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Evidence (1286 claims)

Adoption
5126 claims
Productivity
4409 claims
Governance
4049 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
2954 claims
Labor Markets
2432 claims
Org Design
2273 claims
Innovation
2215 claims
Skills & Training
1902 claims
Inequality
1286 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 369 105 58 432 972
Governance & Regulation 365 171 113 54 713
Research Productivity 229 95 33 294 655
Organizational Efficiency 354 82 58 34 531
Technology Adoption Rate 277 115 63 27 486
Firm Productivity 273 33 68 10 389
AI Safety & Ethics 112 177 43 24 358
Output Quality 228 61 23 25 337
Market Structure 105 118 81 14 323
Decision Quality 154 68 33 17 275
Employment Level 68 32 74 8 184
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 74 52 32 21 183
Skill Acquisition 85 31 38 9 163
Firm Revenue 96 30 22 148
Innovation Output 100 11 20 11 143
Consumer Welfare 66 29 35 7 137
Regulatory Compliance 51 61 13 3 128
Inequality Measures 24 66 31 4 125
Task Allocation 64 6 28 6 104
Error Rate 42 47 6 95
Training Effectiveness 55 12 10 16 93
Worker Satisfaction 42 32 11 6 91
Task Completion Time 71 5 3 1 80
Wages & Compensation 38 13 19 4 74
Team Performance 41 8 15 7 72
Hiring & Recruitment 39 4 6 3 52
Automation Exposure 17 15 9 5 46
Job Displacement 5 28 12 45
Social Protection 18 8 6 1 33
Developer Productivity 25 1 2 1 29
Worker Turnover 10 12 3 25
Creative Output 15 5 3 1 24
Skill Obsolescence 3 18 2 23
Labor Share of Income 7 4 9 20
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Current regulations fall short in effectively protecting children in an evolving digital landscape; there are persistent gaps and a growing need for internationally coordinated approaches.
Conclusion presented in the book's comparative legal analysis; implies review of EU (and US) legal frameworks and identification of gaps, but the excerpt does not list the analytical method, jurisdictions reviewed in detail, or specific legal provisions examined.
medium negative Navigating Digital Safety for Minors in Europe effectiveness and comprehensiveness of existing legal/regulatory frameworks for ...
Europe has emerged as a major hub for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including newer forms such as deepfake abuse content and AI-generated 'DeepNudes.'
Asserted in the summary; would be supported by law-enforcement takedown data, hosting statistics, or forensic analyses of seized material, but the excerpt provides no specific datasets, agencies, or sample sizes.
medium negative Navigating Digital Safety for Minors in Europe geographical concentration/hosting prevalence of CSAM and emergence of AI-genera...
Violations of privacy, exposure to disturbing content, unwanted sexual approaches, and cyberbullying are becoming more common.
Trend claim made in the book summary; would be supported by longitudinal or comparative prevalence data on online harms, but no specific studies, methods, or sample sizes are cited in the provided text.
medium negative Navigating Digital Safety for Minors in Europe incidence/prevalence and trends over time of: privacy violations, exposure to di...
Nearly one in three reports feeling unsafe.
Specific prevalence statement included in the summary; implies self-report survey data on perceived safety among youth, but the excerpt does not identify the survey instrument, population, timeframe, or sample size.
medium negative Navigating Digital Safety for Minors in Europe self-reported feeling of safety among children and young people (prevalence ≈ 1 ...
The scalability of the Photo Big 5 enables new academic insights into the role of personality in labor markets, but its growing use in industry screening raises important ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.
Argument in the paper based on the methodological scalability (AI + large LinkedIn microdata) and observed predictive links to labor-market outcomes; authors raise normative concerns about industry adoption and implications for discrimination and autonomy.
medium negative AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implicati... ethical risks: statistical discrimination and impacts on individual autonomy
What remains needed is rigorous advice to policymakers concerned about rapid increases in labor churn, scientific development, labor–capital shifts, or existential risk.
Normative conclusion drawn by the author from gaps identified in the seven-book review (qualitative assessment of unmet policy-relevant analysis); sample = 7 books.
medium negative The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisc... availability of rigorous, actionable policy guidance addressing (a) labor churn,...
The reviewed works offer little guidance regarding the transformative scenarios considered plausible by many AI researchers.
Author's evaluative judgment based on the content and emphases of the seven books (qualitative gap analysis); sample = 7 books.
medium negative The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisc... extent of guidance provided on transformative AI scenarios (e.g., rapid, large-s...
Gendered perceptions of AI's social and ethical consequences, rather than access or capability, are the primary drivers of unequal GenAI adoption.
Comparative model results from the 2023–2024 nationally representative UK survey showing perceptions (societal-risk index) have greater explanatory/predictive power than measures of access (e.g., device/internet access) or capability (digital literacy, education).
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Primary drivers of unequal GenAI adoption (relative contribution of perceptions ...
Intersectional analyses show the largest gender disparities in GenAI use arise among younger, digitally fluent individuals with high societal risk concerns, where gender gaps in personal use exceed 45 percentage points.
Subgroup (intersectional) analysis of the nationally representative 2023–2024 UK survey data stratified by age, digital fluency, and societal-risk concern levels; reported gender gap >45 percentage points in specified subgroup.
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Gender gap in personal GenAI use (percentage-point difference) within younger, d...
The societal-risk concerns index ranks among the strongest predictors of GenAI adoption for women across all age groups, surpassing digital literacy and education for young women.
Multivariable models and predictor ranking using the 2023–2024 UK survey data showing relative predictive strength of the concerns index versus measures of digital literacy and education, with subgroup (age × gender) comparisons.
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Predictive strength for GenAI adoption (relative importance of predictors for wo...
The societal-risk concerns index explains between 9 and 18 percent of the variation in GenAI adoption.
Regression/statistical models using the composite concerns index as a predictor of GenAI adoption in the nationally representative 2023–2024 UK survey; reported explained variation (9–18%).
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Explained variation in GenAI adoption (percent variance attributable to the inde...
Women adopt GenAI less often than men because they perceive its societal risks differently.
Statistical analysis linking a constructed composite societal-risk concerns index (mental health, privacy, climate impact, labor market disruption) to GenAI adoption, using the UK 2023–2024 survey; models compare explanatory power of perceptions versus access/capability variables.
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... GenAI adoption (mediated by societal-risk concern index)
Women adopt GenAI substantially less often than men.
Analysis of the 2023–2024 nationally representative UK survey data comparing personal use/adoption rates by gender.
medium negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Personal use / adoption of GenAI (female vs male rates)
There are ethical concerns surrounding AI and automation including algorithmic decision-making, workforce exclusion, and inequality in access to reskilling opportunities.
Raised as an ethical analysis within the paper's conceptual framework; no empirical study, surveys, or quantified measures of these ethical issues are reported in this paper.
medium negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, AND THE CHANGING PATTER... presence/degree of ethical risks: algorithmic bias/decision-making issues; workf...
AI is eliminating repeated (routine) jobs.
Stated as part of the paper's argument about AI's dual impact; supported by conceptual analysis rather than new empirical evidence in this manuscript (no sample size or empirical method reported).
medium negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, AND THE CHANGING PATTER... incidence/prevalence of repetitive/routine jobs (job elimination)
Artificial intelligence and automation are reshaping jobs, transforming them from a steady source of income to a dynamic process highly influenced by technology, flexibility, and uncertainty.
Central analytical claim made in the paper based on conceptual reasoning; the paper does not report empirical measures, datasets, or sample sizes to support the transformation quantitatively.
medium negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, AND THE CHANGING PATTER... job stability/income steadiness; job dynamics (influence of technology, flexibil...
AI and automation pose significant challenges to employment stability, skill relevance, and human dignity.
Claim presented within the paper's conceptual and analytical discussion of AI's dual impacts; no empirical study, sample size, or quantitative measures provided in this paper.
medium negative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, AND THE CHANGING PATTER... employment stability; skill relevance; human dignity
There are challenges to adopting AI in HRM within IT firms.
Identified through the literature review and the empirical study involving HR professionals; the summary notes challenges but does not enumerate or quantify them.
medium negative AI-Driven Decision Making and Digital Recruitment: Transform... barriers to AI adoption in HR (e.g., implementation, skills, privacy — not speci...
AI use also poses risks, including systemic discrimination, privacy invasion, and commodification of talent.
Qualitative synthesis and documented instances in the reviewed literature (n=85) reporting discriminatory outcomes, privacy concerns, and labor commodification effects associated with algorithmic HR tools.
medium negative ALGORITHMIC DETERMINISM VERSUS HUMAN AGENCY: A SYSTEMATIC RE... discrimination incidents (bias indicators), privacy breaches/risks, measures of ...
Qualitative synthesis reveals a 'gray zone' in labor relations and a 'black box' in algorithmic data processing, both exposing businesses to procedural injustice risks.
Thematic/qualitative synthesis of findings from the reviewed literature (n=85) highlighting issues of labor relations and algorithmic opacity leading to procedural fairness concerns.
medium negative ALGORITHMIC DETERMINISM VERSUS HUMAN AGENCY: A SYSTEMATIC RE... procedural justice / fairness in HR decision-making; employee outcomes related t...
Digital transformation raises challenges related to privacy, inequality, and regulatory scrutiny.
Identified as a key challenge in the paper; the abstract provides no details on how privacy concerns, inequality measures, or regulatory incidents were documented or quantified.
medium negative ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... privacy risks/incidents; inequality metrics (income/wealth/ access disparities);...
Traditional methods for assessing and developing employees' skills often fail to provide real-time feedback.
Statement supported by literature review cited by the authors; the abstract does not provide empirical comparisons, metrics, or sample sizes.
medium negative GenAI Role in Redefining Learning and Skilling in Companies timeliness of feedback in employee skill assessment (real-time vs. delayed)
Skills mismatch and SME adoption constraints constitute a binding bottleneck for inclusive digital–green upgrading.
Synthesis of studies on skills, firm capabilities, and SME adoption of digital and green technologies (review-level evidence; no single dataset or sample size provided).
medium negative The synergy of digital innovation and green economy: A syste... SME adoption rates of digital/green technologies and inclusiveness of upgrading ...
Absent complementary institutions and infrastructure, digitalization may increase electricity demand, widen inequality, and incentivize strategic disclosure (greenwashing).
Literature review drawing on empirical studies of energy consumption from digital systems, labor-market studies, and analyses of ESG disclosure practices (review-level synthesis; no single sample size reported).
medium negative The synergy of digital innovation and green economy: A syste... electricity demand; measures of inequality (e.g., wage distribution); incidence ...
Occupational sorting explains a somewhat larger share of the gender gap in Ireland than in other European countries, but a substantial portion remains unexplained, pointing to possible unobserved structural, cultural or organisational factors specific to the Irish labour market.
Decomposition analysis for Ireland using ESJS data showing occupation contributes more to the explained component in Ireland than on average, while the unexplained residual remains large.
medium negative Squandered skills? Bridging the digital gender skills gap fo... Portion (%) of Ireland's gender gap in advanced digital task use explained by oc...
Gender gaps are larger and less well explained by observable characteristics among younger cohorts (aged under 35), implying under-representation of women in advanced digital roles is emerging early in careers.
Age-cohort subgroup regressions and decomposition analyses on ESJS data comparing explained/unexplained gaps for workers aged under 35 versus older cohorts.
medium negative Squandered skills? Bridging the digital gender skills gap fo... Gender gap in advanced digital task use (and share explained by observables) for...
Gender disparities widen significantly at the very upper end of the distribution of digital job intensity — a 'digital glass ceiling' — while lower and middle levels show more modest differences.
Distributional analysis of the Job Digital Intensity Index (JDII), constructed from ESJS digital task items, showing larger gender gaps at the upper tail of the JDII distribution.
medium negative Squandered skills? Bridging the digital gender skills gap fo... Gender gap in Job Digital Intensity Index (JDII) at the upper tail (highly digit...
AI causes job loss due to the automation of repetitive tasks.
Narrative literature review and synthesis of recent economic studies presented in the paper; no original empirical sample or primary data collection reported.
medium negative The Future of Work in the Age of AI: Economic Implications, ... job loss / employment levels (displacement of jobs performing repetitive tasks)
The findings raise ethical concerns about using such models in sensitive selection processes and highlight the need for transparency and fairness in digital labour markets.
Interpretive/concluding claim based on the observed adjective-based gendering and the broader literature on algorithmic fairness; recommendation rather than direct empirical result.
medium negative Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes ethical risk and need for transparency/fairness when deploying LLMs in recruitme...
Gendered linguistic patterns emerged in the adjectives attributed to female and male candidates: GPT-5 tended to associate women with emotional and empathetic traits and men with strategic and analytical traits.
Empirical/qualitative analysis of the adjectives and descriptive language in GPT-5's outputs for the 24 simulated profiles; categories reported (emotional/empathetic vs strategic/analytical).
medium negative Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes adjectives/descriptive language used by GPT-5 to characterize candidates
Large language models (LLMs) risk reproducing, and in some cases amplifying, gender stereotypes and bias already present in the labour market.
Framed as an assertion supported by prior literature and used as motivation for the study; partially evaluated empirically in this paper via the GPT-5 experiment.
medium negative Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes presence and amplification of gender stereotypes/bias in LLM outputs
Developing economies face heightened risks from AI due to large informal sectors, limited reskilling infrastructure, weaker labor mobility, and constrained social protection.
Comparative institutional analysis and application of structural-transformation theory; argument is qualitative and no explicit cross-country regression or representative sample of developing countries is provided in the paper.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... employment vulnerability, ability to re-skill, welfare/social protection coverag...
Displacement often occurs faster than job creation and worker reallocation, producing transitional unemployment and skills gaps.
Temporal-mismatch argument based on historical patterns of technological adoption and task-based substitution theory; paper synthesizes prior theoretical work rather than presenting new time-series microdata or measured reallocation speeds.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... transitional unemployment; duration of joblessness; measures of reallocation spe...
Developing economies are more vulnerable where employment is concentrated in routine or informal tasks and where reskilling, mobility, and institutional buffers are limited.
Comparative consideration of advanced vs developing economies drawing on macro/sectoral indicators, labor market structure discussions, and existing empirical studies cited conceptually.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... vulnerability to automation measured by share of routine/informal employment, un...
Creation of new jobs often lags displacement, producing transitional unemployment and reallocation frictions in the short- to medium-term.
Dynamic/task-based theoretical framing and synthesis of empirical evidence on technology adoption episodes showing delayed job creation relative to displacement.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... transitional unemployment rates, duration of unemployment, reallocation flows
AI disproportionately automates routine and many middle-skill tasks (both manual and cognitive), displacing corresponding occupations.
Synthesis of occupation- and task-level exposure studies and task-based automation literature referenced in the paper (no new empirical sample provided).
medium negative Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... employment in routine and middle-skill occupations; task-level task-completion b...
Compensation-based frameworks for personal data may advantage those better able to monetize data, potentially worsening inequality.
Theoretical argument and literature synthesis on distributional effects of markets and bargaining power; paper does not present empirical distributional simulations or data.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Distributional impact (inequality) resulting from compensation-based data exchan...
Data markets tend to concentrate benefits and rents in large platforms while externalizing harms onto individuals and society.
Argument based on descriptive facts about platform business models and literature on market concentration in digital markets; no original econometric concentration analysis provided in the paper.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Distribution of economic benefits and harms across firms (platforms) and individ...
Standard market-failure fixes (better information, pricing, contracting) are insufficient to address the moral and social-structural harms of commodifying privacy.
Philosophical argument drawing on noxious-markets literature and limitations of informational/contractual remedies; supported by conceptual examples rather than empirical testing.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Adequacy of standard market remedies to eliminate ethical harms of data markets
Harms from data commodification are often externalized, diffuse, and long-term (e.g., profiling, algorithmic discrimination, chilling effects on behavior).
Normative and descriptive synthesis of existing literature on algorithmic harms and privacy externalities; no original longitudinal or causal empirical evidence presented.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Presence and characteristics of harms (externalization, diffusion, temporality) ...
Consent in data markets is frequently weak, uninformed, or coerced (due to information asymmetries, complexity, and behavioral biases), undermining the ethical legitimacy of transactions.
Argumentative claim grounded in literature on privacy notice problems, behavioral economics, and descriptive reports on digital consent practices; no new empirical study included in the paper.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Validity/ethical legitimacy of consent in personal-data transactions
Commodifying personal information poses distinctive harms to individuals and social practices, including exploitation, corruption of personal autonomy, distributional injustice, and information asymmetries.
Conceptual analysis supported by literature review across ethics, political philosophy, and descriptive facts about digital-era data practices; uses illustrative examples and secondary sources rather than original empirical data.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Types and presence of moral/social harms (exploitation, autonomy corruption, dis...
Creating a market for personal data is equivalent to making the right to privacy a tradeable right, and such a market should be treated as a 'noxious market' in the sense articulated by Debra Satz.
Normative, conceptual argument applying Satz's noxious-markets framework to personal data; literature review and philosophical argumentation; no original empirical sample or econometric analysis.
medium negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Normative classification of personal-data markets (noxious vs non-noxious); stat...
Family- and purpose-driven entrepreneurs (motivated by social stability) experienced larger declines in innovation following income shocks than wealth-driven entrepreneurs.
Subgroup quantitative analysis comparing self-reported post-shock innovation activity across identity-defined groups (family/purpose-driven vs. wealth-driven) within the survey sample; outcome measured conditional on reported income shocks.
medium negative Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... self-reported innovation activity after income shocks
Stronger internal corporate governance weakens the AI → executive pay relationship, consistent with governance limiting managerial rent capture during technological change.
Moderation analysis in the paper interacting the firm AI indicator with corporate governance measures; results show a smaller AI effect on pay in firms with stronger governance (same sample and regression framework).
medium negative The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Executive Compensat... Interaction effect on executive compensation (AI × corporate governance)
Policy levers matter: increasing openness/shared ownership of AI, strengthening rent-sharing (higher ξ), and reducing concentration of complementary assets (antitrust, data portability) can reduce the probability that AI widens aggregate inequality.
Model counterfactuals and policy experiments in the calibrated framework that vary ownership/access parameters, ξ, and asset concentration to show distributional outcomes shift accordingly.
medium negative When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asse... probability/magnitude of aggregate inequality increase (ΔGini) under policy para...
Inflation and geopolitical fragmentation can raise the cost of AI deployment (hardware shortages, supply constraints) and complicate cross-border data flows, slowing diffusion or creating regionalized AI ecosystems.
Conceptual argument linking macroeconomic and geopolitical constraints to AI deployment costs; no empirical cost-accounting or cross-country diffusion analysis provided in the paper.
medium negative Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... cost of AI deployment, diffusion speed, regionalization of AI ecosystems
Mandel's account—that capitalist production relations, class struggle, and global imbalances shape the course and consequences of waves—implies that crises expose and amplify supply-chain fragilities and bargaining conflicts that affect profitability.
Theoretical interpretation of Mandel's political-economy literature and historical examples (qualitative).
medium negative Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... firm profitability and bargaining outcomes
One-size-fits-all AI competency approaches fail to account for local labor markets, pedagogical traditions, and resource realities; respondents favor context-aware frameworks allowing discipline-specific adaptation.
Thematic analysis of open-ended responses expressing preferences for context-aware, flexible frameworks; survey items mapped to UNESCO competency frameworks asking about adaptability and local relevance.
medium negative Exploring Student and Educator Challenges in AI Competency D... respondent preferences for competency framework design and adaptability to local...
Infrastructural limitations (bandwidth, computing resources, licensing costs) disproportionately affect respondents in the Global South and smaller institutions.
Comparative descriptive analysis by region (Global South vs Global North) and institution size/type within the >600 respondent sample; survey items on infrastructure and costs; thematic coding supporting differential impact.
medium negative Exploring Student and Educator Challenges in AI Competency D... infrastructural access measures (bandwidth, compute resources, licensing afforda...