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Evidence (104 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 1880 496 296 1854 4721
Organizational Efficiency 2906 665 438 180 4210
Governance & Regulation 2162 929 480 247 3866
Technology Adoption Rate 1533 545 278 210 2593
Decision Quality 1391 534 321 173 2429
Output Quality 1298 472 231 145 2153
AI Safety & Ethics 682 821 230 90 1837
Research Productivity 855 253 121 425 1675
Firm Productivity 1105 171 175 73 1531
Task Allocation 735 229 361 99 1433
Market Structure 457 461 251 47 1222
Innovation Output 673 94 108 36 913
Task Completion Time 499 118 43 38 702
Firm Revenue 458 130 61 26 677
Skill Acquisition 381 122 113 34 650
Consumer Welfare 316 176 115 39 648
Employment Level 223 143 177 53 600
Error Rate 246 282 44 19 594
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 283 142 78 52 562
Inequality Measures 103 329 106 13 552
Worker Satisfaction 225 185 63 30 503
Automation Exposure 158 155 72 37 426
Regulatory Compliance 186 126 35 14 362
Team Performance 193 56 51 24 326
Developer Productivity 224 58 27 13 323
Wages & Compensation 148 108 50 17 323
Training Effectiveness 218 44 21 27 313
Job Displacement 23 159 53 5 240
Hiring & Recruitment 109 61 32 11 215
Skill Obsolescence 16 107 26 6 155
Creative Output 71 44 28 6 150
Social Protection 58 31 12 3 104
Labor Share of Income 29 43 25 2 99
Worker Turnover 45 29 6 4 84
Industry 1 1
Targeted transfers reduce measured inequality more effectively than universal transfers of equivalent fiscal size, but impose larger output costs.
The IMF model compares targeted and universal redistribution schemes with equal fiscal size and evaluates inequality and output effects.
high mixed AI and Economic Divergence in India: Navigating the Viksit B... Income inequality and aggregate output under alternative transfer designs
The temporal aggregation axioms yield a discounted aggregation of present aggregate human power or a logarithmic inequality-averse alternative; the authors select the form that penalizes intertemporal power inequality.
Proposition 5 derives three possible functional forms under T1–T8, and the authors select the η > 0 logarithmic form.
high mixed A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Deside... Longitudinal distribution of aggregate human power
The study identified buffer conditions under which Double Displacement did not fully materialise.
Thematic analysis of interview narratives; the abstract reports an identifiable set of buffer conditions but the supplied text does not specify them.
high mixed Too old, too foreign, too replaceable? How AI shapes livelih... Occurrence or mitigation of compounded displacement
Automation may reshape social security provision by promoting individualized, targeted interventions.
Chapter argument supported by descriptive examples of targeted interventions enabled by datafication and automated decision-making; no experimental or large-N observational studies reported.
high mixed Redefining welfare deservingness: the impact of AI and algor... degree of individualization/targeting in social security interventions
There is a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social reproduction: digital agents can compensate for productive functions of the population but are unable to substitute the population's functions of social reproduction.
Theoretical argument and conceptual distinction in the paper; no empirical study measuring substitution in social reproduction provided.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... capacity of digital agents to substitute productive vs social reproduction funct...
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)
Although many regions use similar ethical language, substantial differences persist in risk allocation, regulatory enforcement, welfare integration and social protection.
Content analysis of policy documents showing overlap in ethical rhetoric but divergence across coded institutional dimensions related to risk allocation, enforcement, welfare integration and social protection (n=24).
high mixed Artificial intelligence governance and social policy diverge... similarity of ethical language vs. divergence in (a) risk allocation, (b) regula...
Prevalence and risk factors for poverty differ by gender, as does the nature of vulnerability.
Stated as a general empirical claim in the introduction, drawing on broader literature (no specific study, method, or sample size provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Social Protection and Gender: Policy, Practice, and Research poverty prevalence and vulnerability (gender-disaggregated)
Compensation was rare, accounting for only 2.3% of response-frame mentions, and was concentrated almost entirely on the political left.
Descriptive response-frame frequencies and party-family comparisons.
high negative Meeting the Coming Wave: The Emerging Politics of AI and Wor... Share and partisan concentration of compensation, redistribution, and social-pro...
The expansion of flexible, platform-based, and project-based employment is associated with greater employment instability, inadequate social-security coverage, and less-clear career development paths.
The paper presents these as consequences of the shift away from long-term, full-time employment and notes that flexible workers have relatively low social-insurance participation; no original survey or administrative estimate is reported.
high negative The Structural Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on the Lab... Employment stability, social-security coverage, and career prospects
Villages in split blocks have lower application rates for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Analysis of NREGA application data as a measure of demand for public employment assistance, interpreted alongside the paper's estimates of firm entry and private-sector employment.
Participants’ accounts included enforced professional silence near retirement and fragmented cross-border pension entitlements as a structural amplifier of displacement.
Themes identified through reflexive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 32 participants.
high negative Too old, too foreign, too replaceable? How AI shapes livelih... Professional voice and livelihood security near retirement
Ride-hailing and delivery workers face substantial physical risks, while medical costs and lost income from on-the-job injuries typically fall on workers or public health and disability systems where employer-provided workers' compensation is absent.
Case-study discussion of ride-hailing and delivery work, supported by cited research; no injury sample, incidence rate, or causal estimate is reported.
high negative Digital Labor and Social Protection in the Platform Economy Work-related injury burden and coverage of medical costs and lost income
Platform workers frequently work for multiple platforms, have irregular and difficult-to-verify incomes, and face contested employer identities, creating institutional barriers to welfare eligibility.
Institutional analysis of welfare-state eligibility rules compared with characteristics of platform work; no original sample or quantitative estimate is reported.
high negative Digital Labor and Social Protection in the Platform Economy Eligibility for welfare and social-insurance benefits
By classifying workers as independent contractors, digital labor platforms shift the costs of healthcare, retirement savings, and injury protection from platforms to workers.
Political-economy analysis of platform business models, supported by cited research on platform work; no causal estimate or original dataset is presented.
high negative Digital Labor and Social Protection in the Platform Economy Worker responsibility for and access to social-protection costs
Digital labor platforms create a structural mismatch between employment-linked welfare systems and fragmented, algorithmically managed work, producing a persistent welfare deficit for platform workers.
Conceptual analysis of employment-based welfare institutions and platform work, supported by cited social-policy and labor scholarship; no original empirical sample is reported.
high negative Digital Labor and Social Protection in the Platform Economy Access to social protection, including healthcare, pensions, unemployment benefi...
The K99 Triumph City compound had documented ties to trafficking, and survivors reported beatings and electrocution for failing to meet fraud targets.
Survivor interviews and testimony, Cyber Scam Monitor reporting, and operational artifacts including screenshots and chat logs.
high negative Malware as a Service in Human Trafficking Operations at a Sc... Use of coercion and violence in illicit labor arrangements
Developing advanced AI within a growth-oriented economic system is likely to increase social, environmental, and existential risks.
Argumentative claim in the paper supported by conceptual analysis and references to post-growth literature; not based on direct empirical measurement within this paper.
high negative The economic alignment problem of artificial intelligence social, environmental, and existential risks associated with AI development
Algorithmic systems can filter access to welfare based on rigid criteria, deepening distinctions between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' citizens.
Chapter cites recent examples of algorithmic use in social assistance and activation policies illustrating filtering behavior; evidence presented qualitatively rather than as quantified causal estimates.
high negative Redefining welfare deservingness: the impact of AI and algor... access to welfare / exclusion based on algorithmic criteria
These technologies inherently favor narrowing welfare support to smaller, more selective units.
Chapter's central argumentative claim, supported by qualitative analysis and recent examples of algorithmic use in social assistance and activation policies; no quantitative sample size or controlled study reported.
high negative Redefining welfare deservingness: the impact of AI and algor... scope of welfare support (degree of selectivity vs universality)
Female gig workers face gender-specific vulnerabilities, including safety concerns and absence of maternity benefits.
Qualitative interview data highlighting gender-differentiated experiences and barriers reported by female delivery partners.
high negative Algorithmic Management and Labour Protection in India's Gig ... gender-specific vulnerabilities (safety, access to maternity benefits)
Workers have limited access to statutory benefits despite formal recognition in law.
Combined policy analysis (Code on Social Security) and interview evidence showing gaps in actual access to benefits.
high negative Algorithmic Management and Labour Protection in India's Gig ... access to statutory social security benefits
Income inequality has the opposite effect (it works against poverty reduction).
Negative and statistically significant coefficient on an income inequality measure in the CS-ARDL estimates for BRICS (2008–2023).
Kişisel verilerin metalaştırılması, Julie E. Cohen’in 'biyopolitik kamusal alan' kavramsallaştırması üzerinden değerlendirildiğinde, kişisel bilgi ekonomik üretim ve davranışsal öngörünün hammaddesi olarak hukuksal dispozitif tarafından yapılandırılmaktadır.
Teorik değerlendirme ve kavramsal çerçeveleme; atıf yapılan literatüre dayanıyor; no empirical testing reported.
high negative GÖZETİM KAPİTALİZMİNİN HUKUKSAL TEMELLERİ: FOUCAULTCU BİR AN... kişisel bilgilerin ekonomik hammaddelere dönüştürülmesi ve hukuksal düzenlemeyle...
AI users and the general public were judged the most vulnerable to these risks.
Delphi panel rated actor vulnerability; results reported in paper indicate AI users and general public received highest vulnerability ratings (n=272).
high negative Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delp... actor vulnerability ratings
Unless labour law evolves to address digitally mediated control and platform-based asymmetry, the gig economy risks normalising exploitative labour conditions under the guise of innovation and flexibility.
Predictive/theoretical claim based on the paper's synthesis of platform practices, legal gaps, and normative concerns; argued through comparative analysis and conceptual reasoning rather than quantitative forecasting.
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... future trajectory of labour conditions and normalization of exploitative practic...
Unemployment insurance adjudication has seen rapid integration of AI systems and the question of additional fact-finding poses the most significant bottleneck for a system that affects millions of applicants annually.
Contextual/introductory claim in paper; references to domain-scale impact and bottleneck; no specific numeric study sample provided in excerpt.
high negative Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Fact... scale of impact (number of applicants affected) and fact-finding bottleneck in a...
Universal Basic Income (UBI), evaluated through incentive-structure lens, will default to a pacification mechanism rather than a genuine solution in the absence of a revolutionary threat that historically forced redistribution.
Normative and theoretical analysis of incentive structures and historical mechanisms of redistribution; the excerpt presents this as an argument rather than reporting empirical trials or quantified outcomes.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... policy effect of UBI (pacification vs. genuine redistribution/solution)
Universal Basic Income (UBI), absent a revolutionary threat that historically forced redistribution, will default to a pacification mechanism rather than a genuine solution to mass loss of labor value.
Normative/incentive-structure analysis and historical comparison presented in the paper; no empirical trial data or sample sizes cited in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... effectiveness of UBI (redistribution vs. pacification)
Kerangka hukum ketenagakerjaan Indonesia saat ini bersifat reaktif, dengan fokus pada kompensasi pasca-PHK yang belum mampu menjawab dampak jangka panjang disrupsi AI.
Analisis normatif terhadap peraturan perundang-undangan dan temuan dari literatur yang ditinjau; kesimpulan yang dilaporkan oleh penulis penelitian.
high negative Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... orientasi kebijakan hukum (reaktif vs proaktif) dan kecukupan penanganan dampak ...
The intersection of IoT, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and robotics collectively impacts social security systems.
The paper presents this as the focal analytic topic—an argument based on theoretical discussion and synthesis rather than reported empirical measurement (no sample size given).
high negative IoT, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and robotics a... impact on social security systems (e.g., strains on social protection)
Only 12% of gig workers participate in retirement savings programs.
Survey and administrative measures of retirement-savings participation among gig workers in the 24-country sample.
high negative The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Wor... proportion of gig workers participating in retirement savings programs (%)
Only 23% of gig workers report access to employer-provided health insurance.
Self-reported benefits coverage from labor force surveys and linked administrative records for gig workers across the 24 OECD countries (2015–2025).
high negative The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Wor... proportion of gig workers reporting access to employer-provided health insurance...
The environmental footprint of healthcare systems is growing and persistent inequities in access and outcomes have intensified calls for procurement reform.
Contemporary literature review and synthesis of sector reports and studies documenting healthcare emissions/footprint and health inequities (no original empirical data reported in this paper).
high negative Greening the Medicaid Supply Chain: An ESG-Integrated Framew... environmental footprint of healthcare systems; inequities in access and health o...
Removing survival wording did not eliminate continuation-support behavior or mortality when depletion and termination mechanisms remained in place.
A matched mechanism comparison used four worlds, two GPT and two DeepSeek, in which the survival instruction was removed while depletion and termination were retained; all four worlds still lost all six agents, and continuation support changed by only +0.50 events per world.
high null result AI Agent Economics: Can Autonomous Economic Behavior Emerge ... Agent mortality and continuation-support transfers
Penelitian menilai kecukupan perlindungan hukum yang tersedia bagi pekerja terdampak PHK akibat adopsi AI.
Pernyataan tujuan penelitian dan pendekatan analitis (normatif, komparatif) yang didukung oleh tinjauan literatur pada jurnal-jurnal terpilih.
high null result Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... kecukupan perlindungan hukum bagi pekerja terdampak AI
Capital income taxes, worker equity participation, universal basic income, upskilling, and Coasian bargaining cannot eliminate the excess automation.
Model-based policy counterfactuals evaluated in the paper showing these interventions fail to achieve the social optimum in the theoretical framework; no empirical sample.
high null result The AI Layoff Trap effectiveness of listed policies at preventing excessive automation / preserving...
Education access, active labor-market policies, social protection, and wider digital access can mitigate adverse distributional outcomes and help share AI gains more broadly.
Review of policy literature and proposed evaluation of training, social protection, and digital-access interventions.
high positive Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Comprehensive... Distribution of AI-related gains and inequality
Reducing the unequal effects of AI requires investment in digital infrastructure and affordable connectivity, together with redistribution and social-safety mechanisms.
Policy synthesis linking infrastructure gaps to unequal AI diffusion and recommending measures to address transitional and structural inequality.
high positive Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Global Economy Inclusion and reduction of AI-driven inequality
Universal Basic Income can provide an income floor that cushions displacement, but its design must balance worker incentives with fiscal sustainability.
Qualitative case studies of UBI experiments and policy proposals.
high positive Technological Polarization and Unequal Growth in the Era of ... Income protection for workers affected by displacement
The proposed negotiated share-compensation mechanism is intended to produce a Pareto improvement in which shareholders benefit or are unharmed and laid-off employees are unharmed or better off.
Theoretical Pareto-improvement argument based on negotiated transfers of firm equity; no empirical estimate of the frequency or magnitude of such improvements is provided.
high positive Modifying the Corporate Objective to Improve Social Welfare:... Distributional welfare of shareholders and laid-off employees
A modified shareholder wealth maximization scheme that compensates laid-off employees with negotiated company shares can, for many large firms, leave employees at least as well off while still allowing shareholders to gain or avoid losses.
Theoretical welfare analysis and bargaining-based comparative statics; the paper presents conditions under which negotiated equity transfers can preserve shareholder gains while compensating affected employees.
high positive Modifying the Corporate Objective to Improve Social Welfare:... Employee welfare and shareholder wealth following layoffs with negotiated share ...
Decoupling health insurance from employment could protect displaced workers' access to health care and therapeutics and help prevent widening health inequality.
Policy recommendation based on the proposed mechanism linking employment displacement, insurance loss, health-care access, and health outcomes; no causal policy estimate is reported.
high positive Public Policies in Historical Context and the Association Be... Equitable access to health care and therapeutics after employment displacement
Contracts, inspections, and grievance channels are necessary safeguards against migrant-worker exploitation and for preserving social cohesion.
Normative assessment of worker-protection and control mechanisms in labour-migration governance.
high positive STATE MECHANISMS FOR REGULATING IMMIGRATION OF WORKERS FROM ... Protection from exploitation and preservation of social cohesion
South Korea proposed taxing robotic labor to fund transitions for displaced workers, but those proposals were not fully enacted.
Comparative policy discussion in the paper of South Korean proposals concerning robotic labor and worker transition funding.
high positive The Architecture of Synthetic Agency: Autonomous Robotics, M... Policy response to worker displacement caused by robotic labor
This architecture supports UNDRR findings that such systems reduce disaster death rates by 6x.
Paper cites/aligns with UNDRR findings claiming a 6x reduction in disaster death rates due to early warning systems; the excerpt does not include the UNDRR source or context.
high positive Closing Africa's Early Warning Gap: AI Weather Forecasting f... reduction in disaster death rates attributable to early warning systems
The paper introduces Universal Desired Resources as a post-monetary design principle that eliminates the material basis of intersectional oppression.
Normative/design claim introduced by the paper (conceptual principle; no empirical test or sample given in the excerpt).
high positive Anarchist Automation: A Sociotechnical Framework for Decentr... elimination of material basis of intersectional oppression via Universal Desired...
The framework was applied specifically to targeted cash transfer programs in Ethiopia (case study).
Stated empirical application in the paper; specific empirical details (sample size, metrics) not provided in the excerpt.
high positive On the Meta-Design of Allocation Problems application of meta-design framework to targeted cash transfer programs
Formalizing the social cost of intersectional data extraction, the proposed mechanism offers both a corrective to market failure and a redistributive institutional shield for vulnerable groups under conditions of digital asymmetry.
Normative conclusion drawn by the authors about intended social and distributive effects; presented as the outcome of the proposed mechanism, without empirical evaluation in the excerpt.
high positive Intersectional Data and the Social Cost of Digital Extractio... reduction of market failure and redistribution/protection for vulnerable groups
Women who experienced lower mortgage interest rates during their childbearing years had more children.
Digitized census and loan-level data linking cohort-level exposure to local mortgage interest rates during childbearing years to subsequent fertility (household formation) outcomes across cities.
high positive Essays in Labor and Public Economics fertility (number of children / household formation)