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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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Our analysis identifies three regimes: co-evolutionary enhancement, fragile equilibrium, and degenerative convergence.
Model analysis (categorization of dynamical behaviors) presented in the paper.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... classification of system behavior into three named regimes
This feedback can give rise to distinct dynamical regimes.
Analytical results derived from the minimal dynamical model described in the paper.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... existence of qualitatively different dynamical regimes in the coupled system
We introduce a minimal model with three variables -- human cognition, data quality, and model capability.
Model development in the paper (mathematical/minimal dynamical model); presented as a constructed model rather than empirical measurement.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... theoretical representation of human cognition, data quality, and model capabilit...
Humans and language models form a coupled dynamical system linked by a feedback loop of usage, generation, and retraining.
Conceptual framing and theoretical proposal in the paper; model formulation rather than empirical data.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... dynamical relationship between human cognition, model outputs, and retraining cy...
Prior work has studied cognitive offloading in humans and model collapse in recursive training, but these effects are typically considered in isolation.
Literature review / related-work statement in paper; references to prior research (qualitative, no sample size stated).
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... research focus of prior studies (whether effects studied jointly or separately)
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping how knowledge is produced, with increasing reliance on AI systems for generation, summarization, and reasoning.
Background/literature observation cited in paper (qualitative claim), no empirical sample or quantified data reported in text provided.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... extent to which AI systems are used for knowledge production tasks (generation, ...
Modeling fiscal policy as a government problem (instead of an abstract planner) implies a tax changes the firm's automation first-order condition, raises revenue only on the remaining automation base, and requires specifying rebates and administrative losses.
Explicit governmental optimization and budget-accounting setup in the model: taxes enter firms' automation first-order conditions; revenue is computed on post-tax automation activity and rebates/administration are modeled.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation effect of taxation on firm automation choice, tax revenue base, and fiscal accou...
The central analytic object is the derivative of household consumption demand and the collective wage bill with respect to automation.
Paper's stated modeling focus: comparative-static derivatives linking automation to household consumption demand and aggregate wages; used to characterize incidence and welfare effects.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation sensitivity (derivative) of household consumption demand and aggregate wage bill...
Automation reallocates income and ownership claims.
Theoretical model with heterogeneous households who hold capital/equity claims; equilibrium determines wages and returns and shows changes in income and ownership shares when automation increases.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation distribution of income and ownership (capital vs. labor income shares)
Across studies, causal modeling reveals that cognitive alignment systematically drives attentional coordination in successful collaboration, while mismatches between effort and attention characterize unproductive regulation.
Synthesis of causal inference results from the three studies using time-series measures (JME, JVA) and episode-based analyses across the pooled dataset (182 dyads total).
high mixed Cognitive Alignment Drives Attention: Modeling and Supportin... directional relationship between cognitive alignment (JME) and attentional coord...
There is substantial heterogeneity in the productivity effects across settings.
Meta-analytic heterogeneity assessment reported in the paper (subgroup/moderator analyses indicate variability by context). The paper states 'substantial heterogeneity across settings.'
high mixed A meta-analysis of the effect of generative AI on productivi... variation in productivity effect sizes across study contexts
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...
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
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)
No single governance setting dominates across all contexts; moderate governance becomes increasingly competitive as the learner accumulates experience within the governed action space.
Empirical finding reported from experiments with the contextual-bandit learner operating under different governance constraints and learning over time; comparative performance over learning horizon described in the paper. Sample size / trial counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relative performance of governance settings over learning/experience (competitiv...
This workload-buffering effect (governance improving performance while reducing fatigue) contradicts the usual framing of governance as pure overhead.
Interpretation and comparison of empirical manufacturing results against prior framing in literature (qualitative claim within the paper). No sample size provided.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relationship between governance and combined measures of performance and fatigue
Governance is not a binary switch but a tunable design variable: tighter constraints predictably convert autonomous AI assignments into supervised collaborations, with domain-specific costs and benefits.
Empirical finding reported from experiments using the HAAS benchmark across the two domains (software engineering and manufacturing); qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of allocations under varying governance constraints. Paper does not state sample size in the provided text.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... distribution of collaboration modes / assignment types (autonomous vs supervised...
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
The rise of digital agents will transform the foundations of production, labour markets, institutional arrangements and the international distribution of economic power.
Synthesis and theoretical projection across sections of the paper; presented as a broad conclusion without reported empirical quantification in the provided text.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... transformation of production systems, labour markets, institutions, and internat...
There is a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social reproduction: digital agents can compensate for productive functions of the population but are unable to substitute the population's functions of social reproduction.
Theoretical argument and conceptual distinction in the paper; no empirical study measuring substitution in social reproduction provided.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... capacity of digital agents to substitute productive vs social reproduction funct...
These patterns suggest that AI adoption is associated with expected efficiency gains that shape both firms' pricing behaviour and their macroeconomic expectations.
Interpretation based on observed increases in productivity/profitability and different pricing/inflation expectations among adopters vs non-adopters in survey and DID analyses.
high mixed The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... interpretive link between productivity/profitability gains and firms' pricing an...
AI adoption leads both to job displacement and job creation, including the emergence of new occupational categories.
Abstract states the review examines empirical evidence on both job displacement and creation and the emergence of new occupations; no numeric counts or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... job destruction and creation; emergence of new occupations
The study identifies short-term transitional risks and long-term productivity gains associated with AI integration in the workforce.
Abstract states the paper evaluates both short-term risks and long-term productivity gains from AI integration based on the reviewed literature; no empirical quantification given in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... transitional risks and productivity gains
AI-driven automation and augmentation are reshaping employment landscapes, with emphasis on sector-level disruption, skill transformation, and socioeconomic consequences.
Abstract states this as a conclusion of the review drawing on interdisciplinary empirical literature; no specific studies or sample sizes cited in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... employment landscape changes (sector disruption, skill transformation, socioecon...
The accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence across industries has fundamentally altered the structure of global labour markets.
Statement in abstract summarizing a systematic review of interdisciplinary literature (economics, computer science, organizational behaviour, public policy); no specific sample size reported in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... structure of global labour markets
The magnitude of AI’s effect on potential GDP varied across industries and depended on the level of digital maturity, human resources, and institutional conditions.
Decompositional analysis across aggregated industry data and scenario-based modeling drawing on sectoral sources and reviews.
high mixed THE IMPACT OF AI ON POTENTIAL GDP AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GRO... industry-specific magnitude of AI contribution to GDP
Failures are structured by task family and execution surface, with HR, management, and multi-system business workflows as persistent bottlenecks and local workspace repair comparatively easier but unsaturated.
Error-mode analysis across the 105 tasks and evaluated models reported in experiments; authors identify task-family-level patterns (HR, management, multi-system workflows) and relative ease of local workspace repair.
high mixed Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-Wor... failure distribution by task family / execution surface
Whether LLM-based assistants improve or degrade code quality remains unresolved: existing studies report contradictory outcomes contingent on context and evaluation criteria.
Review finds mixed/contradictory findings across included studies regarding code quality effects.
high mixed The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productiv... code quality (e.g., correctness, maintainability, defects)
The system tends to be factually correct when it answers but often omits information (i.e., 'the system is right when it answers — it just leaves things out').
Interpretation combining reported factual accuracy (85.5%) with low completeness (0.40) from benchmark results.
high mixed Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... factual accuracy vs. answer completeness
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and compensation dynamics.
Econometric estimates (difference-in-differences and propensity score matched comparisons) using the combined datasets listed in the paper and controlling for industry, firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macroeconomic variables.
high mixed The Generative AI Revolution: Early Evidence of Structural T... compensation dynamics (wages/pay)
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in occupational structures.
Same econometric approach (difference-in-differences and propensity score matching) applied to combined datasets (Anthropic Economic Index, Census Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics), with controls for industry, firm size, location, occupation-level characteristics, and macroeconomic environment.
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in employment patterns in the United States during 2022–2025.
Econometric analysis using multiple large-scale data sources (Anthropic Economic Index, U.S. Census Bureau Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics) and methods described as difference-in-differences estimation and propensity score matching controlling for industry (NAICS 2-digit), firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macro conditions.
The paper extends paradox theory to conceptualise the Creativity Paradox in the context of GenAI.
Theoretical extension and conceptual development within the paper (no empirical tests reported).
high mixed Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... extension of paradox theory (Creativity Paradox)
Within that n=11 subset, 9 of 11 agents shift by at least 2 ranks between composite and benchmark-only rankings.
Comparison of rank positions between composite and benchmark-only rankings on the 11-agent subset; reported count of agents that moved at least 2 ranks.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... count/proportion of agents with ≥2-rank shifts
The four factors capture largely complementary information (n=50; ρ_max = 0.61 for Adoption-Ecosystem, all others |ρ| ≤ 0.37).
Correlation analysis among the four factor scores computed on the 50-agent sample; reported maximum inter-factor Pearson/Spearman correlation coefficients.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... inter-factor correlations (Adoption vs Ecosystem and other factor pairs)
Provisioned Throughput delivers the lowest latency at low concurrency but saturates its reserved capacity above approximately 20 concurrent users.
Empirical measurements from the instrumented system across concurrency up to 50 users and tier comparisons; the paper reports the observed saturation point near ~20 concurrent users.
high mixed Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scal... response time (latency) and saturation threshold (concurrency where reserved cap...
Delegating tasks to genAI can be individually beneficial in the short term even as widespread adoption degrades future model performance (creating a social dilemma).
Result of the paper's behavioral model showing an individual-level incentive to use genAI versus a collective cost from adoption (theoretical/model-based; no empirical sample reported in abstract).
high mixed Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare th... individual short-term benefit vs future model performance (collective welfare)
Token usage is highly variable and inherently stochastic: runs on the same task can differ by up to 30x in total tokens.
Observed run-to-run variability in total token counts for identical tasks across the collected agentic trajectories from eight frontier LLMs on SWE-bench Verified.
high mixed How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting ... run-to-run variability in total token consumption for the same task
ASC (adaptive stopping criterion) halts harmful refinement but incurs a 3.8 pp confidence-elicitation cost.
Reported experiment with ASC showing that it prevents harmful iterative refinement yet causes a measured cost described as 3.8 percentage points due to confidence elicitation.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... trade-off between stopping harmful refinement and a confidence-elicitation cost ...
Only o3-mini (+3.4 pp, EIR = 0%), Claude Opus 4.6 (+0.6 pp, EIR ~ 0.2%), and o4-mini (+/-0 pp) remain non-degrading under self-correction; GPT-5 degrades by -1.8 pp.
Reported measured changes in accuracy (percentage-point changes) and measured EIR values for the named models after applying iterative self-correction across the experiment suite.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction
Across 7 models and 3 datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA), we find a sharp near-zero EIR threshold (<= 0.5%) separating beneficial from harmful self-correction.
Empirical experiments reported across 7 LLMs and 3 benchmark datasets (GSM8K, MATH, StrategyQA) comparing outcomes of iterative self-correction as a function of measured EIR.
high mixed When Does LLM Self-Correction Help? A Control-Theoretic Mark... accuracy change from self-correction as a function of EIR
These efficiency gains are offset by a growing 'Efficiency-Legitimacy Paradox' (i.e., improvements in efficiency come with worsening legitimacy concerns).
Conceptual synthesis from the systematic review (2018-2026) identifying a recurring trade-off across reviewed studies; specific empirical quantification not provided in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... trade-off between administrative efficiency and democratic legitimacy/procedural...