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Evidence (8974 claims)

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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 882 244 117 1097 2424
Governance & Regulation 1010 469 229 135 1875
Organizational Efficiency 977 235 149 90 1462
Technology Adoption Rate 781 299 143 128 1362
Research Productivity 506 155 74 363 1110
Output Quality 555 219 71 70 915
Decision Quality 395 200 95 54 751
Firm Productivity 523 67 101 27 724
AI Safety & Ethics 262 309 75 36 688
Market Structure 195 201 135 30 566
Task Allocation 248 77 96 38 464
Innovation Output 300 34 55 20 411
Skill Acquisition 207 75 65 21 368
Employment Level 138 67 119 24 350
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 156 80 53 33 329
Task Completion Time 211 38 13 16 280
Firm Revenue 183 52 29 5 270
Consumer Welfare 131 77 48 13 269
Inequality Measures 50 141 54 9 254
Worker Satisfaction 104 85 25 13 227
Error Rate 87 112 11 5 215
Automation Exposure 69 69 37 20 198
Wages & Compensation 102 49 31 11 193
Team Performance 115 30 30 11 187
Regulatory Compliance 88 74 17 7 186
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 116 21 15 8 161
Job Displacement 12 92 26 1 131
Hiring & Recruitment 57 12 9 5 83
Skill Obsolescence 6 59 10 2 77
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 23 17 1 59
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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Per-criterion accuracy climbs with stronger models.
Empirical comparison across model strengths reported in the Harvey LAB study (12,510 trajectories) showing per-criterion accuracy trends correlated with model strength.
high positive Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework per-criterion accuracy
The findings imply that research evaluation and science policy should adopt assessment frameworks that distinguish between recombinant and conceptual forms of creativity and recognize that different modes of AI adoption produce different types of scientific contribution.
Policy/recommendation statement grounded in the paper's empirical findings on heterogeneous creativity effects by AI research mode.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? policy recommendation for research evaluation frameworks
Adaptation-oriented AI research (modifying AI models for domain-specific problems) is associated with relatively higher object-based creativity.
Subgroup/heterogeneity analysis in the OpenAlex dataset classifying AI publications by research mode (Adaptation-oriented) and comparing object novelty outcomes across modes.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? object-based novelty/creativity
Tool-oriented AI research (applying existing AI models to domain tasks) is associated with the largest gains in recombinant-based creativity.
Subgroup/heterogeneity analysis in the OpenAlex dataset classifying AI publications by research mode (Tool-oriented) and comparing recombinant novelty outcomes across modes.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? recombinant-based novelty/creativity
AI publications have a 5.5 to 10.2 percentage point higher likelihood to rank in the top creativity decile.
Reported quantitative effect from the paper comparing top-decile creativity probabilities between AI and non-AI publications in the OpenAlex sample.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? increase in probability of being top-decile creative
AI publications are significantly more likely to achieve top-decile creativity relative to non-AI publications.
Observational statistical analysis comparing AI-labeled vs non-AI publications across novelty and impact measures using the >1M OpenAlex dataset (novelty measured as recombinant and object novelty; impact measured as 3-year and 10-year citation impact).
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science? likelihood of ranking in top creativity decile
Network composition analysis of 8,012 workers shows all have inference-capable hardware.
Network composition analysis covering 8,012 workers; hardware capability inferred from worker-reported or probed specifications.
high positive The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Stu... presence of inference-capable hardware among network workers
Experts assigned the highest responsibility for addressing these risks to general-purpose AI developers and governance actors (including governments, regulators, and standards bodies).
Delphi ratings of actor responsibility reported in paper: highest responsibility attributed to general-purpose AI developers and governance actors by 272 experts.
high positive Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... actor responsibility attribution
Policymakers in emerging economies should adopt integrated policy frameworks combining AI development incentives, labour market reform, and education strategies to ensure technological progress translates into inclusive and sustainable development.
Policy recommendation derived from the study's empirical findings and interpretation.
high positive Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... policy recommendation aimed at improving inclusive and sustainable development o...
The empirical findings validate the core theoretical proposition of Routine-Biased Technological Change that skill-biased technological change operates through heterogeneous channels invisible at the aggregate level.
Synthesis of empirical results (skill-disaggregated effects differ, total unemployment insignificant) used to support the RBTC theoretical proposition.
high positive Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... support for RBTC theoretical proposition (heterogeneous channels of skill-biased...
Unemployment among less-educated workers shows a positive long-run relationship with sustainable development, interpreted as reflecting structural labour reallocation effects consistent with RBTC.
Long-run ARDL coefficient for less-educated workers' unemployment reported as positive in the paper; interpretive link to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) and labour reallocation.
high positive Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... sustainable development (effect of less-educated workers' unemployment)
In the long run, AI adoption contributes positively and significantly to sustainable development through productivity gains and innovation spillovers after structural adjustments are completed.
Long-run ARDL estimates reported in the paper indicating a positive and statistically significant long-run coefficient for AI adoption; theoretical interpretation invoking productivity gains and innovation spillovers.
high positive Artificial Intelligence, Disaggregated Unemployment, And Sus... sustainable development (long-run effect of AI adoption)
We will open-source all evaluation codes, tasks, and data at https://github.com/mrwwk/DeskCraft.
Author statement promising release of code, tasks, and data (stated in abstract).
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... availability of benchmark artifacts (code, tasks, data) as open source
GPT-5.4 reaches 27.6% on interactive tasks.
Author-reported benchmark result for GPT-5.4 on interactive tasks from the evaluation (reported in abstract); presumably measured across the evaluation tasks.
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... task success rate / benchmark score on interactive tasks
GPT-5.4 reaches 31.6% on standard tasks.
Author-reported benchmark result for GPT-5.4 on standard tasks from the evaluation (reported in abstract); presumably measured across the evaluation tasks.
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... task success rate / benchmark score on standard (non-interactive) tasks
We evaluate 18 proprietary and open source agents on 538 tasks.
Author-reported evaluation methodology and scale (number of agents and tasks) as stated in abstract.
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... evaluation sample size (agents and tasks)
Mid-turn interaction captures both agent-initiated clarification under uncertainty and user-initiated interruption during execution, while post-turn interaction accommodates user-driven feedback after the agent signals completion.
Author description of interaction protocol structure (design specification in paper abstract).
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... coverage of interaction types (mid-turn and post-turn) in the protocol
DeskCraft formalizes human-agent collaboration into an interaction protocol covering mid-turn and post-turn exchanges.
Author statement in abstract describing the protocol (design/method contribution).
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... formalization of human-agent interaction protocol
DeskCraft covers professional creative software across design, video, audio, and 3D creation.
Author statement in abstract listing covered software domains.
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... breadth of software domains covered by the benchmark
DeskCraft organizes tasks into a multilevel difficulty taxonomy, with long horizon tasks requiring over 50 execution steps.
Benchmark design described in abstract (explicit statement that long-horizon tasks require over 50 execution steps).
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... task difficulty / horizon length (number of execution steps)
We introduce DeskCraft, a desktop GUI benchmark targeting long horizon creative and engineering workflows and proactive human-agent collaboration.
Author statement describing the new benchmark (benchmark design and scope described in paper).
high positive DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workf... availability of a benchmark for long-horizon workflows and human-agent collabora...
The paper constructs firm-level indicators of artificial intelligence and new quality productive forces for new energy vehicle firms.
Authors state they constructed firm-level indicators as part of their empirical approach on the Yangtze River Delta panel dataset.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... construction of measurement indicators (methodological contribution)
Artificial intelligence affects firms' new quality productive forces through improvement of innovation output.
Mechanism tests reported by the authors showing empirical evidence that AI improves innovation output (e.g., measured innovation outcomes) which is linked to higher new quality productive forces.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces (mediated by innovation output)
Artificial intelligence affects firms' new quality productive forces through optimization of R&D personnel structure.
Mechanism tests reported by the authors using the constructed indicators and panel data; empirical evidence cited that links AI to changes in R&D personnel structure which in turn link to new quality productive forces.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces (mediated by R&D personnel structure)
The promoting effect of artificial intelligence on new quality productive forces is more pronounced among small-sized enterprises.
Heterogeneity tests by firm size in the panel data; authors report stronger positive effects for small-sized firms.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces (firm-size heterogeneity)
The promoting effect of artificial intelligence on new quality productive forces is more pronounced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Heterogeneity tests on the Yangtze River Delta panel data comparing regional subsamples; authors report stronger positive effects in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces (regional heterogeneity)
The positive effect of artificial intelligence on firms' new quality productive forces remains robust after addressing endogeneity concerns and conducting robustness checks.
Authors report endogeneity-corrected estimations and multiple robustness checks on the same panel dataset and constructed firm-level indicators; specific endogeneity correction methods and robustness checks are not detailed in the excerpt.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces
Artificial intelligence significantly promotes the growth of new quality productive forces in new energy vehicle firms.
Panel data analysis of new energy vehicle firms in the Yangtze River Delta from 2001 to 2023; firm-level indicators of artificial intelligence and new quality productive forces constructed; regression estimation showing a significant positive effect.
high positive Mechanisms and Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Qua... new quality productive forces
Proactive, edge-side prompt optimization can substantially reduce inference costs without sacrificing coding quality.
Aggregate experimental results on token reductions and preserved/improved task accuracy reported in the paper.
high positive Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... inference cost (via token usage) and coding quality
Compared with LLMLingua-2 at matched compression rates, our method consistently achieves superior OckScore performance across all evaluated backends.
Head-to-head experimental comparison reported in the paper between the proposed middleware and LLMLingua-2 (matched compression rates) measuring OckScore.
high positive Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... OckScore (a task-specific performance metric)
Ablation studies indicate that the gains come primarily from the structural rewriting stage rather than simple function-name extraction.
Ablation experiments reported in the paper comparing full rewrite pipeline versus variants (e.g., function-name extraction only).
high positive Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... source of performance/token-reduction gains (rewriting vs. function-name extract...
Prompt compression via the middleware preserves or improves task accuracy on the evaluated benchmark.
Reported task accuracy comparisons on OMH-Polyglot before and after applying middleware across evaluated backends.
The middleware reduces total tokens (prompt + completion) by up to 18.8 percent.
Empirical measurements reported in the paper comparing total token usage (prompt + completion) with and without middleware.
high positive Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... total token count (prompt + completion)
Across three commercial LLM backends, the middleware reduces prompt tokens by 34–47 percent.
Empirical results reported from experiments on OMH-Polyglot across three commercial LLM backends (aggregate token counts before vs. after middleware).
We introduce a pre-flight, edge-side prompt-rewriting middleware that runs locally (using Llama 3.2 (3B)) to perform cross-lingual translation into English, structural rewriting into a compact task-oriented format, and regex-validated rewrite-with-fallback safeguards to ensure the optimized prompt is never larger than the original.
System implementation and design described in the paper (local Llama 3.2 (3B) model, translation, rewriting, and rewrite-with-fallback mechanism).
high positive Cross-Lingual Token Arbitrage: Optimizing Code Agent Context... ability to produce an optimized prompt not larger than the original (prompt size...
The positive influence of industrial robot application on MVCR is especially significant in low-technology industries.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis reported in the paper showing larger estimated effects in low-tech industry groups.
high positive Industrial Robot Application and the Manufacturing Value Cha... manufacturing value chain resilience (MVCR) (interaction/heterogeneity by indust...
The positive influence of industrial robot application on MVCR is especially significant in downstream segments of the value chain.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis reported in the paper showing larger estimated effects in downstream value-chain segments.
high positive Industrial Robot Application and the Manufacturing Value Cha... manufacturing value chain resilience (MVCR) (interaction/heterogeneity by value-...
The positive influence of industrial robot application on MVCR is particularly significant in privately owned businesses.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis reported in the paper showing stronger estimated effects for privately owned firms compared with other ownership types.
high positive Industrial Robot Application and the Manufacturing Value Cha... manufacturing value chain resilience (MVCR) (interaction/heterogeneity by owners...
Industrial robot application positively impacts manufacturing value chain resilience (MVCR).
Empirical assessment using the constructed industrial-robot application indices and MVCR index (regression/empirical analysis on Chinese A-share listed firms).
high positive Industrial Robot Application and the Manufacturing Value Cha... manufacturing value chain resilience (MVCR)
The machines are increasingly becoming competent.
Authorial assertion about the trend in AI capability (no metrics or studies provided in the excerpt).
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... AI capability/competence over time
The concept of co-intelligence describes a new cognitive ecology where the human and artificial minds mutually influence one another to come up with ways of comprehending, creating and making choices that neither of them could accomplish individually.
Conceptual claim attributed to Ethan Mollick (2024) and extended by the author — described conceptually rather than demonstrated empirically in the excerpt.
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... emergence of novel joint human-AI outputs/decisions
None of the past technologies have spread into so many aspects of human life, so fast.
Author's comparative assertion about the speed and breadth of AI diffusion relative to prior technologies (no empirical comparison provided in the excerpt).
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... relative speed and breadth of technological diffusion
Artificial intelligence has become a partner in our everyday activities: it dictates our emails, diagnoses our diseases, educates our young children, controls our budgets, creates our artworks, and influences the policies made by governments and corporations.
Authorial assertion listing domains of current AI use (no empirical study or quantified data provided in the excerpt).
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... presence/role of AI across a range of everyday activities (email composition, me...
The internet had to cope with more or less a decade before it could reach one billion users; social media did it in half times.
Comparative historical adoption claim presented by the author (no citation or empirical method given in the excerpt).
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... time-to-reach one billion users for internet and social media
Less than a year after its debut, hundreds of millions of individuals on all seven continents were using large language models, in virtually every field of professional activity, and in most languages.
Authorial assertion summarizing global LLM adoption (no specific study, dataset, or methodology provided in the excerpt).
high positive Co-Intelligence: Human-AI Coexistence in the Age of Thinking... number and breadth of large language model users across professions and language...
There were now a hundred million ChatGPT users in two months.
Authorial assertion in the text citing a user-count milestone for ChatGPT (no study or data source provided in the excerpt).
The scientific results converged in both runs.
Paper statement reporting that the scientific results from both agents converged across the two experimental runs (descriptive outcome of the runs).
SLMs can effectively benefit from LLM assistance.
Empirical finding stated in the abstract based on experiments with hybrid MAS architectures where SLMs were assisted by cloud LLMs.
high positive When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... task performance of SLMs when augmented/assisted by LLMs
We adapt two representative MAS architectures to support hybrid inference and study how individual design choices shift the operating point along the Pareto frontier of power, cost, and performance.
Methodological statement from the paper: the authors implemented/adapted two MAS architectures and performed empirical evaluation to map Pareto trade-offs.
high positive When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... power consumption, monetary cost, and task performance as points on a Pareto fro...
Hybrid multi-agent systems (MASs) combining on-device and cloud models offer a promising middle ground between LLMs and SLMs.
Framed as a motivation in the paper; the authors adapt two MAS architectures and study hybrids empirically to support this position.
high positive When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Mu... trade-offs among task performance, monetary cost, and edge energy consumption in...