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Evidence (16496 claims)

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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
Under capability-superset accounting on the curated gold competitive record, agent A recovers only 0.25, agent B recovers 0.38, while agent C recovers 0.96 (overall).
Capability-superset accounting comparison of fraction of a curated gold competitive record recovered by each agent on the benchmark.
high mixed AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratifi... fraction of curated gold competitive record recovered (gold-coverage)
The prominence of machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and cybersecurity varies depending on organisational context and role requirements within the wind sector.
Paper reports variation across data sources and organisational contexts based on interviews, surveys, and job-posting patterns; no subgroup sample sizes or statistical tests reported in summary.
high mixed Advanced digital skills demands and priorities in wind energ... prominence of ML, IoT, and cybersecurity skills
The Recuse Signal behaves as a cooperative rather than absolute signal: an explicit operator-authorization framing flips the most capable model to proceed, while other agents continue to defer to the on-host policy.
Observation from the pilot experiment (SSH) with multiple deployed agents (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Claude Code); experiment included alternate framing where operator authorization was explicit.
high mixed Will the Agent Recuse Itself? Measuring LLM-Agent Compliance... compliance with the Recuse Signal under different operator-authorization framing...
Data contamination (training-data overlap) complicates interpretation of the models' performance.
Author notes the possibility that models' training data may have contained the target papers or related material, making results ambiguous.
high mixed Can AI Refute Economic Theory? Evidence from Beyond the Know... validity_of_experimental_interpretation_due_to_data_contamination
AI is best understood as a real technological revolution with localized bubble dynamics rather than as either a pure speculative mania or a bubble-free productivity miracle (central conclusion).
Synthesis of the paper's review and diagnostic findings combining asset-pricing theory, empirical evidence on fundamentals, and bubble-detection diagnostics.
high mixed Boom, Bubble, or Buildout? A Multi-Method Evaluation of Whet... classification of AI (technological revolution with localized bubble dynamics) r...
Current evidence shows both genuine fundamentals and bubble-like fragilities in AI valuations.
Synthesis of reviewed empirical findings in the paper: realized revenue growth, enterprise adoption, productivity evidence (supporting fundamentals) and faster capex vs monetization, concentrated private-market valuations, and narrative-driven investor behavior (supporting fragilities).
high mixed Boom, Bubble, or Buildout? A Multi-Method Evaluation of Whet... presence of genuine fundamentals versus bubble-like fragilities in AI asset valu...
The same practice input carries opposite signs depending on whether the environment screens for it.
Synthesis of empirical patterns: in unscreened CF environment AI-style practice predicts smaller rating gains (for non-affiliated users) while in screened ICPC environment it predicts higher non-AI-aided scores.
high mixed When the Scaffold Stays On: AI, Practice Style, and Screenin... effect of AI-style practice on performance (rating gains or non-AI scores)
In open Codeforces contests a stronger AI-style signature predicts smaller rating gains for users with no ICPC/IOI affiliation, but not for those who qualified for the AI-prohibited contests.
Comparative empirical analysis of CF contest rating gains by users' affiliation (ICPC/IOI qualification status) and individual AI-style signature strength; methods likely regression/heterogeneity analysis—sample sizes not reported in abstract.
high mixed When the Scaffold Stays On: AI, Practice Style, and Screenin... rating gains in open CF contests
The paper provides a consolidated, theory‑driven synthesis of the mechanisms through which AI‑mediated platforms simultaneously create opportunities and reproduce disadvantage for women.
Originality/value statement in the paper describing its contribution as a consolidated, theory‑driven synthesis and actionable insights for researchers, policymakers, and platform designers.
high mixed Empowerment or Inequality? A Feminist Political Economy Anal... theoretical synthesis / contribution to literature
National AI development can be interpreted as a controlled balance between information injection and entropy dissipation.
Theoretical mapping using HCLM; paper presents this dynamical framing and definitions of the two processes; no empirical sample.
high mixed AI Sovereignty as National Learning Capacity: A Human-Center... balance between information injection and entropy dissipation
Advanced economies have integrated AI technologies at scale, while emerging economies such as Algeria face structural and institutional challenges that limit the potential impact of AI on productivity growth.
Asserted in the paper with supporting literature citations (Agrawal et al., 2019; Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2020) and comparative use of World Bank and Oxford Insights indices; no specific sample-size based causal estimate provided.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Economic Productivity: A Compara... AI integration/adoption and its effect on productivity growth
A safety monitor condition reduces sabotage success, but 56% of participants still accept the malicious code, ignoring its warnings.
Experimental manipulation: one condition included a safety monitor. Authors report that the monitor reduced sabotage success (no absolute reduction magnitude reported here) and that 56% of participants in that context accepted malicious code despite warnings.
high mixed Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sa... acceptance of malicious code / sabotage success under safety monitor
These examples show an important shift in the governance of wealth chains – the creation of new forms of infrastructural power through which algorithmic models may become central nodes in tax governance.
Synthesis/interpretive conclusion in the abstract that the illustrative examples imply a governance shift and new infrastructural power; presented as interpretive argument rather than empirically demonstrated in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains shift in governance of wealth chains and emergence of algorithmic models as cent...
This signals a transformation of the assumed information asymmetries between suppliers, clients, and regulators that sits at the heart of the Global Wealth Chains framework.
Conceptual claim in the abstract linking technological change to shifts in information asymmetries within the Global Wealth Chains framework; presented as interpretive argument rather than supported by reported empirical data in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains information asymmetries among suppliers, clients, and regulators
A key development is a move away from deliberate opacity for secrecy purposes into systems that search for the optimal exploitation of legal affordances.
Analytic/interpretive claim made in the abstract about a shift in practices; presented as an argument based on the authors' reflection and examples rather than empirical measurement in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains change in information-disclosure strategies and legal-exploitation systems
There is significant cross-national, cross-industry, and cross-regional heterogeneity in AI's impact.
Conclusion from the systematic literature review indicating variation across countries, industries and regions in the effects reported by prior studies.
high mixed Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market heterogeneity of AI impacts (e.g., employment, tasks, skills)
Research has shown that artificial intelligence is primarily driven by substitution effects in the short term, but will generate complementary and creative effects in the long term.
Synthesis claim from the literature review; the paper reports this as an aggregate finding from prior studies (no single-study sample size provided).
high mixed Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market job displacement / employment effects (substitution vs. complementarity)
The paper analyzes the direct impact of artificial intelligence on employment structure, occupational tasks, and skill demand, as well as its indirect effects on job mobility, cross-border and industry differences, and policy interventions.
Descriptive claim of scope drawn from the systematic literature review conducted by the authors; no single empirical sample reported.
high mixed Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market employment structure, occupational tasks, skill demand, job mobility, cross-bord...
The rapid development of artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the global labor market landscape.
Statement in paper based on a systematic literature review synthesizing prior studies; no single empirical sample reported.
Analysis of recent benchmark evidence including SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain's multi-agent coordination studies demonstrates both the transformative potential of the agentic paradigm and its current limitations.
Empirical/benchmark analysis referencing SWE-bench Verified, EvoClaw, and LangChain multi-agent studies as sources of evidence; the paper analyzes these benchmarks qualitatively or comparatively (specific sample sizes and quantitative effect sizes not stated in the abstract).
high mixed The End of Software Engineering: How AI Agents Are Fundament... agentic systems' capabilities and limitations as measured in benchmarks
By redefining discoverability metrics and authority signals, LLM-integrated search ecosystems are reshaping digital marketing economics.
Argumentative claim in the paper linking shifts in discoverability and authority to broader digital marketing economic effects; presented as conceptual synthesis without quantitative evidence in the excerpt.
high mixed SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... digital marketing economics (effects of changed discoverability and authority si...
Visibility in LLM-integrated search is shifting from click-through optimization to 'Answer Inclusion Optimization' (AIO), where visibility depends on whether content is selected, synthesized, and cited within AI-generated responses rather than on SERP ranking alone.
Conceptual proposition and terminology introduced by the authors (AIO); presented as a reframing of visibility metrics rather than backed by quantified experiments in the excerpt.
high mixed SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... determinants of search visibility (AIO vs. SERP ranking)
The rapid integration of large language models (LLMs) into search engines and conversational AI platforms is fundamentally transforming the landscape of search engine optimization (SEO).
Statement in paper's introduction asserting observed integration of LLMs into search engines and conversational platforms; based on conceptual analysis and literature synthesis (no empirical sample or quantified measurement provided).
high mixed SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: HOW LLM-GENERATED SUMMARIES ARE ... transformation of the SEO landscape
Collective practices that emerge in response (from shared prompt strategies to jailbreaking techniques) represent vernacular knowledge formations that, while often exhibiting magical thinking, contain resources for 'revolutionary prompting' and the transformation of individual prompt anxiety into collective political critique.
Qualitative/interpretive claim based on observed user practices and collective responses to LLM behaviour; no systematic survey or sample sizes reported in the abstract.
high mixed Prompt anxiety and the algorithmic politics of uncertainty emergence of collective prompt practices and their political potential
Overall, STARA technologies can both enhance skill development, thriving and career opportunities and concurrently produce identity threats, pressures, and contextual complexities that shape long-term career trajectories—requiring integrated organisational and labour-market perspectives to design supportive approaches.
Editorial synthesis and summary of contributions in the special issue; draws on multiple cited empirical and conceptual studies included in the issue and prior literature.
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... net impact of STARA on career trajectories, including skill development and iden...
In the platform economy, performance and career success are increasingly captured through alternative, often real-time metrics, diverging from traditional indicators and raising challenges for integrating conventional and non-traditional measures of career outcomes.
Synthesis of literature on platform work and algorithmic management cited in the editorial (multiple references to platform economy research and contributions to the special issue).
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... measurement of performance and career success via real-time/platform metrics ver...
Algorithmic systems for productivity and performance monitoring generate efficiencies but also create new pressures in technology-mediated work environments, including the tracking of employees’ emotional and physiological responses at work and during non-work time.
Literature synthesis and citations (e.g. Giermindl et al., 2022; McCartney and Fu, 2022; Norlander et al., 2021; Downie et al., 2025).
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... productivity monitoring effects; employee pressures and well-being implications
AI usage at work can simultaneously enhance employees' thriving and induce identity threat; employees’ learning and performance goal orientations drive career growth in this context (Yuan et al., 2026, in this special issue).
Reported empirical finding from a paper in the special issue (Yuan et al., 2026) cited in the editorial.
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... employee thriving, identity threat, and career growth
Significant advancements in smart technology, AI, robotics and algorithms (STARA) are changing how organisations design and implement work for the current and future workforce.
Statement in the editorial supported by references to prior literature and reviews (e.g. Brougham and Haar, 2018; Raisch and Krakowski, 2021; Tang et al., 2023; Ulfert et al., 2024; Yam et al., 2023). This paper is an editorial/literature-synthesis rather than a primary empirical study.
high mixed Guest editorial: STARA (smart technology, AI, robotics and a... how organisations design and implement work (work design / organisational practi...
Aggregate AI metrics (the composite AI Vibrancy Score) obscure heterogeneous pillar-level effects on tourism’s economic contribution.
Comparison of null result for the aggregate AI Vibrancy Score with significant positive effects for specific pillars (R&D, Policy and Governance, lagged Talent) in the same fixed-effects analyses on 33 countries (2017–2023).
Grounding the concept of defensive AI governance in organisation-level evidence from the Global South contributes to debates on platform power, journalistic agency, and AI governance in journalism.
Theoretical/interpretive claim based on the study's case of Al-Masry Al-Youm and its empirical insights; presented as a contribution to scholarly debates. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... scholarly contribution to debates on platform power and AI governance in journal...
The authors introduce the concept of 'defensive AI governance' to describe how AI adoption is managed through organisational practices of limitation, supervision, and infrastructural self-protection.
Conceptual contribution grounded in organisation-level qualitative evidence from interviews and analysis of Al-Masry Al-Youm's practices; the concept is derived from the study's empirical findings. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... organisational AI governance practices (limitation, supervision, infrastructural...
The newsroom adopts, adapts, and governs AI across data journalism, fact-checking, and generative applications.
Empirical observations and interview data from Al-Masry Al-Youm detailing specific domains of AI integration (data journalism, fact-checking, generative tools). Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... scope and domains of AI adoption within newsroom workflows
AI functions as a conditional capability amplifier, expanding agency while producing uneven inclusion shaped by disparities in connectivity, skills, and infrastructure.
Analytical synthesis and illustrative empirical evidence from interviews showing differential effects tied to connectivity, skills, and infrastructure.
high mixed Compressed professionalization in informal economies: a soci... agency and inclusion (uneven inclusion due to disparities)
Human and algorithmic actors jointly influence strategic outcomes, motivating the concept of 'hybrid upper echelons' in which executive influence increasingly shifts from making decisions to configuring and governing AI-enabled decision processes.
Theoretical contribution based on integration of management and IS literature in the concept-centric review; proposition of a new conceptual framework ('hybrid upper echelons') rather than primary empirical validation.
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... role of executives (shift from direct decision-making to configuring/governing A...
AI reconfigures UET through discretion reconfiguration: AI enables delegation and embedding of decision authority, redistributing managerial discretion.
Concept-centric literature review synthesizing studies on delegation/automation of decision authority and managerial discretion (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... managerial discretion (delegation/embedding of decision authority)
AI reconfigures UET through evaluation reconfiguration: AI partially substitutes human judgment with algorithmic decision logic and thereby shapes how alternatives are evaluated.
Conceptual synthesis from the literature review integrating findings from management and IS studies on algorithmic decision logic and judgment substitution (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... degree to which algorithmic logic substitutes human judgment and alters evaluati...
AI reconfigures upper echelons theory (UET) through cognition reconfiguration: AI mediates information and attention, expanding analytical capacity while introducing new constraints on executive cognition.
Synthesis of management and IS research in a concept-centric literature review; conceptual argument drawing on prior studies about information mediation and attention (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... executive cognitive processes (information and attention mediation; analytical c...
An explicit thinking mode raises rank-order correlation without moving accuracy.
Empirical comparison of reasoning modes showing increased rank-order correlation (e.g., Spearman/Fisher-z) when explicit 'thinking' mode is used, with no significant change in accuracy.
high mixed Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... rank-order correlation (and accuracy) under explicit thinking mode vs. other rea...
Most published twins are either coarse persona bots conditioned on a few demographic questions or detailed individual-level twins built on purpose-collected surveys and interview transcripts.
Author's literature summary / positioning statement in paper (qualitative assessment of existing published twins).
high mixed Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual ... types of published digital twins (coarse persona bots vs. detailed individual-le...
AI-mediated financial decisions are reflexive: they reshape organizational workflows, prices, liquidity, credit allocation, and the future data on which subsequent decisions rely.
Conceptual argument supported by literature across finance and related fields (review-level synthesis; no single empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems changes to organizational workflows, market prices, liquidity, credit allocation...
Human–AI complementarity in finance is conditional rather than automatic, depending on task structure, private information, feedback quality, incentives, explanation design, and governance.
Synthesis of literature from finance, management, HCI, and AI showing moderating factors for complementarity (conceptual integration; no unified empirical sample size reported).
high mixed Human–AI hybrid finance: from AI tools to decision systems degree of human–AI complementarity in financial decision-making
Overall, the digital economy brings both opportunities (raising incomes overall) and challenges (contributing to greater inequality).
Synthesis of empirical findings from the two-way fixed effects panel (31 provinces, 2011–2021) and robustness checks indicating positive average income effects alongside heterogeneous effects that widen disparities.
high mixed The Impact of the Digital Economy on Income Distribution: Ev... average household income and distributional inequality
Non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs) benefit more from the digital economy than state-owned enterprises (SOEs), attributed to their greater flexibility and adaptability.
Ownership-type heterogeneity tests in the paper's two-way fixed effects panel (31 provinces, 2011–2021) showing larger estimated income/benefit effects for non-SOEs than for SOEs; interpretation links this to adaptability.
high mixed The Impact of the Digital Economy on Income Distribution: Ev... enterprise-level benefits/income gains by ownership type
Industry-wise, sectors with higher levels of digitalization (e.g., mining, finance, energy) show stronger income effects, while traditional sectors (e.g., agriculture, public services) show limited impact.
Industry-level heterogeneity analysis in the two-way fixed effects panel using provincial data (2011–2021), reporting larger estimated effects for high-digital sectors and small or null effects for traditional sectors.
Regionally, eastern provinces experience greater income gains from digital development than central and western provinces.
Regional heterogeneity results from the paper's two-way fixed effects panel (31 provinces, 2011–2021) comparing estimated effects across eastern, central, and western regions.
The paper's contribution includes an estimand distinction, an inspectable ABM/RL mechanism, and a reproducible artifact demonstrating that transparent behavioral assumptions are sufficient to generate gaming-like boundary dynamics without implying that computable regulation is inherently undesirable.
Author-stated contributions in the abstract describing methodological and reproducibility outputs (estimand distinction, inspectable model, reproducible artifact).
high mixed When Firms Learn to Game the Rules methodological contribution and existence of reproducible artifact
AI-flagged complaints are geographically unevenly distributed.
Geographic analysis of AI-flagged complaint shares across jurisdictions using case metadata; authors report uneven distribution.
high mixed The New Pro Se: Generative AI and the Surge in Federal Civil... geographic distribution of AI-flagged complaints
Overall, complementarity is attainable in multi-agent regression but obstructed in classification under natural conditions on local aggregation and loss functions.
Synthesis of the paper's proved positive results for regression and negative impossibility results for classification within the tree-based HAI framework (theoretical proofs; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... attainability of complementarity across problem classes (regression vs classific...
In regression under squared loss, complementarity is equivalent to Euclidean distance minimization from the ground-truth vector.
Analytic equivalence proved in the paper for the tree-based model under squared loss (mathematical derivation; no empirical sample).
high mixed Tree-Based Formalization of Multi-Agent Complementarity in H... complementarity (as characterization via Euclidean distance)