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Evidence (7560 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 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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Developers actively manage the collaboration, externalizing plans into persistent artifacts, and negotiating AI autonomy through context injection and behavioral constraints.
Observed behaviors in chat transcripts and committed artifacts showing developers creating persistent plans, injecting context, and specifying constraints to shape AI behavior.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... practices for managing AI collaboration (externalization of plans, context injec...
Developers redistribute cognitive work to AI, delegating diagnosis, comprehension, and validation rather than engaging with code and outputs directly.
Content and interaction analyses of chat sessions showing developer prompts delegating diagnosis, comprehension, and validation tasks to the AI assistants (Cursor and GitHub Copilot) across the dataset.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... allocation of cognitive tasks (diagnosis, comprehension, validation) between dev...
Conversational programming operates as progressive specification, with developers iteratively refining outputs rather than specifying complete tasks upfront.
Qualitative/content analysis of the 74,998 messages across 11,579 sessions indicating patterns of iterative prompts and refinements rather than one-shot complete specifications.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... mode of task specification (iterative refinement vs complete upfront specificati...
An Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) framework produces a 'Red Queen' co-evolutionary dynamic between platforms' algorithmic control and worker behavior in which neither side reaches a stable static equilibrium.
Analytical EGT model and numerical simulations of a population-level game between workers (choices: compliance vs. algorithmic gaming) and a platform varying surveillance strictness; model-based result (no empirical sample size).
high mixed THE RED QUEEN in the DASHBOARD: CO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS of ... presence of ongoing co-evolutionary (Red Queen) dynamics / lack of stable static...
This paper proposes three archetypal AI technology types: AI for effort reduction, AI to increase observability, and mechanism-level incentive change AI.
Conceptual taxonomy introduced by the authors (theoretical classification presented in the paper).
high mixed Incentives, Equilibria, and the Limits of Healthcare AI: A G... typology of AI technologies (categorical classification)
AI-driven conversational coaching is increasingly used to support workplace negotiation, yet prior work assumes uniform effectiveness across users.
Background claim in paper indicating prior literature trends and assumptions (stated in introduction/motivation).
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... adoption/use of AI coaching in workplace negotiation
Participants were clustered into three profiles -- resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled -- based on the Big-Five personality traits and ARC typology.
Paper reports clustering analysis on participants using Big-Five trait measures and ARC typology; clustering result described as three profiles. Total sample reported as N=267.
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... personality profile membership (resilient, overcontrolled, undercontrolled)
We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N=267) comparing theory-driven AI (Trucey), general-purpose AI (Control-AI), and a traditional negotiation handbook (Control-NoAI).
Stated experimental design in paper: between-subjects randomized comparison across three conditions with total sample N=267.
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... effectiveness of coaching modalities (psychological and negotiation performance ...
We provide empirical evidence for the inverse parametric knowledge effect: ontological grounding value is inversely proportional to LLM training data coverage of the domain.
Empirical claim based on the controlled experiment (pattern linking grounding value to parametric knowledge coverage reported in paper).
high mixed Ontology-Constrained Neural Reasoning in Enterprise Agentic ... value of ontological grounding relative to LLM parametric knowledge coverage
These findings carry implications for workforce transition policy, regional economic planning, and the temporal dynamics of labor market adjustment.
Paper's discussion/interpretation of modeled ATE results and their policy/economic implications; no empirical test provided for policy outcomes.
high mixed Agentic AI and Occupational Displacement: A Multi-Regional T... policy relevance / labor market adjustment dynamics
Practitioners see the socio-emotional gap not as AI's failure to exhibit SEI traits, but as a functional gap in collaborative capabilities.
Reported interpretation from interview data (10 practitioners) indicating practitioners framed the gap functionally rather than as missing emotional traits.
high mixed Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... framing of the AI–human socio-emotional gap (functional vs. emotional)
AI technologies and digital platforms have fundamentally altered the organization of work and modes of value realization.
Synthesis of contemporary literature and theoretical analysis in a conceptual study (no empirical sample reported).
high mixed The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... organization of work and modes of value realization in platform economies
Leader emotional intelligence (EI) moderates decision quality, delegation, and managerial communication when generative AI tools (Copilot/ChatGPT) are used in corporate management.
Theoretical EI-moderated human–AI model described in the paper and proposal to test it using a randomized online experiment.
high mixed LEADER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE GENERATIVE AI ERA: “HUM... decision quality (and delegation quality, managerial communication)
The four-variable account (produced output, underlying understanding, calibration accuracy, self-assessed ability) better explains phenomena like overconfidence, over- and under-reliance on AI, 'crutch' effects, and weak transfer than the simpler claim that generative AI merely amplifies the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Argumentative synthesis in the paper comparing explanatory power of the proposed four-variable framework against the more general Dunning–Kruger metaphor; draws on examples and empirical patterns from the reviewed literature rather than a single empirical test.
high mixed Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... explanatory fit for phenomena such as overconfidence, reliance patterns, crutch ...
A useful working model is 'AI-mediated metacognitive decoupling': LLM use widens the gap among produced output, underlying understanding, calibration accuracy, and self-assessed ability.
Conceptual synthesis and theoretical proposal grounded in reviewed empirical findings from multiple literatures (human–AI interaction, learning research, model evaluation); presented as the paper's working model rather than as a single empirical estimate.
high mixed Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... degree of alignment/decoupling between produced output, underlying understanding...
All models exhibit task-dependent confabulation: they perform well on standardized legislative templates (e.g., EU directive transpositions) but generate plausible yet unfounded reasoning for politically idiosyncratic proposals.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis across the 15 proposals showing high-fidelity outputs for standardized/template-like proposals and instances of fabricated or unsupported rationale for idiosyncratic proposals; based on model outputs compared to official explanatory memoranda using the dual evaluation framework.
high mixed Can Commercial LLMs Be Parliamentary Political Companions? C... incidence of confabulation / faithfulness to official reasoning, stratified by t...
As technological progress devalues labor, the welfare benefits of steering are at first increased but, beyond a critical threshold, decline and optimal policy shifts toward greater redistribution.
Theoretical model extension analyzing planner's optimal choice as labor's economic value changes; the paper states a non-monotonic relationship with a critical threshold.
high mixed NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES welfare benefits of steering; optimal policy (steering vs redistribution)
Using pre-existing exposure as an instrument for ChatGPT adoption in a long-difference IV design, ChatGPT adoption causes households to spend more time on digital leisure activities while leaving total time spent on productive online activities unchanged.
IV long-difference empirical design: instrumenting household adoption with pre-ChatGPT exposure (2021 browsing); outcome measured as changes in categorized browsing durations (LLM-based classification into 'leisure' vs 'productive' sites); controls include demographic-by-region fixed effects and browsing composition controls.
high mixed https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 change in time spent on digital leisure activities and total time on productive ...
These patterns are consistent with a reorganization of the scientific production process rather than immediate efficiency gains, in line with theories of general-purpose technologies.
Interpretation linking observed changes in budget allocation, team size, and task breadth (from the proposal dataset and task-level analyses) to theoretical predictions about general-purpose technologies (GPTs); empirical findings show organizational change rather than large average short-run productivity gains.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Science: Returns, Reallocation, a... organizational reorganization vs efficiency gains (qualitative interpretation)
This paper offers a forward-looking framework that emphasizes the decentralizing potential of AI on labor markets, moving beyond the traditional displacement-versus-creation dichotomy.
Paper's stated contribution; based on conceptual framework and synthesis of historical and contemporary analyses (no empirical validation presented in the abstract).
high mixed AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work conceptual framing of AI's labor-market effects
The emergence of artificial intelligence and robotics is catalyzing a profound transformation in the nature of human labor.
Stated as a central premise in the paper's abstract; supported by the paper's synthesis of economic history, contemporary labor market data, and analysis of digital platform growth (no specific datasets or sample sizes reported in the abstract).
high mixed AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work nature of human labor / structure of labor markets
AI agents are approaching an inflection point where the binding constraint shifts from raw capability to how work is delegated, verified, and rewarded at scale.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper's introduction/positioning; no empirical data, experiments, or sample reported.
high mixed EpochX: Building the Infrastructure for an Emergent Agent Ci... how work is delegated, verified, and rewarded
The resulting AI safety profile is asymmetric: AI is bottlenecked on frontier research (novel tasks) but unbottlenecked on exploiting existing knowledge.
Theoretical implication of the novelty-bottleneck model distinguishing novel (human-judgment) vs. routine (covered by agent prior) components of tasks.
high mixed The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... AI capability bottlenecks in frontier research vs. exploitation
Wall-clock time can be reduced to O(√E) through team parallelism, but total human effort remains O(E).
Model-derived result showing parallelism across humans can speed wall-clock completion time while aggregate human effort does not drop asymptotically.
high mixed The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... wall-clock task completion time and total human effort
Better agents improve the coefficient on human effort but not the exponent (i.e., they reduce the constant factor but do not change the asymptotic scaling class).
Analytic result from the stylized model under the paper's assumptions about task decomposition and novelty fraction ν.
high mixed The Novelty Bottleneck: A Framework for Understanding Human ... human effort (coefficient vs. asymptotic scaling exponent)
The top four models are statistically indistinguishable (mean score 0.147–0.153) while a clear tier gap separates them from the remaining four models (mean score <= 0.113).
Reported mean performance scores across 8 models and statement of statistical indistinguishability for the top four vs lower-tier four; numerical means provided.
high mixed SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pul... mean model performance score
Behavioral factors — specifically trust calibration, cognitive load, and affective reactions — shape the transition of corporate AI initiatives from pilot deployments to scalable, sustained use.
Synthesis of human-AI interaction literature integrated with adoption frameworks (TAM and TOE); conceptual linkage rather than new empirical testing in this paper.
high mixed Behavioral Factors as Determinants of Successful Scaling of ... success of pilot-to-production transition (scalability and sustained use)
AI accelerates value-chain maturation while creating distinct risks — including professional responsibility tensions and potential system-level externalities.
Conceptual argument and risk analysis in the Article (theoretical reasoning and synthesis of management/ethics literature). No empirical causal estimate reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Rewired: Reconceptualizing Legal Services for the AI Age acceleration of value-chain maturation and emergence of professional responsibil...
The legal profession is at a crossroads, caught between intensifying fears of AI-driven displacement and a generational opportunity for transformation.
Author's synthesis and framing in the Article (conceptual assessment; literature/contextual synthesis). No empirical sample or experiment reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Rewired: Reconceptualizing Legal Services for the AI Age risk of AI-driven displacement and opportunity for transformation in the legal p...
This advantage is contingent upon robust AI governance, ethical frameworks, and the transition from 'pilot-lite' projects to integrated, data-driven 'AI-first' business models.
Conditional claim in the paper linking success to governance, ethics, and organizational integration; appears to be normative/analytical rather than empirical in the abstract.
high mixed The AI Advantage: Strategic Innovation and Global Expansion ... dependency of AI-driven advantage on governance, ethics, and organizational inte...
Actual sharing often contradicted willingness to share (the privacy paradox), with consistently high sharing rates across all conditions.
Observed discrepancy reported in the experimental results (N=240): despite variation in willingness-to-share, behavioral sharing rates remained high and similar across human, white-box AI, and black-box AI conditions.
high mixed Understanding Data-Sharing with AI Systems: The Roles of Tra... discrepancy between stated willingness to share vs actual sharing behavior
Machine-readable metrics and open scholarly infrastructure are reshaping scholarly profiles and incentives.
Conceptual and historical discussion referring to platforms and metrics (e.g., arXiv, Google Scholar, ORCID) as mechanisms changing incentives; no new empirical estimates provided.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... changes in scholarly incentives and profile construction due to machine-readable...
That interconnected ecosystem is fundamentally restructuring who can do science (access), how fast discoveries propagate, and what counts as a valid scientific contribution.
Argumentative claim linking infrastructural and tool changes to changes in access, dissemination speed, and norms of contribution. The paper presents examples and narrative but no systematic empirical evaluation or sample.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... access to scientific practice, speed of discovery dissemination, and norms of sc...
The most consequential development is not any single tool but the emergence of an interconnected ecosystem—AI agents, preprint platforms, open source codebases, and citation infrastructure—that forms a feedback loop.
Synthesis/argument based on multiple examples (LLM agents, preprint servers like arXiv, open-source code repositories, citation indices). No quantitative measurement or causal identification reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... emergence of an interconnected scientific infrastructure ecosystem
The central tension in AI for science is between automation (building systems that replace human researchers) and augmentation (tools that amplify human creativity and judgement).
Analytical claim based on the paper's review of historical examples and conceptual discussion; no primary data or experimental design reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... relationship between automation and augmentation in research practice
Science has repeatedly delegated its bottlenecks to machines—first inference, then search, then measurement, then the full workflow—and each delegation solves one problem while exposing a harder one underneath.
Interpretive historical argument drawing on examples across AI-for-science milestones (e.g., DENDRAL, search and inference systems, measurement automation, and contemporary end-to-end workflows). No quantitative sample or experimental method reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... pattern of delegation and emergent bottlenecks in research workflows
Testing revealed AI excels at computational tasks but consistently misses nuanced factors like new construction rent premiums and infrastructure proximity impacts, validating the framework's hybrid structure as essential for professional-grade underwriting.
Findings from the controlled ChatGPT-4 test on the single 150-unit scenario: qualitative and comparative observations showing AI handled computations well but failed to capture specific local-market nuances, leading authors to endorse a hybrid human-AI framework.
Phase Two requires human-led professional validation to correct AI limitations, apply local market knowledge, and integrate risk factors.
Framework description supported by observations from the controlled test where human review was used to correct AI outputs and apply local knowledge (e.g., adjusting for nuanced market factors).
AI assistance in safety engineering is fundamentally a collaboration design problem rather than merely a software procurement decision: the same tool can either degrade or improve analysis quality depending entirely on how it is used.
Synthesis of the formal framework and analytic results in the paper (theoretical argument; no empirical sample reported).
The paper concludes by discussing open challenges in evaluating harmful manipulation by AI models.
Paper includes a discussion/conclusion section enumerating open challenges; stated in abstract.
high mixed Evaluating Language Models for Harmful Manipulation identification of open research and evaluation challenges
We identify significant differences across our tested geographies, suggesting that AI manipulation results from one geographic region may not generalise to others.
Empirical comparison across three locales (US, UK, India) showing statistically significant differences in manipulation outcomes by geography.
high mixed Evaluating Language Models for Harmful Manipulation geographic variation in manipulative behaviour/effects
Context matters: AI manipulation differs between domains, suggesting that it needs to be evaluated in the high-stakes context(s) in which an AI system is likely to be used.
Comparative analysis across three domains (public policy, finance, health) showing differences in manipulative behaviour and/or impact by domain in the empirical study.
high mixed Evaluating Language Models for Harmful Manipulation variation in manipulative behaviour/effects across use domains
AUROC_2 and M-ratio produce fully inverted model rankings, demonstrating these metrics answer fundamentally different evaluation questions.
Metric comparison across models showing that AUROC_2-based ranking and M-ratio-based ranking are fully inverted in the reported results on the evaluated dataset.
high mixed Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficie... model ranking by AUROC_2 versus model ranking by M-ratio
Temperature manipulation shifts Type-2 criterion while meta-d' remains stable for two of four models, dissociating confidence policy from metacognitive capacity.
Experimental manipulation (temperature changes) applied to models; reported result that Type-2 criterion shifted with temperature while meta-d' was stable for two models (out of four) in the 224,000-trial dataset.
high mixed Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficie... Type-2 criterion (confidence policy) and meta-d' (metacognitive capacity)
Metacognitive efficiency is domain-specific, with different models showing different weakest domains, invisible to aggregate metrics.
Domain-level analyses reported in the paper showing per-domain M-ratio results and identification of different weakest domains per model, contrasted with aggregate metric behavior.
high mixed Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficie... domain-specific metacognitive efficiency (M-ratio) across task domains
Metacognitive efficiency varies substantially across models even when Type-1 sensitivity is similar — Mistral achieves the highest d' but the lowest M-ratio.
Empirical comparison of Type-1 sensitivity (d') and metacognitive efficiency (M-ratio) across the four evaluated LLMs on the 224,000 QA trials; explicit statement that Mistral had highest d' but lowest M-ratio.
high mixed Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficie... Type-1 sensitivity (d') and metacognitive efficiency (M-ratio)
Organizational culture and technological readiness moderate the effectiveness of generative AI integration in decision-making processes.
The paper reports moderation effects tested in the SEM framework using survey data from senior managers, decision-makers, and AI adoption specialists (SmartPLS). No numeric moderator effect sizes or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high mixed The Strategic Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence o... effectiveness of generative AI integration in decision-making (moderation effect...
Implementation of human-replacing technologies leads to significant transformations in skill demand: it reduces reliance on low-skilled labour while increasing demand for qualified engineers, system operators and specialists in digital technologies.
Sector-specific analysis and review of international labour-market studies cited in the article documenting skill-biased effects of automation and digitalization; qualitative assessment for Ukraine's mining and metallurgical sector under workforce shortage conditions.
high mixed Human-replacing technologies as a driver of labour productiv... skill demand composition (shift from low-skilled to high-skilled roles)
The framework implies threshold effects in training and capability acquisition: when the teaching horizon lies below the prerequisite depth of the target, additional instruction cannot produce successful completion of teaching; once that depth is reached, completion becomes feasible.
Model-derived threshold result described in the abstract (mathematical analysis of prerequisite depth vs. teaching horizon).
high mixed A Mathematical Theory of Understanding feasibility of successful teaching / completion of instruction
The value of information depends on whether downstream users can absorb and act on it: a signal conveys meaning only to a learner with the structural capacity to decode it (an explanation that clarifies a concept for one user may be indistinguishable from noise to another who lacks the relevant prerequisites).
Conceptual argument motivating the model; theoretical reasoning described in the paper's intro/abstract.
high mixed A Mathematical Theory of Understanding ability to interpret instructional signals / effective information transfer