paper lists automation and job loss among the areas it examines (abstract). The provided text frames job loss as a potential negative ramification but does not report primary empirical estimates or sample sizes.
high negative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment and Society job loss / job displacement
LLMs heavily rely on simulations for designing algorithms, which is notorious for breaking when transferred to real hardware.
Paper's claim grounded in known transferability issues between simulation and hardware; no experimental quantification provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... algorithm performance when moving from simulation to real hardware (failure/brea...
LLM pitfalls worsen on Radio Access Network (RAN) use cases: they hallucinate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and mis-read specifications, which kills interoperability of RAN components at the first mistake.
Author assertion / observed behavior reported in the paper (qualitative examples implied); no formal experiment or sample size provided in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... interoperability / correctness of produced interfaces and implementations
Cellular research and development (R&D) is throttled by six structural processes that each consume months of manual engineering work per iteration: (i) synthesizing new features from standards or research papers into production code; (ii) conformance and interoperability testing; (iii) hardening against field anomalies and diverse deployment environments; (iv) data-driven optimization of network functionalities; (v) discovering and prototyping novel waveforms, functionalities, and capabilities for future standards; and (vi) securing the stack against vulnerabilities.
Author assertion in the paper (qualitative analysis / domain expertise). No empirical sample size or quantitative study reported in the abstract.
high negative GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesi... time per R&D iteration (manual engineering work duration)
Existing approaches remain fragmented across formal verification, runtime assurance, neuro-symbolic reasoning and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) research communities.
Author claim about the state of the research landscape; asserted fragmentation without bibliometric or survey data provided in excerpt.
high negative ReasonOps: A Unified Operational Paradigm for Trustworthy Ve... degree of integration/coordination across research communities
Current reasoning systems still suffer from hidden logical inconsistencies, hallucinated symbolic transitions, unsupported theorem applications, and limited reliability guarantees.
Author assertion identifying failure modes of current reasoning systems; presented qualitatively without quantitative error rates or experimental sample sizes in the excerpt.
high negative ReasonOps: A Unified Operational Paradigm for Trustworthy Ve... reliability / correctness of reasoning systems
Stochastic Tax can remain positive even when Agentic Technical Debt is minimized.
Theoretical claim in the paper's model and discussion: even with minimized debt (stock), the model predicts a nonzero recurring operating burden from stochastic agents; illustrated via examples and an accounts-payable simulation.
high negative Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standa... persistence of Stochastic Tax (recurring operating burden) under minimized Agent...
Stochastic Tax is a recurring flow of operating burden that arises when stochastic agents are used in business workflows.
Definition provided in the paper as part of the conceptual framework describing Stochastic Tax as a flow (recurring operating burden) associated with stochastic agents in workflows.
high negative Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standa... operating burden (recurring flow) arising from use of stochastic agents in busin...
Humans are the bottleneck in building and improving AI. Both the models and the agents that wrap them are written, tuned, and corrected by people.
Statement/argument in the paper's introduction framing motivation (conceptual observation about current practice). No experimental data reported in the abstract to support this claim.
high negative SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates humans-as-bottleneck in AI development
Translators have functioned as 'invisible teachers' of AI—through the construction of translation memories, post-editing, and quality assessment—without recognition as teachers of models.
Conceptual framing and synthesis of workflow practices (TM construction, post-editing, QA) and their role as supervision for ML; qualitative argument and illustrative examples in the paper. No quantitative sample reported.
high negative Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translat... lack of recognition/attribution for contributors who effectively trained AI
Translators' renditions have been bought as deliverables under contract, segmented as technical objects, and processed as 'information analysis' data under copyright law—resulting in the loss of moral, creative, and economic attribution to the translators who produced them.
Comparative reading of contract practices and copyright treatment (legal/contractual analysis across jurisdictions), descriptive examples of how translations are delivered, segmented, and processed; qualitative argumentation in the paper. No quantitative sample reported.
high negative Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translat... loss of attribution and economic recognition for translators
Existing legal perspectives on the intellectual property of AI-generated works and related enforcement challenges are inadequately addressed under current frameworks.
Analytic review of legal perspectives and enforcement issues presented in the paper; conclusion based on the author's analysis rather than quantitative data.
high negative Examining the Challenges of Intellectual Property in AI-Gene... adequacy of legal perspectives and enforcement mechanisms for AI-generated IP
The current Iranian legal framework contains significant regulatory gaps with respect to intellectual property protection for AI-generated works.
Comparative legal analysis of Iranian statutes (1969 Law for the Protection of Authors, Composers, and Artists Rights and the Patent and Trademark Registration Law) against other legal systems (European Union, United Kingdom, United States); the paper's findings are based on legal/textual analysis rather than empirical sampling.
high negative Examining the Challenges of Intellectual Property in AI-Gene... presence of regulatory gaps in Iranian IP law regarding AI-generated works
The most critical intellectual property issue raised by AI-generated outputs is ownership of moral and economic rights in the absence of a human creator.
Theoretical discussion and literature review presented in the paper identifying legal and doctrinal questions around authorship and ownership when no human creator is involved (no empirical sample size).
high negative Examining the Challenges of Intellectual Property in AI-Gene... clarity/assignment of moral and economic IP rights for works lacking a human aut...
Using GoEmotions-based affective prompting, we show that emotion substantially shifts negotiation outcomes, suggesting that emotion is a strategic action channel rather than a surface style.
Experiments using GoEmotions-based affective prompting applied to negotiation agents; reported shift in negotiation outcomes attributed to emotional framing. (Specific experimental details such as number of runs, seeds, or exact metrics are not provided in the excerpt.)
high negative EmoDistill: Offline Emotion Skill Distillation for Language ... negotiation outcomes / agent utility (shifted toward counterparty interests)
Slow AI induced delayed cognitive conflict; humans hesitated (61.1% accuracy).
Reported experimental result for Slow/Accurate AI condition showing human accuracy of 61.1%, interpreted as hesitation/delayed conflict.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... human accuracy/hesitation under Slow AI
Pure behavioural teams (N=8) failed to scale beyond 74.1%.
Reported team performance metric for 'pure behavioural' teams with sample size N=8; maximum reported performance 74.1%.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... team accuracy/performance ceiling
Fast AI induced instant, blind compliance; human accuracy under deception collapsed to 50.2%.
Reported experimental result comparing Fast/Less-Accurate AI condition to baseline conditions; numeric accuracy reported as 50.2% for humans under deception.
high negative The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI ... human accuracy under AI deception
The impact of EPU on ETM is relatively moderate in intensity but more persistent compared with the impact from AI.
GARCH-Conditional Quantile Regression (persistence measures reported in the study summary; exact metrics/sample size not provided).
high negative Quantile-based Nonlinear Impact of Artificial Intelligence a... ETM impact (intensity and persistence)
The risk spillover from AI to ETM is characterized by high volatility and strong extremeness.
GARCH-Conditional Quantile Regression results showing AI→ETM spillover features (method reported; sample size not stated).
high negative Quantile-based Nonlinear Impact of Artificial Intelligence a... ETM volatility and tail/extreme risk
A GARCH–conditional quantile regression model reveals asymmetry of risk spillovers: the intensity of upside risk spillovers is far greater than downside ones.
GARCH-Conditional Quantile Regression (GARCH-CQR) applied to volatility and tail-risk dynamics among AI, EPU and ETM (method reported; sample size/time-series length not stated).
high negative Quantile-based Nonlinear Impact of Artificial Intelligence a... Risk spillovers (upside vs. downside intensity)
The cross-quantilogram indicates that the negative predictive effect of EPU on ETM is mainly concentrated in periods of policy stability.
Cross-quantilogram analysis applied to EPU and ETM time-series, with quantile-specific predictive effects identified (method reported; sample size not stated).
high negative Quantile-based Nonlinear Impact of Artificial Intelligence a... Education and training market (ETM) (predictive effect)
The nonparametric quantile causality test shows a unidirectional causal relationship from EPU to China’s education and training market (ETM).
Nonparametric quantile causality test applied to time-series data on EPU and ETM in China (method reported; sample size not stated).
high negative Quantile-based Nonlinear Impact of Artificial Intelligence a... Education and training market (ETM)
There is an urgent question of how humans can effectively supervise and control an economy operated by AI agents when this system may expand beyond the capacity of traditional governance.
Framed as a central research/policy concern in the paper's abstract; conceptual argument rather than empirical finding.
high negative Regulatory Policy for the Agent Economy in the Digital Age: ... capacity of traditional governance to supervise/control AI-operated economy
The Agent Economy raises new regulatory challenges concerning data privacy, security, ethics, and the risk of job displacement.
Stated in paper abstract as identified risks; based on literature synthesis and comparative policy analysis approach (method described), but no empirical incidence metrics reported.
high negative Regulatory Policy for the Agent Economy in the Digital Age: ... regulatory challenges related to privacy, security, ethics, and job displacement...
We evaluate 36 models; the strongest, Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code, reaches only 45.9%.
Empirical evaluation reported by the authors: 36 models tested on JobBench; highest-performing model and its score (Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code achieves 45.9%).
high negative JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will model performance on JobBench (aggregate score/accuracy as percent)