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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
Organizations implementing AI without responsible transition mechanisms may worsen workforce anxiety, skill obsolescence, inequality, and trust erosion.
Paper's theoretical/conceptual assertion about risks of poorly-managed AI adoption; no empirical validation reported in the excerpt.
high negative From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... workforce anxiety, skill obsolescence, inequality, trust
The International Monetary Fund estimates that nearly 40% of global employment is susceptible to AI, with exposure rising to 60% in advanced economies owing to cognitive task-oriented jobs.
Cited IMF estimate reported in the paper (reference to an IMF analysis; no sample size given in the excerpt).
high negative From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... share of employment susceptible/exposed to AI
Tenure negatively relates to AI use (OR = 0.846 per category).
Reported odds ratio from logistic regression for tenure categories predicting AI use; OR = 0.846 per tenure category.
high negative Determinants of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Public S... active AI adoption (binary)
The requirement that review + expected rework attention be lower than manual completion attention is substantially more stringent than the requirement that AI merely generate faster drafts.
Comparative analytical argument based on the model's derived stability conditions (theoretical/model-based reasoning; no empirical sample reported).
high negative Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow developer_productivity
Under congestion, reviewers rationally raise the risk threshold for checking AI outputs, reducing scrutiny precisely when it would matter the most.
Analytical implication derived from the queueing model presented in the paper (theoretical/model-based inference; no empirical validation reported).
Mean-based metrics (e.g., tasks completed per worker-hour or mean handle time) can misrepresent AI's effects in workflows where tasks accumulate and compete for scarce human attention.
Argument and analysis presented in the paper; theoretical reasoning and illustrative queueing model (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow task_completion_time
LLM-assisted discovery can increase report volume while maintainer-side validation, triage, funding, and release capacity may not scale—an effect that is acute in open source.
Claims supported by case material from Mozilla Firefox collaborations and Anthropic Mythos Preview public data, plus discussion of open-source maintainer constraints; no sample size given in the abstract.
high negative Demystifying the Mythos or Disrupting Bugonomics? From Zero-... vulnerability report volume vs. maintainer validation/triage/funding/release cap...
The resulting bottleneck is not only finding more bugs; it is absorbing, validating, triaging, patching, and shipping a larger stream of reports.
Argument based on observed changes in report volume and workflow demands from public collaborations and market/program data referenced in the paper; exact empirical counts not provided in the abstract.
high negative Demystifying the Mythos or Disrupting Bugonomics? From Zero-... capacity/throughput for absorbing, validating, triaging, patching, and shipping ...
Regardless of apparent performance advances in AI technology, human and environmental factors of the organization may substantially attenuate — or even negate — the effective productivity benefits.
Conceptual argument in the paper; theoretical reasoning and literature synthesis (no primary empirical data reported in the abstract).
high negative Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... realized productivity benefits from AI deployment
Adopting AI in organizational practice does not guarantee productivity gains, because human and environmental factors critically moderate the relationship between AI deployment and realized productivity improvements.
Position paper's conceptual argument presented in the abstract; no empirical sample or quantitative study reported.
high negative Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... productivity gains (realized productivity improvements)
Under water-constrained conditions, the framework achieves reductions of approximately 3-5% in generation-related freshwater withdrawals.
Quantitative results from simulation case studies on the IEEE test systems (reported percentage reduction ~3-5%); sample context: water-constrained simulation scenarios on IEEE 30-bus and 118-bus systems (sample_size = 2 test systems).
high negative From Accounting to Coordination: A Virtual Water-Aware Elect... generation-related freshwater withdrawals
Because they are decoupled from the optimization process, static statistical accounting approaches are incapable of guiding workload relocation or power dispatch to mitigate water stress.
Argumentative claim in paper about limitations of static accounting methods with respect to guiding operational decisions (methodological critique).
high negative From Accounting to Coordination: A Virtual Water-Aware Elect... suitability of static accounting to guide workload relocation and power dispatch...
Existing approaches typically rely on static statistical accounting to quantify these water footprints, but such static methods fail to capture how dispatch optimization and workload relocation dynamically affect water withdrawals.
Critical assessment in paper contrasting prior static statistical accounting approaches with dynamic needs; presented as methodological critique (no particular empirical sample in excerpt).
high negative From Accounting to Coordination: A Virtual Water-Aware Elect... accuracy/adequacy of static statistical accounting methods for water footprint a...
AI evaluation methods (benchmarks, red teaming, leaderboards) cannot be easily applied to human workers or yield comparable metrics.
Conceptual critique in the paper contrasting standard AI evaluation methods with human evaluation (no empirical comparisons provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... applicability and comparability of AI evaluation methods when applied to humans
Common criteria used to assess people (e.g., education, experience, references) cannot feasibly scale to AI systems.
Argumentative claim in the paper contrasting human hiring/evaluation practices with AI system assessment (conceptual; no empirical validation provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... scalability of human assessment criteria to AI systems
Human and machine workers may 'compete' for a given task, reproducing aspects of adversarial games.
Theoretical/assertional claim in the paper (conceptual discussion; no empirical data provided).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... competitive interaction between human and AI workers for tasks
The increased use of algorithms in allocation decisions creates a Reverse Turing Test dynamic wherein the machine is now the judge.
Conceptual framing and argument presented in the paper (theoretical description; no empirical test reported).
high negative Reverse Turing Tests for Human-Machine Task Suitability Asse... judgment role of algorithms in human-machine task assignment
AI-driven efficiency pressures in IT services may compress billable work and alter hiring and wage structures, raising transition risks even for technical workers.
Abstract cites high-reliability sector evidence (Reuters 2026a; Nasscom) to support this sector-specific claim; no sample size provided in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... compression of billable work, changes to hiring and wage structures, transition ...
Labor-market segmentation and digital capability gaps in India create distributional vulnerabilities.
Abstract cites Indian official statistics and household/labor surveys (PLFS, HCES, MoSPI–NSO) and integrates sector evidence; no specific sample size reported in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... distributional vulnerabilities arising from labor-market segmentation and digita...
Refined exposure measures imply widespread task transformation rather than uniform job destruction, with accelerated skill change as a central risk for vulnerable workers.
Abstract cites labor-market analyses and ILO (2025) as the basis for refined exposure measures and conclusions; no sample size stated in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... task transformation versus job destruction and skill change risk for vulnerable ...
Global frameworks warn that uneven readiness may produce a 'Next Great Divergence' between countries.
Cited global reports in abstract (UNDP 2025, WTO 2025, OECD 2026) which are summarized as issuing this warning; no primary data sample size reported in paper abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... uneven readiness leading to increased divergence between countries
Persistent adoption gaps among groups suggest unequal access to AI-enabled productivity.
Abstract references global reports (OECD, WEF, UNDP, WTO) and sector evidence indicating adoption gaps; no numerical sample size given.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... adoption gaps and unequal access to AI-enabled productivity
AI may widen capability inequality—inequalities in access to knowledge, digital infrastructure, computational resources, and organizational adoption—thereby shaping income opportunities and socio-economic security for low-income groups.
Argument presented using the paper's socio-technical political economy framework and validated secondary sources (OECD, ILO, UNDP, WTO, WEF) and official Indian statistics; no direct empirical sample from this paper reported.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... capability inequality and downstream income/socio-economic security for low-inco...
Design choices that prioritize scalable growth introduce trade-offs in reusability, evolution, and auditability in A2A collaboration networks.
Synthesis of empirical findings (low reuse, manipulable rankings, unverified validations) connecting design incentives to negative side-effects.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... trade-offs among scalability, reusability, evolution, auditability
EvoMap relies on agents to provide local execution logs as evidence that uploaded assets function correctly; because these validations are not independently verified, over 84% of approved assets bypass quality checks using vacuous tests (e.g., console.log).
Empirical audit of validation logs and acceptance tests reported in the paper showing >84% of approved assets used trivial/vacuous checks.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... verification/validation quality of assets
Agents can trivially manipulate their asset's scores by falsifying self-reported metadata.
Demonstrations/analyses in the paper that changing metadata values leads to predictable changes in GDI scores; examples like claimed lines-of-code manipulation are provided.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... vulnerability to manipulation of ranking
An asset's GDI rank is heavily dictated by unverified, self-reported metadata (e.g., claimed lines of code modified).
Correlation/causal analysis in the paper showing strong dependence of GDI scores on self-reported metadata fields rather than objective performance measures.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... drivers of ranking (metadata vs objective performance)
EvoMap employs an algorithm (GDI) to score and rank shared assets, and this scoring system is flawed.
Paper description of the GDI ranking algorithm and empirical analyses illustrating problems with how it operates.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... quality of ranking/scoring
Rewards become highly concentrated among a small fraction of agents.
Distributional analysis of credits/rewards across agents (inequality/concentration observed in reward allocation).
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... reward concentration / inequality
98% of assets are never reused.
Empirical reuse metric computed across the asset corpus reported in the paper.
Because rewards favor publication over adoption, agents mass-produce assets to accumulate credits.
Observed publishing behavior (large numbers of assets per agent) and the platform's incentive structure; paper links publication-focused rewards to high per-agent asset counts.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... publishing behavior / task allocation
Rewards are tied primarily to publication rather than adoption.
Analysis of reward allocation rules and empirical patterns showing reward issuance linked to publication events more than measured reuse/adoption.
high negative Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent... reward allocation (publication vs. adoption)
These findings challenge the prevailing theory of skill-biased technological change.
Empirical observation that high-skill, high-exposure neighborhoods experienced wage stagnation post-2023 despite continued inflows of high-skilled workers, interpreted in contrast to predictions of skill-biased technological change.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... validity of skill-biased technological change predictions (skill premium dynamic...
Since 2023, high-exposure neighborhoods have experienced wage stagnation even as they continue to attract high-skilled workers (a 'high-skill trap').
Temporal analysis of job-posting wage signals in Beijing neighborhoods (2018--2024) using the GenAI Exposure Index to compare wage trajectories before and after 2023 between high- and low-exposure neighborhoods.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... wage levels / wage growth (stagnation)
GenAI exposure is highly concentrated in the city's core districts, deepening the intra-urban AI divide.
Spatial analysis of a neighborhood-level GenAI Exposure Index constructed from 5 million Beijing job postings (2018--2024), where task-level assessments were aggregated across five leading large language models to measure exposure by neighborhood.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... GenAI exposure concentration across neighborhoods / intra-urban AI divide
AI adoption contributes to labor market polarization and increases the risk of structural unemployment.
Authors' thematic synthesis of interdisciplinary studies reporting patterns of job polarization and macro/labor market risks associated with AI in manufacturing.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing labor market polarization and structural unemployment risk
AI disproportionately affects routine and mid-skilled jobs.
Synthesis of literature (2010–2024) reported by the authors indicating disproportionate automation/AI exposure for routine and mid-skilled occupations.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing relative impact on routine and mid-skilled jobs (automation exposure)
AI adoption in manufacturing has critical implications for human labor, raising concerns about labor displacement.
Authors' systematic literature review (2010–2024) synthesizing interdisciplinary studies discussing labor impacts and displacement risks.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing labor displacement
A-insensitivity acts as a cognitive barrier between beliefs and trust (i.e., it reduces the extent to which beliefs about forecast accuracy are translated into trust).
Interpretation based on experimental findings showing that higher a-insensitivity weakens the predictive relationship between beliefs about accuracy and expressed trust in analysts (derived from measures and analyses in the lab experiment; sample size not reported in abstract).
high negative Trusting human versus machine predictions as a decision unde... belief-to-trust translation (strength of relationship between beliefs and trust)
Decision-makers who are more a-insensitive are less likely to incorporate their beliefs about forecast accuracy into their trust judgments.
Experimental data where participants' a-insensitivity was measured and used to predict the extent to which their beliefs (optimism about accuracy) translate into trust for analysts (moderation/interaction analysis implied; sample size not reported in abstract).
high negative Trusting human versus machine predictions as a decision unde... degree to which beliefs predict trust (belief–trust linkage)
AI adoption presents workforce adaptation challenges.
Reported in the study's literature synthesis and thematic analysis of secondary sources (qualitative review). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... workforce adaptation / need for retraining
AI adoption raises ethical considerations.
Authors' thematic evaluation of secondary literature identifying ethical issues associated with human-AI collaboration (qualitative synthesis). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... ethical risks and considerations
AI adoption presents challenges related to skill gaps.
Thematic findings from peer-reviewed literature and secondary data (qualitative review). No sample size reported.
high negative Human–AI Collaboration in the Indian IT Industry: A Qualitat... skill gaps / workforce skill mismatch
Concentrated digital power may hinder inclusive industrialisation (SDG 9) and exacerbate global inequalities (SDG 10).
Argument linking conceptual analysis of digital power concentration to Sustainable Development Goals based on literature and policy interpretation (literature-based reasoning, no empirical measurement provided).
high negative Beyond Access: Rethinking Digital Power in Data-Driven Indus... inclusive industrialisation and global inequality
Industrial data systems generate 'participation without power,' a dynamic that particularly affects workers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and developing economies.
Theoretical/conceptual framing introduced by the paper and justified via literature review and examples from recent studies (no quantitative sample reported).
high negative Beyond Access: Rethinking Digital Power in Data-Driven Indus... extent of participation accompanied by lack of control or value capture ('partic...
Inequality is increasingly shaped by the capacity to control and leverage digital systems rather than merely by access to digital technologies.
Conceptual claim grounded in synthesis of recent literature arguing a shift from access-based digital divide frameworks to control/power-based frameworks (literature review, no primary data reported).
high negative Beyond Access: Rethinking Digital Power in Data-Driven Indus... degree to which control over digital systems determines inequality
There is a 'speedup illusion' where people have accurate forecasts of independent completion times but significantly underestimate AI-assisted times.
Empirical pattern reported in the abstract: comparison of predicted vs. actual times shows accurate independent forecasts but underestimation of AI-assisted completion times (preregistered study, N = 1237).
high negative Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI in... calibration of predicted vs actual completion time
The fidelity gain from richer profiles comes with more input tokens per call from the longer prompts they require (i.e., higher per-call input cost).
Measurement of input token counts per model call for prompt variants with and without life-history profiles in the benchmark experiments; comparison shows longer prompts require more input tokens.
high negative Benchmarking LLMs for Community Governance Simulation with L... per-call input token count (per-call cost proxy)
A conventional two-arm test understates the algorithmic channel by a factor of two.
Empirical comparison reported in the paper between the three-arm design estimates and conventional two-arm test estimates from the live campaign.
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... bias/understatement factor in estimated algorithmic effect from two-arm test
In the same campaign, the creative channel moves female impression share by -0.68 ppt.
Empirical result from the live Meta campaign reported in the paper; measured effect size (-0.68 percentage points).
high negative Algorithm or Creative? A Three-Arm Experimental Design for D... female impression share (change attributable to creative channel)