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Evidence (4781 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
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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 remaining clicks from ChatGPT are not a scaled-down Google stream: they skew toward specialized destinations and away from ad-supported sites.
Categorical analysis of destinations clicked from ChatGPT versus Google using URL-level Comscore U.S. desktop clickstream; comparison of destination types (specialized sites vs. ad-supported sites).
high mixed Answering Without Referring: How AI Search Rewrites the Web'... distribution of outbound click destinations by site type (specialized vs. ad-sup...
Long-run asymmetric response to renewable energy shocks is statistically confirmed (Wald χ² = 5.42, p = 0.020).
Long-run Wald test for asymmetry from CS-PMG-NARDL on the 18-country panel (2000–2023); reported χ² and p-value.
high mixed Asymmetric effects of renewable energy and artificial intell... long-run asymmetry in RE effects
Short-run asymmetric response to renewable energy shocks is statistically confirmed (Wald χ² = 4.102, p = 0.043).
Short-run Wald test for asymmetry from CS-PMG-NARDL on the 18-country panel (2000–2023); reported χ² and p-value.
high mixed Asymmetric effects of renewable energy and artificial intell... short-run asymmetry in RE effects
Unprecedented AI capital expenditure coexists with persistent operating losses, speculative valuations, and fragile revenue models.
Empirical characterization asserted in the paper (references implied); the provided excerpt does not state specific datasets, firms counted, dates, or sample size.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Accumulation: Capi... AI capital expenditure, operating losses, speculative valuations, revenue model ...
Firm profitability shows a "J-curve" as firms move from no adoption to deep adoption.
Reported relationship between adoption intensity and firm-level profitability (authors' empirical comparison/regression of profitability across adoption categories).
high mixed AI Adoption in S&P 500 Firms firm profitability
Adoption is slowly accelerating among non-technology firms but very aggressive adoption in the technology sector which accounts for two-thirds of deeply integrated enterprise adoption.
Reported sectoral breakdown and temporal trend in adoption (authors' sector analysis of SEC 10-K–based adoption measure; statement that tech sector comprises two-thirds of deep adopters).
high mixed AI Adoption in S&P 500 Firms sectoral distribution and growth rate of deep AI adoption
The model yields propositions on threshold effects, productivity J-curve dynamics, distributional stress, and policy sequencing.
Model-derived propositions and theoretical implications presented in the paper (analytical derivations and theory-building).
high mixed THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... time-path of productivity (J-curve), distributional outcomes (stress), and thres...
The DIAC model identifies three regimes of AI adoption and absorption: adoption without absorption, constrained complementarity, and adaptive complementarity.
Taxonomy and regime definitions derived in the paper's theoretical model (analytical/theory-building).
high mixed THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... regime classification of AI adoption vs. institutional absorption
The same AI shock can produce divergent outcomes in small open economies.
Core theoretical claim derived from the Dynamic Institutional Absorptive Capacity (DIAC) model developed in the paper (analytical/theory-building).
high mixed THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... divergence in productivity and distributional outcomes across countries
Artificial intelligence is widely expected to raise productivity, yet its macroeconomic gains remain uncertain, uneven, and institutionally mediated.
Statement and literature-motivated framing in the paper's introduction; supported by analytical theory-building (DIAC model) rather than empirical data.
high mixed THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... macroeconomic / national productivity
A distinctive feature of the taxonomy is a dedicated category for self-evaluation: every improvement loop is a claim that some signal can substitute for human judgment.
Authors' taxonomy and conceptual argument emphasizing self-evaluation as a separate category across surveyed works.
high mixed Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refineme... role of automated evaluators substituting for human judgment
The taxonomy separates bounded self-refinement -- convergent, evaluable, and already industrial practice -- from open-ended recursive self-improvement (RSI).
Conceptual taxonomy constructed by the authors based on their survey of the literature; classification of surveyed works into categories.
high mixed Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refineme... categorization of self-improvement approaches
The literature's vocabulary ("self-refine," "self-reward," "self-play," "self-evolve") conflates fundamentally different ambitions.
Qualitative analysis of terminology across the surveyed arXiv papers (2024-2026) reported in the paper's survey and taxonomy section.
high mixed Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refineme... terminology/conceptual clarity in literature
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
AI exposure is more positive for occupations performing nonroutine interactive work and more negative for occupations concentrated in analytical, scientific, and operations-control skills.
Occupation-level analysis mapping skill content (interaction-and-communication vs. analytical/scientific/operations-control) to market-implied AI premium; comparison across occupational skill categories.
high mixed AI Premium market-implied AI premium by occupational skill content
The study reveals an 'AI Competency Paradox'—AI raises technical skills while increasing demand for meta-competencies that established frameworks fail to assess.
Synthesis of empirical findings reported in the paper linking measured increases in technical skills with unmet assessment needs for meta-competencies.
high mixed AI-Education and Innovation Competitiveness: EU Moderate Inn... coexistence of rising technical skills and unmet assessment of meta-competencies
There are two distinct regional catch-up trajectories: Digital Leapfrogging in the Baltic States and Industrial Deepening in the Visegrad Group.
Systematic empirical documentation across the Visegrad Group and Baltic States (2022–2025) using the paper's assessment approach; patterns labeled and interpreted by the author.
high mixed AI-Education and Innovation Competitiveness: EU Moderate Inn... regional catch-up trajectories in AI-driven innovation and development
Important gaps remain in the literature and warrant further research.
Paper's abstract statement that the review identifies important gaps that warrant further research (based on review of 194 articles).
The existing literature on AI and economic development remains fragmented, with limited integration across development dimensions.
Conclusion drawn in the abstract from the systematic review of 194 peer-reviewed articles noting fragmentation and limited cross-dimension integration.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... literature_integration / interdisciplinarity
AI's effects are often uneven and highly context-dependent.
Summary statement in the abstract based on the systematic review of 194 articles noting heterogeneity in AI impacts across contexts and dimensions.
The LCCP effect on AI industry development varies across local contexts, with stronger effects observed in established innovation hubs and in some follower regions undergoing industrial transition.
Heterogeneity analyses in the staggered DID framework on the 285-city panel (2007–2022) that split the sample by city type/region (innovation hubs vs. followers/industrial-transition regions) and report differential policy coefficients.
high mixed Do low-carbon cities hinder AI industry growth? Evidence fro... city-level AI enterprise development (heterogeneous treatment effects across cit...
AI’s impact on university-educated labour cannot be understood through technological capability alone; it requires analysing the rentier dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
Theoretical argument and conceptual framework drawing on political economy and sociology (no empirical sample reported).
high mixed From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset adequacy of technological-capability-based explanations for impacts on universit...
The U-shaped relationship between AIIA and APCRS remains significantly U-shaped across grain strategic zones.
Subsample/region-specific tests reported in the paper showing the U-shaped relationship persists in grain strategic zones using the provincial panel.
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Industry Agglomeration Affe... APCRS (agricultural pollution–carbon reduction synergy)
The effect of AIIA on APCRS is more pronounced in regions with higher levels of marketization and industrialization.
Regional heterogeneity analysis in the paper comparing subsamples or interacting AIIA with measures of marketization and industrialization across the 30 provinces (2016–2024).
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Industry Agglomeration Affe... APCRS (agricultural pollution–carbon reduction synergy)
Agricultural labor productivity strengthens the curvature of the estimated nonlinear (U-shaped) relationship between AIIA and APCRS.
Heterogeneity/moderation tests reported in the paper indicating that higher agricultural labor productivity makes the U-shaped pattern more pronounced, based on the 30-province panel.
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Industry Agglomeration Affe... APCRS (agricultural pollution–carbon reduction synergy)
Artificial intelligence industry agglomeration (AIIA) has a U-shaped relationship with agricultural pollution–carbon reduction synergy (APCRS) in the full sample.
Full-sample empirical analysis using panel regressions on data for 30 provinces (2016–2024) showing a nonlinear (U-shaped) estimated relationship between AIIA and APCRS.
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Industry Agglomeration Affe... APCRS (agricultural pollution–carbon reduction synergy)
Micro-level efficiency improvements often come at the cost of heightened macro-level fragility.
Theoretical trade-off derived from the dual analytical framework and conceptual argumentation in the paper (no empirical validation reported).
high mixed A Theoretical Framework for AI and Financial Stability: The ... trade-off between micro-level efficiency and macro-level fragility
The study distinguishes foundational theoretical perspectives from the contemporary 2015–2025 evidence base and clarifies the relationship between task transformation and structural transformation, emphasizing institutional complementarity as the key mechanism shaping AI-driven growth outcomes.
Analytic separation of theoretical literature and empirical studies in the structured review (2015–2025); thematic mapping linking task-level changes to broader structural transformation contingent on institutional complementarities.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... relationship between task transformation and structural transformation (and role...
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-...
Interpreting task-based automation models alongside endogenous-growth and open-innovation frameworks clarifies why similar AI investments may lead to divergent structural outcomes.
Theoretical synthesis combining task-based automation literature with endogenous-growth and open-innovation models, illustrated by examples from the reviewed empirical literature (2015–2025).
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... divergence in structural outcomes following similar AI investments
The paper develops an integrative innovation-ecosystem framework linking three core transmission channels: (i) total factor productivity (TFP), (ii) task reallocation and labor-market restructuring, and (iii) innovation and knowledge-generation dynamics.
Conceptual framework constructed by the authors via integrative review of theoretical and empirical literature from 2015–2025; framework synthesizes mechanisms reported across studies.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... structural transformation via linked transmission channels (TFP, task reallocati...
Empirical evidence remains heterogeneous, and estimates of AI’s macroeconomic contribution vary across institutional and structural contexts.
Synthesis of heterogeneous empirical studies from the 2015–2025 literature identified in the structured review; comparative thematic classification highlighting variation by institutional/structural context.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... AI's macroeconomic contribution (aggregate output / GDP impact)
AI adoption does not generate uniform or automatic growth effects.
Structured literature review / mechanism-oriented synthesis covering studies from 2015–2025; transparent search, screening and thematic classification (no formal meta-analysis).
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence as a General-Purpose T... economic growth (macroeconomic growth effects)
The field is shifting from building models from existing data to actively creating data for building models (characterised as 'hyper-datafication').
Conceptual argument supported by observed trends in dataset creation and growth in the analysed dataset collection and the paper's theoretical framing.
high mixed How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... relative prevalence of active data creation versus reuse of existing data
Projected yield distributions vary substantially across locations, with some lower productivity sites exhibiting yield increases under future climate scenarios.
Results from simulated climate-projection experiments across multiple locations showing heterogenous yield distribution changes, including increases in some lower-productivity sites.
high mixed From Simulation to Discovery: AI Enabled Probabilistic Emula... changes in projected yield distributions across locations under future climate s...
AI has a significant positive impact on value chain upgrading in the eastern and western regions of China, while its effect in the central region is insignificant.
Region-specific panel regressions / heterogeneity analysis using the 30-province 2010–2022 panel split by region; reported significance levels for eastern, western, and central subsamples.
high mixed The impact of artificial intelligence on value chain upgradi... value chain upgrading in the equipment manufacturing industry (by region)
The effects of talent introduction on AI development are heterogeneous: they vary by firm characteristics such as pollution status, regional location, and industry affiliation, and are particularly pronounced in the manufacturing sector.
Subgroup / heterogeneity analyses using the panel data showing differential effects across pollution status, regions, and industries (notably manufacturing).
high mixed The Impact of Talent Introduction Intensity on Corporate Art... firm-level AI development (heterogeneous treatment effects)
Cluster analysis reveals diverse yet cohesive national profiles across the EU that reflect differences in digital readiness, human capital, and institutional factors.
Cluster analysis performed on country-level indicators (AI adoption, digital readiness, human capital measures, institutional factors) to group EU countries into profiles; summary reports heterogeneous but cohesive clusters; exact cluster counts and sample size not reported.
high mixed A comparative study of the relationships between AI use, emp... national profiles of digital readiness / AI-related traits (cluster membership)
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...
Displacement (asymmetric substitution between brand pairs) was industry-dependent, ranging from co-recommendation in consulting (0.4:1) to one-directional substitution up to 4.3:1, with an unweighted mean of 2.4:1 across the five industries.
Computation of the Displacement Score across brand pairs within each of the five sampled industries; manuscript reports per-industry ratios and the unweighted mean.
high mixed Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical M... Displacement Score (ratio of asymmetric substitution between brand pairs)
Cross-model agreement on the top-recommended brand was 41.6%; a top position on one model did not reliably hold on another.
Empirical comparison of top-recommended brands across the three models for the sampled queries, yielding a 41.6% cross-model agreement rate.
high mixed Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical M... cross-model agreement rate for top-recommended brand
Using survey data from AI startups in Qatar, the study will employ PLS-SEM to examine the relationships between these factors, AI capability, and venture performance.
Methods statement in the paper/abstract indicating planned empirical approach (survey of AI startups; use of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling). No sample size or empirical estimates provided in the abstract.
high mixed AI Capability of Startups in Qatar venture performance