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Evidence (16496 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
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...
There are factor-share consequences from agent adoption (i.e., implications for the shares of income accruing to factors such as labor and capital).
Model-based discussion and comparative-static analysis in the paper deriving implications for factor shares as agents/compute capital alter production technology. The excerpt indicates qualitative/theoretical analysis rather than empirical measurement.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... factor shares (e.g., labor share vs capital share)
The CAW result generalizes through CES aggregation and, when tasks are separated into substitutable versus complementary, yields a directional inversion of skill-biased technical change.
Theoretical extension of the core model using CES (constant elasticity of substitution) aggregation and task decomposition in the paper; the claim arises from model generalization and comparative-static reasoning. No empirical validation provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... direction of skill-biased technical change (which skills gain/lose relative retu...
Agents are not labor; they are a production technology that converts compute capital K_c into effective units of cognitive labor L_A.
Theoretical argument and definitional framing in the paper: the authors recast agents as a technology that transforms compute capital into effective cognitive labor units within an analytical model (textual/theoretical exposition). No empirical sample or experimental data reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... classification of agents (technology vs labor)
We empirically validate these theoretical observations using both synthetic and real datasets.
Experimental evaluation reported in the paper applying proposed policies and measures to synthetic data and at least one real dataset (details not given in abstract).
high mixed Price of Fairness in Short-Term and Long-Term Algorithmic Se... empirical consistency of theoretical findings (PoF behavior and long-term dispar...
Two minimal extension policies, each derived from the observation, close the regime along orthogonal axes: a sample-size-aware static rule (Periodic-with-floor) closes the granularity-failure case, while a history-conditioned suspicion-escalation policy closes the coverage-failure case for the naive Drift strategy — and neither closes both, exactly as the observation predicts.
Design and analysis of two auditor policies in the paper; theoretical argument from Observation 1 and supporting simulation results illustrating which failure modes each policy addresses.
high mixed A Benchmark for Strategic Auditee Gaming Under Continuous Co... ability of proposed auditor policies to close granularity or coverage failures
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...
The trajectory of AI systems is shaped not only by model design, but by the dynamics of human-AI co-evolution.
Conclusion drawn from the minimal model, analytical regimes, and simulation experiments presented in the paper.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... determinants of AI system trajectory (model design vs. co-evolutionary dynamics)
Our analysis identifies three regimes: co-evolutionary enhancement, fragile equilibrium, and degenerative convergence.
Model analysis (categorization of dynamical behaviors) presented in the paper.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... classification of system behavior into three named regimes
This feedback can give rise to distinct dynamical regimes.
Analytical results derived from the minimal dynamical model described in the paper.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... existence of qualitatively different dynamical regimes in the coupled system
We introduce a minimal model with three variables -- human cognition, data quality, and model capability.
Model development in the paper (mathematical/minimal dynamical model); presented as a constructed model rather than empirical measurement.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... theoretical representation of human cognition, data quality, and model capabilit...
Humans and language models form a coupled dynamical system linked by a feedback loop of usage, generation, and retraining.
Conceptual framing and theoretical proposal in the paper; model formulation rather than empirical data.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... dynamical relationship between human cognition, model outputs, and retraining cy...
Prior work has studied cognitive offloading in humans and model collapse in recursive training, but these effects are typically considered in isolation.
Literature review / related-work statement in paper; references to prior research (qualitative, no sample size stated).
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... research focus of prior studies (whether effects studied jointly or separately)
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping how knowledge is produced, with increasing reliance on AI systems for generation, summarization, and reasoning.
Background/literature observation cited in paper (qualitative claim), no empirical sample or quantified data reported in text provided.
high mixed Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Sy... extent to which AI systems are used for knowledge production tasks (generation, ...
Routine automation primarily dismantles specialised physical skills, enhancing mobility only within homogeneous manual clusters.
Simulation results distinguishing effects of the routine-task automation exposure measure vs. AI exposure; analysis of which skill types are eroded and resulting changes in mobility within occupational clusters.
high mixed Contrasting pathways of automation: routine task substitutio... skill_obsolescence and within-cluster mobility
Modeling fiscal policy as a government problem (instead of an abstract planner) implies a tax changes the firm's automation first-order condition, raises revenue only on the remaining automation base, and requires specifying rebates and administrative losses.
Explicit governmental optimization and budget-accounting setup in the model: taxes enter firms' automation first-order conditions; revenue is computed on post-tax automation activity and rebates/administration are modeled.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation effect of taxation on firm automation choice, tax revenue base, and fiscal accou...
The central analytic object is the derivative of household consumption demand and the collective wage bill with respect to automation.
Paper's stated modeling focus: comparative-static derivatives linking automation to household consumption demand and aggregate wages; used to characterize incidence and welfare effects.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation sensitivity (derivative) of household consumption demand and aggregate wage bill...
Automation reallocates income and ownership claims.
Theoretical model with heterogeneous households who hold capital/equity claims; equilibrium determines wages and returns and shows changes in income and ownership shares when automation increases.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation distribution of income and ownership (capital vs. labor income shares)
Institutional expertise (such as that created or possessed by universities and corporations) is viewed as in need of liberation or reform so it can be incorporated into the latest artificial intelligence systems.
Analysis of public communications from five annotation organizations and their CEOs indicating calls or framing that institutional knowledge should be freed/restructured to be integrated into AI systems.
high mixed Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... attitudes toward institutional reform for AI integration / institutional knowled...
Demand for expert-annotated data on the part of leading AI labs has created an expert gig economy with the potential to reshape white collar work and society's understanding of expertise.
Qualitative analysis of public communications (social media feeds and podcast appearances) from five industry data annotation organizations and their CEOs; sample of five organizations and their public-facing leaders.
high mixed Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... creation of an expert gig economy / effects on white-collar work and public unde...
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...
Across studies, causal modeling reveals that cognitive alignment systematically drives attentional coordination in successful collaboration, while mismatches between effort and attention characterize unproductive regulation.
Synthesis of causal inference results from the three studies using time-series measures (JME, JVA) and episode-based analyses across the pooled dataset (182 dyads total).
high mixed Cognitive Alignment Drives Attention: Modeling and Supportin... directional relationship between cognitive alignment (JME) and attentional coord...
There is substantial heterogeneity in the productivity effects across settings.
Meta-analytic heterogeneity assessment reported in the paper (subgroup/moderator analyses indicate variability by context). The paper states 'substantial heterogeneity across settings.'
high mixed A meta-analysis of the effect of generative AI on productivi... variation in productivity effect sizes across study contexts
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)
AI capabilities can be copied, invoked, embedded in workflows, and scaled across institutions at low marginal cost.
Descriptive claim about AI technology characteristics made in the paper; supported by conceptual argument and examples rather than quantified empirical data.
Earlier high-risk technologies were slowed by capital intensity, physical bottlenecks, organizational inertia, and specialized supply chains.
Historical/analytic claim presented as background context in the paper; supported by conceptual comparison rather than a specific empirical study.
These divergences carry direct implications for policy interventions.
Interpretation/conclusion drawn from the divergence between RL Feasibility Index and existing measures (policy implication claimed by authors).
high mixed What Jobs Can AI Learn? Measuring Exposure by Reinforcement ... policy relevance of measurement divergences
Scientific institutions, distinctively, manufacture legitimate judgment, so they do not merely adapt to AI; they compete with it for the same functional role.
Conceptual/theoretical assertion in the paper describing institutional roles; no empirical data or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high mixed AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities competition between scientific institutions and AI for the functional role of pr...
While Agentic AI enhances economic performance, its benefits are mediated by structural conditions and are unevenly distributed across countries (i.e., reinforcing core–periphery inequalities).
Combined findings from fixed-effects regressions, mediation analysis, and observed heterogeneity between developed and emerging economies in the 2015–2024 panel.
high mixed The Economic Value of Agentic AI: A Comparative Analysis of ... distribution of economic benefits from AI across countries (inequality of gains)
No single governance setting dominates across all contexts; moderate governance becomes increasingly competitive as the learner accumulates experience within the governed action space.
Empirical finding reported from experiments with the contextual-bandit learner operating under different governance constraints and learning over time; comparative performance over learning horizon described in the paper. Sample size / trial counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relative performance of governance settings over learning/experience (competitiv...
This workload-buffering effect (governance improving performance while reducing fatigue) contradicts the usual framing of governance as pure overhead.
Interpretation and comparison of empirical manufacturing results against prior framing in literature (qualitative claim within the paper). No sample size provided.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relationship between governance and combined measures of performance and fatigue
Governance is not a binary switch but a tunable design variable: tighter constraints predictably convert autonomous AI assignments into supervised collaborations, with domain-specific costs and benefits.
Empirical finding reported from experiments using the HAAS benchmark across the two domains (software engineering and manufacturing); qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of allocations under varying governance constraints. Paper does not state sample size in the provided text.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... distribution of collaboration modes / assignment types (autonomous vs supervised...