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Evidence (6869 claims)

Adoption
8570 claims
Productivity
7631 claims
Governance
6869 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
6491 claims
Org Design
4175 claims
Innovation
4114 claims
Labor Markets
3566 claims
Skills & Training
2966 claims
Inequality
2066 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 758 199 100 900 2007
Governance & Regulation 826 400 191 122 1563
Organizational Efficiency 777 193 124 84 1189
Technology Adoption Rate 635 233 124 97 1098
Research Productivity 422 128 57 336 954
Output Quality 476 179 59 47 761
Decision Quality 328 177 81 47 640
Firm Productivity 435 57 88 20 606
AI Safety & Ethics 218 277 65 33 599
Market Structure 180 170 123 24 502
Task Allocation 213 64 72 33 387
Skill Acquisition 170 61 61 17 309
Innovation Output 203 27 43 18 292
Employment Level 105 54 107 13 281
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 131 69 43 26 276
Consumer Welfare 117 63 42 11 233
Firm Revenue 153 48 26 3 230
Task Completion Time 173 31 8 12 225
Inequality Measures 44 122 49 6 221
Worker Satisfaction 89 65 22 12 188
Error Rate 69 92 10 2 173
Regulatory Compliance 77 69 14 5 165
Automation Exposure 56 56 26 13 154
Training Effectiveness 94 21 13 19 149
Wages & Compensation 77 36 25 6 144
Team Performance 86 17 27 10 141
Developer Productivity 95 17 14 6 133
Job Displacement 12 80 20 1 113
Hiring & Recruitment 52 7 8 3 70
Creative Output 31 18 8 3 61
Skill Obsolescence 5 46 6 1 58
Social Protection 27 16 8 2 53
Labor Share of Income 17 19 17 53
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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Between 2020–2025 Russia trails the United States, China and the EU on both digitalization indicators and AI investment volumes in the mining and oil & gas sectors.
Comparative multi-country trend analysis (2020–2025) using publicly available investment and digitalization indicators: national/industry statistics, investment datasets, and sectoral digitalization indices comparing Russia, US, China and EU over 2020–2025.
medium negative ADOPTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE RUSSIAN EXTRACTIV... digitalization levels and AI investment volumes per unit of extractive output (m...
Loss of control over research data impedes local capture of value (knowledge, IP, downstream services) and can create externalities when data are repurposed or commercialized without equitable benefit sharing.
Conceptual argument grounded in case observations about data flows and provider practices; no quantitative measures of value capture provided.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... local value capture; intellectual property and benefit sharing
Dominant AI/cloud providers become de facto gatekeepers of data processing and storage; researchers and institutions, particularly in lower‑capacity jurisdictions, have limited bargaining power to enforce data‑sovereignty or transparency terms.
Mapping of third‑party dependencies and interview/observational evidence of institutional procurement constraints in the Chile case; normative discussion of market power implications.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... bargaining power; market gatekeeping
Algorithmic opacity and cross‑border regulatory fragmentation raise monitoring, compliance, and contractual costs for collaborative research, effectively increasing the transaction costs of data‑intensive science.
Analytical inference from qualitative findings (opacity, legal fragmentation) and normative economic reasoning presented in the implications section; no quantitative transaction‑cost measurement reported.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... transaction costs; monitoring and compliance costs
Inequalities in infrastructure (local compute, storage, institutional procurement power) amplify these problems: researchers in weaker jurisdictions face higher risks and fewer mitigation options.
Case study observations about local infrastructure capacity, procurement practices, and institutional constraints in Chile; qualitative reports of limited mitigation choices.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... risk exposure and available mitigation options by jurisdiction/institutional cap...
Rather than shifting liability away from researchers, AI systems increase researchers' ethical responsibilities: researchers must assess third‑party tools, negotiate data flows, and manage risks despite having limited contractual leverage.
Qualitative interviews and institutional observations reporting researchers' roles in assessing tools and managing data flows; normative analysis of accountability responsibilities in the case study.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... researcher responsibility/liability burden
Algorithmic opacity (hidden models, undocumented data flows, proprietary cloud stacks) reduces researchers' ability to control or even know how participant data are used, transferred, or monetized.
Interview data and mapping of third‑party dependencies showing opaque provider practices and limited transparency about model/data flows in the Chile case study.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... researcher control over data use/transfer/monetization
Everyday AI services used in research introduce new, diffuse points of data capture and processing that complicate informed consent and privacy management.
Observations and documented mappings of tool use and data flows (e.g., transcription services, cloud platforms, meeting assistants) reported in the case study; supported by qualitative interviews with researchers/administrators.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... informed consent processes; privacy management
AI tools embedded in everyday research infrastructures intensify — rather than reduce — ethical accountability burdens: they constrain researcher autonomy and undermine data sovereignty, especially in cross‑national settings where legal protections are fragmented or weaker.
Qualitative case study centered on environmental science research in Chile that uses GDPR as a normative framework; methods reported include interviews, observation, and mapping of data flows and third‑party dependencies (sample sizes not reported).
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... ethical accountability burden; researcher autonomy; data sovereignty
Insufficient regulation increases risks of negative externalities (privacy harms, biased hiring/management) that can reduce labor supply attachment or lower human capital investments.
Theoretical reasoning and synthesis of documented case studies and reports referenced in the commentary; not supported by new causal empirical analysis in the paper.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... privacy harms; biased hiring/management; labor supply attachment; human capital ...
Absent strong worker voice or mandated impact assessments, AI-driven surveillance, algorithmic management and task reallocation are more likely, increasing risks of deskilling, displacement, and discriminatory outcomes.
Policy synthesis identifying plausible channels from AI system use to worker harms; supported by case-study reports in the symposium but no systematic empirical quantification in this commentary.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... incidence of surveillance and algorithmic management; worker outcomes (deskillin...
Weakening of organized labor and stalled worker-protection legislation raises the probability that AI adoption will increase employer bargaining power, potentially depressing wages and worsening job quality for affected occupations.
Analytic inference from labor economics theory and policy review; commentary does not present causal microdata linking AI adoption to wage or job-quality outcomes.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... employer bargaining power; wages; job quality in affected occupations
Export controls may constrain access to advanced models and hardware, affecting productivity gains unevenly across firms and sectors.
Policy analysis of current export control instruments and their potential economic effects; no firm- or sector-level quantitative analysis presented.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... access to advanced AI models/hardware; sectoral/productivity gains
A conservative Supreme Court majority increases the risk of rulings that could further constrain organized labor and weaken labor’s power to negotiate AI-related workplace rules.
Legal analysis connecting Supreme Court composition and recent jurisprudence to possible effects on labor law and collective bargaining; predictive inference rather than empirical testing.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... legal constraints on organized labor’s bargaining power (court rulings affecting...
The incoming second Trump administration is dismantling many Biden-era worker-protection initiatives (notably rescinding or undercutting the Biden Executive Order intended to hold employers accountable for AI impacts).
Policy/legal analysis referencing recent executive actions and reported rollbacks of Biden-era frameworks; synthesis of documents and news/administrative actions reviewed in the commentary; no original empirical sample.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... existence and scope of executive-order-based worker-protection initiatives
The DoD acquisition workforce is shrinking (through retirements, buyouts, reductions in force), reducing institutional knowledge and the discretionary capacity needed to exercise the memo's expectations responsibly.
Institutional trend evidence: assessment of publicly reported and internal staffing trends (reports of retirements, voluntary buyouts, reductions in force). No precise headcount, rate, or sample size provided in the analysis; described as a documented declining acquisition workforce.
medium negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... size and capacity of the acquisition workforce; loss of institutional expertise
Mandated 'any lawful use' contract language shifts risk-management responsibilities toward the government, reducing contractors' incentives to constrain misuse and increasing government residual legal/operational exposure.
Primary source analysis of required contract language in the memo and contracting directives, combined with conceptual principal–agent and moral-hazard assessment (risk/scenario modeling). No empirical measurement of incentive changes provided.
medium negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... allocation of legal/operational risk between contractors and government; inferre...
The memo departs from the Department's prior lifecycle-assurance framework and substitutes different standards while elevating vague criteria (e.g., 'model objectivity') without operational definitions or evaluation methods.
Primary source comparison: close reading of the January 2026 memo versus prior DoD lifecycle-assurance documents; identification of new/changed terminology and lack of accompanying operational definitions or test methods in the policy text.
medium negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... clarity and operationalization of procurement standards (presence/absence of def...
By centralizing waiver decisions in a Barrier Removal Board, the memo converts baseline governance controls into exception-driven permissions (i.e., governance becomes something to be suspended rather than enforced).
Qualitative institutional analysis and primary-source reading of the memo establishing a centralized waiver process; mapping of how waiver mechanisms interact with existing assurance processes (ATO, T&E, contracting). No quantitative measurement of waiver frequency provided.
medium negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... status of governance controls (baseline enforcement vs. exception/waiver-driven)
The memo explicitly frames governance and procurement speed as a zero-sum tradeoff and labels long-standing oversight mechanisms (Authorities to Operate, test & evaluation, contracting reviews) as 'blockers' eligible for waiver.
Primary source analysis: textual interpretation of the memo and accompanying contracting directives that characterize oversight mechanisms as impediments and make them eligible for waiver. Evidence is documentary (policy text); no quantitative sample.
medium negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... framing of governance vs. speed in policy language; designation of specific over...
Regulatory fragmentation increases compliance costs and stifles cross-border scale economies; international coordination and mutual recognition of standards can lower trade costs.
Comparative governance analysis and economic reasoning about cross-border trade and compliance; no cross-country causal estimates provided in the report.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... compliance costs, cross-border scale economies, trade costs
Large incumbents with data/network advantages may entrench market power.
Policy and literature review noting data/network effects, observed tendencies in tech markets; sectoral examples discussed in the report.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... market power metrics, entry barriers, data advantage effects
Without targeted policy, AI can amplify winner-take-all dynamics (market concentration, superstar firms) and spatial inequalities (urban vs. rural).
Theoretical economic arguments and review of literature on data/network effects and concentration; comparative policy analysis that raises distributional concerns.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... market concentration, firm market shares, spatial inequality indicators
Without international coordination, providers may relocate compute or obscure compute locations to avoid stricter regimes; harmonized rules reduce these distortions.
Regulatory mapping and economic reasoning about geographic investment, regulatory arbitrage, and compute-location disclosure incentives.
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... likelihood of compute relocation or obfuscation (probability or incidence) and e...
Compliance and reporting requirements will impose additional costs on firms, with small providers likely disproportionately affected unless rules are proportionate.
Policy analysis of compliance and transaction costs (qualitative assessment of administrative burden and scale effects).
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... incremental compliance/reporting costs and distributional impact across firm siz...
The facility-level focus and training-phase emphasis of current governance limit regulators' ability to monitor and mitigate the full environmental externalities of modern AI systems.
Synthesis of empirical findings on model/inference impacts combined with regulatory mapping showing gaps between impact locus and regulatory reach.
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... regulatory coverage gap (degree to which regulatory instruments capture model-le...
Transparency about AI environmental impacts has declined even as deployments of generative models have accelerated, creating an information gap for regulators, users, and researchers.
Trend observations from collated operational datasets and cited empirical studies indicating reduced disclosure by providers alongside increased deployments; supported by regulatory mapping noting scant AI-specific reporting outside the EU.
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... availability/quality of environmental impact disclosures (presence/absence and g...
The larger cumulative environmental impacts of these generative models are primarily driven by inference-phase (online serving) energy consumption rather than training-phase emissions.
Evidence synthesis and operational data analysis focusing on deployment/inference patterns and relative contribution of lifecycle phases in examined models.
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... share of total energy use and emissions attributable to inference versus trainin...
Generative web-search and reasoning AI models deployed widely in 2025 impose substantially higher cumulative environmental costs than earlier AI generations, largely driven by inference at scale.
Evidence synthesis: collation of empirical studies and operational data comparing energy and emissions profiles of 2025-era model families and deployment patterns (paper-wide comparative accounting).
medium negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... cumulative environmental costs (energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions ...
There is a persistent gap between policy intent (promises of ethical protection and economic opportunity) and lived experience, producing new forms of social exposure—especially for vulnerable groups.
Synthesis of qualitative findings from documents, ethics guidelines, industry statements, and stakeholder commentary indicating aspirational policy language contrasted with limited enforceable protections; specific lived-experience case data are not provided.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... gap between policy intent and lived experience; social exposure to harm
Lack of enforceable data-rights and accountability mechanisms strengthens incumbent platforms’ control over data markets, potentially reducing competition and hindering entry by smaller firms.
Qualitative review of regulatory texts and industry positioning showing limited enforceable data-rights provisions; theoretical market-structure inference without empirical market-share analysis.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... market concentration; competition; barriers to entry
Weak or non‑enforceable rules create conditions for negative externalities (data exploitation, discriminatory automation) that markets alone may not correct.
Argumentative synthesis from document analysis and theoretical framing (communication rights, market-failure logic); supported by examples in policy and industry discourse but not by empirical market-level measurement in the paper.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... incidence of negative externalities (data exploitation, discriminatory automatio...
The dominant framing privileges economic imaginaries of competitiveness and development over communication rights, producing regulatory blind spots and reinforcing existing inequalities.
Interpretive analysis using communication-rights theory and SCOT applied to policy and industry discourse; comparison of economic-oriented language versus rights-oriented provisions in reviewed documents.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... presence of communication-rights considerations; regulatory blind spots; inequal...
Regulatory attention typically overlooks vulnerable and marginalized populations (low-wage workers, women, rural communities), whose mobile communication practices and data are disproportionately exposed to harm.
Document-based qualitative analysis identifying patterns of inclusion/exclusion in regulatory texts and public debate; stakeholder commentary reviewed indicates limited consideration of these groups. (Sample count not provided.)
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... inclusion of vulnerable groups in regulatory attention; exposure to harm
Indonesia’s governance of mobile-AI rests largely on soft‑law, aspirational instruments (guidelines, non‑binding ethics codes), which limits enforceability and accountability.
Qualitative discourse- and document-based analysis of key policy documents, national ethics guidelines, industry statements, and public stakeholder commentary related to mobile-AI in Indonesia. (The paper identifies dominant use of non‑binding instruments; exact number of documents reviewed is not specified.)
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... policy enforceability and accountability
Fidelity-related biases risk concentrating harms among underrepresented populations, potentially increasing healthcare costs and welfare losses; economic evaluation and auditing for distributional impacts should be integrated into procurement and reimbursement decisions.
Interdisciplinary evidence synthesized from ML fairness studies, clinical validation reports, and health economics literature included in the review; the review recommends integrating distributional analysis in HTA based on documented risks of differential model performance.
medium negative On the use of synthetic data for healthcare AI in Africa: Te... differential error rates across subpopulations, distributional welfare impacts, ...
Weak or absent regulation increases uncertainty and may deter investment or lead to adoption of low-quality synthetic products with negative economic and clinical externalities.
Policy literature and implementation case studies summarized in the review that link regulatory gaps to investment risk and potential for low-quality product adoption; evidence is mostly inferential and descriptive.
medium negative On the use of synthetic data for healthcare AI in Africa: Te... investment levels, prevalence of low-quality products, clinical/economic externa...
Without improvements in fidelity and domain adaptation, synthetic data risks introducing bias and limiting clinical and economic benefits.
Integrated assessment from machine-learning evaluations, clinical validation studies, and implementation analyses within the review which link fidelity and domain mismatch to biased model outputs and reduced clinical utility; economic implications are inferred from cost-effectiveness and procurement literature cited in the review.
medium negative On the use of synthetic data for healthcare AI in Africa: Te... distributional bias, clinical utility (e.g., diagnostic accuracy, decision impac...
There is evidence of problematic patterns in automated decision appeals and workflow interactions when AI is integrated into clinical processes.
Case studies, deployment reports, and observational analyses cited in the synthesis that document increased appeals, workflow friction, or unexpected interactions caused by automation.
medium negative Framework for Government Policy on Agentic and Generative AI... workflow burden / frequency of appeals / process failures
Failing to retrain health workers for AI will produce structural labor-market mismatches, slow adoption, and reduce realized economic benefits.
Labor-market analysis and workforce readiness findings from the narrative synthesis and Delphi inputs; argument is inferential based on observed skill gaps and adoption barriers in the reviewed literature.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... adoption rates of AI tools, productivity gains, workforce skill alignment metric...
Indonesia risks technological dependency on foreign vendors if domestic capability, data governance, and procurement are not strengthened.
Market and policy assessment from the review, including procurement analyses and discussion in supplementary national reports and Delphi studies; based on observed market structures and procurement practices identified in the literature.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... degree of market reliance on foreign AI vendors / domestic market share
Approximately 58.7% of the relevant Indonesian health workforce lacks the AI competence or literacy needed for safe, scalable adoption.
Workforce readiness estimate derived from reviewed workforce assessments, Delphi consensus studies, and national reports included in the narrative synthesis; the summary does not specify sample frames or exact survey instruments that produced the 58.7% figure.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... percent of health workforce lacking AI competence/literacy
Indonesia’s AI healthcare maturity score is approximately 52/100, trailing regional peers (example comparators: Singapore ≈ 92, Malaysia ≈ 78).
Benchmarking performed in the review against regional maturity catalogues and international standards (EU AI Act, Singapore, Australia); maturity scoring method referenced in the paper but detailed scoring rubric and underlying metrics not fully reproduced in the summary.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... composite AI-health system maturity score (0–100)
Widespread adoption of LLMs without adequate verification increases systemic cybersecurity risks with potential economic spillovers.
Synthesis of security incident case studies and risk analyses revealing vulnerabilities in generated code and potential downstream impacts.
medium negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... frequency/severity of security breaches attributable to AI-generated code; downs...
Models lack deep contextual reasoning and may fail on tasks requiring long-term design thinking or deep domain knowledge.
Benchmark failures and user studies in the reviewed literature demonstrating degraded performance on complex architectural/design tasks and domain-specific reasoning problems.
medium negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... task success on long-horizon design tasks, reasoning/chain-of-thought benchmark ...
Use of these tools can mask gaps in foundational computational skills among novices.
Pedagogical case studies and assessments indicating reliance on AI can produce superficial solutions and lower demonstrated understanding of core concepts.
medium negative ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... measures of foundational skill (conceptual quiz scores, ability to solve novel/u...
Negative externalities from synthetic media (misinformation, reputational harm, verification costs) may justify public interventions such as provenance standards, mandatory labeling, penalties for malicious misuse, and public investment in verification infrastructure.
Policy analysis and normative recommendations based on identified externalities in the reviewed literature; no empirical policy evaluation in paper.
medium negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... existence of externalities and scope for public policy interventions
Compliance with IP, privacy and liability regimes will impose costs (monitoring, licensing, disclosure) that may raise barriers for smaller entrants and affect prices and diffusion of generative audiovisual models.
Regulatory and economic literature synthesized in the narrative review; policy/legal case citations included but no new cost estimates provided.
medium negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... compliance costs, market entry barriers, diffusion rates
Proliferation of generated content may increase information supply but lower per-item attention and willingness-to-pay, potentially reducing monetization unless intermediaries solve discoverability and trust issues.
Theoretical arguments using attention-economy literature and secondary studies; narrative reasoning without new empirical quantification.
medium negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... attention per item, willingness-to-pay, content monetization
Platforms and firms that control model training data and deployment infrastructure will gain strategic advantage, increasing risks of vertical integration and market concentration.
Market-structure and firm-strategy analysis drawn from secondary literature and conceptual arguments in the paper.
medium negative Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... market concentration, vertical integration, strategic advantage for data/infrast...