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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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Consumer decision-making is shifting from linear to nonlinear patterns under intelligent technologies.
Synthesis from the paper's systematic review and content analysis of literature (2010–2025); no sample size or primary empirical study reported in the summary.
high mixed Research on International Marketing in the Context of Intell... consumer decision-making pattern (linear vs nonlinear)
AI adoption correlates with more-recent digital infrastructure—cloud computing and predictive analytics—rather than legacy on-premises IT or descriptive analytics.
Correlational analysis using variables from the Census Bureau survey that measure presence of cloud computing, predictive analytics, on-premises IT, and descriptive analytics; sample derived from ~28,500 establishments.
high mixed The Adoption of Industrial AI in America association between AI adoption and types of digital infrastructure/analytics
AI is less prevalent in simpler channels of automation overall, but AI is more prevalent on labour-substituting margins in lower-income settings and tends to augment labour in higher-income settings.
Task-level coding for technological channel and whether AI is involved, aggregated across 124 countries (2.33M task-country labels) and compared across income groups and labour margins (substitute vs augment).
high mixed Global Automation Atlas prevalence of AI involvement in automation channels and by labour margin (substi...
Across countries, exposed tasks are skewed towards labour-substituting automation rather than labour-augmenting automation; low-income countries are disproportionately exposed to substitution, whereas middle-income countries are more heterogeneous.
Cross-country breakdown of exposed tasks by labour margin (substitution vs augmentation) using the task-country labels across 124 countries, with comparisons by income group.
high mixed Global Automation Atlas proportion of exposed tasks classified as labour-substituting vs labour-augmenti...
GenAI enables small teams to expand capacity while creating new dependencies and coordination logics.
Empirical finding from 17 interviews indicating both expanded capacity and emergent dependencies/coordination needs.
high mixed From Prompt To Process: Qualitative Insights On How Genai Us... team capacity expansion and emergence of dependencies/coordination requirements
GenAI drives structural recomposition across four domains: shifting roles, AI-embedded workflows, evolving capability expectations, and leaner work architectures.
Empirical finding from thematic analysis of 17 expert interviews reported in the results.
high mixed From Prompt To Process: Qualitative Insights On How Genai Us... structural recomposition across roles, workflows, capability expectations, and w...
The paper formalizes the non-classical measurement error, deriving probability limits and partial-identification bounds for employment elasticities.
Theoretical/mathematical derivations presented in the paper that model the non-classical measurement error structure and derive probability limits and partial-identification bounds for elasticities.
high mixed Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure employment elasticities (probability limits and partial-identification bounds)
Within-vendor consumer-versus-enterprise channels produce estimates that disagree in sign.
Within-vendor comparison of exposure measures constructed from consumer-facing versus enterprise-facing conversation channels; reported that resulting estimates (e.g., employment effects) have opposite signs.
high mixed Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure estimated employment (or employment-related) effects derived from channel-specif...
Holding outcome, sample, controls, and estimator fixed while varying only the platform input changes the post-ChatGPT employment coefficient by a factor of 1.9.
Empirical robustness exercise where the authors keep outcome, sample, controls, and estimator constant and vary only the platform input (different conversation-log sources) and report change in estimated post-ChatGPT employment coefficient multiplicatively by 1.9.
high mixed Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure post-ChatGPT employment coefficient
AI platform conversation-log exposure scores partly measure the platform user base rather than the underlying workforce.
Comparative empirical analysis using AI platform conversation logs to construct occupation exposure scores; authors compare exposure measures across platforms and show variation attributable to platform user composition rather than labor-force composition.
high mixed Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure occupation exposure scores derived from AI platform conversation logs
Through case studies and architectural illustrations, the paper highlights both the innovation potential and governance challenges posed by agentic systems.
Case studies and architectural illustrations cited in the abstract as the basis for highlighting benefits and challenges. No numeric evaluation provided in the abstract.
high mixed AI Agents in Payments: Applications, Risks and Regulations innovation potential and governance challenges
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into payment systems signals a profound shift in the architecture of financial transactions.
Conceptual and technical analysis presented in the paper (argumentative claim in abstract). No empirical sample or quantitative data reported in the abstract.
high mixed AI Agents in Payments: Applications, Risks and Regulations architecture of financial transactions / market structure
The study evaluates contemporary mitigation frameworks for algorithmic bias in HR settings.
Statement of the paper's evaluative aim; implies review/assessment of mitigation strategies but no specific methods or metrics provided in excerpt.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... effectiveness/characteristics of mitigation frameworks
The paper analyses three primary vectors of AI bias in hiring: data bias, interaction bias, and evaluation bias.
Stated analytic framework in the paper (categorization of bias vectors); descriptive content rather than quantified empirical result.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... types/vectors of algorithmic bias in hiring
This study examines the dual role of AI in the workplace: as a tool for bias reduction and as a potential vehicle for systemic discrimination.
Statement of the paper's research aim / framing; descriptive claim about the paper's scope rather than empirical finding.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... AI's role in bias reduction versus discrimination in workplace decision-making
AIO’s decarbonization effects vary systematically across climate risk, industry competition, and AI exposure (heterogeneity analyses).
Authors state they performed heterogeneity/subgroup analyses showing systematic variation in the AIO–decarbonization relationship by climate risk, the degree of industry competition, and firms' AI exposure.
high mixed Artificial intelligence orientation and decarbonization spil... carbon emission intensity (heterogeneous effects)
"General knowledge application" is the second most popular category among highlighted benchmarks, yet it is vaguely defined.
Categorization results from applying the paper's taxonomy to the Benchmarking-Cultures-25 dataset (counts/rankings reported by category). The paper comments on the vagueness of the label.
high mixed Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Build... frequency/popularity of taxonomy categories (rank of 'General knowledge applicat...
Benchmarks are attributed different competencies by different builders, depending on their narrative.
Qualitative and comparative analysis mapping benchmark labels and builders' claims in the Benchmarking-Cultures-25 dataset (139 model releases); the paper documents instances where the same benchmark is presented as evidence of different capabilities by different builders.
high mixed Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Build... consistency of competency attributions across builders
The primary way to establish and compare competencies in foundation and generative AI models has shifted from peer-reviewed literature to press releases and company blog posts, where model builders highlight results on selected benchmarks.
Descriptive/argumentative claim in the paper's introduction framing the research question; based on the authors' survey of contemporary practices and motivation for the dataset and analysis.
high mixed Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Build... medium of public evaluation (peer-reviewed literature vs press releases/company ...
Classical categories (labour, capital, firm, market, productivity, trust) remain necessary but are incomplete for describing economic action when technologies prepare decisions, coordinate workflows, support tasks, verify transactions, and reshape responsibility.
Conceptual analysis supported by diagnostic indicators showing distributed decision/action capacity across humans, AI agents, robots, protocols, compute and energy systems; argumentative/theoretical evidence rather than causal inference.
high mixed The Agentic Economy: Humans, AI Agents, Robots, and the Meas... conceptual adequacy of economic categories
Labour projections are more consistent with task reallocation than labour disappearance.
Analysis of labour-market reallocation data and labour projections (public sources) interpreted under a task-reallocation framework rather than full employment loss, using relative growth and reallocation indicators.
high mixed The Agentic Economy: Humans, AI Agents, Robots, and the Meas... labor-market reallocation / projected employment changes
Readiness and performance-related variables are associated with higher predicted success, whereas higher barrier levels are associated with lower predicted success.
Model coefficients/feature effect analyses and nonlinear diagnostics from the fitted models.
high mixed Determinants of Successful IoT and AI Initiatives in the SMA... predicted reported AI/IoT success related to readiness, performance, and barrier...
The central challenge is whether commercial influence in generative systems can be made trustworthy, i.e., attributable, measurable, contestable, and aligned with user welfare.
Normative claim and formulation of research and policy challenge presented by the authors as the central problem motivating the paper; based on their analysis of gaps in detection, measurement, and governance.
high mixed Generative AI Advertising as a Problem of Trustworthy Commer... trustworthiness attributes of commercial influence (attributable, measurable, co...
This reframes generative AI advertising as a problem of trustworthy intervention rather than content placement.
Authors' normative and conceptual reframing based on their analysis and taxonomy; presented as an argument about how to think about regulatory and design priorities.
high mixed Generative AI Advertising as a Problem of Trustworthy Commer... conceptual framing of the advertising problem (trustworthy intervention vs. cont...
Joint estimation confirms simultaneous adjustments across financing and innovation margins.
Joint estimation (likely a system or simultaneous-equations approach) showing concurrent changes in financing costs and innovation-related variables following the shock (method stated; no sample size or exact estimates in abstract).
high mixed Dissipation of Debt Financing Privilege on Corporate AI Wash... adjustments in financing margins and innovation margins
The same observable behavioral signal can carry opposite meaning for different agent configurations.
Synthesis of the cross-configuration empirical findings (directional disagreements such as the error-rate example and other features).
high mixed Same Signal, Different Semantics: A Cross-Framework Behavior... interpretation of behavioral signals (sign of correlation with outcomes)
Five other continuous features and three of seven binary patterns from prior SE literature show similar directional disagreement across configurations.
Aggregate empirical finding across the set of features and binary patterns analyzed in the 126-configuration dataset.
high mixed Same Signal, Different Semantics: A Cross-Framework Behavior... directional agreement/disagreement of feature–outcome relations for five continu...
Error rate is the cleanest case: 47 configurations resolve more issues when their error rate is lower, while 48 resolve more when it is higher.
Empirical counts from the paper's analysis of configurations (reported 47 vs 48 configurations showing opposite sign relations between error rate and issue resolution).
high mixed Same Signal, Different Semantics: A Cross-Framework Behavior... issue resolution count/rate as a function of error rate
On most signals, configurations disagree not merely in magnitude but in direction (i.e., the same signal correlates positively with resolution in some configurations and negatively in others).
Across-configuration comparison of behavior–outcome correlations for many signals in the dataset of 126 configurations / 64,380 runs.
high mixed Same Signal, Different Semantics: A Cross-Framework Behavior... direction of correlation between behavioral signals and issue resolution
Swapping the framework while the LLM is held fixed produces large behavioral differences in every action feature.
Comparative analysis across configurations holding LLM fixed; reported observation across action features.
high mixed Same Signal, Different Semantics: A Cross-Framework Behavior... action features (behavioral signals/actions taken by agents)
The system is generically bistable, with a stable partial adoption equilibrium coexisting alongside full genuine adoption.
Analytical results from the evolutionary game-theoretic model demonstrating multiple stable equilibria (bistability). No empirical sample (theoretical proof / model analysis).
high mixed The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... equilibrium adoption state (partial vs full genuine adoption)
Doctors choose among three strategies: genuine adoption, partial adoption, and rejection, where genuine adoption is required for systemic benefits to materialise above a population threshold.
Model specification in an evolutionary game-theoretic framework; analytical description of strategy set and threshold condition. No empirical sample (theoretical model).
high mixed The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... adoption equilibrium / attainment of systemic benefits
Outcome-only evaluation can certify economically unsafe agents: a policy can hit a business KPI while violating deployable behavioral discipline.
Illustrated by a hotel-pricing experiment (hidden competitor state) in which a learner achieves plausible revenue per available room while failing to preserve the rate discipline of a rule-based revenue-management competitor; based on experimental results in the paper's two-hotel benchmark.
high mixed When Outcome Looks Right But Discipline Fails: Trace-Based E... revenue per available room and preservation of rate discipline (behavioral disci...
Rising density from rack- and pod-scale AI systems shapes these outcomes (deployable capacity, capex, performance) — we quantify how density changes these outcomes.
Modeling/simulation results reported in the paper quantifying the impact of rising rack/pod-scale density on deployable capacity, capex, and performance; specific numeric quantification not included in the abstract.
high mixed Designing Datacenter Power Delivery Hierarchies for the AI E... impact of rising rack/pod-scale density on deployable capacity, capex, performan...
Başta ABD, Avrupa Birliği ve Çin olmak üzere büyük ekonomilerin yapay zekâ alanında benimsediği sanayi ve ticaret politikaları karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmektedir; bu ekonomilerin teknolojik hegemonya arayışının ekonomik olduğu kadar jeopolitik bir boyut kazandığı değerlendirilmektedir.
Karşılaştırmalı politika incelemesi (kavramsal ve betimleyici); çalışmada belirli politika örnekleri tartışılıyor ancak sistematik nicel karşılaştırma ya da örneklem büyüklüğü belirtilmiyor.
high mixed Yapay Zekâ ve Küresel Değer Zincirleri: Ticaret Politikası v... büyük ekonomilerin AI sanayi ve ticaret politikalarının benimsenmesi ve bu polit...
Yapay zekâ teknolojilerindeki hızlı ilerleme, küresel üretim ve ticaret organizasyonunu köklü biçimde dönüştürme potansiyeline sahiptir.
Kavramsal değerlendirme ve literatüre dayalı tartışma; çalışmada ampirik örnek veya nicel örneklem sunulmamaktadır.
high mixed Yapay Zekâ ve Küresel Değer Zincirleri: Ticaret Politikası v... küresel üretim ve ticaret organizasyonunun yapısal dönüşümü (genel, potansiyel e...
Anhand von Fallstudien aus den G7-Ländern werden verschiedene Einsatzmöglichkeiten veranschaulicht und die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren benannt – Netzanbindung, KI-Inputs, Kompetenzen und Finanzierung.
Evidence comes from G7 country case studies reported in the paper; method = qualitative case studies identifying key success factors (no number of case studies or sample size provided in excerpt).
high mixed Einführung von KI in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen Schlüssel-Faktoren für erfolgreiche KI-Einführung in KMU (Netzanbindung, Inputs,...
This lack of focus creates uncertainty about whether regulatory technology helps legitimate economic recovery or instead strengthens exclusion and informality.
Interpretive observation from gaps identified in the reviewed literature; no empirical resolution provided.
high mixed RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... impact of RegTech on legitimacy of economic recovery vs. exclusion/informality
The results vary across the 10 selected countries: the magnitude and significance of AI’s effects differ due to varying technological readiness and differing industrial structures.
Paper statement that results vary across the 10 selected countries and that nuances differ across countries due to varying industrial structures and technological readiness. Implied heterogeneity analysis across countries using the firm-level dataset and regression approaches; no country-level sample counts provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Estimation of Firm Labour Productivity and Sales Growth from... country-level heterogeneity in AI impact on labour productivity and sales growth
Digital transformation reconfigures development patterns across regions and countries, altering established trajectories of regional development.
Theoretical integration of a technology–labor–space framework together with comparative regional field evidence illustrating changing development patterns (no quantified effect sizes or sample sizes reported).
high mixed Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... regional development patterns (spatial-economic reconfiguration)
There is a fundamental reward-coverage tradeoff: concentrating probability mass on high-reward actions reduces variance but risks missing signal on actions the target policy may take.
Explicit characterization in abstract; claimed theoretical analysis/derivation of the tradeoff between variance reduction and coverage when designing logging policies.
high mixed Logging Policy Design for Off-Policy Evaluation variance of OPE estimators and coverage of actions relevant to the target policy
Perceived procedural improvement (participants preferring facilitation and higher reported trust) can coexist with measurable steering of outcomes and unchanged participation inequality, motivating evaluation practices treating outcomes, interaction dynamics, and perceptions as distinct governance targets.
Synthesis of the experimental findings: null effect on consensus and participation equity, positive effects on participant preference/trust, and measurable allocation shifts (up to 5.5 percentage points) across facilitation conditions in the two experiments (total N=879).
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... co-occurrence of perceived procedural improvement, allocation steering, and unch...
Facilitators shifted select charity-level allocations by up to 5.5 percentage points, directly affecting the final charitable payout.
Analysis of final group allocation outcomes across experimental conditions showing shifts in allocation to specific charities; reported maximum observed shift of 5.5 percentage points attributable to facilitator condition(s). (Study-level sample covering the two experiments; participants organized in groups of three.)
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... charity-level allocation percentages (final payout shares)
Beyond length biases, fine-tuning amplifies sycophancy and relationship-seeking behaviours in models.
Behavioral analysis of model outputs in the within-subject experiment (530 participants) showing increased incidence/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking responses after preference fine-tuning compared to baseline models.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... frequency/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking behaviours in model ...
Adapting to individual preference data yields only marginal gains over training on pooled preferences from a diverse population.
Comparison within the same within-subject experiment (530 participants) between models fine-tuned on individual preferences versus models trained on pooled preferences across participants; reported as 'marginal gains'.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... incremental improvement in human-judged preference alignment when using individu...
The research challenges for this vision stem from a broader flexibility–robustness tension that requires moving beyond the on-the-fly paradigm to navigate effectively.
Analytical claim in paper identifying a design trade-off (flexibility vs. robustness) as the core challenge motivating the proposed shift; no empirical demonstration provided.
high mixed Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... trade-off between flexibility and robustness in agent design
Aggregate effects are geographically uneven (geographic unevenness in AI-driven labor market impacts).
Synthesis across studies observing variation by geography and noting non-Anglophone markets and developing economies as under-studied and differentially affected.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... geographic heterogeneity in labor market impacts
Wage polarization characterizes the aggregate pattern of labor market change associated with recent AI advances.
Aggregate characterization from synthesized studies reporting divergent wage outcomes (higher wages for AI-augmented workers, pressures on junior/routine roles) consistent with polarization.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... wage distribution changes (polarization)
Sectoral effects are heterogeneous: infrastructure, security, and quality-assurance roles have expanded while developer roles have contracted.
Qualitative and quantitative results aggregated across the included studies noting role-level expansions and contractions; no single pooled effect size provided.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... changes in employment/posting volumes by occupational role (infrastructure, secu...
Under open-ended prompts, trust drops to 3-55%, confirming prompt framing as a confound; we report both conditions.
Experimental comparison reported by authors between directed queries and open-ended prompts; observed trust rates under open-ended prompts ranged from 3% to 55% (no explicit per-model sample sizes reported in the summary).
high mixed Oracle Poisoning: Corrupting Knowledge Graphs to Weaponise A... model trust rate in accepting poisoned data under open-ended prompts