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Evidence (1809 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

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
The AAITCF treats context as constitutive of intervention effectiveness and highlights underexplored causal pathways from AI deployment to long-term institutional change, taxpayer trust, and equitable fiscal governance.
Framework description and identification of research gaps in the paper based on the literature synthesis using the CIMO framework.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Tax Compliance and Evasion Mitiga... links between AI deployment and long-term institutional change, taxpayer trust, ...
The study finds that prior reviews tended to focus narrowly (e.g., on detection metrics, behavioral dynamics, or ethical deficits) without integrating institutional boundary conditions, governance capacity, or an overarching theoretical framework.
Critical comparison and gap analysis of existing review literature as reported in the paper's introduction and synthesis sections.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Tax Compliance and Evasion Mitiga... scope and limitations of prior literature/reviews
Policy implications derived from the literature include interventions spanning labor transition (reskilling/transition support), competition regulation, and digital governance.
Narrative synthesis of policy recommendations across the 78 studies and institutional reports included in the SLR.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... recommended policy domains (labor, competition, digital governance)
AI policies' carbon outcomes depend on regional economic structures, implying the need for spatially differentiated governance.
Interpretation/implication drawn from heterogeneous and spatial analyses showing region-specific effects; result is policy recommendation based on study findings (supporting analyses referenced but not detailed in abstract).
high mixed The carbon reduction effect of China’s national AI innovatio... dependence of carbon outcomes on regional economic structure / policy effectiven...
Heterogeneous effects: emissions decreased in the Pearl River Delta and increased in the Chengdu–Chongqing region and in resource-based cities (these heterogeneous findings are statistically marginal).
Subgroup/regional heterogeneity analysis comparing policy effects across regions (Pearl River Delta, Chengdu–Chongqing, resource-based cities); statistical significance described as marginal in the paper (no sample sizes or exact p-values provided in abstract).
The research is limited by the current state of AI technology and the available proxies; therefore the validity of the present optimistic findings must be continually re-evaluated.
Authors' stated limitations in the abstract noting rapid AI advancement and proxy measurement constraints.
high mixed Economic Growth, AI Adoption and Human Capital Across the OE... validity/reliability of current empirical findings on AI's economic effects
We propose 'contextuality' — the degree to which an AI system autonomously accesses a user's accumulated knowledge capital — as a dimension of AI-mediated inequality that complements, but is not reducible to, the Sharp et al. framework.
Conceptual proposal and definitional contribution in the paper presenting contextuality as a new analytic dimension.
high mixed The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... conceptual dimension (contextuality) as explanatory variable for inequality in A...
Sharp et al. (2025) introduce "agentic inequality" as a framework for analyzing disparities in access to AI agents across three dimensions: availability, quality, and quantity.
Statement and citation in the paper (reference to Sharp et al. 2025); descriptive synthesis of prior work.
high mixed The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as... existence/definition of a conceptual framework (agentic inequality with three di...
The paper identifies four systemic tensions generated by embodied AI adoption: openness versus control; scaling versus local fit; automation ambition versus reliability constraints; and monetization versus trust.
Explicit listing of four tensions in the abstract as theoretical findings (conceptual analysis).
high mixed Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) business model dynamic... systemic tensions in governance, scaling, automation, and monetization
Data generated through physical use of embodied AI travels beyond the adopting firm (i.e., data flows cross firm boundaries).
Explicit conceptual claim in the abstract about data movement across ecosystems (theoretical observation).
Embodied AI implies a double learning loop: a closed learning loop inside the adopting firm (transforming situated use into operational feedback and workflow changes) and an external learning loop across the ecosystem of technology providers, component suppliers, software firms, platform orchestrators, and users.
Conceptual model/argument presented in the abstract describing intra-firm and inter-organizational learning loops (theoretical development).
high mixed Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) business model dynamic... learning loops and cross-firm data flows
Because AI externalities differ in nuanced ways, tax policy must be carefully designed and matched to the specific harms and policy objectives.
Author conclusion/recommendation based on the paper's analysis of heterogeneous AI externalities and tax instrument trade-offs; normative claim in text (no empirical test in excerpt).
high mixed Taxing Artificial Intelligence appropriateness/fit of tax policy to AI externalities
The benefits and pitfalls of these instruments include feasibility, measurement problems, incidence, leakage, and innovation costs.
Author assessment summarized in paper identifying common advantages and disadvantages of proposed tax instruments; descriptive/theoretical evaluation rather than empirical evidence in the excerpt.
high mixed Taxing Artificial Intelligence feasibility, measurement problems, incidence, leakage, and innovation costs asso...
Possible tax instruments for AI include corporate income and rent-based taxes, consumption taxes on AI-related services, and excise instruments tied to specific AI activities.
Author survey of tax instruments presented in the paper; descriptive listing rather than empirical claim (paper states these instruments are discussed/surveyed).
high mixed Taxing Artificial Intelligence types of tax instruments applicable to AI
The mandate acted as a catalyst rather than a direct driver: because adoption and usage intensity were not randomly assigned, the evidence strongly implicates an adoption-and-use channel rather than exact causal attribution.
Authors' methodological caveat based on observational (non-randomized) adoption and usage intensity; interpretation of DiD estimates as indicative of channels rather than definitive causal estimates.
high mixed AI Writes Faster Than Humans Can Review: A Longitudinal Stud... degree to which observed gains can be causally attributed to the mandate versus ...
Optimal tax and regulatory policies that achieve Pareto-improvements differ depending on whether there is competition in AI production.
Policy analysis within the theoretical model deriving optimal tax/regulatory prescriptions under different market structures (competitive vs monopolistic). No empirical sample reported.
high mixed The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... optimal tax and regulatory policy design for Pareto-improvements
Rather than proposing a deterministic growth model, the study advances a conditional and ecosystem-centered interpretation of AI-led development.
Authors' interpretive conclusion based on their structured review and the integrative innovation-ecosystem framework synthesizing mechanisms and contextual dependencies in the 2015–2025 literature.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... interpretation / conceptualization of AI-led development (conditional/ecosystem-...
The proposed model demonstrates how natural resource dynamics, financial systems, and AI technologies form an interdependent triadic structure in which disturbances in one domain propagate across the entire system.
Presentation of a conceptual/formal model (systems analysis) in the paper showing interdependencies; no empirical dataset or sample size provided.
high mixed Synergy in the economics of sustainable development and Arti... systemic propagation of disturbances across natural resource, financial, and AI ...
The research conceptualizes sustainability as a nonlinear adaptive process characterized by dynamic feedback loops and emergent systemic behavior.
Theoretical/systems analysis and conceptual argumentation in the paper; no empirical validation or sample size reported.
high mixed Synergy in the economics of sustainable development and Arti... characterization of sustainability as a nonlinear adaptive process (feedback loo...
Better measurement matters, but improved measurement alone will not close the coordination gap between researchers and policymakers.
Authors' analytical conclusion arguing that measurement improvements are necessary but insufficient.
high mixed AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... effect of measurement improvements on research–policy coordination
The paper develops the concept of 'bidirectional dynamics' in digital sovereignties, applying a paradoxical view to interpret institutional control objectives and individual autonomy aspirations as persistent organizational tensions in AI adoption.
Theoretical/conceptual development grounded in the empirical single-case study; concept introduced and motivated by observed tensions in the organization (empirical method details and sample size not provided).
high mixed Tensions And Synergies Between Digital Sovereignties In Ai A... conceptual framing of institutional control vs. individual autonomy (bidirection...
Early digital transformation presents tensions but also synergies between digital sovereignty levels in AI adoption.
Empirical observations from the single-case study of a Nordic public transportation organization during early AI adoption; qualitative examples and analysis (specific methods/sample size not stated).
high mixed Tensions And Synergies Between Digital Sovereignties In Ai A... presence of tensions and synergies between individual and organizational digital...
Generative engine optimization (GEO) should be studied not only as a security risk, but also as an emerging marketing practice that shapes market competition.
Paper's concluding/interpretive statement based on the experimental findings about LLM recommendation dynamics and GEO effects on brand recommendations.
high mixed Incumbent Advantage: Brand Bias and Cognitive Manipulation D... research_recommendation / normative_conclusion
A third possibility — the collective and self-organized stewardship of AI-relevant resources by communities (commons-governed approaches) — remains comparatively under-theorized in scholarship even as it proliferates in practice (e.g., data trusts, cooperatives, federated learning consortia, public compute initiatives, open-weight collaborations, community data sovereignty regimes).
Comparative literature review noting fewer theoretical treatments of commons approaches alongside cited examples of practical manifestations (lists of existing initiatives and models).
high mixed Commons-Governed Artificial Intelligence: A Taxonomy of Coll... degree of theoretical attention vs. practical proliferation of commons-style AI ...
Human values produce societies that thrive or fail on the merits of those values — from failed states and extreme inequality to declining happiness, political polarization, and government dysfunction in the world's wealthiest democracies.
Descriptive/causal claim asserted by authors linking values to a range of societal outcomes; no specific empirical studies or samples cited in the abstract.
high mixed Position: Align AI to Our Aspirations, Not Our Flaws societal outcomes (state failure, inequality, happiness, political polarization,...
Forms of resistance exist, including localisation efforts and Indigenous ethical frameworks, but they remain structurally limited.
Synthesis of examples and themes across the 50 reviewed articles noting reported resistance strategies and their limits.
high mixed AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... existence and structural effectiveness of resistance efforts (localisation, Indi...
While net-zero targets for 2050 may be achieved, critical emission risks may appear in intermediate years and the EU may compromise its carbon‑neutral goals unless policies adapt to the accelerating digital transformation.
Scenario trajectories from the optimisation model indicating that 2050 net-zero remains attainable in some scenarios but with interim emissions overshoots; policy conclusions drawn by the authors.
high mixed Powering the Future of AI: Navigating the Trade-offs for Eur... attainment of net-zero by 2050 and interim emission risk (policy implication)
The economic consequences of generative AI in financial markets depend critically on institutional context (regulatory and governance capacity).
Synthesis of heterogeneous treatment effects and interaction results across markets with varying governance/regulatory quality in the cross-market panel analysis.
high mixed The impact of generative AI on institutional efficiency: Reg... overall economic consequences (efficiency, liquidity, volatility) conditional on...
The paper characterises the Glassbox architecture and grounds it in a benefit eligibility scenario, identifying foundational challenges — semantic alignment, dynamic model construction, probabilistic grounding, and human governance — that must be solved to realise it at scale.
Descriptive summary of the paper's contributions and identified research/engineering challenges; based on the authors' conceptual analysis and scenario exposition.
high mixed Beyond Post-hoc Explanation: Toward Glassbox AI via Probabil... identification of foundational challenges to scalable implementation
These examples show an important shift in the governance of wealth chains – the creation of new forms of infrastructural power through which algorithmic models may become central nodes in tax governance.
Synthesis/interpretive conclusion in the abstract that the illustrative examples imply a governance shift and new infrastructural power; presented as interpretive argument rather than empirically demonstrated in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains shift in governance of wealth chains and emergence of algorithmic models as cent...
This signals a transformation of the assumed information asymmetries between suppliers, clients, and regulators that sits at the heart of the Global Wealth Chains framework.
Conceptual claim in the abstract linking technological change to shifts in information asymmetries within the Global Wealth Chains framework; presented as interpretive argument rather than supported by reported empirical data in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains information asymmetries among suppliers, clients, and regulators
A key development is a move away from deliberate opacity for secrecy purposes into systems that search for the optimal exploitation of legal affordances.
Analytic/interpretive claim made in the abstract about a shift in practices; presented as an argument based on the authors' reflection and examples rather than empirical measurement in the abstract.
high mixed How TaxTech rewires global wealth chains change in information-disclosure strategies and legal-exploitation systems
Grounding the concept of defensive AI governance in organisation-level evidence from the Global South contributes to debates on platform power, journalistic agency, and AI governance in journalism.
Theoretical/interpretive claim based on the study's case of Al-Masry Al-Youm and its empirical insights; presented as a contribution to scholarly debates. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... scholarly contribution to debates on platform power and AI governance in journal...
The authors introduce the concept of 'defensive AI governance' to describe how AI adoption is managed through organisational practices of limitation, supervision, and infrastructural self-protection.
Conceptual contribution grounded in organisation-level qualitative evidence from interviews and analysis of Al-Masry Al-Youm's practices; the concept is derived from the study's empirical findings. Sample size not reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: I... organisational AI governance practices (limitation, supervision, infrastructural...
Human and algorithmic actors jointly influence strategic outcomes, motivating the concept of 'hybrid upper echelons' in which executive influence increasingly shifts from making decisions to configuring and governing AI-enabled decision processes.
Theoretical contribution based on integration of management and IS literature in the concept-centric review; proposition of a new conceptual framework ('hybrid upper echelons') rather than primary empirical validation.
high mixed Hybrid Upper Echelons: A Theorizing Review On Ai In Executiv... role of executives (shift from direct decision-making to configuring/governing A...
These behavioral differences have implications for deployment of agentic AI in scientific computing workflows, such as trade-offs between speed versus auditability, silent versus transparent error handling, instruction interpretation, and the criticality of intermediate data representations in multi-model pipelines.
Authors' discussion and interpretation based on observed experimental differences between the two agents across the runs.
The limitations in the audit reports reflect symbolic compliance (per institutional theory), while stewardship theory highlights potential for deeper accountability.
Theoretical interpretation using institutional theory and stewardship theory presented in the paper (argumentative rather than empirical).
high mixed Towards Using Ai Bias Audits As Inputs For Red Teaming And P... interpretation of organizational motives (symbolic compliance vs. stewardship/ac...
Adaptive governance conditions how AI-driven capabilities translate into sustainability and risk outcomes.
Comparative analysis across the three jurisdictions (China, US, UK, 2022–2025) integrating quantitative indicators and qualitative documentary evidence, with the abstract highlighting the 'conditioning role of adaptive governance'.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Financial Security Markets: Catal... translation of AI capabilities into sustainability and risk outcomes (conditioni...
Comparative analysis of Japanese, European, and United States legal frameworks shows differing treatments of translation data and points toward the need for redistributive design to remedy unequal attribution and capture.
Comparative legal analysis across jurisdictions (Japan, EU, US) and normative argument proposing redistributive design directions; no experimental or quantitative evaluation provided.
high mixed Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translat... policy/regulatory implications and proposals for redistributive design
AI-induced workforce disruption is not only a labor market issue but also an enterprise governance challenge.
Argument/position advanced in the paper highlighting governance responsibilities for firms implementing AI.
high mixed From Automation Panic to Workforce Resilience: A Governance ... framing of AI workforce disruption (governance vs. solely labor-market)
Drawing on the partial equilibrium model of Gries and Naudé (2022), existing economic frameworks may inadvertently overlook these factors.
The paper's theoretical critique referencing Gries & Naudé (2022); argument is based on model comparison and conceptual analysis rather than new empirical tests.
high mixed Position: Adopting AI in Practice Does Not Guarantee the Pro... completeness of economic models/frameworks in capturing moderating factors
These findings have broader implications for productivity, equity, and capacity across the global research system.
Discussion/interpretation in paper based on causal results from randomized experiment; inference from observed behavioral changes and heterogeneous effects.
high mixed Human-AI Collaboration in Science at Scale: A Global Large-s... productivity, equity, and system capacity (broad policy/interpretive outcome)
Recent Chinese regulatory initiatives addressing anthropomorphic and emotionally interactive AI services illustrate emerging governmental responses to the social and psychological risks associated with relational AI.
Cited as an illustrative example in the recommendations; the text references Chinese initiatives but does not provide specific citations, legal texts, or empirical evaluation within the document.
high mixed Governing Relational AI: China’s Regulation of Anthropomorph... existence of Chinese regulatory initiatives targeting anthropomorphic/emotionall...
Regulatory approaches to advanced AI systems are evolving differently across major jurisdictions.
General observation in the recommendations; no cross-jurisdictional comparative analysis or dataset provided in the text.
high mixed Governing Relational AI: China’s Regulation of Anthropomorph... divergence in regulatory approaches across jurisdictions
Algorithmic authority may both strengthen and undermine legitimacy of decisions in AI-enabled organizations.
Theoretical analysis in the paper presenting dual possibilities for algorithmic authority's impact on legitimacy, supported by conceptual reasoning and literature (no empirical test reported).
high mixed Decision Legitimacy in AI-Enabled Organizations: A Multileve... decision legitimacy (increase or decrease) as influenced by algorithmic authorit...
Verification cost and responsibility transferability determine whether the execution and accountability boundaries can move together.
Propositional/theoretical argument within the capability-level theory; supported by conceptual reasoning and illustrative cases, not by empirical estimation.
high mixed Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries ... co-movement of execution and accountability boundaries
Comparative analysis reveals significant institutional differences between EU and Ukrainian legal systems that are relevant to regulatory stability, the cost of innovation, data accessibility, the balance of market power, and guarantees for consumers and employees.
Qualitative comparative examination of institutional and cultural/procedural differences between EU and Ukraine as presented in the paper (method: comparative approach; no quantitative metrics provided).
high mixed ECONOMIC SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALISATION AND AI: TH... institutional differences affecting regulatory stability, innovation costs, data...
Most Ukrainian laws relevant to the digital economy are based on existing legal structures and systems, and Ukraine currently lacks a unified regulatory system specifically designed for artificial intelligence.
Comparative analysis of Ukrainian and EU legal frameworks as described in the paper (method: comparative approach; legal document review referenced qualitatively).
high mixed ECONOMIC SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALISATION AND AI: TH... coverage and specificity of Ukrainian legislation for the digital economy and AI
The study evaluates contemporary mitigation frameworks for algorithmic bias in HR settings.
Statement of the paper's evaluative aim; implies review/assessment of mitigation strategies but no specific methods or metrics provided in excerpt.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... effectiveness/characteristics of mitigation frameworks
Techno-sovereignty is a mode of authority grounded in control over data, computation, and AI infrastructures, exercised through state, corporate, and community or Indigenous configurations.
Conceptualization and normative-theoretical analysis drawing on political theory and community/Indigenous approaches (qualitative, no quantitative data).
high mixed Digital colonialism, techno-sovereignty, and infrastructural... form and locus of authority over AI infrastructure (state, corporate, community/...