Claim LD03-SL-C16 (v1.0)

In a preregistered field experiment with 791 professionals at Procter & Gamble, individuals working with AI matched the performance of teams working without it on product-innovation challenges, and AI helped bridge the gap between R&D and commercial staff.

Provenance and status

Claim type: ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Sustained operational outcomes; firm performance
Source (field 6, as printed): Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026
Source type (field 7): PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
Institutional position: Independent academic
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
Recorded date: 2026-10-15
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD03-SL-C16--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026” → SRC-SL-DELLACQUA-ET-AL-ORGANIZATION-SCIENCE-37-4-2026--v1.0 — Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD03-SL-C16	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	In a preregistered field experiment with 791 professionals at Procter & Gamble, individuals working with AI matched the performance of teams working without it on product-innovation challenges, and AI helped bridge the gap between R&D and commercial staff.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	C — Work reorganization and verification	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026	source_ids: SRC-SL-DELLACQUA-ET-AL-ORGANIZATION-SCIENCE-37-4-2026
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed journal article	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	Product-innovation challenges at one consumer-goods firm	—
10	DESIGN	Preregistered randomized field experiment, 2×2 (AI or not, individual or team)	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	791 professionals	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Generative AI (model not checked)	—
13	COMPARATOR	Individuals and teams without AI	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Individuals with AI perform at the level of teams without AI; AI bridges functional silos; more positive emotional responses; human judgement still matters in selecting ideas	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Whether AI substitutes for or changes the organization of teamwork on a bounded task	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Sustained operational outcomes; firm performance	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Checked against the official abstract only, read in the Crossref record on 15 October 2026; bounded innovation challenges, not routine operations	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Raises an organizational-design question that the individual-provision trial does not test	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	Not checked / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not analysed in this claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-03, D2	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Full-text reading, or evidence from sustained operational work	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-15	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-03 (LIVING_DEBATE); D2 (DOMAIN)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-03 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 038c8f5828228c07a39c2bb50fae8969a39ee4f9c4766fba4dd2e18be211dcd5.

Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)

SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C16 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 16 — LD03-SL-C16” SHA-256 a54b32bf9bdbb9baae1db293d1bf73c4100f77e1b1a12fa391563dc7603bd87f; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD03-SL-C16--v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C16 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-03 debate
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C16 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-DELLACQUA-ET-AL-ORGANIZATION-SCIENCE-37-4-2026--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 16 — LD03-SL-C16 cites "Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-DELLACQUA-ET-AL-ORGANIZATION-SCIENCE-37-4-2026--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Dell’Acqua, Ayoubi, Lifshitz et al., “The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork,” Organization Science 37(4), 2026".