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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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Evidence suggests both top-down and bottom-up diffusion: worker use can occur without firm adoption, and vice versa.
Cross-tabulation of firm-level adoption indicators and reports of worker-level use in the BTOS AI supplement (Nov 2025–Jan 2026) indicating non-perfect overlap between firm-declared adoption and reported worker use; analytic approach descriptive (no sample size in excerpt).
high mixed The Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Bus... co-occurrence (or lack thereof) of firm-wide adoption and worker-level AI use
The study reframes VTech adoption as legitimacy-seeking rather than efficiency-driven.
Thematic analysis using Rogers' diffusion of innovations and institutional theory, resulting in the institutionally mediated diffusion of innovations (IDOI) framework which emphasizes legitimacy concerns.
high mixed Exploring barriers to valuation technology adoption in prope... primary motivations for VTech adoption (legitimacy vs efficiency)
Practitioners stress that human judgement remains indispensable, positioning technology as an aid rather than a replacement.
Interview responses from valuers and firm leaders emphasizing the continued role of human judgement; thematic analysis framed by the IDOI model.
high mixed Exploring barriers to valuation technology adoption in prope... role of human judgement vs automation in valuation practice
Screening and algorithmic targeting can act as complements or substitutes; the paper empirically characterizes when they do so.
Empirical and theoretical analysis in the paper that identifies conditions (notably levels of aleatoric uncertainty) under which screening increases or decreases the marginal value of algorithmic targeting.
high mixed The Limits of AI-Driven Allocation: Optimal Screening under ... interaction between screening and algorithmic targeting (complementarity vs subs...
Governance machinery from energy systems and critical infrastructure offers a partial template for governing automated web actors, but only some dimensions transfer.
Comparative governance argument drawing on adjacent-sector governance literature; conceptual mapping rather than empirical governance trial reported.
high mixed The Vanishing User: Web Analytics in an Agent-Dominated Inte... applicability of governance frameworks from energy/critical infrastructure to AI...
Larger models do not consistently outperform smaller ones on tool-use tasks.
Empirical observations from the paper's evaluations across the five function-calling benchmarks.
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling relative performance of larger vs smaller models on tool-use tasks
Model routing can mitigate the cost of agentic tool use, but existing routers are designed for chat completion rather than tool use.
Argument/positioning in the paper and literature discussion (no specific empirical test reported for existing routers in this statement).
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling cost mitigation via model routing; applicability of existing routers to tool use
The turning point of the inverted-U relationship occurs at 2.948 (AI measure).
Estimated quadratic model that yields a calculated turning point value of 2.948.
high mixed The Inverted-U Relationship Between AI and Corporate Innovat... AI adoption level at which marginal effect on innovation changes sign
There is an inverted-U-shaped relationship between firm-level AI adoption and firm innovation.
Estimated fixed-effects models and U-tests on the 25,204 firm-year sample showing a non-linear (quadratic) AI–innovation coefficient pattern.
high mixed The Inverted-U Relationship Between AI and Corporate Innovat... firm innovation (AI → innovation relationship)
The finding that recurrence and neighborhood statistics are stronger predictors than complaint volume has direct implications for complaint routing given the demographic correlates of those features.
Interpretive implication drawn by the authors from the SHAP results; presented as a logical consequence rather than a separately tested empirical result in the excerpt.
high mixed Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call... implications for complaint routing policy/practice
Aesthetic and functional attributes load onto a single latent factor, suggesting users perceive quality as a unified construct rather than separable aesthetic and functional dimensions.
Factor analysis (or similar latent-variable analysis) on participant ratings of multiple attributes showing a single dominant factor combining aesthetic and functional attributes.
high mixed Artificial Aesthetics: The Implicit Economics of Valuing AI-... latent factor structure of perceived quality
Successful AI implementation in logistics requires not only technological capability but also organizational readiness and effective data governance.
Conclusion drawn from the structured qualitative review of 31 scholarly sources synthesizing reported success factors and preconditions for AI adoption.
high mixed Evaluating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing... successful implementation / adoption
The rapid emergence of agentic AI tools raises new questions that the political science discipline must address.
Epilogue of the report raises agentic AI tools as a rapidly emerging phenomenon and lists questions for the discipline; based on expert judgment and forward-looking analysis rather than empirical measurement in the introduction/epilogue.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... policy and research questions arising from agentic AI capabilities (norms, accou...
AI will affect political science research and teaching.
Report introduction explicitly notes the report investigates implications for political science research and teaching; based on the task force's review and analysis rather than a quantitative study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... research methods, replicability, teaching practices, and curriculum in political...
AI will affect public opinion and the information ecosystem.
Introductory chapter enumerates public opinion and the information ecosystem as report topics; based on conceptual synthesis and literature review.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public opinion formation and information ecosystem integrity (misinformation, pe...
AI will affect the labor market.
Report introduction identifies the labor market as an area the task force examines; presented as a conceptual claim without primary-sample estimates in the introduction.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... labor market outcomes (employment, occupational change, job tasks)
AI will affect international relations.
Introductory chapter lists international relations as a topic the report investigates; claim arises from conceptual analysis and synthesis by task force authors.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... international relations dynamics (state behavior, diplomacy, conflict/cooperatio...
AI will affect national security.
Report introduction stating a section addressing national security implications; based on expert assessment and literature review rather than a specific empirical sample.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... national security capabilities and decision-making (defense, intelligence operat...
AI will affect public administration.
Report introduction describing a section focused on how AI will affect public administration; based on expert synthesis rather than reported empirical study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public administration processes and organizational efficiency (service delivery,...
AI will affect democracy (i.e., democratic processes and institutions).
Report introduction listing a section of the report devoted to democracy and AI; conceptual argumentation rather than reported empirical tests.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... democratic processes and institutions (electoral integrity, civic participation,...
AI has the potential to reshape politics and political science, similar to how it is transforming other social phenomena and academic fields.
Introductory chapter of the APSA Presidential Task Force report; conceptual framing and literature synthesis by the task force authors (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... scope and practice of politics and political science as fields (institutional ro...
A standard learning agent can obtain near-reference revenue per available room (RevPAR) while failing to learn market-like yield management: it sells too aggressively, undercuts, or collapses to modal price buckets.
Experiments in a two-hotel revenue-management simulator where Hotel A is trained against a fixed rule-based competitor (Hotel B); comparison of learned agent behavior to market-like yield management patterns observed in traces.
high mixed Market-Alignment Risk in Pricing Agents: Trace Diagnostics a... RevPAR (revenue per available room) and pricing behavior (aggressiveness, underc...
Human anchors build trust through a broadly effective relational pathway (perceived intimacy), while AI anchors' functional advantage converts into trust only under specific motivational conditions (high utilitarian motivation).
Interpretation of moderated mediation results from randomized experiment (N = 439) showing intimacy-mediated trust for human anchors and responsiveness-mediated trust for AI anchors only under high utilitarian motivation.
high mixed Conditional trust pathways in live-streaming commerce: how c... trust (mediated by intimacy for human anchors; by responsiveness for AI anchors ...
Consumer trust in live-streaming commerce is a conditional, motivation-dependent process rather than a uniform preference for either anchor type.
Synthesis of experimental results showing differential mediation/moderation patterns by hedonic and utilitarian motivation in sample N = 439 (moderated mediation analyses).
Perceived responsiveness became a significant pathway favoring AI anchors only when utilitarian motivation was high; at low utilitarian motivation, this pathway reversed direction.
Conditional (moderated) mediation analyses from the experiment (N = 439) including utilitarian motivation as moderator; reported that responsiveness→trust path favored AI anchors at high utilitarian motivation and reversed at low utilitarian motivation.
high mixed Conditional trust pathways in live-streaming commerce: how c... trust (conditional mediation by perceived responsiveness moderated by utilitaria...
The strategic interplay between antitrust regulation and vertical integration materially influences the evolutionary transitions of the computing power ecosystem.
Core focus of the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model which explicitly models government regulators, incumbents, and downstream innovators and analyzes resulting equilibria and transitions (method: theoretical evolutionary game + analytical derivation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... system transition dynamics as a function of regulatory and firm strategies
The evolution of the AI computing power innovation ecosystem manifests distinct stage-based progressions and threshold-driven bifurcation characteristics, potentially transitioning from an initial 'natural monopoly and passive dependence' state through intermediary states (e.g., 'comfort zone trap' or 'regulatory stalemate') toward a mature configuration of 'co-opetition and endogenous growth.'
Derived from the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model and analytical derivation of evolutionarily stable strategies, with supporting numerical simulations exploring parametric sensitivities (method: theoretical evolutionary game + numerical simulation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... ecosystem evolutionary stage / configuration (e.g., monopoly, stalemate, co-opet...
The computing power industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from traditional linear supply chains toward complex, interdependent innovation ecosystems driven by the rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence.
Conceptual claim presented in the paper's introduction/motivation; supported by the paper's theoretical framing and literature-based motivation rather than empirical data (method: narrative/theoretical framing).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... industry structural configuration (linear supply chains vs. interdependent innov...
Program outcomes are moderated by a person's prior occupational skill set, their area of work, and features of the local economy.
Heterogeneity analyses across subgroups defined by prior occupational skill composition, industry/area of work, and local labor-market conditions in the WIOA administrative data (2017-2023) show variation in outcomes.
high mixed Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... Retrainability Index / program outcomes stratified by prior skill set, area of w...
These findings challenge the notion of a universal technological dividend from AI (i.e., AI does not automatically deliver uniform productivity gains across firms).
Overall interpretation/synthesis of heterogeneous empirical results from the panel and cluster analyses showing variation in productivity effects across firm types.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... existence of universal productivity gains from AI
AI adoption yields asymmetric productivity gains depending on firms' resource constraints and competitive environments (i.e., heterogeneity rather than a homogeneous effect).
Heterogeneity analysis using multidimensional clustering (firm size, age, market competitiveness, digital infrastructure) applied to the panel dataset; reported differential effects across clusters.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP) heterogeneity
AI adoption affects Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of firms.
Panel regression analysis using the stated panel dataset examining relationship between AI adoption and firm-level TFP.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP)
Overall conclusion: AI offers substantial benefits to financial institutions, but ethical considerations and strategic workforce planning are essential for sustainable integration.
Synthesis/interpretation by the authors drawing on their empirical results (positive effects on ROA, efficiency, risk-adjusted returns, customer satisfaction, reduced compliance costs/breaches) and identified challenges (algorithmic bias, workforce displacement).
high mixed Research on the Transformation Acceleration of Financial Ins... Net impact of AI integration on firm performance and governance plus policy reco...
Empirical analysis of cases demonstrates that diverse, and often non-ethics-related, levers motivate organizations to abandon AI development.
Analysis of cases drawn from the AI incident database and practitioner survey contrasted with the taxonomy from the scoping review; specific counts/effect measures not provided in the summary.
high mixed To Build or Not to Build? Factors that Lead to Non-Developme... distribution of reasons (ethical vs. non-ethical) cited for AI abandonment
Three sovereignty boundaries determine whether AI remains an amplifier within a human-governed system or becomes a de facto control center: irreversible decision authority, physical resource mobilization authority, and self-expansion authority.
Conceptual model element in the paper; identification and definition of three 'sovereignty boundaries' used to analyze governance risks.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... sovereignty/control boundaries
The paper formalizes this claim through decision-energy density: the rate-weighted capacity of a node to generate, evaluate, select, and execute consequential decisions.
Formal/modeling claim — the paper defines and uses a formal metric called 'decision-energy density' within its theoretical framework.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... decision-energy density (capacity to produce consequential decisions)
AI capabilities can be copied, invoked, embedded in workflows, and scaled across institutions at low marginal cost.
Descriptive claim about AI technology characteristics made in the paper; supported by conceptual argument and examples rather than quantified empirical data.
Earlier high-risk technologies were slowed by capital intensity, physical bottlenecks, organizational inertia, and specialized supply chains.
Historical/analytic claim presented as background context in the paper; supported by conceptual comparison rather than a specific empirical study.
These divergences carry direct implications for policy interventions.
Interpretation/conclusion drawn from the divergence between RL Feasibility Index and existing measures (policy implication claimed by authors).
high mixed What Jobs Can AI Learn? Measuring Exposure by Reinforcement ... policy relevance of measurement divergences
Scientific institutions, distinctively, manufacture legitimate judgment, so they do not merely adapt to AI; they compete with it for the same functional role.
Conceptual/theoretical assertion in the paper describing institutional roles; no empirical data or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high mixed AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities competition between scientific institutions and AI for the functional role of pr...
While Agentic AI enhances economic performance, its benefits are mediated by structural conditions and are unevenly distributed across countries (i.e., reinforcing core–periphery inequalities).
Combined findings from fixed-effects regressions, mediation analysis, and observed heterogeneity between developed and emerging economies in the 2015–2024 panel.
high mixed The Economic Value of Agentic AI: A Comparative Analysis of ... distribution of economic benefits from AI across countries (inequality of gains)
AI learns indiscriminately from implicit knowledge, acquiring both beneficial patterns and harmful biases.
Asserted in the paper as a conceptual point about training data and learned patterns; no empirical evaluation or quantified bias measures provided.
high mixed Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... patterns and biases acquired by AI from implicit knowledge
Workload-aware blended pricing reorders the leaderboard substantially: 7 of 10 top-ranked endpoints under the chat preset (3:1 input:output) fall out of the top 10 under the retrieval-augmented preset (20:1).
Comparison of endpoint rankings under two workload presets (chat preset 3:1 and retrieval-augmented preset 20:1); statement gives counts (7 of top 10 change).
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... change in top-10 endpoint rankings between workload presets
Modeled joules per correct answer varies by a factor of 6.2 across endpoints.
Modeled energy estimate combined with task accuracy to compute joules per correct answer across 78 endpoints.
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... joules per correct answer (modeled energy efficiency)
Across 78 endpoints, the same model on different endpoints differs in tail latency by an order of magnitude.
Empirical tail-latency measurements across 78 endpoints serving 12 model families.
The same model on different endpoints differs in fingerprint similarity to first party by up to 12 points.
Empirical measurement of fingerprint (output-distribution) similarity to a first-party reference across the same set of endpoints (78 endpoints, 12 model families).
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... fingerprint similarity to first-party reference (endpoint fidelity)
Across 78 endpoints serving 12 model families, the same model on different endpoints differs in mean accuracy by up to 12.5 points on math and code.
Empirical measurement across 78 endpoints and 12 model families comparing mean accuracy on math and code tasks.
high mixed Token Arena: A Continuous Benchmark Unifying Energy and Cogn... mean accuracy on math and code benchmarks
Generative AI-powered tools like ChatGPT are reshaping market skill demands while also offering new forms of on-demand learning support to meet those demands.
Framed in paper as background/motivation; asserted from prior literature and the paper's motivating claims rather than reported as a quantified result in this study.
high mixed Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... impact of generative AI on market skill demands and availability of on-demand le...
In operational meteorology, adjoint-based methods derive value from the forecast model itself but require full data assimilation infrastructure.
Technical background in paper describing adjoint-based methods and their infrastructural requirements (methodological literature references; no new empirical data).
high mixed Calibrating Attribution Proxies for Reward Allocation in Par... suitability and infrastructure requirements of adjoint-based value methods
The retrieved sources are substantially different for each search engine (average pairwise Jaccard similarity < 0.2).
Computed average Jaccard similarity of source-domain sets returned by each engine (Google organic results, Google AIO, Gemini Flash 2.5) across the 11,500 queries; reported average similarity < 0.2.
high mixed How Generative AI Disrupts Search: An Empirical Study of Goo... overlap (Jaccard similarity) of retrieved source domains across engines