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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
While several jurisdictions (UK, US, EU, India) have attempted to regulate gig work, most regulatory responses remain incomplete and fail to fully address platform accountability.
Comparative policy/regulatory analysis of the United Kingdom, United States, European Union and India assessing statutes, litigation and policy measures; qualitative assessment rather than statistical evaluation (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... completeness/effectiveness of regulatory responses to platform accountability
Platform companies rely on contractual misclassification, corporate structuring, and the legal fiction of neutrality to separate control from liability.
Legal and corporate-structure analysis across jurisdictions, examining contracts, corporate forms and legal doctrines; based on comparative statutory and case-law review (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... allocation of legal liability and regulatory accountability
The platform economy produces a deeply unequal labour structure marked by algorithmic control, economic dependency, surveillance, and lack of social protection.
Synthesis and critical analysis combining literature, policy review and comparative jurisdictional study to argue systemic effects on labour structure; primarily qualitative evidence and theoretical framing (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... distributional labour outcomes and social protection coverage
Gig workers, though formally classified as independent contractors, are functionally subjected to pricing control, performance monitoring, automated penalties, and deactivation mechanisms that closely resemble managerial authority.
Descriptive/qualitative evidence in the paper: examples and analysis of platform design and management practices (algorithmic pricing, monitoring, penalties, deactivation); based on platform policy documents, case examples and comparative review (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... degree of algorithmic/managerial control over workers
Digital labour platforms exercise employer-like control while avoiding employer-like legal responsibilities.
Argument and comparative legal analysis across jurisdictions (United Kingdom, United States, European Union, India) demonstrating platform practices and legal/regulatory responses; based on documentary/legal review and critical analysis (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... legal employment classification and control/responsibility
Shifts persist in even the newest AI models despite remarkable progress in AI modeling, post-training alignment and safeguards.
Asserted in paper; supported by later empirical validation across multiple models and production chatbots (see other claims), but no explicit sample size in this sentence.
high negative Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable b... persistence of undesirable behavioral shifts despite alignment/safeguards
ChatGPT-like AI behavior can shift, unnoticed, from desirable to undesirable (e.g., encouraging self-harm, extremist acts, financial losses, or costly medical and military mistakes), and no one can yet predict when.
Statement in paper framing the problem; qualitative observations and motivating examples (no numeric sample size provided in the excerpt).
high negative Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable b... occurrence of unnoticed shifts from desirable to undesirable outputs
These characteristics are properties of the tasks themselves rather than limitations of current AI models.
Conceptual argument in the paper asserting task-inherent properties drive resistance to automation; supported by theory and argumentation, not by empirical model-comparison experiments.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... source of automation limitation (task-inherent vs model limitation)
The resistance of Metis tasks to automation is not due to computational intractability but to institutional, social, and normative entanglements.
Theoretical argument differentiating computational from institutional/social/normative causes; supported by citations and cross-disciplinary theory rather than empirical causal identification.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... cause of automation resistance
There exists a class of entirely digital tasks, called 'Metis AI', that resist reliable AI automation.
Conceptual identification and definition introduced by the authors; supported by theoretical grounding in social sciences, philosophy, and humanitarian practice rather than empirical trials or quantified samples.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... resistance to reliable AI automation
That digital-vs-physical framing misses the most consequential boundary: the one within digital tasks.
Normative/theoretical argument presented in the paper contrasting existing framing with a proposed alternative; grounded in cross-disciplinary literature rather than empirical measurement.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... relevance of boundary framing for AI capabilities
Severe penalties in underfunded Eastern systems, mediated by financial distress, drive families toward resource exhaustion.
Cross-country comparisons in SHARE-derived analyses showing larger financial penalties in underfunded Eastern European systems, with mediation analysis implicating financial distress and resultant resource exhaustion.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Household resource exhaustion / severe financial toxicity in underfunded Eastern...
Financial distress acts as a profound multiplier of the burdens associated with palliative care.
Interaction/moderation analyses in SHARE-derived synthetic data showing that pre-existing financial distress amplifies financial and caregiving burdens under PC.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Magnitude of financial toxicity / household financial burden under PC, condition...
Socio-demographics heavily modulate exposure: lacking a spousal net inflates the burden.
Subgroup/moderation analyses in SHARE-derived data comparing households with and without spousal support, showing higher burdens when no spouse is present.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Increased household burden (financial/time) when no spousal support is available
Non-cancer trajectories drive massive structural penalties that escalate at the distribution's tail, mechanically compounded by physical dependency.
Stratified analyses by disease trajectory (non-cancer vs cancer) using SHARE data (2016-2021) and quantile models showing larger penalties for non-cancer cases, especially in tail quantiles; physical dependency identified as a compounding factor.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Increased financial penalties/out-of-pocket expenditures (especially at tails) a...
Quantile treatment models expose a 'broken shield' for vulnerable households and severe tail events (PC protection fails or reverses at distributional tails).
Application of quantile treatment effect models to synthesized SHARE-derived digital twins (2016-2021), explicitly examining distributional/tail effects.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Extreme-tail outcomes of out-of-pocket expenditures and caregiving burden
Parsing through LLM-generated code can be tedious and time-consuming, potentially negating the productivity gains promised by AI-coding tools.
Motivation/background statement in the paper: a qualitative claim about the cost (time/effort) of reviewing LLM-generated code; presented as motivation rather than empirically quantified evidence in the excerpt.
high negative Viverra: Text-to-Code with Guarantees time/effort required to review LLM-generated code
Employees experience technostress, anxiety and micro-political negotiation around AI tools in everyday work.
Reported experiences from semistructured interviews with 28 managers/professionals across 12 organizations; thematic analysis highlighting technostress and anxiety as themes.
high negative Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... technostress and anxiety among employees
An analysis of a 21-instrument inventory identifies an incentive gradient where geopolitical and industrial pressures systematically reward surface-level behavioral proxies over deep structural verification.
Empirical/qualitative analysis of an inventory of 21 governance instruments compiled and analysed in the paper (n=21 instruments).
high negative Position: Behavioural Assurance Cannot Verify the Safety Cla... governance_and_regulation
Behavioural assurance, even when carefully designed, is being asked to carry safety claims it cannot verify.
The paper's normative and conceptual argument synthesising governance requirements and the epistemic limits of behavioural testing.
Current assurance methodologies (primarily behavioural evaluations and red-teaming) are epistemically limited to observable model outputs and cannot verify latent representations or long-horizon agentic behaviours.
Conceptual/analytic argument and review of existing assurance methodologies presented in the paper.
Overthinking is a shared and exploitable vulnerability in modern reasoning systems, underscoring the need for more robust defenses.
Conclusion drawn by authors based on their empirical findings described in the abstract (amplification of output length across multiple models and transferability experiments).
high negative Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS... presence of shared vulnerability across models (qualitative security posture)
This overthinking behavior significantly increases inference latency and energy consumption, forming a potential vector for denial-of-service (DoS)-style resource exhaustion.
Authors assert increased latency and energy consumption as consequences of longer reasoning traces; framed as a potential attack vector in the abstract (no quantitative latency/energy measurements provided in abstract).
high negative Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS... inference latency and energy consumption
Large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit a tendency to "overthink", producing excessively long and redundant reasoning traces when confronted with incomplete or logically inconsistent inputs.
Empirical observation reported by the authors based on experiments described in the paper (abstract references experiments across multiple SOTA reasoning models); no numerical sample size for inputs reported in abstract.
high negative Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS... response length / reasoning trace length (verbosity and redundancy)
Distinct readability issue patterns and limited effectiveness of prompt engineering reveal a latent technical debt in LLM-generated code that could affect long-term maintainability.
Interpretation/conclusion in paper combining empirical findings (distinct issue patterns and limited prompt impact) to argue for potential technical debt and maintainability risks; presented as a forward-looking implication rather than a quantified causal estimate.
high negative The Readability Spectrum: Patterns, Issues, and Prompt Effec... maintainability_risk / technical_debt_inferred_from_readability
LLM-generated code displays distinct readability issue patterns compared to human-written code.
Empirical analysis of readability subcomponents/features showing different patterns of readability issues between LLM-generated and human-written code (paper reports qualitative/quantitative distinctions in issue patterns).
high negative The Readability Spectrum: Patterns, Issues, and Prompt Effec... readability_issue_patterns (feature-level readability problems)
Policy responses in Europe are fragmented across the EU and Member State levels and do not match the potential scale of disruption from AGI.
Paper's policy analysis of EU- and Member-State-level responses (stated in abstract); no quantitative metrics provided in the abstract.
high negative Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedne... governance_and_regulation
Europe has low rates of industrial AI adoption.
Paper's empirical/policy review claiming low industrial AI adoption in Europe (as stated in abstract); the abstract does not provide numeric adoption rates or sample sizes.
Europe exhibits structural weaknesses in compute infrastructure and talent retention.
Paper's structural assessment of Europe's AI value-chain capabilities (stated in abstract); no numerical measures provided in the abstract.
Europe has limited strategic awareness of frontier AI progress.
Paper's assessment of Europe's positioning based on policy analysis and review of capabilities monitoring (as stated in abstract); no supporting metrics or sample sizes provided in the abstract.
high negative Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedne... governance_and_regulation
AGI could strain existing governance frameworks.
Paper's policy analysis describing potential mismatches between governance capacity and AGI-induced disruptions (as stated in abstract); no empirical tests or quantification reported in the abstract.
high negative Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedne... governance_and_regulation
AGI could intensify interstate competition.
Paper's geopolitical analysis and scenario-based reasoning informed by trends in AI capabilities (stated in abstract); no quantitative measures reported in the abstract.
high negative Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedne... governance_and_regulation
AGI could fundamentally alter the global distribution of economic and military power.
Paper's geopolitical analysis drawing on capability trends and scenario reasoning (as stated in abstract); no empirical quantification provided in the abstract.
high negative Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedne... governance_and_regulation
Increased levels of AI assistance may degrade productivity, leading to potentially significant shortfalls under the model's identified conditions.
Model-based comparative-statics and steady-state analysis showing scenarios where marginal increases in AI assistance reduce expected task output; examples/parameter illustrations provided in the paper (theoretical, no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... expected task output / productivity shortfalls associated with increased AI assi...
Introducing AI unreliability (errors/noise in AI outputs) in the model can also generate a productivity paradox: greater AI assistance may lower productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model incorporating AI unreliability; model derivations and examples demonstrating conditions under which unreliability leads to reduced productivity (no empirical data).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as influenced by AI assistance and AI unreliabi...
Incorporating endogeneity in skill development into the model can induce a productivity paradox where increased AI assistance reduces productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model of human-AI interaction with utility-maximizing human agents and endogenous skill development; steady-state and comparative-static analysis reported in the paper (no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as a function of AI assistance and endogenous s...
Simulated users produce feedback dynamics that diverge from humans.
Temporal/interaction analysis in the replication showing differences in how simulators provide feedback across multi-turn interactions compared to humans.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... feedback/interaction dynamics over multi-turn conversations (simulator vs human)
Simulated users exhibit amplified position biases relative to human participants.
Behavioral comparison in the simulator replication showing stronger position biases in simulated responses than in human responses.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... magnitude of position bias in simulated vs human responses
Simulated users discuss different topics compared to the human participants.
Analysis of conversation content in the simulator replication showing differences in topical distribution between simulators and humans.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... topic distribution of conversations produced by simulators versus humans
Simulators perform far below human self-consistency baselines for individual judgements.
Comparison in the replication study between simulator consistency and human self-consistency on individual-level judgments; reported large performance gap (simulators far below humans).
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... individual-level judgment consistency (simulator vs human self-consistency)
Amplified sycophancy and relationship-seeking behaviours may introduce deleterious long-term consequences.
Authors' interpretation and cautionary note based on observed behavioral amplification after fine-tuning; presented as potential long-term risk rather than an empirically measured long-term outcome.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... long-term social/consequential harms from amplified model behaviours (hypothesiz...
Existing AI-generated image detection benchmarks mainly evaluate standalone authenticity classification, cross-generator transfer, or forensic localization, leaving claim-conditioned fraudulent evidence detection underexplored.
Literature/contextual positioning in the paper contrasting prior benchmarks' focus with the proposed task.
high negative FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generate... coverage of existing benchmarks with respect to claim-conditioned fraudulent evi...
There is a clear gap between generic AI image detection and reliable claim-conditioned refund-evidence verification.
Synthesis of experimental findings indicating that existing detectors and MLLMs are insufficiently reliable for the specific task of claim-conditioned refund-evidence verification.
high negative FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generate... reliability/robustness of AI image detectors on claim-conditioned verification
Current MLLMs often recognize real-damaged evidence but fail on many fake-damaged subsets, with fake-damage detection rates (TPR) far below the 50% baseline on most generator subsets.
Experimental results reported in the paper comparing MLLM true positive rates (TPR) on real-damaged vs. fake-damaged subsets produced by multiple generators.
high negative FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generate... true positive rate (TPR) for detecting fake-damaged evidence
In a controlled experiment across six industry configurations (72 tool invocations using Qwen3-32B), unconstrained tool parameters produced a 43% hallucination rate for domain identifiers.
Controlled experiment reported in the paper: six industry configurations, 72 tool invocations, model used: Qwen3-32B; reported unconstrained parameter condition resulted in 43% hallucination rate for domain identifiers.
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... hallucination rate for domain identifiers
In multi-agent configurations the semantic training gap produces a compounding failure mode termed 'semantic drift'.
Analytical description and demonstration in the paper describing multi-agent interactions and observed/argued compounding failures (conceptual demonstration; no numeric sample stated).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... occurrence of semantic drift (compounding errors in multi-agent setups)
The semantic training gap causes operationally incorrect outputs even when model responses are linguistically precise.
Demonstrations and examples reported in the paper showing cases where model outputs are linguistically fluent but operationally incorrect; supported by the paper's analysis and experimental illustrations (no numeric sample provided for this general claim).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... operational correctness of outputs (vs. linguistic precision)
There exists a 'semantic training gap': a structural disconnect between how AI systems acquire domain vocabulary through training and how manufacturing operations define meaning through ontological relationships.
Paper provides a formalization and conceptual framing of the gap (theoretical description and argumentation within the manuscript).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... existence of semantic training gap (structural disconnect)
LLM-based AI agents deployed in manufacturing demonstrate statistical fluency with domain terminology but lack grounded understanding of operational semantics.
Stated assertion in the paper describing observed behavior of deployed LLM agents; supported by conceptual analysis and examples/demonstrations reported in the paper (no numeric sample size given).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... grounded understanding of operational semantics
Direct demographic targeting excludes users whose demographics the platform cannot infer ('unknown users') if advertising platforms do not provide a way to target unknown users directly, as is the case on Google Ads.
Platform capability statement about Google Ads (authors' description of Google Ads targeting options); no sample size provided.
high negative Into the Unknown: Accounting for Missing Demographic Data wh... inclusion/exclusion of 'unknown' users under direct demographic targeting on Goo...