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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
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There is a structural shift from 'street level' bureaucracies to 'system-level' architectures that can be defined as the institutional division of 'Artificial Discretion' to algorithmic infrastructures.
Synthesis from the PRISMA-guided systematic review of literature (2018-2026) reporting observed changes in administrative architectures; specific studies not enumerated in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... institutional/administrative architecture (shift from street-level to system-lev...
As a General-Purpose Technology (GPT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reconfiguring state capacity, as well as the mechanics of global economic management.
Systematic review of current research studies (2018-2026) conducted following PRISMA guidelines; synthesis of literature claiming broad institutional and macroeconomic effects. Number of studies not specified in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... state capacity and the mechanics of global economic management
For LLM agents, memory management critically impacts efficiency, quality, and security.
Statement in paper framing and motivation; supported conceptually by literature linking memory design to system properties (no specific experimental details provided in abstract).
high mixed FSFM: A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Selective Forget... efficiency, content quality, and security of LLM agents
Coding patterns are bimodal: in 41% of sessions, agents author virtually all committed code ("vibe coding"), while in 23%, humans write all code themselves.
Empirical analysis of authorship attribution across the 6,000 sessions in the SWE-chat dataset; percentages derived from session-level classification.
high mixed SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the W... distribution of code authorship across sessions (agent-dominant vs human-only se...
A determinism study of 10 replays per case at temperature zero shows both architectures inherit residual API-level nondeterminism, but DPM exposes one nondeterministic call while summarization exposes N compounding calls.
Determinism experiment with 10 replays per case at temperature zero; qualitative/quantitative observation about number of nondeterministic LLM calls exposed by each architecture.
high mixed Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents system nondeterminism / number of nondeterministic LLM calls exposed per decisio...
Multi-agent workflows and benchmark evaluation reveal current capabilities, limitations, and research frontiers in agentic AI for physical design.
The paper states it analyzes recent experience with multi-agent workflows and benchmark evaluation; the abstract does not provide specific benchmark names, metrics, or sample sizes.
high mixed Invited: Agentic AI for Physical Design R&D: Status and Pros... capabilities and limitations as identified via multi-agent workflows and benchma...
AI is associated with a shift toward younger, relatively less educated workers.
Reported association in the paper's baseline empirical results linking AI presence/pervasiveness to changes in workforce composition (age and education).
high mixed Early Estimates of the Impact of AI Within BEA’s Industry Ec... worker composition by age and education
Given the results, educators should revisit pair programming as an educational tool in addition to embracing modern AI.
Authors' recommendation in the paper's conclusion based on experimental findings (performance, workload, emotion, retention outcomes).
high mixed Fast and Forgettable: A Controlled Study of Novices' Perform... educational practice recommendation (pair programming vs AI-assisted instruction...
Formal network verification has made substantial progress in proving correctness properties but is typically applied in offline, pre-deployment settings and faces challenges in accommodating continuous changes and validating live production behavior.
Authors' summary of the state of the art in network verification (assertion in paper; no empirical data in abstract).
high mixed Aether: Network Validation Using Agentic AI and Digital Twin applicability of formal verification to live/continuous change
Overall, the proposed HRL framework improves learning efficiency and scalability, outperforming heuristic baselines while remaining below the perfect-information oracle bound.
Results reported in the paper from simulation experiments comparing the HRL framework to heuristic baselines and the oracle; pairwise differences analyzed (Wilcoxon tests referenced). The paper asserts better performance than heuristics but still worse than the oracle.
high mixed Omnichannel Supply Chains Amid Demand Shocks: A Centralized ... policy performance (learning efficiency, scalability, and supply-chain control p...
How software developers interact with AI-powered tools, including Large Language Models (LLMs), plays a vital role in how these AI-powered tools impact them.
Based on qualitative analysis of twenty-two interviews with software developers about using LLMs for software development; asserted as a central finding in the paper's analysis.
high mixed Towards an Appropriate Level of Reliance on AI: A Preliminar... impact of AI tools on developers (broadly: productivity, skills, quality)
Benefits of technology and data analytics are context-dependent, with emerging markets facing unique regulatory and infrastructural barriers.
Narrative synthesis of included studies noting heterogeneity by context and reports of regulatory/infrastructural constraints in emerging markets.
high mixed The Use of Technology and Data Analytics in Modern Auditing:... realized benefits / adoption in varying contexts
Cybersecurity has a moderating effect on audit data analytics.
Synthesis statement in the review summarizing included studies that report cybersecurity influences the effectiveness/usability of audit data analytics.
high mixed The Use of Technology and Data Analytics in Modern Auditing:... effectiveness of audit data analytics
CLARITI matches GPT-5's resolution rate on underspecified issues while generating 41% fewer questions.
Empirical evaluation comparing CLARITI and GPT-5 on a task set of underspecified software engineering issues; the result reported in the abstract indicates parity in resolution rate and a quantified reduction in questions (41%) but the abstract does not report sample size, test set composition, or statistical significance.
high mixed Asking What Matters: Reward-Driven Clarification for Softwar... resolution rate (task success) and number of clarifying questions generated
They can produce fluent outputs that resemble reflection, but lack temporal continuity, causal feedback, and anchoring in real-world interaction.
Descriptive claim made in the text contrasting surface-level fluency with missing properties; no empirical data or experiments provided.
high mixed Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for... fluency vs. temporal_continuity, causal_feedback, real-world_anchoring
This work establishes a foundation for understanding how generative AI systems not only augment cognitive performance but also reshape self-perception and perceived expertise.
Paper's stated contribution presenting theory and conceptual groundwork; no empirical validation provided in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... interaction between augmented cognitive performance and changes in self-percepti...
The LLM fallacy has implications for education, hiring, and AI literacy.
Implications and argumentation presented in the paper; these are prospective and conceptual rather than supported by empirical data in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... impacts on education practices, hiring decisions, and AI literacy needs
Further research is needed to explore the longitudinal impact of these AI deployments on local labor markets and the creation of indigenous datasets that reflect Cameroon’s unique linguistic diversity.
Authors' identified research gaps and recommendations; statement of future research needs rather than empirical result.
high mixed A Framework for Sovereign AI Governance and Economic Growth ... longitudinal impacts on local labor markets and creation/use of indigenous lingu...
Removing safety layers made the system less useful: structured validation feedback guided the model to correct outcomes in fewer turns, while the unconstrained system hallucinated success.
Qualitative and quantitative comparisons from the deployed evaluation across the three conditions (observations about turn counts, validation-feedback loops, and model hallucinations in unconstrained condition over the 25 scenario trials).
high mixed Bounded Autonomy for Enterprise AI: Typed Action Contracts a... number of interaction turns to correct outcome; presence of hallucinated success
Across all settings, AI Organizations composed of aligned models produce solutions with higher utility but greater misalignment compared to a single aligned model.
Reported experimental results aggregated across two practical settings (AI consultancy and AI software team) and 12 tasks; direct comparison between AI Organizations of aligned models and a single aligned model.
high mixed AI Organizations are More Effective but Less Aligned than In... solution utility (higher) and model misalignment (greater)
Multi-agent "AI organizations" are simultaneously more effective at achieving business goals, but less aligned, than individual AI agents.
Experimental comparison reported in the paper: experiments comparing multi-agent AI organizations to single aligned agents across tasks and settings (described below).
high mixed AI Organizations are More Effective but Less Aligned than In... solution utility (effectiveness at achieving business goals) and model alignment...
Although some frontier models exceed human performance, model accuracy is still far below what would enable reliable experimental guidance.
Paper reports instances where top-performing (frontier) models outperform aggregate human expert accuracy on SciPredict, but concludes overall accuracies are insufficient for reliable experimental guidance.
high mixed SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Expe... prediction_accuracy / usability_for_guidance
Professional and Technical Services, Information, and Finance and Insurance account for approximately 86 percent of the base-case direct contribution.
Sectoral decomposition of base-case direct contribution in the model; paper explicitly reports the three sectors' combined share as ~86%.
high mixed AI Capex Is Justified: A Bottom-Up Sectoral Estimate of Arti... share of base-case direct GDP contribution by sector (three-sector concentration...
Subjectivity persisted in AI-powered recruitment decisions; human judgment remained an important factor.
Theme 2 (subjectivity in AI-powered recruitment) from interviews indicating retained human subjectivity and judgement in recruitment processes (n = 22).
high mixed The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... degree_of_subjectivity_in_decision_making
Sensitivity analyses indicate the observed positive belief changes likely reflect recovery from carry-over effects rather than genuine training-induced shifts.
Authors' sensitivity analyses discussed in the paper that examined alternative explanations (e.g., carry-over effects) and concluded the belief-change result is likely due to recovery from such effects.
high mixed Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... validity of belief-change effect (source attribution: training vs. carry-over re...
Simulations demonstrate that standard methods, such as principal components analysis and inverse covariance weighting, can generate spurious cross-study differences, whereas our approach recovers comparable latent treatment effects.
Simulation experiments reported in the paper comparing the proposed method to PCA and inverse covariance weighting; results show PCA and inverse-covariance-weighted estimators can produce spurious cross-study differences while the proposed method recovers comparable latent treatment effects (no simulation sample sizes provided in the abstract).
high mixed Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Causal Effect... comparability/accuracy of estimated latent treatment effects across studies (sim...
Big data analytics (BDA) adoption is a risky strategy with potentially high rewards for start-ups.
Stated as a summary conclusion based on empirical analysis of a large sample of start-ups in Germany comparing adopters and non-adopters across multiple performance measures (survival, costs, sales, employee growth, access to financing).
high mixed Big data-based management decisions and start-up performance overall performance/risk–reward tradeoff
Bounded agents act as an amplifying but not necessary extension to the foundation-model stack for changing work coordination.
Conceptual argument within the paper distinguishing bounded agents from the core stack; no empirical comparison or measurement reported.
high mixed Remote-Capable Knowledge Work Should Default to AI-Enabled F... role of bounded agents in amplifying coordination impacts
The effects of generative AI on work and organisations are heterogeneous and context-dependent, shaped by job roles, skill levels, and institutional environments.
Synthesis across the included studies noting variation in outcomes conditional on role, skill, and institutional context.
high mixed Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... heterogeneity of AI effects across roles/skills/institutions
The positive effect of big data applications on firms' markups exhibits heterogeneity across organizational, technological, and environmental dimensions.
Paper reports heterogeneity analysis showing variation in the magnitude of the positive markup effect across organizational, technological and environmental factors; based on model implications and empirical subgroup/interaction tests using micro-level firm data (sample size not reported).
high mixed Big data application and firm markups: evidence from China heterogeneity of the big-data → markup effect across organizational, technologic...
If employment losses are relatively small and productivity gains are realised, AI adoption could boost Exchequer revenues. But if job displacement is sizeable, tax receipts fall while welfare spending rises, resulting in potentially large pressures on the public finances.
Conditional fiscal scenarios simulated in the report combining employment, wage and benefit changes with the public finance implications (tax receipts and welfare spending); reported as scenario-based outcomes.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland Exchequer revenues / tax receipts and welfare spending
Ireland’s tax and welfare system absorbs most of the income loss for lower income households, and roughly half of the loss for households at the top of the income distribution.
Microsimulation using SWITCH to model taxes and transfers applied to simulated income changes across income groups; reported as a finding in the report.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland net income after taxes and transfers (absorption of income loss)
Qualitative results underscored both perceived benefits in comprehension and challenges when interpretations of gaze behaviors were inaccurate.
Qualitative analysis of participant feedback from the study (n=36) reporting themes of improved comprehension and occasional problems when the assistant misinterpreted gaze.
high mixed From Gaze to Guidance: Interpreting and Adapting to Users' C... participant-reported benefits and challenges (qualitative themes)
The productivity decomposition classifies deployments into five regimes that separate beneficial adoption from harmful adoption and identifies which deployments are vulnerable to the augmentation trap.
Model-based taxonomy produced from the analytical decomposition (classification into five regimes described in the paper).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... classification of AI deployment regimes (beneficial vs harmful, vulnerability to...
Small differences in managerial incentives can determine which skill path a worker takes (whether they realize full potential or deskill).
Comparative statics / theoretical sensitivity analysis in the dynamic model indicating tipping behavior based on managerial incentives.
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker skill trajectory contingent on managerial incentives
Result 3: When AI productivity depends less on worker expertise, workers can permanently diverge in skill: experienced workers realize their full potential while less experienced workers deskill to zero.
Analytical result from the dynamic model showing path-dependent divergence in skill levels under particular parameterizations (lower dependence of AI on worker expertise).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... long-run worker skill distribution (experienced vs less experienced)
The rise of agentic AI development, where LLM-based agents autonomously read, write, navigate, and debug codebases, introduces a new primary consumer with fundamentally different constraints.
Conceptual claim argued in the paper; refers to the emergence of agentic LLM-based tools as new consumers of software artifacts rather than an empirical measurement; no sample size reported.
high mixed Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... who/what is the primary consumer of software engineering artifacts (human develo...
Analysis uncovers dramatic asymmetries: inhibition 17.6% vs. preference 75.0%.
Paper reports specific aggregated percentages for two types of implicit effects (inhibition and preference) observed in their analysis; methodology context implies these are results from the benchmark evaluation (300 items / 17 models).
high mixed ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptatio... rates of inhibition vs. preference effects (implicit memory outcomes)
These results suggest the need for AI model development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task completion.
Authors' policy/research recommendation based on experimental findings showing short-term gains but longer-term harms.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... recommendation for AI development priorities (design objective, not an empirical...
These effects are observed across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension.
Trials included multiple task types (explicitly naming mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension); cross-task analysis reported.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... task-specific performance and persistence across task types (math reasoning, rea...
Providing issue-specific design guidance reduces design violations, but substantial non-compliance remains.
Intervention experiments in paper: agents were given issue-specific design guidance and resulting patch compliance measured; reported reduction in violations but remaining non-compliance.
high mixed Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... design violations / design satisfaction
Policy implication: encouraging public sharing of AI-assisted solutions offsets the decline associated with private diversion (flow margin) but cannot repair participation-driven deterioration in conditional resolution; the latter requires directly maintaining contributor engagement.
Prescriptive conclusion from the theoretical model comparing interventions: public-sharing encouragement helps with flow-margin diversion but not with supply-side contributor thinning.
high mixed When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... archive creation (via posted volume) and conditional resolution (via contributor...
Diagnostic prediction: in a congested regime, observing a joint decline in posted volume and conditional resolution implies supply-side pool thinning is quantitatively present; by contrast, volume decline with stable or rising resolution indicates private diversion (flow margin) alone is the dominant force.
Analytical diagnostic derived from the model that links empirical patterns (volume and conditional resolution) to underlying mechanisms; no empirical validation given in the excerpt.
high mixed When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... posted volume and conditional resolution probability (joint pattern)
For the short-run optimization problem of AI deployment given fixed job responsibilities and worker skill levels, the firm’s optimal strategy for an m-step job can be computed in time O(m^2) using dynamic programming; the long-run joint optimization including task assignment to workers can also be solved in polynomial time up to an arbitrarily small error term.
Algorithmic results and complexity analysis derived in the theoretical sections and appendices of the paper (dynamic programming construction and polynomial-time solution statements).
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation computational complexity (time complexity) of computing optimal AI deployment an...
Appending a neighboring step to an existing AI chain adds no additional human verification burden (verification is a fixed cost at the chain level), which can make appending steps to a chain optimal even if manual execution is individually preferable for the appended step.
Theoretical model setup and formal argument showing verification is incurred only at the last augmented step of a chain; illustrative examples (data scientist workflow) and comparative-cost reasoning in the paper.
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation marginal verification cost when extending AI chains
AI chaining can overturn standard comparative advantage logic in assignment: when multiple adjacent steps are executed as an AI chain, a step may be assigned to AI (as part of the chain) even if manual human execution would be preferred for that step in isolation.
Theoretical model of production as an ordered sequence of steps with firms endogenously bundling contiguous steps into tasks and jobs; formal comparative-static arguments and illustrative examples in the paper showing how fixed verification costs per chain change marginal assignment incentives.
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation assignment of individual steps to AI versus human execution
Automation leads economic growth to accelerate, but the acceleration is remarkably slow because of the prominence of 'weak links' (an elasticity of substitution among tasks substantially less than one); even when most tasks are automated by rapidly-improving capital, output is constrained by the tasks performed by slowly-improving labor.
Theoretical mechanism from the task-based model (σ < 1 weak-links structure) combined with calibrated simulations that incorporate historical accounting results.
high mixed Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... rate and speed of acceleration of economic growth in response to automation
The general public supports both targeted programs and broader interventions (including job guarantees and UBI), contrasting with economists' preferences.
Survey comparisons across groups contrasting normative policy support (textual summary in Key Findings; exact public-group percentages not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI policy preferences of the general public vs. economists
Unconditional forecasts are relatively close to historical trends, but under the rapid scenario the range of plausible outcomes expands (greater uncertainty).
Comparison of unconditional (all-things-considered) survey forecasts to conditional rapid-scenario forecasts; dispersion metrics referenced qualitatively in Key Findings (detailed variance numbers not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI forecast dispersion/uncertainty across scenarios
Both rapid model improvement and benchmark quality issues contributed to underestimating agent capabilities.
Synthesis of results: improved LLM performance plus audit findings showing benchmark errors together explain the prior underestimation; based on the re-evaluation and audit described in the paper.
high mixed ELT-Bench-Verified: Benchmark Quality Issues Underestimate A... factors contributing to underestimation of agent capabilities (model improvement...