The Commonplace
Home Dashboard Papers Evidence Syntheses Digests 🎲

Evidence (4114 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
Clear
Innovation Remove filter
The black-box nature of many deep learning models undermines scientific interpretability and experimental trust, limiting adoption in materials research.
Cited concerns and methodological papers advocating interpretable architectures and post hoc explanation methods reviewed in the paper; synthesis of community critique.
high negative Machine Learning-Driven R&D of Perovskites and Spinels: From... model interpretability and experimental adoption/trust
Insufficient attention to model reliability—particularly uncertainty miscalibration—reduces real-world utility because experimentalists need reliable confidence estimates, not only point predictions.
Survey of literature on uncertainty estimation and calibration (Bayesian NNs, ensembles, temperature scaling, conformal prediction) and papers reporting calibration issues; recommendations drawn from these sources.
high negative Machine Learning-Driven R&D of Perovskites and Spinels: From... calibration of predictive uncertainties (e.g., calibration error, coverage) and ...
Progress of DL-driven materials discovery is limited by scarcity of high-quality, diverse labeled datasets; small, noisy, or biased datasets limit model generalization.
Review and synthesis of empirical studies and methodological papers documenting dataset size/quality issues and their impact on model performance; no new dataset analysis in this paper.
high negative Machine Learning-Driven R&D of Perovskites and Spinels: From... model generalization / predictive performance on out-of-distribution materials o...
Traditional ESG ratings often suffered from data inconsistency, subjectivity and limited coverage of unstructured sustainability information.
Literature review and citations cited in the paper (e.g., Berg et al. 2022 and other ESG-rating divergence studies). This is presented as established background evidence rather than a new empirical finding in the study.
high negative Green Intelligence in Finance: Artificial Intelligence-Drive... Quality attributes of traditional ESG ratings: data consistency, subjectivity, c...
The article identifies and lays out several concerns regarding the government's approach to regulating AI.
Analytical critique presented in the paper (legal/policy analysis summarizing potential regulatory shortcomings). Based on the author's review and argumentation rather than primary empirical data.
high negative Regulation and governance of artificial intelligence in Indi... adequacy and risks of the government's AI regulatory approach
Environmental regulations weaken the beneficial influence of generative AI on a company's ESG performance.
Moderation/interaction tests in the panel-data econometric model using measures of environmental regulation (on the same 2012–2024 Chinese A-share firm sample) showing a statistically significant negative interaction effect.
high negative How Can Generative AI Promote Corporate ESG Performance? Evi... corporate ESG performance (effect of generative AI moderated by environmental re...
The sample is limited to Chinese A-share-listed design enterprises (2014–2023), which may limit generalizability to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or firms in other countries/regions.
Study sample description: A-share-listed design-oriented enterprises in China between 2014 and 2023; authors explicitly note this as a limitation.
high negative AI-driven design management: enhancing organizational produc... External validity / generalizability of results
Using TFP as a proxy for project efficiency aggregates effects at the firm level and therefore lacks micro-level insight into specific project workflows or design iteration processes.
Methodological limitation acknowledged in the paper: TFP is used as a firm-level proxy and the dataset does not include micro-level project workflow or iteration logs.
high negative AI-driven design management: enhancing organizational produc... Granularity of project-efficiency measurement (limitation of TFP proxy)
There exists a systemic governance vacuum around GenAI, including gaps in privacy, accountability, and intellectual property protections.
Authors' synthesis of governance-related gaps reported across the 28 secondary studies and research agendas in the review.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... adequacy of governance mechanisms for privacy, accountability, and intellectual ...
Societal and ethical risks—such as bias, misuse, and skill erosion—constrain GenAI adoption.
Themes synthesized from the reviewed literature (28 papers) reporting societal and ethical concerns associated with GenAI deployment.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... societal-ethical risk level associated with GenAI (bias incidence, misuse potent...
Technical unreliability—manifesting as hallucinations and performance drift—is a major constraint on GenAI adoption.
Recurring identification of technical reliability issues (hallucinations, performance drift) in the 28 reviewed papers and authors' aggregation of technical risks.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... technical reliability of GenAI systems (frequency/severity of hallucinations and...
Adoption of GenAI is constrained by multiple interrelated challenges.
Cross-paper synthesis from the systematic review of 28 studies identifying recurring barriers and constraints reported in the literature.
high negative The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... level/extent of GenAI adoption (barriers to adoption)
Ongoing issues remain such as data access, model transparency, ethical concerns, and the varying relevance across Global North and Global South contexts.
Critical synthesis within the review drawing on discussions and critiques in the literature about barriers and ethical challenges; based on reported limitations and regional comparisons in reviewed studies (no numerical breakdown provided).
high negative Advancing Urban Analytics: GeoAI Applications in Spatial Dec... barriers to GeoAI adoption and trustworthy use: data accessibility, model interp...
There are significantly negative spatial spillover effects between digital–real integration and New Quality Productive Forces (i.e., each variable has negative spillover impacts on the other across regions).
Spatial spillover coefficients estimated in the GS3SLS spatial simultaneous equations model using panel data for 30 provinces (2011–2022) are reported as statistically significant and negative.
high negative Spatial Interplay Between Digital–Real Integration and New Q... Spatial spillover effects of Digital–Real Integration and New Quality Productive...
Nearby business closures increased perceived impediments to growth, amplifying pessimism via local exposure (social contagion effect).
Empirical comparison of perceived impediments to growth across variation in local exposure to nearby business closures (survey measures of local closures correlated with respondents' perceived impediments), using the cross-country survey sample.
high negative Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... perceived impediments to growth
Reproducibility and deployment gaps are widespread: missing code, inconsistent benchmarks, and insufficient productionization focus (monitoring, model updates, rollback).
Surveyed literature often lacks released code and consistent benchmarks; thematic analysis highlights absence of operational deployment practices.
high negative International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics reproducibility indicators (code availability, benchmark consistency) and deploy...
Common ML pipeline pitfalls include overfitting, poor cross-validation practices, lack of real-time/online evaluation, and inadequate feature engineering.
Critical assessment of experimental practices in the surveyed literature identifying methodological shortcomings that can inflate reported performance.
high negative International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics validity/reliability of reported model performance
There is a lack of large, labeled, realistic IoT datasets; class imbalance, concept drift, dataset bias, and synthetic datasets that poorly reflect real traffic are common problems.
Review of datasets (N-BaIoT, Bot-IoT, TON_IoT, UNSW-NB15, KDD variants, custom/synthetic datasets) and critical assessment of their limitations across studies.
high negative International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics dataset quality and representativeness; labeling availability
Resource constraints (limited CPU, memory, energy, and network bandwidth on devices and edge nodes) significantly limit feasible ML model complexity and deployment choices.
Multiple surveyed studies report hardware constraints and evaluate runtime/memory/latency; survey synthesizes these resource limitations as a recurring challenge.
high negative International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics resource usage (CPU, memory, energy) and feasible model complexity
Despite high reported detection accuracies in academic work, there is a shortage of production-grade, deployable ML-IDS for IoT.
Critical review of surveyed papers showing many report lab metrics but few report deployment case studies, production rollouts, or provide deployment artifacts (code, runtime/energy measurements).
high negative International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics deployment readiness/production adoption
Industrial robotization (IR) is a robust negative predictor of provincial IWE after controlling for fixed effects and covariates.
Multiple regression specifications using province and year fixed effects and control variables; the negative IR–IWE coefficient remains statistically significant across alternative model specifications (robustness checks reported in the paper).
high negative Can Industrial Robotization Drive Sustainable Industrial Was... Industrial wastewater emissions (IWE)
Adoption of industrial robots substantially reduces industrial wastewater emissions (IWE) across Chinese provinces (2013–2022).
Panel data covering 30 Chinese provinces for 2013–2022 (≈300 province-year observations); fixed-effects regressions with province and year fixed effects and covariates; estimated negative coefficient on provincial IR intensity.
high negative Can Industrial Robotization Drive Sustainable Industrial Was... Industrial wastewater emissions (IWE) at the provincial level
There is limited long-term impact evidence and few system-level assessments of AI in developing-country agriculture.
Authors' methodological caveat based on the temporal scope and types of studies available in the >60-study review.
high negative A systematic review of the economic impact of artificial int... presence/absence of long-term impact evaluations and system-level assessments
The evidence base is skewed toward pilots and high‑performer contexts; there is a lack of long‑panel, multi‑project longitudinal studies to validate typical returns and scalability.
Authors' assessment of evidence types in the 160 studies: mix of conceptual papers, case studies, pilots, and only limited larger empirical evaluations.
high negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... representativeness and longitudinal robustness of evidence
Substantial compute and resource requirements for training and inference concentrate capabilities among well‑resourced labs and firms.
Paper discusses large compute budgets for training/inference and states that performance scales with data, model size, and compute; it infers concentration of capabilities but provides no empirical market concentration measures.
high negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... distribution of computational capability/resources across organizations and resu...
Structure predictors depend on training data and exhibit biases; experimental validation remains necessary.
Paper notes dependence on training data biases and the need for experimental validation; references data sources (PDB, UniRef, metagenomic catalogs) but does not quantify bias magnitudes.
high negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... bias in model predictions attributable to training data coverage/quality; requir...
Current limitations include inaccurate prediction of multi‑chain complexes, flexible or rare conformational states, and limited prediction of dynamic ensembles.
Paper explicitly enumerates these limitations in the 'Ongoing limitations' section; no quantitative failure rates are given.
high negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... accuracy for multi‑chain complexes, flexible/rare conformations, and ensemble/dy...
Traditional computational methods struggle without homologous templates or with complex folding/dynamics.
Paper discusses limitations of traditional computational methods, emphasizing dependence on homologous templates and difficulty with complex folding/dynamics; specific method comparisons or sample sizes are not provided.
high negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... accuracy/success of traditional computational structure prediction in low‑homolo...
Empirical evaluation of integrated defenses, quantitative cost/benefit analyses, and standardized threat models for VR are research gaps that remain unaddressed in the literature window surveyed (2023–2025).
Authors' stated limitations from their comparative literature review of 31 studies noting an absence of primary empirical validation and quantitative economic analyses in the reviewed corpus.
high negative Securing Virtual Reality: Threat Models, Vulnerabilities, an... presence/absence of empirical validation, cost‑benefit studies, and standard thr...
Immersive VR systems collect continuous multimodal signals (motion tracking, gaze, voice, biometrics) that enable novel inference, spoofing, and manipulation attacks beyond traditional IT threats.
Synthesis of threat descriptions across the 31 reviewed peer‑reviewed studies (2023–2025) documenting sensor modalities and attack vectors; qualitative comparative evaluation of attack surfaces.
high negative Securing Virtual Reality: Threat Models, Vulnerabilities, an... existence and extent of expanded attack surface due to multimodal signal collect...
The Omnibus overlaps substantively with the DSA and other digital policies, creating potential jurisdictional and interpretive ambiguities about which rules apply to platforms and AI-enabled services.
Comparative mapping and legal/regulatory review identifying overlapping provisions; qualitative analysis of proposed texts (no quantitative sample).
high negative The Digital Omnibus and the Future of EU Regulation: Implica... jurisdictional/interpretive clarity of applicable rules for platforms and AI ser...
Pakistan prioritizes economic and digital governance objectives, with comparatively weak governance of military AI.
Review of Pakistan’s economic and digital governance plans, export‑control materials, and secondary literature on Pakistan’s civil–military relations.
high negative <b>Regulating AI in National Security: A Comparative S... strength and formality of military AI governance
Large-scale machine learning enables invisible inferences about users from seemingly innocuous data.
Conceptual claim presented in the workshop and supported by referenced technical literature on inference capabilities of ML models (discussion in position papers); workshop itself did not present a new empirical experiment.
high negative Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in... privacy risk from inferred attributes (inference accuracy / presence of invisibl...
Despite LoRA being parameter-efficient, fine-tuning and iterative human-in-the-loop workflows still require compute resources and researcher time; governance/versioning of tuned models is necessary.
Caveat stated in the paper about remaining computational and governance costs; no quantitative resource usage reported in the summary.
high negative THETA: A Textual Hybrid Embedding-based Topic Analysis Frame... compute/resource requirements and governance burden
Embedding fine-tuning (DAFT) risks amplifying domain-specific biases present in the tuning corpus, so domain experts and robust evaluation protocols are necessary.
Paper caveat noting bias-amplification risk from fine-tuning embeddings; aligns with known risks in the literature but no empirical bias audit results provided in the summary.
high negative THETA: A Textual Hybrid Embedding-based Topic Analysis Frame... amplification of biases in tuned embeddings / need for bias mitigation
Limitations of the study include reliance on self-reported perceptions (subject to response and survivorship bias), lack of experimental/causal identification, potential non-representative sample, and cross-sectional design limiting inference about long-term productivity effects.
Authors' stated limitations in the paper summary.
high negative Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Innovation in Soft... validity threats (self-report bias, lack of causal design) as reported by author...
A mathematical analysis bounds or relates expected performance loss of the surrogate to measurable distribution mismatch between the training parameter distribution (samples) and the target parameter distribution.
Theoretical derivations presented in the paper that relate performance loss to distribution mismatch; the summary states the analysis provides a measurable diagnostic for when retraining or reweighting is needed.
high negative MCMC Informed Neural Emulators for Uncertainty Quantificatio... expected performance loss (e.g., increase in predictive loss) as a function of d...
Neural estimators are less interpretable than closed-form or equilibrium-based estimators, which matters for policy applications and audits.
Conceptual claim/caveat: reasoning about model interpretability and regulatory transparency; not an empirical measurement in the summary.
high negative ForwardFlow: Simulation only statistical inference using dee... interpretability / transparency (qualitative)
Estimator performance depends on the fidelity of the simulation model to real data; misspecified simulation-generating processes can yield misleading estimates.
Methodological caveat: conceptual argument and standard concern about simulation-based inference; no specific empirical counterexamples provided in the summary, but stated as an important limitation.
high negative ForwardFlow: Simulation only statistical inference using dee... external validity / susceptibility to model misspecification (qualitative claim ...
MSE-trained point-estimator networks do not directly provide calibrated interval estimates or valid standard errors; integrating conditional density estimators or bootstrap-calibration is needed for uncertainty quantification.
Methodological caveat: logical/statistical argument and recommendation based on the fact that training with MSE produces point estimates; no empirical demonstration in the summary, but the limitation follows from standard statistical principles.
high negative ForwardFlow: Simulation only statistical inference using dee... availability of calibrated uncertainty quantification (absence of calibrated int...
Basic/minimal BSBM architectures (without ancilla modes or generalized postprocessing) are not universal generative models.
Analytical proof/argument in the paper demonstrating non-universality of the minimal BSBM architecture; theoretical reasoning about expressive limitations of the plain model family (no empirical sample size).
high negative Universality of Classically Trainable, Quantum-Deployed Boso... generative universality / expressive power (failure of universality)
Current bottlenecks are disparate quantum and classical resources operating in isolation, causing manual job orchestration, inefficient scheduling, data-movement overheads, and slow iteration that limit productivity and algorithmic exploration.
Use-case-driven analysis and observations from early hybrid deployments and literature; systems design decomposition highlighting latency and data-staging requirements; no quantitative benchmark data.
high negative Reference Architecture of a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer developer/researcher productivity, iteration latency, scheduling and data-transf...
Higher measured GDP need not imply higher aggregate welfare: the private costs of the arms race can outweigh the market gains from increased output.
Welfare comparisons performed in the model showing parameter regions where private equilibrium raises GDP but reduces aggregate welfare once investment costs are included.
high negative Janus-Faced Technological Progress and the Arms Race in the ... aggregate welfare (utility/net social surplus)
Because private incentives push agents toward tail outcomes, aggregate overinvestment occurs relative to the social optimum (the arms race is inefficient).
Welfare calculations and comparison of private vs social optima within the model; the paper shows private equilibrium investment exceeds the socially optimal investment given the externalities of the arms race.
high negative Janus-Faced Technological Progress and the Arms Race in the ... aggregate welfare (social welfare loss due to overinvestment)
High upfront costs and lack of tailored financing instruments are significant financial constraints on SME AI adoption.
Case studies, finance sector reports, and SME surveys cited in the review showing cost barriers and financing gaps; evidence descriptive rather than causal.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Sustainable Development... upfront investment costs; access to tailored finance; adoption rates
Infrastructure deficits (unreliable power, inadequate broadband, limited local compute) materially constrain AI uptake by SMEs.
Policy reports and empirical studies in the literature documenting infrastructural limitations in LMIC contexts (including Botswana) that impede digital and AI deployment.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Sustainable Development... infrastructure adequacy metrics (power reliability, broadband access); AI adopti...
Skills shortages (AI literacy, data science, digital management) are a primary constraint on SME AI adoption in developing economies.
Consistent findings across surveys, interviews, and case studies in the reviewed literature highlighting skill gaps as a common barrier; authors note multiple empirical sources pointing to this constraint.
high negative Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Sustainable Development... availability of AI-relevant skills; reported skills constraints limiting adoptio...
Except for the EU, jurisdictions surveyed generally lack AI-specific energy-disclosure requirements.
Comparative analysis across eleven jurisdictions identifying presence/absence of AI-specific energy disclosure rules; EU singled out as having such requirements.
high negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... existence of AI-specific energy disclosure rules (binary presence/absence by jur...
Regulatory regimes in the surveyed jurisdictions focus on training emissions more than on inference-phase energy consumption.
Regulatory mapping and lifecycle-phase analysis showing which phases (training vs inference) are covered by existing rules in the eleven jurisdictions.
high negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... regulated lifecycle phase (training coverage vs inference coverage)
Current environmental governance across the eleven jurisdictions mapped in the paper is predominantly facility-level (data-center focused) rather than model-level.
Regulatory mapping: comparative legal/policy analysis across eleven jurisdictions identifying locus of existing rules (facility vs model).
high negative The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From th... regulatory scope (proportion of jurisdictions with facility-level vs model-level...