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Evidence (7395 claims)

Adoption
7395 claims
Productivity
6507 claims
Governance
5877 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
5157 claims
Innovation
3492 claims
Org Design
3470 claims
Labor Markets
3224 claims
Skills & Training
2608 claims
Inequality
1835 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 609 159 77 736 1615
Governance & Regulation 664 329 160 99 1273
Organizational Efficiency 624 143 105 70 949
Technology Adoption Rate 502 176 98 78 861
Research Productivity 348 109 48 322 836
Output Quality 391 120 44 40 595
Firm Productivity 385 46 85 17 539
Decision Quality 275 143 62 34 521
AI Safety & Ethics 183 241 59 30 517
Market Structure 152 154 109 20 440
Task Allocation 158 50 56 26 295
Innovation Output 178 23 38 17 257
Skill Acquisition 137 52 50 13 252
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 120 64 38 23 252
Employment Level 93 46 96 12 249
Firm Revenue 130 43 26 3 202
Consumer Welfare 99 51 40 11 201
Inequality Measures 36 105 40 6 187
Task Completion Time 134 18 6 5 163
Worker Satisfaction 79 54 16 11 160
Error Rate 64 78 8 1 151
Regulatory Compliance 69 64 14 3 150
Training Effectiveness 81 15 13 18 129
Wages & Compensation 70 25 22 6 123
Team Performance 74 16 21 9 121
Automation Exposure 41 48 19 9 120
Job Displacement 11 71 16 1 99
Developer Productivity 71 14 9 3 98
Hiring & Recruitment 49 7 8 3 67
Social Protection 26 14 8 2 50
Creative Output 26 14 6 2 49
Skill Obsolescence 5 37 5 1 48
Labor Share of Income 12 13 12 37
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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Anhand von Fallstudien aus den G7-Ländern werden verschiedene Einsatzmöglichkeiten veranschaulicht und die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren benannt – Netzanbindung, KI-Inputs, Kompetenzen und Finanzierung.
Evidence comes from G7 country case studies reported in the paper; method = qualitative case studies identifying key success factors (no number of case studies or sample size provided in excerpt).
high mixed Einführung von KI in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen Schlüssel-Faktoren für erfolgreiche KI-Einführung in KMU (Netzanbindung, Inputs,...
This lack of focus creates uncertainty about whether regulatory technology helps legitimate economic recovery or instead strengthens exclusion and informality.
Interpretive observation from gaps identified in the reviewed literature; no empirical resolution provided.
high mixed RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... impact of RegTech on legitimacy of economic recovery vs. exclusion/informality
The results vary across the 10 selected countries: the magnitude and significance of AI’s effects differ due to varying technological readiness and differing industrial structures.
Paper statement that results vary across the 10 selected countries and that nuances differ across countries due to varying industrial structures and technological readiness. Implied heterogeneity analysis across countries using the firm-level dataset and regression approaches; no country-level sample counts provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Estimation of Firm Labour Productivity and Sales Growth from... country-level heterogeneity in AI impact on labour productivity and sales growth
Digital transformation reconfigures development patterns across regions and countries, altering established trajectories of regional development.
Theoretical integration of a technology–labor–space framework together with comparative regional field evidence illustrating changing development patterns (no quantified effect sizes or sample sizes reported).
high mixed Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... regional development patterns (spatial-economic reconfiguration)
There is a fundamental reward-coverage tradeoff: concentrating probability mass on high-reward actions reduces variance but risks missing signal on actions the target policy may take.
Explicit characterization in abstract; claimed theoretical analysis/derivation of the tradeoff between variance reduction and coverage when designing logging policies.
high mixed Logging Policy Design for Off-Policy Evaluation variance of OPE estimators and coverage of actions relevant to the target policy
Perceived procedural improvement (participants preferring facilitation and higher reported trust) can coexist with measurable steering of outcomes and unchanged participation inequality, motivating evaluation practices treating outcomes, interaction dynamics, and perceptions as distinct governance targets.
Synthesis of the experimental findings: null effect on consensus and participation equity, positive effects on participant preference/trust, and measurable allocation shifts (up to 5.5 percentage points) across facilitation conditions in the two experiments (total N=879).
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... co-occurrence of perceived procedural improvement, allocation steering, and unch...
Facilitators shifted select charity-level allocations by up to 5.5 percentage points, directly affecting the final charitable payout.
Analysis of final group allocation outcomes across experimental conditions showing shifts in allocation to specific charities; reported maximum observed shift of 5.5 percentage points attributable to facilitator condition(s). (Study-level sample covering the two experiments; participants organized in groups of three.)
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... charity-level allocation percentages (final payout shares)
Beyond length biases, fine-tuning amplifies sycophancy and relationship-seeking behaviours in models.
Behavioral analysis of model outputs in the within-subject experiment (530 participants) showing increased incidence/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking responses after preference fine-tuning compared to baseline models.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... frequency/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking behaviours in model ...
Adapting to individual preference data yields only marginal gains over training on pooled preferences from a diverse population.
Comparison within the same within-subject experiment (530 participants) between models fine-tuned on individual preferences versus models trained on pooled preferences across participants; reported as 'marginal gains'.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... incremental improvement in human-judged preference alignment when using individu...
The research challenges for this vision stem from a broader flexibility–robustness tension that requires moving beyond the on-the-fly paradigm to navigate effectively.
Analytical claim in paper identifying a design trade-off (flexibility vs. robustness) as the core challenge motivating the proposed shift; no empirical demonstration provided.
high mixed Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Work... trade-off between flexibility and robustness in agent design
Aggregate effects are geographically uneven (geographic unevenness in AI-driven labor market impacts).
Synthesis across studies observing variation by geography and noting non-Anglophone markets and developing economies as under-studied and differentially affected.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... geographic heterogeneity in labor market impacts
Wage polarization characterizes the aggregate pattern of labor market change associated with recent AI advances.
Aggregate characterization from synthesized studies reporting divergent wage outcomes (higher wages for AI-augmented workers, pressures on junior/routine roles) consistent with polarization.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... wage distribution changes (polarization)
Sectoral effects are heterogeneous: infrastructure, security, and quality-assurance roles have expanded while developer roles have contracted.
Qualitative and quantitative results aggregated across the included studies noting role-level expansions and contractions; no single pooled effect size provided.
high mixed Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... changes in employment/posting volumes by occupational role (infrastructure, secu...
Under open-ended prompts, trust drops to 3-55%, confirming prompt framing as a confound; we report both conditions.
Experimental comparison reported by authors between directed queries and open-ended prompts; observed trust rates under open-ended prompts ranged from 3% to 55% (no explicit per-model sample sizes reported in the summary).
high mixed Oracle Poisoning: Corrupting Knowledge Graphs to Weaponise A... model trust rate in accepting poisoned data under open-ended prompts
Evidence suggests both top-down and bottom-up diffusion: worker use can occur without firm adoption, and vice versa.
Cross-tabulation of firm-level adoption indicators and reports of worker-level use in the BTOS AI supplement (Nov 2025–Jan 2026) indicating non-perfect overlap between firm-declared adoption and reported worker use; analytic approach descriptive (no sample size in excerpt).
high mixed The Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Bus... co-occurrence (or lack thereof) of firm-wide adoption and worker-level AI use
The study reframes VTech adoption as legitimacy-seeking rather than efficiency-driven.
Thematic analysis using Rogers' diffusion of innovations and institutional theory, resulting in the institutionally mediated diffusion of innovations (IDOI) framework which emphasizes legitimacy concerns.
high mixed Exploring barriers to valuation technology adoption in prope... primary motivations for VTech adoption (legitimacy vs efficiency)
Practitioners stress that human judgement remains indispensable, positioning technology as an aid rather than a replacement.
Interview responses from valuers and firm leaders emphasizing the continued role of human judgement; thematic analysis framed by the IDOI model.
high mixed Exploring barriers to valuation technology adoption in prope... role of human judgement vs automation in valuation practice
Screening and algorithmic targeting can act as complements or substitutes; the paper empirically characterizes when they do so.
Empirical and theoretical analysis in the paper that identifies conditions (notably levels of aleatoric uncertainty) under which screening increases or decreases the marginal value of algorithmic targeting.
high mixed The Limits of AI-Driven Allocation: Optimal Screening under ... interaction between screening and algorithmic targeting (complementarity vs subs...
Governance machinery from energy systems and critical infrastructure offers a partial template for governing automated web actors, but only some dimensions transfer.
Comparative governance argument drawing on adjacent-sector governance literature; conceptual mapping rather than empirical governance trial reported.
high mixed The Vanishing User: Web Analytics in an Agent-Dominated Inte... applicability of governance frameworks from energy/critical infrastructure to AI...
Larger models do not consistently outperform smaller ones on tool-use tasks.
Empirical observations from the paper's evaluations across the five function-calling benchmarks.
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling relative performance of larger vs smaller models on tool-use tasks
Model routing can mitigate the cost of agentic tool use, but existing routers are designed for chat completion rather than tool use.
Argument/positioning in the paper and literature discussion (no specific empirical test reported for existing routers in this statement).
high mixed Switchcraft: AI Model Router for Agentic Tool Calling cost mitigation via model routing; applicability of existing routers to tool use
The turning point of the inverted-U relationship occurs at 2.948 (AI measure).
Estimated quadratic model that yields a calculated turning point value of 2.948.
high mixed The Inverted-U Relationship Between AI and Corporate Innovat... AI adoption level at which marginal effect on innovation changes sign
There is an inverted-U-shaped relationship between firm-level AI adoption and firm innovation.
Estimated fixed-effects models and U-tests on the 25,204 firm-year sample showing a non-linear (quadratic) AI–innovation coefficient pattern.
high mixed The Inverted-U Relationship Between AI and Corporate Innovat... firm innovation (AI → innovation relationship)
The finding that recurrence and neighborhood statistics are stronger predictors than complaint volume has direct implications for complaint routing given the demographic correlates of those features.
Interpretive implication drawn by the authors from the SHAP results; presented as a logical consequence rather than a separately tested empirical result in the excerpt.
high mixed Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call... implications for complaint routing policy/practice
Aesthetic and functional attributes load onto a single latent factor, suggesting users perceive quality as a unified construct rather than separable aesthetic and functional dimensions.
Factor analysis (or similar latent-variable analysis) on participant ratings of multiple attributes showing a single dominant factor combining aesthetic and functional attributes.
high mixed Artificial Aesthetics: The Implicit Economics of Valuing AI-... latent factor structure of perceived quality
Successful AI implementation in logistics requires not only technological capability but also organizational readiness and effective data governance.
Conclusion drawn from the structured qualitative review of 31 scholarly sources synthesizing reported success factors and preconditions for AI adoption.
high mixed Evaluating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing... successful implementation / adoption
The rapid emergence of agentic AI tools raises new questions that the political science discipline must address.
Epilogue of the report raises agentic AI tools as a rapidly emerging phenomenon and lists questions for the discipline; based on expert judgment and forward-looking analysis rather than empirical measurement in the introduction/epilogue.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... policy and research questions arising from agentic AI capabilities (norms, accou...
AI will affect political science research and teaching.
Report introduction explicitly notes the report investigates implications for political science research and teaching; based on the task force's review and analysis rather than a quantitative study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... research methods, replicability, teaching practices, and curriculum in political...
AI will affect public opinion and the information ecosystem.
Introductory chapter enumerates public opinion and the information ecosystem as report topics; based on conceptual synthesis and literature review.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public opinion formation and information ecosystem integrity (misinformation, pe...
AI will affect the labor market.
Report introduction identifies the labor market as an area the task force examines; presented as a conceptual claim without primary-sample estimates in the introduction.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... labor market outcomes (employment, occupational change, job tasks)
AI will affect international relations.
Introductory chapter lists international relations as a topic the report investigates; claim arises from conceptual analysis and synthesis by task force authors.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... international relations dynamics (state behavior, diplomacy, conflict/cooperatio...
AI will affect national security.
Report introduction stating a section addressing national security implications; based on expert assessment and literature review rather than a specific empirical sample.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... national security capabilities and decision-making (defense, intelligence operat...
AI will affect public administration.
Report introduction describing a section focused on how AI will affect public administration; based on expert synthesis rather than reported empirical study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public administration processes and organizational efficiency (service delivery,...
AI will affect democracy (i.e., democratic processes and institutions).
Report introduction listing a section of the report devoted to democracy and AI; conceptual argumentation rather than reported empirical tests.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... democratic processes and institutions (electoral integrity, civic participation,...
AI has the potential to reshape politics and political science, similar to how it is transforming other social phenomena and academic fields.
Introductory chapter of the APSA Presidential Task Force report; conceptual framing and literature synthesis by the task force authors (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... scope and practice of politics and political science as fields (institutional ro...
A standard learning agent can obtain near-reference revenue per available room (RevPAR) while failing to learn market-like yield management: it sells too aggressively, undercuts, or collapses to modal price buckets.
Experiments in a two-hotel revenue-management simulator where Hotel A is trained against a fixed rule-based competitor (Hotel B); comparison of learned agent behavior to market-like yield management patterns observed in traces.
high mixed Market-Alignment Risk in Pricing Agents: Trace Diagnostics a... RevPAR (revenue per available room) and pricing behavior (aggressiveness, underc...
Human anchors build trust through a broadly effective relational pathway (perceived intimacy), while AI anchors' functional advantage converts into trust only under specific motivational conditions (high utilitarian motivation).
Interpretation of moderated mediation results from randomized experiment (N = 439) showing intimacy-mediated trust for human anchors and responsiveness-mediated trust for AI anchors only under high utilitarian motivation.
high mixed Conditional trust pathways in live-streaming commerce: how c... trust (mediated by intimacy for human anchors; by responsiveness for AI anchors ...
Consumer trust in live-streaming commerce is a conditional, motivation-dependent process rather than a uniform preference for either anchor type.
Synthesis of experimental results showing differential mediation/moderation patterns by hedonic and utilitarian motivation in sample N = 439 (moderated mediation analyses).
Perceived responsiveness became a significant pathway favoring AI anchors only when utilitarian motivation was high; at low utilitarian motivation, this pathway reversed direction.
Conditional (moderated) mediation analyses from the experiment (N = 439) including utilitarian motivation as moderator; reported that responsiveness→trust path favored AI anchors at high utilitarian motivation and reversed at low utilitarian motivation.
high mixed Conditional trust pathways in live-streaming commerce: how c... trust (conditional mediation by perceived responsiveness moderated by utilitaria...
The strategic interplay between antitrust regulation and vertical integration materially influences the evolutionary transitions of the computing power ecosystem.
Core focus of the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model which explicitly models government regulators, incumbents, and downstream innovators and analyzes resulting equilibria and transitions (method: theoretical evolutionary game + analytical derivation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... system transition dynamics as a function of regulatory and firm strategies
The evolution of the AI computing power innovation ecosystem manifests distinct stage-based progressions and threshold-driven bifurcation characteristics, potentially transitioning from an initial 'natural monopoly and passive dependence' state through intermediary states (e.g., 'comfort zone trap' or 'regulatory stalemate') toward a mature configuration of 'co-opetition and endogenous growth.'
Derived from the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model and analytical derivation of evolutionarily stable strategies, with supporting numerical simulations exploring parametric sensitivities (method: theoretical evolutionary game + numerical simulation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... ecosystem evolutionary stage / configuration (e.g., monopoly, stalemate, co-opet...
The computing power industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from traditional linear supply chains toward complex, interdependent innovation ecosystems driven by the rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence.
Conceptual claim presented in the paper's introduction/motivation; supported by the paper's theoretical framing and literature-based motivation rather than empirical data (method: narrative/theoretical framing).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... industry structural configuration (linear supply chains vs. interdependent innov...
Program outcomes are moderated by a person's prior occupational skill set, their area of work, and features of the local economy.
Heterogeneity analyses across subgroups defined by prior occupational skill composition, industry/area of work, and local labor-market conditions in the WIOA administrative data (2017-2023) show variation in outcomes.
high mixed Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... Retrainability Index / program outcomes stratified by prior skill set, area of w...
These findings challenge the notion of a universal technological dividend from AI (i.e., AI does not automatically deliver uniform productivity gains across firms).
Overall interpretation/synthesis of heterogeneous empirical results from the panel and cluster analyses showing variation in productivity effects across firm types.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... existence of universal productivity gains from AI
AI adoption yields asymmetric productivity gains depending on firms' resource constraints and competitive environments (i.e., heterogeneity rather than a homogeneous effect).
Heterogeneity analysis using multidimensional clustering (firm size, age, market competitiveness, digital infrastructure) applied to the panel dataset; reported differential effects across clusters.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP) heterogeneity
AI adoption affects Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of firms.
Panel regression analysis using the stated panel dataset examining relationship between AI adoption and firm-level TFP.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP)
Overall conclusion: AI offers substantial benefits to financial institutions, but ethical considerations and strategic workforce planning are essential for sustainable integration.
Synthesis/interpretation by the authors drawing on their empirical results (positive effects on ROA, efficiency, risk-adjusted returns, customer satisfaction, reduced compliance costs/breaches) and identified challenges (algorithmic bias, workforce displacement).
high mixed Research on the Transformation Acceleration of Financial Ins... Net impact of AI integration on firm performance and governance plus policy reco...
Empirical analysis of cases demonstrates that diverse, and often non-ethics-related, levers motivate organizations to abandon AI development.
Analysis of cases drawn from the AI incident database and practitioner survey contrasted with the taxonomy from the scoping review; specific counts/effect measures not provided in the summary.
high mixed To Build or Not to Build? Factors that Lead to Non-Developme... distribution of reasons (ethical vs. non-ethical) cited for AI abandonment
Three sovereignty boundaries determine whether AI remains an amplifier within a human-governed system or becomes a de facto control center: irreversible decision authority, physical resource mobilization authority, and self-expansion authority.
Conceptual model element in the paper; identification and definition of three 'sovereignty boundaries' used to analyze governance risks.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... sovereignty/control boundaries
The paper formalizes this claim through decision-energy density: the rate-weighted capacity of a node to generate, evaluate, select, and execute consequential decisions.
Formal/modeling claim — the paper defines and uses a formal metric called 'decision-energy density' within its theoretical framework.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... decision-energy density (capacity to produce consequential decisions)