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Evidence (5157 claims)

Adoption
7395 claims
Productivity
6507 claims
Governance
5877 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
5157 claims
Innovation
3492 claims
Org Design
3470 claims
Labor Markets
3224 claims
Skills & Training
2608 claims
Inequality
1835 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 609 159 77 736 1615
Governance & Regulation 664 329 160 99 1273
Organizational Efficiency 624 143 105 70 949
Technology Adoption Rate 502 176 98 78 861
Research Productivity 348 109 48 322 836
Output Quality 391 120 44 40 595
Firm Productivity 385 46 85 17 539
Decision Quality 275 143 62 34 521
AI Safety & Ethics 183 241 59 30 517
Market Structure 152 154 109 20 440
Task Allocation 158 50 56 26 295
Innovation Output 178 23 38 17 257
Skill Acquisition 137 52 50 13 252
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 120 64 38 23 252
Employment Level 93 46 96 12 249
Firm Revenue 130 43 26 3 202
Consumer Welfare 99 51 40 11 201
Inequality Measures 36 105 40 6 187
Task Completion Time 134 18 6 5 163
Worker Satisfaction 79 54 16 11 160
Error Rate 64 78 8 1 151
Regulatory Compliance 69 64 14 3 150
Training Effectiveness 81 15 13 18 129
Wages & Compensation 70 25 22 6 123
Team Performance 74 16 21 9 121
Automation Exposure 41 48 19 9 120
Job Displacement 11 71 16 1 99
Developer Productivity 71 14 9 3 98
Hiring & Recruitment 49 7 8 3 67
Social Protection 26 14 8 2 50
Creative Output 26 14 6 2 49
Skill Obsolescence 5 37 5 1 48
Labor Share of Income 12 13 12 37
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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These characteristics are properties of the tasks themselves rather than limitations of current AI models.
Conceptual argument in the paper asserting task-inherent properties drive resistance to automation; supported by theory and argumentation, not by empirical model-comparison experiments.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... source of automation limitation (task-inherent vs model limitation)
The resistance of Metis tasks to automation is not due to computational intractability but to institutional, social, and normative entanglements.
Theoretical argument differentiating computational from institutional/social/normative causes; supported by citations and cross-disciplinary theory rather than empirical causal identification.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... cause of automation resistance
There exists a class of entirely digital tasks, called 'Metis AI', that resist reliable AI automation.
Conceptual identification and definition introduced by the authors; supported by theoretical grounding in social sciences, philosophy, and humanitarian practice rather than empirical trials or quantified samples.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... resistance to reliable AI automation
That digital-vs-physical framing misses the most consequential boundary: the one within digital tasks.
Normative/theoretical argument presented in the paper contrasting existing framing with a proposed alternative; grounded in cross-disciplinary literature rather than empirical measurement.
high negative Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... relevance of boundary framing for AI capabilities
Parsing through LLM-generated code can be tedious and time-consuming, potentially negating the productivity gains promised by AI-coding tools.
Motivation/background statement in the paper: a qualitative claim about the cost (time/effort) of reviewing LLM-generated code; presented as motivation rather than empirically quantified evidence in the excerpt.
high negative Viverra: Text-to-Code with Guarantees time/effort required to review LLM-generated code
Employees experience technostress, anxiety and micro-political negotiation around AI tools in everyday work.
Reported experiences from semistructured interviews with 28 managers/professionals across 12 organizations; thematic analysis highlighting technostress and anxiety as themes.
high negative Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... technostress and anxiety among employees
An analysis of a 21-instrument inventory identifies an incentive gradient where geopolitical and industrial pressures systematically reward surface-level behavioral proxies over deep structural verification.
Empirical/qualitative analysis of an inventory of 21 governance instruments compiled and analysed in the paper (n=21 instruments).
high negative Position: Behavioural Assurance Cannot Verify the Safety Cla... governance_and_regulation
Behavioural assurance, even when carefully designed, is being asked to carry safety claims it cannot verify.
The paper's normative and conceptual argument synthesising governance requirements and the epistemic limits of behavioural testing.
Current assurance methodologies (primarily behavioural evaluations and red-teaming) are epistemically limited to observable model outputs and cannot verify latent representations or long-horizon agentic behaviours.
Conceptual/analytic argument and review of existing assurance methodologies presented in the paper.
Distinct readability issue patterns and limited effectiveness of prompt engineering reveal a latent technical debt in LLM-generated code that could affect long-term maintainability.
Interpretation/conclusion in paper combining empirical findings (distinct issue patterns and limited prompt impact) to argue for potential technical debt and maintainability risks; presented as a forward-looking implication rather than a quantified causal estimate.
high negative The Readability Spectrum: Patterns, Issues, and Prompt Effec... maintainability_risk / technical_debt_inferred_from_readability
LLM-generated code displays distinct readability issue patterns compared to human-written code.
Empirical analysis of readability subcomponents/features showing different patterns of readability issues between LLM-generated and human-written code (paper reports qualitative/quantitative distinctions in issue patterns).
high negative The Readability Spectrum: Patterns, Issues, and Prompt Effec... readability_issue_patterns (feature-level readability problems)
Increased levels of AI assistance may degrade productivity, leading to potentially significant shortfalls under the model's identified conditions.
Model-based comparative-statics and steady-state analysis showing scenarios where marginal increases in AI assistance reduce expected task output; examples/parameter illustrations provided in the paper (theoretical, no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... expected task output / productivity shortfalls associated with increased AI assi...
Introducing AI unreliability (errors/noise in AI outputs) in the model can also generate a productivity paradox: greater AI assistance may lower productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model incorporating AI unreliability; model derivations and examples demonstrating conditions under which unreliability leads to reduced productivity (no empirical data).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as influenced by AI assistance and AI unreliabi...
Incorporating endogeneity in skill development into the model can induce a productivity paradox where increased AI assistance reduces productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model of human-AI interaction with utility-maximizing human agents and endogenous skill development; steady-state and comparative-static analysis reported in the paper (no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as a function of AI assistance and endogenous s...
Simulated users produce feedback dynamics that diverge from humans.
Temporal/interaction analysis in the replication showing differences in how simulators provide feedback across multi-turn interactions compared to humans.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... feedback/interaction dynamics over multi-turn conversations (simulator vs human)
Simulated users exhibit amplified position biases relative to human participants.
Behavioral comparison in the simulator replication showing stronger position biases in simulated responses than in human responses.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... magnitude of position bias in simulated vs human responses
Simulated users discuss different topics compared to the human participants.
Analysis of conversation content in the simulator replication showing differences in topical distribution between simulators and humans.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... topic distribution of conversations produced by simulators versus humans
Simulators perform far below human self-consistency baselines for individual judgements.
Comparison in the replication study between simulator consistency and human self-consistency on individual-level judgments; reported large performance gap (simulators far below humans).
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... individual-level judgment consistency (simulator vs human self-consistency)
Amplified sycophancy and relationship-seeking behaviours may introduce deleterious long-term consequences.
Authors' interpretation and cautionary note based on observed behavioral amplification after fine-tuning; presented as potential long-term risk rather than an empirically measured long-term outcome.
high negative PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... long-term social/consequential harms from amplified model behaviours (hypothesiz...
In a controlled experiment across six industry configurations (72 tool invocations using Qwen3-32B), unconstrained tool parameters produced a 43% hallucination rate for domain identifiers.
Controlled experiment reported in the paper: six industry configurations, 72 tool invocations, model used: Qwen3-32B; reported unconstrained parameter condition resulted in 43% hallucination rate for domain identifiers.
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... hallucination rate for domain identifiers
In multi-agent configurations the semantic training gap produces a compounding failure mode termed 'semantic drift'.
Analytical description and demonstration in the paper describing multi-agent interactions and observed/argued compounding failures (conceptual demonstration; no numeric sample stated).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... occurrence of semantic drift (compounding errors in multi-agent setups)
The semantic training gap causes operationally incorrect outputs even when model responses are linguistically precise.
Demonstrations and examples reported in the paper showing cases where model outputs are linguistically fluent but operationally incorrect; supported by the paper's analysis and experimental illustrations (no numeric sample provided for this general claim).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... operational correctness of outputs (vs. linguistic precision)
There exists a 'semantic training gap': a structural disconnect between how AI systems acquire domain vocabulary through training and how manufacturing operations define meaning through ontological relationships.
Paper provides a formalization and conceptual framing of the gap (theoretical description and argumentation within the manuscript).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... existence of semantic training gap (structural disconnect)
LLM-based AI agents deployed in manufacturing demonstrate statistical fluency with domain terminology but lack grounded understanding of operational semantics.
Stated assertion in the paper describing observed behavior of deployed LLM agents; supported by conceptual analysis and examples/demonstrations reported in the paper (no numeric sample size given).
high negative The Semantic Training Gap: Ontology-Grounded Tool Architectu... grounded understanding of operational semantics
AI integration simultaneously increases labor concerns about skill obsolescence by 33%.
Reported as a survey/result in the paper; the study includes surveys of 800 marketers (self-reported concerns about skill obsolescence are likely derived from that survey sample).
high negative Augmented Intelligence: Resolving the AI integration-obsoles... worker concerns about skill obsolescence
Rising data velocity renders legacy systems obsolete—threatening approximately $3.4 trillion in global marketing spending.
Paper reports an estimate/claim about threatened global marketing spending tied to legacy systems becoming obsolete (derivation likely from the study's quantitative analysis or economic estimate described in the paper).
high negative Augmented Intelligence: Resolving the AI integration-obsoles... value of global marketing spending at risk
62% of teams suffer from "AI paralysis," unable to scale pilot initiatives beyond isolated implementations.
Reported as a finding in the paper's mixed-methods study (paper states AI adoption audits of 120 organizations and surveys of 800 marketers as part of the study).
high negative Augmented Intelligence: Resolving the AI integration-obsoles... AI paralysis / inability to scale AI pilots
Autonomous software-engineering agents remain unreliable in realistic development settings.
Assertion in abstract summarizing the observed current state; likely based on prior literature and/or authors' observations (no empirical sample size given in abstract).
high negative AI Harness Engineering: A Runtime Substrate for Foundation-M... reliability of autonomous software-engineering agents (ability to perform correc...
Individuals low in trait self-efficacy experienced the steepest ownership erosion (i.e., AI-authorship reduced psychological ownership most for low self-efficacy participants).
Reported moderation analysis in the preregistered experiment showing trait self-efficacy moderated the authorship effect on psychological ownership; preregistered N = 470. (No numeric effect size reported in the abstract.)
high negative Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... change/erosion in psychological ownership as moderated by trait self-efficacy
Participants in the LLM condition reported lower perceived importance (d = 1.13).
Same preregistered experiment; reported effect size d = 1.13; preregistered N = 470.
high negative Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... perceived importance of goals (self-reported)
Participants in the LLM condition reported lower commitment (d = 1.19).
Same preregistered experiment comparing self-authored vs LLM-authored goals; reported effect size d = 1.19; preregistered N = 470.
high negative Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... commitment (self-reported)
Participants in the LLM condition reported lower psychological ownership (d = 1.38).
Same preregistered experiment (between-subjects comparison of authorship); reported effect size d = 1.38; preregistered N = 470.
high negative Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... psychological ownership (self-reported)
The gap is prompt-resistant across seven variants.
Experiments applying seven different prompt variants to the evaluated models on IMAVB showing that the representation-action mismatch and failure modes persist despite prompt changes.
The gap is modality-asymmetric (audio grounding underperforms vision).
Within IMAVB's 2x2 design (vision vs audio), comparative performance metrics indicate worse grounding/rejection behavior for audio-targeted conditions versus vision-targeted conditions across evaluated models.
Behaviorally, models fall into two failure modes: under-rejection, in which they answer misleading questions as if the false premise were true; and over-rejection, in which they reject more often but also reject standard questions, sacrificing ordinary comprehension accuracy.
Behavioral results on IMAVB showing distinct response patterns across tested models: some rarely reject misleading premises (under-rejection) while others reject too often including correct/standard questions (over-rejection), measured across the 500-clip benchmark.
Across eight open-source omnimodal LLMs and Gemini 3.1 Pro, we document a Representation-Action Gap: hidden states reliably encode premise–perception mismatches even when the same models almost never reject the false claim in their outputs.
Empirical evaluation on IMAVB across 9 models (8 open-source + Gemini 3.1 Pro); internal probing of hidden states showing mismatch signal and behavioral output analysis showing low rejection rates for false premises.
The paper identifies five fundamental architectural mismatches between conventional APIs and autonomous agent requirements: exact-identifier dependence, rendering-oriented responses, single-shot interaction assumptions, user-equivalent authorization, and opaque error semantics.
Conceptual analysis and problem-framing presented in the paper (qualitative identification of five mismatch categories).
high negative Agent-First Tool API: A Semantic Interface Paradigm for Ente... architectural_mismatches_between_conventional_APIs_and_autonomous_agent_requirem...
Using LLMs led to fewer creative moments observed in participants (p=0.002).
Within-subject comparison between LLM-assisted and unassisted conditions with reported p-value p=0.002. Study sample N=20.
high negative "Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Im... count of creative moments
Participants using LLMs had significantly shorter idea-generation periods (p=0.0004).
Within-subject comparison between LLM-assisted and unassisted conditions reported in paper; p-value reported as p=0.0004. Sample size N=20.
high negative "Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Im... idea-generation period (time spent generating ideas)
Existing AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) utilize pre-defined user preferences and chat interaction histories and are therefore confined to reactive exchanges lacking sufficient adaptability to users' psychophysiological states.
Authorial characterization/argument about current AI assistant behavior; no empirical data reported in abstract to substantiate beyond description.
high negative AwareLLM: A Proactive Multimodal Ecosystem for Personalized ... adaptability of AI assistants
Small-scale retail businesses remain structurally excluded from these advancements due to configuration complexity, technical overhead, and limited digital capabilities.
Asserted as a problem statement in the paper; no empirical evidence, sample size, or quantitative analysis provided in the excerpt.
high negative From Configuration to Cognition: A Self-Configuring Agentic ... exclusion from AI-enhanced CRM adoption
Producing hardened, production-grade agent workflows may require extra compute and time, and these costs must be amortized through reuse across a broad user community.
Argument in paper reasoning that added rigor entails higher compute/time costs and that reuse across users is needed to amortize these costs; no empirical cost estimates provided.
high negative Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... resource_costs (compute/time) and implications for amortization/adoption
By focusing on rapid, real-time synthesis, AI agents are effectively delivering users improvised prototypes rather than systems fit for high-stakes scenarios in which users may unwittingly apply them.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper asserting a qualitative mismatch between on-the-fly agents and high-stakes production needs; no empirical validation reported.
high negative Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... suitability for high-stakes use / risk to users
The on-the-fly paradigm short-circuits disciplined software engineering processes—iterative design, rigorous testing, adversarial evaluation, staged deployment, and more—that have delivered relatively reliable and secure systems.
Argumentative claim in paper linking the on-the-fly loop to reduced application of standard SE processes; no empirical study, sample, or quantitative evidence provided.
high negative Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... reliability and security (degree to which SE processes are applied)
These findings underscore the insufficiency of current agents for interdependent workflows, positioning ComplexMCP as a critical testbed for the next generation of resilient autonomous systems.
Synthesis of empirical results (low agent success rates, identified bottlenecks) presented by authors to make a broader claim about agent readiness and the benchmark's relevance.
high negative ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdepend... agent suitability/readiness for interdependent workflows
(3) strategic defeatism, a tendency to rationalize failure rather than pursuing recovery.
Qualitative/quantitative trajectory analysis indicating agents often choose rationalization/explanatory actions over recovery or retry strategies after failures.
high negative ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdepend... rate of recovery/persistence actions vs rationalization actions after failure
(2) over-confidence, where agents skip essential environment verifications;
Trajectory analyses showing agents often omit verification steps leading to failed interactions; reported as an identified failure mode.
high negative ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdepend... frequency of environment verification checks performed by agents
Granular trajectory analysis identifies three fundamental bottlenecks: (1) tool retrieval saturation as action spaces scale;
Trajectory analyses of agent interactions with the benchmark reported by authors; observational claim from analysis of agent action sequences as action space increases.
high negative ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdepend... tool retrieval performance / selection accuracy as action space scales
We evaluate various LLMs across full-context and RAG paradigms, revealing a stark performance gap: even top-tier models fail to exceed a 60% success rate, far trailing human performance 90%.
Empirical evaluation reported by authors comparing multiple LLM agents (full-context and RAG) against human performance on benchmark tasks; specific reported success rates: <=60% for top models, 90% for humans.
high negative ComplexMCP: Evaluation of LLM Agents in Dynamic, Interdepend... task success rate (agent vs human)
Without parallel investment in digital literacy, organizational culture, and inter-firm networks, AI will reproduce rather than reduce employment inequalities.
Authors' conclusion drawn from thematic analysis of interviews and conceptual framing; predictive statement based on qualitative findings.