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Evidence (7560 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
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We introduce a new benchmark QuantSightBench to assess prediction-interval forecasting capability and evaluate frontier models under multiple settings, assessing both empirical coverage and interval sharpness.
Methodological contribution reported in the paper: creation of QuantSightBench and its use to evaluate models on empirical coverage and sharpness (paper describes benchmark and evaluation procedure; specific task/sample counts not given in excerpt).
high null result QuantSightBench: Evaluating LLM Quantitative Forecasting wit... benchmark introduction / evaluation of empirical coverage and interval sharpness
Technology-driven recruitment encompasses Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), AI-powered screening, video-based interviews, gamified assessments, and data analytics.
Conceptual description in the paper's introduction/background defining the scope of 'technology-driven recruitment'.
high null result A Study on the Effectiveness of Technology-Driven Recruitmen... definition / scope of recruitment technology
The study employed a mixed-methods research design combining a quantitative survey of 150 HR professionals and recruiters across manufacturing, IT, banking, and education sectors with qualitative case study analysis of four organizations in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper: quantitative survey (N=150) across specified sectors + qualitative case studies of 4 organizations in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Prior research often treats AI presence as binary, framing it either as a hidden tool or a visible teammate.
Literature-summary claim asserted by the authors (literature review / conceptual critique). No quantitative evidence reported in the abstract.
high null result Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... research framing of AI presence (binary hidden vs visible)
The LLM fallacy is situated within existing literature on automation bias, cognitive offloading, and human–AI collaboration, but is distinguished as a form of attributional distortion specific to AI-mediated workflows.
Conceptual positioning and literature synthesis in the paper; claim is analytic rather than empirically tested in the abstract.
high null result The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... conceptual distinctiveness of LLM fallacy relative to related constructs
Less attention has been given to how LLM usage reshapes users' perceptions of their own capabilities.
Literature gap claim from the paper's review of prior research on model reliability, hallucination, and trust calibration; no quantitative synthesis or meta-analysis reported.
high null result The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... degree of prior research focus on users' self-perception following LLM use
The system evaluation was performed in a deployed multi-tenant enterprise application across three conditions: manual operation, unconstrained AI with safety layers disabled, and full bounded autonomy.
Method description in the paper's evaluation section: deployment context (multi-tenant enterprise app), three experimental conditions, and 25 scenario trials spanning seven failure families.
high null result Bounded Autonomy for Enterprise AI: Typed Action Contracts a... experimental design and conditions
We conducted a year-long longitudinal study of AI use in a high-stakes workplace among cancer specialists.
Methodological statement in the paper indicating a year-long longitudinal empirical study with cancer specialists (no sample size or detailed methods reported in abstract).
high null result From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asympto... longitudinal usage and effects of AI among clinicians
We evaluate AIBuildAI on MLE-Bench, a benchmark of realistic Kaggle-style AI development tasks spanning visual, textual, time-series and tabular modalities.
Evaluation methodology described in paper (benchmark selection and task modalities).
high null result AIBuildAI: An AI Agent for Automatically Building AI Models evaluation coverage across data modalities on MLE-Bench
We surveyed 860 Microsoft developers to understand where they want AI support, and where they want it to stay out.
Primary empirical method reported in the paper (survey) with sample size explicitly stated as 860 Microsoft developers.
high null result To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built developer preferences for AI support / rejection
Developers spend roughly one-tenth of their workday writing code.
Statement reported in the paper (abstract). No sample-size or measurement method for this specific statistic provided in the abstract.
high null result To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built fraction of workday spent writing code
We tested 9 frontier models on BTB.
Abstract states that nine frontier models were evaluated using the benchmark.
high null result BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investme... number of models evaluated
Completing a BTB task takes bankers up to 21 hours, underscoring the economic stakes of successfully delegating this work to AI.
Reported time-to-complete statistic in abstract (claimed maximum of 21 hours per task); implies measurement of human task completion time by bankers.
high null result BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investme... time to complete a BTB task (hours)
BTB requires agents to execute senior banker requests by navigating data rooms, using industry tools (market data platform, SEC filings database), and generating multi-file deliverables including Excel financial models, PowerPoint pitch decks, and PDF/Word reports.
Benchmark design specifications reported in abstract describing the tasks and artifact types agents must produce.
high null result BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investme... types of tasks and deliverables required by BTB
BankerToolBench (BTB) is an open-source benchmark of end-to-end analytical workflows routinely performed by junior investment bankers.
Paper describes BTB design and explicitly states it is open-source and targets end-to-end workflows for junior investment bankers.
high null result BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investme... existence and scope of the BTB benchmark
We collaborated with 502 investment bankers from leading firms to develop an ecologically valid benchmark grounded in representative work environments.
Reported collaboration/sample size stated in abstract: 502 investment bankers involved in benchmark development.
high null result BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in End-to-End Investme... number of investment bankers collaborating on benchmark development
The global onset of Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) necessitates a re-evaluation of employment forecasts for Nagpur's medium enterprises.
Interpretive/prescriptive claim based on the paper's framing of technological change (Industry 4.0/AI) and implications for employment forecasting; no empirical sample size or quantitative backing provided in the excerpt.
high null result PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... need to re-evaluate employment forecasts
Medium-scale industries in zones like Butibori and Hingna have traditionally been labor-intensive.
Descriptive statement in the paper about the nature of current industries in Nagpur/MIDC; no sample size or quantitative data reported in the excerpt.
high null result PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... labor-intensity of industries
The baselines are implemented as prompts, representing the realistic deployment alternative to a governed framework.
Methodological statement in paper describing how baselines were implemented (as prompts); presented as representing realistic alternative deployment.
high null result Governed Reasoning for Institutional AI implementation approach for baseline systems (prompt-based)
We benchmark three systems on an 11-case balanced prior authorization appeal evaluation set.
Methodological statement in paper describing evaluation; sample size explicitly stated as 11 cases.
high null result Governed Reasoning for Institutional AI benchmark evaluation on prior authorization appeal cases
The two case firms demonstrated contrasting approaches to implementing AI in recruitment.
Findings and case descriptions comparing the two firms' AI recruitment strategies and levels of implementation (n = 2 firms; interviews with 22 participants).
high null result The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... implementation_approach_variation
The research contributes by shifting focus to under-researched non-Western workplace settings, particularly technologically advancing Middle Eastern economies like Qatar.
Paper's stated contribution and scope: focus on Qatari organisations and Middle Eastern context.
high null result The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... geographic_research_focus
Four key themes emerged from the data: (1) process optimisation through AI integration, (2) subjectivity in AI-powered recruitment, (3) recruitment strategies in the age of AI, and (4) strategic investments in AI.
Findings: thematic analysis identified these four themes from interview data (n = 22) across the two case firms.
Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns and relationships within the interview data.
Methods: analysis section reporting use of thematic analysis framework.
Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with twenty-two participants across various organisational roles and hierarchical levels.
Methods: semi-structured interviews reported with total participants n = 22 across roles/levels.
The research investigated two prominent Qatari firms with contrasting AI recruitment implementation approaches.
Methods / case selection: two firms were selected and contrasted on their AI recruitment approaches (number of firms = 2).
The study employed an interpretivist philosophy and a case study design.
Methods section: explicitly states interpretivist philosophy and case study design.
All participants had access to the same AI tool; the experiment varied only the structure surrounding its use (behavioral vs cognitive scaffolding vs unstructured).
Experimental design description in the paper: common AI tool provided to all participants; randomization/assignment varied only the scaffolding around AI use.
high null result Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... experimental manipulation fidelity (same AI tool across conditions)
We found no evidence that information provision drove effects on our behavioural outcomes.
Analysis from the preregistered experiments showing that manipulations of information provision did not produce corresponding changes in measured behaviours (e.g., petition signing, donations).
high null result Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take politica... behavioural outcomes (petition signing, donations) in response to information pr...
We observed no evidence of a correlation between AI persuasion effects on attitudes and behaviour.
Analysis reported in the two preregistered experiments comparing AI-induced changes in attitudes with corresponding behavioural outcomes across participants (sample reported in paper).
high null result Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take politica... correlation between attitude changes and behavioural changes induced by AI persu...
These results are observational and reflect a single-operator dataset without controlled comparison.
Author statement in the paper describing study limitations.
high null result Context Engineering: A Practitioner Methodology for Structur... study design and limitations
There is a significant research gap in comparative understanding of generative AI's impact across developed and developing economies; differences in infrastructure, labour markets, and skill distributions may lead to uneven outcomes.
Review observation that the included literature lacks sufficient comparative studies across country-development contexts (explicitly noted as a gap in the paper).
high null result Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... comparative evidence on generative AI impacts across developed vs. developing ec...
This systematic literature review synthesised findings from 40 empirical and conceptual studies published between 2020 and 2025 using the PRISMA framework (search across Google Scholar and Dimensions.ai), yielding 3,252 database records plus 8 hand-searched studies, of which 40 met the inclusion criteria.
PRISMA-style structured literature search reported in the paper: database search (Google Scholar, Dimensions.ai) returning 3,252 records, 8 hand-searched records, 40 studies meeting inclusion.
high null result Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... systematic review sample and search yield (records screened/included)
The explanatory interface has no significant impact on situational trust.
Trust measured in different forms (situational, learned, cognitive, emotional) in the RCT; authors report no significant effect of explanatory interface on situational trust (N=120).
Under the sequential AI-assisted decision-making paradigm, the explanatory interface has no significant effect on immediate task performance.
Same randomized controlled experiment; authors report no significant effect of explanatory interface on immediate task performance in the sequential paradigm (N=120 total).
high null result How AI-Assisted Decision-Making Paradigms and Explainability... immediate task performance (task execution stage)
The study was a randomized controlled experiment with 120 pre-service teachers.
Randomized controlled experiment reported in the paper; sample described as 120 pre-service teachers.
We instantiate this vision in a controlled study (n=36) comparing the gaze-aware AI assistant to a text-only LLM assistant.
The paper reports running a controlled user study with sample size n=36 directly comparing the gaze-aware assistant against a text-only LLM assistant.
high null result From Gaze to Guidance: Interpreting and Adapting to Users' C... study design / experimental comparison
Data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) implemented in SmartPLS 4.
Methods section statement in paper indicating use of PLS-SEM and SmartPLS 4 for data analysis.
The empirical analysis is based on a questionnaire survey administered to 324 respondents from Romanian organizations operating in IT, services, industry, and public administration.
Questionnaire survey described in paper; sample size explicitly stated as 324 respondents from Romanian organizations across IT, services, industry, and public administration.
high null result Decision-Making in Complex Systems Using AI-Based Decision S... sample description / data source
All four models converge to similar skill profiles (3.6-point spread), suggesting that text-based automation feasibility may be more skill-dependent than model-dependent.
Comparison across 4 LLMs (LLaMA 3.3 70B, Mistral Large, Qwen 2.5 72B, Gemini 2.5 Flash) with reported 3.6-point spread in skill-profile SAFI scores.
high null result The AI Skills Shift: Mapping Skill Obsolescence, Emergence, ... variation (spread) in SAFI skill profiles across models
We validate this principle through a controlled experiment on log format token economy across four conditions (human-readable, structured, compressed, and tool-assisted compressed).
Controlled experiment described in the paper comparing four log-format conditions (human-readable, structured, compressed, tool-assisted compressed); exact sample size not reported in the abstract.
high null result Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... performance on log-format token economy under different formatting conditions
For six decades, software engineering principles have been optimized for a single consumer: the human developer.
Historical/position claim asserted in the paper (conceptual/literature-based argument), no empirical sample or quantitative test reported.
high null result Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... orientation of software engineering design towards human developers
Through a causal decomposition that automates one side of agent communication, we separate cooperation failures from competence failures, tracing their origins through agent reasoning analysis.
Method described in the paper: causal decomposition approach that automates one side of communication and analyzes agent reasoning to attribute failures (methodological claim; abstract mentions the approach but gives no sample size or quantitative metrics there).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... ability to distinguish cooperation failures from competence failures
Capability does not predict cooperation.
Comparative experimental results reported in the paper showing different models with different capability levels achieving substantially different collective cooperation outcomes (specifically comparing OpenAI o3 and o3-mini).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... degree of cooperation / collective performance
We build a multi-agent setup designed to study cooperative behavior in a frictionless environment, removing all strategic complexity from cooperation.
Methodological description in the paper: design and implementation of a multi-agent experimental setup intended to remove strategic complexity (no sample size or quantitative detail reported in the abstract).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... ability to study cooperation in a frictionless environment (methodological capab...
A pre-registered experiment evaluates this thesis in a commons production economy -- where agents share a finite resource pool and collaboratively produce value -- at 50-1,000 agent scale.
Paper states that a pre-registered experiment is planned/described; the experiment context (commons production economy) and planned scale (50-1,000 agents) are specified in the excerpt. No experimental outcomes or effect estimates are reported here.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... alignment-through-accountability in a commons production economy (collective pro...
We instantiate SoP in AgentCity on an EVM-compatible layer-2 blockchain (L2) with a three-tier contract hierarchy (foundational, meta, and operational).
Reported implementation/instantiation described in the paper (system implementation claim). The paper states the platform (AgentCity) and technical details (EVM-compatible L2, three-tier contracts).
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... existence/implementation of SoP via AgentCity on L2 with three-tier hierarchy
In this architecture, smart contracts are the law itself -- the actual legislative output that agents produce and that governs their behavior.
Architectural/design claim in the paper describing conceptual role of smart contracts within SoP; presented as an intended property of the system.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... role of smart contracts as legislative instrument for agent behavior
Agents discover, transact with, and delegate to agents owned by other parties without centralized oversight.
Asserted behavior pattern of autonomous agents in the paper's motivation; presented as descriptive claim rather than supported by a reported experiment or dataset in the excerpt.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... ability of agents to discover, transact, and delegate across ownership boundarie...
Autonomous AI agents are beginning to operate across organizational boundaries on the open internet.
Stated as an empirical observation in the paper's introduction/introduction-level motivation; no specific dataset or sample described in the text excerpt.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... cross-organization operation of autonomous agents