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Evidence (4004 claims)

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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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There is an urgent question of how humans can effectively supervise and control an economy operated by AI agents when this system may expand beyond the capacity of traditional governance.
Framed as a central research/policy concern in the paper's abstract; conceptual argument rather than empirical finding.
high negative Regulatory Policy for the Agent Economy in the Digital Age: ... capacity of traditional governance to supervise/control AI-operated economy
The Agent Economy raises new regulatory challenges concerning data privacy, security, ethics, and the risk of job displacement.
Stated in paper abstract as identified risks; based on literature synthesis and comparative policy analysis approach (method described), but no empirical incidence metrics reported.
high negative Regulatory Policy for the Agent Economy in the Digital Age: ... regulatory challenges related to privacy, security, ethics, and job displacement...
We evaluate 36 models; the strongest, Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code, reaches only 45.9%.
Empirical evaluation reported by the authors: 36 models tested on JobBench; highest-performing model and its score (Claude Opus 4.7 under Claude Code achieves 45.9%).
high negative JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will model performance on JobBench (aggregate score/accuracy as percent)
AI-driven efficiency pressures in IT services may compress billable work and alter hiring and wage structures, raising transition risks even for technical workers.
Abstract cites high-reliability sector evidence (Reuters 2026a; Nasscom) to support this sector-specific claim; no sample size provided in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... compression of billable work, changes to hiring and wage structures, transition ...
Labor-market segmentation and digital capability gaps in India create distributional vulnerabilities.
Abstract cites Indian official statistics and household/labor surveys (PLFS, HCES, MoSPI–NSO) and integrates sector evidence; no specific sample size reported in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... distributional vulnerabilities arising from labor-market segmentation and digita...
Refined exposure measures imply widespread task transformation rather than uniform job destruction, with accelerated skill change as a central risk for vulnerable workers.
Abstract cites labor-market analyses and ILO (2025) as the basis for refined exposure measures and conclusions; no sample size stated in abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... task transformation versus job destruction and skill change risk for vulnerable ...
Global frameworks warn that uneven readiness may produce a 'Next Great Divergence' between countries.
Cited global reports in abstract (UNDP 2025, WTO 2025, OECD 2026) which are summarized as issuing this warning; no primary data sample size reported in paper abstract.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... uneven readiness leading to increased divergence between countries
Persistent adoption gaps among groups suggest unequal access to AI-enabled productivity.
Abstract references global reports (OECD, WEF, UNDP, WTO) and sector evidence indicating adoption gaps; no numerical sample size given.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... adoption gaps and unequal access to AI-enabled productivity
AI may widen capability inequality—inequalities in access to knowledge, digital infrastructure, computational resources, and organizational adoption—thereby shaping income opportunities and socio-economic security for low-income groups.
Argument presented using the paper's socio-technical political economy framework and validated secondary sources (OECD, ILO, UNDP, WTO, WEF) and official Indian statistics; no direct empirical sample from this paper reported.
high negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INEQUALITIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESOU... capability inequality and downstream income/socio-economic security for low-inco...
These findings challenge the prevailing theory of skill-biased technological change.
Empirical observation that high-skill, high-exposure neighborhoods experienced wage stagnation post-2023 despite continued inflows of high-skilled workers, interpreted in contrast to predictions of skill-biased technological change.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... validity of skill-biased technological change predictions (skill premium dynamic...
Since 2023, high-exposure neighborhoods have experienced wage stagnation even as they continue to attract high-skilled workers (a 'high-skill trap').
Temporal analysis of job-posting wage signals in Beijing neighborhoods (2018--2024) using the GenAI Exposure Index to compare wage trajectories before and after 2023 between high- and low-exposure neighborhoods.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... wage levels / wage growth (stagnation)
GenAI exposure is highly concentrated in the city's core districts, deepening the intra-urban AI divide.
Spatial analysis of a neighborhood-level GenAI Exposure Index constructed from 5 million Beijing job postings (2018--2024), where task-level assessments were aggregated across five leading large language models to measure exposure by neighborhood.
high negative Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... GenAI exposure concentration across neighborhoods / intra-urban AI divide
AI adoption contributes to labor market polarization and increases the risk of structural unemployment.
Authors' thematic synthesis of interdisciplinary studies reporting patterns of job polarization and macro/labor market risks associated with AI in manufacturing.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing labor market polarization and structural unemployment risk
AI disproportionately affects routine and mid-skilled jobs.
Synthesis of literature (2010–2024) reported by the authors indicating disproportionate automation/AI exposure for routine and mid-skilled occupations.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing relative impact on routine and mid-skilled jobs (automation exposure)
AI adoption in manufacturing has critical implications for human labor, raising concerns about labor displacement.
Authors' systematic literature review (2010–2024) synthesizing interdisciplinary studies discussing labor impacts and displacement risks.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing labor displacement
Simultaneously, there is a structural shortage of qualified personnel and a gap between the education system and the needs of the economy in Uzbekistan.
Synthesis of statistical data, industry reviews, and regulatory/legal document analysis presented in the paper (no primary survey/sample size reported).
high negative The Impact of Artificial Intelligence During the Transformat... shortage of qualified personnel and education–economy skills gap
The potential widening of the gender wage gap would operate through existing patterns of gender-based occupational sorting (i.e., because women are concentrated in occupations more exposed to generative AI).
Mechanistic interpretation supported by the combination of descriptive occupational sorting evidence from Swedish administrative data and results from the partial-equilibrium simulations incorporating predicted AI exposure and task complementarity.
high negative <scp>Pre‐AI</scp> Sorting, ... mechanism linking occupational sorting to changes in gender wage gap
Mechanical partial-equilibrium simulations indicate that generative AI may widen the gender wage gap.
Counterfactual simulations (mechanical partial-equilibrium) based on hypothesized deviations from the 2021 occupational and wage distribution, incorporating predicted AI exposure and task complementarity; applied to Swedish context.
high negative <scp>Pre‐AI</scp> Sorting, ... gender wage gap (changes in wages by gender)
Women are overrepresented in occupations predicted to be more affected by generative AI (using pre-ChatGPT occupational sorting).
Descriptive analysis of Swedish administrative data characterizing occupational gender composition before the release of ChatGPT and mapping occupations to predicted exposure to generative AI.
high negative <scp>Pre‐AI</scp> Sorting, ... predicted exposure to generative AI by occupation / gender representation in hig...
Even SOTA coding agents (Codex with GPT-5.4 and Claude Code with Opus 4.6) succeed on only 2/7 distributed key-value-store specifications.
Empirical evaluation reported in the paper comparing two SOTA coding agents on a suite of 7 distributed key-value-store specifications; success counted as meeting the specification.
A complementary Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition shows that shifts in occupational composition account for about 90% of the exposure change attributable to observable job characteristics.
Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reported in the paper attributing ~90% of exposure change (among the portion explained by observable job characteristics) to occupational composition shifts.
high negative Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand fraction of exposure change (attributable to observable job characteristics) exp...
Within-job redesign accounts for 39.5% of the aggregate decline in generative-AI exposure and becomes increasingly important over time.
Same decomposition as above reported in the paper (result: within-job redesign = 39.5% of aggregate decline; authors note its increasing importance).
high negative Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand share of aggregate decline in generative-AI exposure explained by within-job red...
Hiring reallocation explains the largest share of the aggregate decline in generative-AI exposure, accounting for 52% on average.
Decomposition of changes in aggregate exposure into two margins (reallocation across jobs and within-job redesign) reported in the paper (result: hiring reallocation = 52% of aggregate decline).
high negative Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand share of aggregate decline in generative-AI exposure explained by hiring realloc...
The de-coring and skill-demand changes are concentrated among low entry-threshold, small firms.
Abstract statement reporting heterogeneity: concentration of observed patterns among firms characterized as small and with low entry thresholds.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... heterogeneity of skill-demand changes by firm size and entry-threshold (concentr...
Both displacement and augmentation exposure are associated with a de-coring pattern: a shallower and more dispersed skill portfolio with within-category importance diverging from share movements.
Empirical description in abstract that both forms of exposure correlate with changes in portfolio depth and dispersion, and with divergence between within-category importance and category shares.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... skill portfolio depth and dispersion; divergence between within-category importa...
Displacement exposure is negatively associated with the routine cognitive skill share.
Empirical result stated in abstract: negative association between displacement exposure and routine cognitive share, identified using within-firm variation and the constructed exposure measures.
high negative Toward Sustainable Workforce Development: How AI Reshapes Sk... routine cognitive skill share (share of demand for routine cognitive tasks/skill...
Regulatory uncertainty and the absence of explicit legislation on digital data and artificial intelligence may leave the economic potential of these technologies unexplored while increasing market concentration, inequality, and the risk of personal information misuse.
Argued implications from the paper's theoretical model and comparative legal discussion; no empirical testing or quantified analysis provided.
high negative ECONOMIC SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALISATION AND AI: TH... risk of unexploited economic potential, market concentration, inequality, and da...
The measurement bias understates substitution effects more than it understates augmentation effects.
Analytical argument and empirical evidence showing directional bias from measurement error that causes estimated substitution (labor displacement) effects to be more severely understated than augmentation (complementarity) effects.
high negative Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure relative bias in estimated substitution versus augmentation effects on employmen...
Reweighting platform-based exposure measures to Bureau of Labor Statistics workforce shares attenuates estimates by 42 to 93 percent.
Reweighting exercise where exposure scores built from platform logs are reweighted to match BLS workforce shares and resulting employment estimates are compared; reported attenuation range of 42–93%.
high negative Who Uses AI? Platforms, Workforce, and AI Exposure magnitude of employment estimates (attenuation after reweighting)
Low-wage workers on platforms perform supporting tasks—such as data annotation and content moderation—that underpin technological infrastructures.
Empirical grounding drawn from cited ethnographic, sociological and anthropological studies and mapping exercises discussed in the paper documenting the kinds of work performed on microtask platforms.
high negative H ψηφιακή εργασία πίσω από την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: types of platform tasks and wage conditions (data annotation, content moderation...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on invisible labor performed on microtask platforms.
Claim based on synthesis of sociological and anthropological studies cited in the paper mapping production networks and documenting microtask platform work (e.g., data labeling, content moderation) that supports AI.
high negative H ψηφιακή εργασία πίσω από την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: reliance of AI on paid/unpaid microtask labor
Socio-technical imaginaries that forecast the displacement of humans from production accompany the technological developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Conceptual claim supported by literature review and theoretical framing in the paper describing historical and contemporary narratives around automation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
high negative H ψηφιακή εργασία πίσω από την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: displacement of human labor from production (narratives/imaginaries)
Emerging evidence indicates that algorithms often inherit and amplify the historical biases present in training data.
Literature claim in paper referencing 'emerging evidence' and empirical studies (2024–2026) — specific studies, methods, and sample sizes not included in excerpt.
high negative The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... presence and amplification of historical bias in algorithmic outputs
Content filtering (blocking searches for Gaza War and Tulsa race massacre).
Documented cases of content filtering cited/synthesized in the paper (specific blocked search topics reported).
high negative Operating the franchise: vendor consolidation, algorithmic m... blocking of specific search queries / restriction of information access
AI cataloguing failures (26% F1 accuracy for subject headings).
Empirical studies of AI accuracy in cataloguing synthesized by the paper (reported F1 accuracy for subject heading assignment).
high negative Operating the franchise: vendor consolidation, algorithmic m... F1 accuracy of AI subject heading assignment
Selective displacement from AI is concentrated among older and lower-mobility workers.
Explicit claim in chapter summary, stated to be traced from labour market data and emerging workplace evidence (no numeric breakdown in excerpt).
high negative 7. AI and the Future of Work concentration of displacement by age and mobility
The tech industry claims that its products, business models, and methods of resource extraction are unprecedented and fall outside any existing legal framework.
Descriptive claim about prevailing industry discourse referenced by the authors. (Citations or examples of industry statements not included in the excerpt.)
high negative Auditing African Content Moderators' Working Conditions by U... industry discourse of exceptionalism (claiming novelty and exemption from existi...
Exploitative working conditions violate workers' rights.
Legal assessment based on documents and the authors' interpretation of rights under applicable law (GDPR and labour rights frameworks). (Specific legal rulings or counts not provided in the excerpt.)
high negative Auditing African Content Moderators' Working Conditions by U... violation of workers' legal rights by working conditions
The results of this approach provide legally grounded evidence of the structural disadvantages faced by content moderators in the Global South, whose exploitative working conditions violate workers' rights.
Documents obtained via GDPR requests (employment contracts, NDAs, etc.) and legal interpretation are used as evidence to support claims of structural disadvantage and rights violations. (Specific documents and counts not provided in the excerpt.)
high negative Auditing African Content Moderators' Working Conditions by U... structural disadvantages and rights violations experienced by content moderators...
There are limits to technology‑led growth strategies in labor‑abundant contexts; such strategies do not reliably deliver inclusive employment gains.
Argument based on synthesis of theory and comparative field evidence demonstrating weak employment outcomes from technology‑led growth in labor‑abundant settings (no quantitative effect sizes reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... effectiveness of technology-led growth strategies for employment generation
Digital media play a significant role in shaping youth mobilization and political unrest in migrants' countries of origin.
Empirical observations and regional field evidence reported in the paper linking digital media use to youth mobilization and political outcomes (qualitative/comparative evidence; no numeric sample size provided).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... youth mobilization and political unrest
Developing countries face macroeconomic vulnerabilities because of dependence on remittances, which are exposed by automation-driven changes in migrant labor demand.
Analytical linkage developed in the paper supported by comparative field evidence and macroeconomic reasoning; remittance dependence highlighted as a vulnerability (no quantitative estimates or sample sizes reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... macroeconomic vulnerability arising from remittance dependence
Technology adoption in core industries in advanced economies is linked with labor displacement, rising youth unemployment, and urban labor saturation in South Asia and North Africa.
Geographically grounded framework combined with comparative regional field evidence focused on South Asia and North Africa (qualitative/comparative field data referenced; no numeric sample sizes provided).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... labor displacement / youth unemployment / urban labor saturation
AI adoption and accelerating automation amplify employment precarity in labor‑surplus economies.
Conceptual synthesis grounded in economic geography and labor economics, supported by comparative field evidence cited for labor‑surplus contexts (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... employment precarity (job quality and stability)
Automation functions as a transnational shock that contracts demand for migrant labor in advanced economies.
Theoretical argument drawing on economic geography, labor economics, and development studies; comparative/regional field evidence referenced in the paper (no numerical sample size reported).
Rather than restoring stability, this cycle intensifies anxiety, undermines mastery, and erodes professional confidence.
Theoretical claim about psychological outcomes from the conceptual reskilling loop; paper provides argumentation but no empirical measurements.
high negative AI-driven skill volatility and the emergence of re-skilling ... anxiety, sense of mastery, professional confidence
Based on Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, the paper conceptualizes an AI-induced reskilling loop in which ongoing technological change leads to skill erosion, continuous reskilling demands, cognitive and emotional depletion, and reinforced learning as a defensive response to perceived obsolescence.
Theoretical model/loop derived from applying JD-R and COR frameworks; no empirical test or sample reported in the paper.
high negative AI-driven skill volatility and the emergence of re-skilling ... cognitive/emotional depletion and defensive learning responses
The paper introduces the concept of 'reskilling fatigue' to explain the human consequences of persistent skill volatility among Established Knowledge Professionals (EKPs).
Conceptual/theoretical contribution presented by the authors; definition and argumentation rather than empirical validation.
high negative AI-driven skill volatility and the emergence of re-skilling ... experience of reskilling fatigue among EKPs
Continuous reskilling is widely promoted as a solution to AI-driven disruption, but little attention has been paid to its cumulative psychological costs.
Argument from literature review/observation in the paper; no empirical measurement or sample reported in the paper.
high negative AI-driven skill volatility and the emergence of re-skilling ... psychological costs of continuous reskilling (e.g., fatigue, stress)
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...