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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 plays a dual role as enhancer and eroder, simultaneously strengthening performance while eroding underlying expertise (the 'AI-as-Amplifier Paradox').
Framing claim presented in the paper's conceptual argument and grounded by the paper's stated year-long empirical study among cancer specialists (no numerical sample size reported in abstract).
high mixed From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asympto... preservation of underlying expertise vs. short-term performance
Cross-border citations show continued technological interdependence rather than decoupling, with Chinese AI inventors relying more heavily on U.S. frontier knowledge than vice versa.
Citation analysis of cross-border patent citations between Chinese and U.S. AI patents (paper reports asymmetry in reliance based on citation patterns).
high mixed AI Patents in the United States and China: Measurement, Orga... cross-border patent citation patterns (directional reliance on frontier knowledg...
The organization of AI innovation differs sharply: U.S. AI patenting is concentrated among large private incumbents and established hubs, whereas Chinese AI patenting is more geographically diffuse and institutionally diverse, with larger roles for universities and state-owned enterprises.
Analysis of assignee types, geographic dispersion, and institutional composition of AI patents in the two countries (concentration metrics and assignee categorizations described in paper).
high mixed AI Patents in the United States and China: Measurement, Orga... assignee concentration, geographic diffusion, institutional composition (share o...
Across all settings, AI Organizations composed of aligned models produce solutions with higher utility but greater misalignment compared to a single aligned model.
Reported experimental results aggregated across two practical settings (AI consultancy and AI software team) and 12 tasks; direct comparison between AI Organizations of aligned models and a single aligned model.
high mixed AI Organizations are More Effective but Less Aligned than In... solution utility (higher) and model misalignment (greater)
Multi-agent "AI organizations" are simultaneously more effective at achieving business goals, but less aligned, than individual AI agents.
Experimental comparison reported in the paper: experiments comparing multi-agent AI organizations to single aligned agents across tasks and settings (described below).
high mixed AI Organizations are More Effective but Less Aligned than In... solution utility (effectiveness at achieving business goals) and model alignment...
Alignment operates as a two-way translation, where models are made 'safe for worlds' while those worlds are reshaped to be 'safe for models.'
Conceptual claim supported by ethnographic examples illustrating reciprocal adaptations between models and social/institutional contexts in Nairobi's credit-scoring ecosystem.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya reciprocal adjustments between predictive models and social/institutional enviro...
Algorithmic credit scoring is accomplished through the ongoing work of alignment that stabilizes risk under conditions of persistent uncertainty, taking epistemic, modeling, and contextual forms.
The paper's theoretical argument grounded in nine-month ethnographic observations and analysis of how practitioners and institutions engage in alignment work across epistemic, modeling, and contextual dimensions.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya alignment practices that stabilize risk amid uncertainty (epistemic, modeling, c...
Practitioners negotiate model performance via technical and political means.
Observational data from the ethnography showing technical adjustments, benchmarks, and political negotiation (e.g., with regulators or management) to establish acceptable performance.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya practices used to achieve and justify model performance (technical tuning and po...
Practitioners formulate risk through multiple interpretations.
Ethnographic evidence from interviews and observations indicating that risk is characterized differently across actors (technical, legal, business interpretations).
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya variation in definitions and framings of risk among practitioners
Practitioners construct alternative data using technical and legal workarounds.
Field observations and interviews showing practitioners employing technical methods and legal strategies to create or repurpose alternative data sources for credit scoring.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya practices for generating and using alternative data in credit models
Algorithmic credit scoring is being transformed by new actors, techniques, and shifting regulations.
Ethnographic fieldwork documenting the entry of new actors, novel technical techniques, and regulatory changes affecting credit scoring in Nairobi's digital lending ecosystem.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya structural transformation of algorithmic credit scoring (actor composition, tech...
Credit scoring is an increasingly central and contested domain of data and AI governance.
Nine-month ethnography of credit scoring practices in Nairobi, Kenya; participant observation and interviews across stakeholders in digital lending.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya role of credit scoring in data and AI governance (centrality and contestedness)
Although some frontier models exceed human performance, model accuracy is still far below what would enable reliable experimental guidance.
Paper reports instances where top-performing (frontier) models outperform aggregate human expert accuracy on SciPredict, but concludes overall accuracies are insufficient for reliable experimental guidance.
high mixed SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Expe... prediction_accuracy / usability_for_guidance
The local labor market will follow a dual trajectory: low-skill, routine jobs face high automation risk while demand will rise for AI-collaborative, higher-skill roles.
Paper's analytical prediction based on distinguishing current job roles into routine/repetitive vs cognitive/non-routine and projecting likely impacts; no numeric forecasts or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high mixed PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... combined job displacement for routine roles and increased demand for AI-collabor...
Professional and Technical Services, Information, and Finance and Insurance account for approximately 86 percent of the base-case direct contribution.
Sectoral decomposition of base-case direct contribution in the model; paper explicitly reports the three sectors' combined share as ~86%.
high mixed AI Capex Is Justified: A Bottom-Up Sectoral Estimate of Arti... share of base-case direct GDP contribution by sector (three-sector concentration...
The inverted U-shaped pattern between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration is more clearly detected in eastern cities and in small and medium-sized cities; in large cities the quadratic term is not statistically significant.
Heterogeneity/subsample regressions by region (east vs. other) and city size categories within the city-year panel (2014–2023); statistical significance of quadratic term differs across subsamples.
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (presence and significance of nonlinear relationship...
Technological complexity moderates the nonlinear (inverted U) association between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration by altering its strength and curvature rather than producing a simple, uniform shift in the turning point.
Interaction/heterogeneity analyses in the two-way fixed-effects city-year panel (2014–2023), examining moderating role of a technological complexity measure on the quadratic association.
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (degree and curvature of the stickiness–concentratio...
There is an inverted U-shaped association between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration: higher stickiness up to a limit leads to more concentration and thereafter the opposite.
City-year panel combining AI patent applications with urban statistics for 2014–2023; two-way fixed-effects regression showing a significant positive linear and negative quadratic term (nonlinear association).
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (allocation of AI activity across sub-technology bra...
Subjectivity persisted in AI-powered recruitment decisions; human judgment remained an important factor.
Theme 2 (subjectivity in AI-powered recruitment) from interviews indicating retained human subjectivity and judgement in recruitment processes (n = 22).
high mixed The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... degree_of_subjectivity_in_decision_making
Experiments on the MovieLens-100k dataset illustrate when the empirical payout aligns with — and diverges from — Shapley fairness across different settings and algorithms.
Empirical evaluation performed on the MovieLens-100k dataset (≈100,000 ratings) comparing the proposed payout rule and algorithmic outcomes to Shapley-value allocations across multiple experimental settings and algorithms.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... alignment/divergence between empirical payouts and Shapley-value fairness
For heterogeneous agents the cooperative game still admits a non-empty core, though convexity and Shapley value core-membership are no longer guaranteed.
Theoretical analysis for heterogeneous-agent case provided in the paper: establishes core non-emptiness but shows convexity and Shapley-in-core do not generally hold.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... core non-emptiness; lack of guaranteed convexity and Shapley membership
User interactions in online recommendation platforms create interdependencies among content creators: feedback on one creator's content influences the system's learning and, in turn, the exposure of other creators' contents.
Conceptual/empirical motivation stated in the paper; motivates the multi-agent bandit modeling of creator interactions in recommender systems.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... interdependencies in content exposure induced by user feedback
Sensitivity analyses indicate the observed positive belief changes likely reflect recovery from carry-over effects rather than genuine training-induced shifts.
Authors' sensitivity analyses discussed in the paper that examined alternative explanations (e.g., carry-over effects) and concluded the belief-change result is likely due to recovery from such effects.
high mixed Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... validity of belief-change effect (source attribution: training vs. carry-over re...
Simulations demonstrate that standard methods, such as principal components analysis and inverse covariance weighting, can generate spurious cross-study differences, whereas our approach recovers comparable latent treatment effects.
Simulation experiments reported in the paper comparing the proposed method to PCA and inverse covariance weighting; results show PCA and inverse-covariance-weighted estimators can produce spurious cross-study differences while the proposed method recovers comparable latent treatment effects (no simulation sample sizes provided in the abstract).
high mixed Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Causal Effect... comparability/accuracy of estimated latent treatment effects across studies (sim...
We ran two large preregistered experiments (N=17,950 responses from 14,779 people) using conversational AI models to persuade participants on a range of attitudinal and behavioural outcomes, including signing real petitions and donating money to charity.
Statement in paper reporting two preregistered experiments, sample sizes (17,950 responses; 14,779 people), use of conversational AI models, and target outcomes including petition signing and charitable donations.
high mixed Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take politica... use of conversational AI to persuade participants on attitudinal and behavioral ...
Big data analytics (BDA) adoption is a risky strategy with potentially high rewards for start-ups.
Stated as a summary conclusion based on empirical analysis of a large sample of start-ups in Germany comparing adopters and non-adopters across multiple performance measures (survival, costs, sales, employee growth, access to financing).
high mixed Big data-based management decisions and start-up performance overall performance/risk–reward tradeoff
While AI may reduce certain traditional roles, it also enhances job quality and creates new career pathways within the commerce sector.
Reported finding from the paper's synthesis of existing studies and sectoral observations (qualitative literature synthesis).
high mixed IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMME... reductions in traditional roles vs. improvements in job quality and new career p...
AI exhibits a dual nature—both as a disruptor and an enabler of employment in the commerce sector.
Paper-level synthesis of contradictory findings and sectoral patterns reported across reviewed literature (qualitative literature synthesis).
high mixed IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMME... net disruptive vs. enabling effects on employment
Bounded agents act as an amplifying but not necessary extension to the foundation-model stack for changing work coordination.
Conceptual argument within the paper distinguishing bounded agents from the core stack; no empirical comparison or measurement reported.
high mixed Remote-Capable Knowledge Work Should Default to AI-Enabled F... role of bounded agents in amplifying coordination impacts
The spatial spillover effects are geographically constrained and vary significantly across regions.
Reported heterogeneity in spatial Durbin model results and discussion of geographic constraint and inter-regional variation (regional heterogeneity analysis).
high mixed Research on the Pathways and Spatial Effects of Digital–Inte... heterogeneity of spatial spillover effects on carbon intensity across regions
The effects of generative AI on work and organisations are heterogeneous and context-dependent, shaped by job roles, skill levels, and institutional environments.
Synthesis across the included studies noting variation in outcomes conditional on role, skill, and institutional context.
high mixed Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... heterogeneity of AI effects across roles/skills/institutions
Overall, AI emerges as a transformative but context-dependent tool for business decision-making in Latin America.
The authors' overall interpretation and synthesis of the 27 reviewed studies highlighting variable outcomes depending on context and readiness.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence for Business Decision-Making in Lati... overall impact of AI on business decision-making (transformative effect conditio...
The positive effect of big data applications on firms' markups exhibits heterogeneity across organizational, technological, and environmental dimensions.
Paper reports heterogeneity analysis showing variation in the magnitude of the positive markup effect across organizational, technological and environmental factors; based on model implications and empirical subgroup/interaction tests using micro-level firm data (sample size not reported).
high mixed Big data application and firm markups: evidence from China heterogeneity of the big-data → markup effect across organizational, technologic...
Although the concurrent paradigm performs worse than the sequential paradigm in terms of immediate task performance, it is more effective in promoting users' emotional trust.
Comparison between concurrent and sequential AI-assisted decision-making paradigms in the RCT (N=120); authors report concurrent < sequential for immediate task performance, but concurrent > sequential for emotional trust.
high mixed How AI-Assisted Decision-Making Paradigms and Explainability... immediate task performance (negative) and emotional trust (positive)
AI adoption outcomes depend on organizational routines, data arrangements, accountability structures, and public values.
Empirical and theoretical literature review and argument in the article drawing on scholarship in digital government and public-sector technology adoption.
high mixed Governing frontier general-purpose AI in the public sector: ... determinants of AI adoption in government (organizational, data, accountability,...
If employment losses are relatively small and productivity gains are realised, AI adoption could boost Exchequer revenues. But if job displacement is sizeable, tax receipts fall while welfare spending rises, resulting in potentially large pressures on the public finances.
Conditional fiscal scenarios simulated in the report combining employment, wage and benefit changes with the public finance implications (tax receipts and welfare spending); reported as scenario-based outcomes.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland Exchequer revenues / tax receipts and welfare spending
Ireland’s tax and welfare system absorbs most of the income loss for lower income households, and roughly half of the loss for households at the top of the income distribution.
Microsimulation using SWITCH to model taxes and transfers applied to simulated income changes across income groups; reported as a finding in the report.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland net income after taxes and transfers (absorption of income loss)
Qualitative results underscored both perceived benefits in comprehension and challenges when interpretations of gaze behaviors were inaccurate.
Qualitative analysis of participant feedback from the study (n=36) reporting themes of improved comprehension and occasional problems when the assistant misinterpreted gaze.
high mixed From Gaze to Guidance: Interpreting and Adapting to Users' C... participant-reported benefits and challenges (qualitative themes)
The productivity decomposition classifies deployments into five regimes that separate beneficial adoption from harmful adoption and identifies which deployments are vulnerable to the augmentation trap.
Model-based taxonomy produced from the analytical decomposition (classification into five regimes described in the paper).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... classification of AI deployment regimes (beneficial vs harmful, vulnerability to...
Small differences in managerial incentives can determine which skill path a worker takes (whether they realize full potential or deskill).
Comparative statics / theoretical sensitivity analysis in the dynamic model indicating tipping behavior based on managerial incentives.
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker skill trajectory contingent on managerial incentives
Result 3: When AI productivity depends less on worker expertise, workers can permanently diverge in skill: experienced workers realize their full potential while less experienced workers deskill to zero.
Analytical result from the dynamic model showing path-dependent divergence in skill levels under particular parameterizations (lower dependence of AI on worker expertise).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... long-run worker skill distribution (experienced vs less experienced)
India exhibits a distinctive polarisation pattern: a shrinking middle-skill workforce alongside a persistently large low-skill labour segment.
Descriptive analysis of secondary data and official reports from 2020–2024 comparing occupational and skill distributions in India.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and labour market polarisation in In... changes in the share of labour across skill bands (middle vs low skill)
Mathematics (SAFI: 73.2) and Programming (71.8) receive the highest automation feasibility scores; Active Listening (42.2) and Reading Comprehension (45.5) receive the lowest.
SAFI benchmark results reported for specific O*NET skills (numerical SAFI scores provided in the paper).
high mixed The AI Skills Shift: Mapping Skill Obsolescence, Emergence, ... SAFI score by skill (automation feasibility)
The rise of agentic AI development, where LLM-based agents autonomously read, write, navigate, and debug codebases, introduces a new primary consumer with fundamentally different constraints.
Conceptual claim argued in the paper; refers to the emergence of agentic LLM-based tools as new consumers of software artifacts rather than an empirical measurement; no sample size reported.
high mixed Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... who/what is the primary consumer of software engineering artifacts (human develo...
Analysis uncovers dramatic asymmetries: inhibition 17.6% vs. preference 75.0%.
Paper reports specific aggregated percentages for two types of implicit effects (inhibition and preference) observed in their analysis; methodology context implies these are results from the benchmark evaluation (300 items / 17 models).
high mixed ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptatio... rates of inhibition vs. preference effects (implicit memory outcomes)
Model behaviors vary strongly with levels of reasoning and with users' inferred socio-economic status.
Reported findings from evaluations that varied model reasoning prompts/levels and user socio-economic status signals; paper states behavior differences across these dimensions. Abstract does not give sample sizes or exact quantitative differences.
high mixed Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... variation in model behavior by reasoning level and inferred socio-economic statu...
The rapid deployment of multi-agentic AI systems is reshaping the foundations of copyright law and creative markets.
Theoretical and conceptual argumentation presented in the paper; no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported.
The effects of generative AI depend not only on the technology itself, but also the behavioral strategies and incentive structures surrounding its use.
Synthesis and interpretation of RCT results showing interactions between incentive structure and AI-use patterns (no formal interaction coefficients or sample details provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI impact of incentives and strategies on AI outcomes
Through a pre-registered randomized control trial, we show that incentives mediate AI's homogenizing force in a creative writing task where participants can use AI interactively.
Pre-registered randomized controlled trial (experimental design) conducted on a creative writing task with interactive AI use (details such as sample size not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI extent to which incentives alter AI's homogenizing effect (mediating effect)
By conceptualizing the emergence of a posthuman economy, this study contributes to interdisciplinary debates on artificial intelligence, digital capitalism, and the transformation of economic organization.
Author-stated contribution of the paper based on conceptual/theoretical work; no empirical validation reported.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... conceptual contribution to interdisciplinary academic debates on AI and economic...