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Evidence (8807 claims)

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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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Demand for labor may shift from routine instrument operation and image processing toward higher-level tasks (experiment design, oversight, interpretation), and LLMs may amplify productivity of skilled scientists, potentially increasing wage premia for those who supervise AI-guided workflows.
Labor-economics reasoning and analogy to prior automation effects; no empirical labor-market or wage data presented specific to microscopy.
low mixed ChatMicroscopy: A Perspective Review of Large Language Model... labor demand composition, distribution of wages, skill premium
Principal stratification analysis suggests the training’s effect on scores operated primarily by expanding the set of LLM users (an adoption channel) rather than substantially improving per-user productivity among those who would already use the LLM.
Mechanism decomposition using principal stratification applied to the randomized trial data (n = 164); analysis indicates a larger contribution from the adoption margin than from within-user productivity gains, though estimates have wide confidence intervals.
low mixed Training for Technology: Adoption and Productive Use of Gene... Mechanism components: adoption rate and per-user effectiveness (score conditiona...
Widespread adoption of formal governance could lower systemic risk from enterprise AI failures, whereas heterogeneous adoption may create winners and losers based on governance quality.
Conceptual systems-level argument and comparative-case reasoning; no quantitative systemic-risk modeling or empirical evidence provided.
low mixed Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... systemic risk of enterprise AI failures and competitive market outcomes
Greater automation of routine ERP/CRM tasks will displace some operational roles while increasing demand for governance, oversight, and AI-engineering skills, shifting labor toward higher-skill, higher-wage tasks.
Theoretical labor-market implication derived from the pattern's effects on task automation and governance needs; based on qualitative synthesis, not empirical labor-market analysis.
low mixed Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... changes in labor demand by skill level, displacement of routine roles, increased...
Risk-adjusted total cost of ownership (TCO) may fall if governance prevents costly incidents (e.g., compliance fines, data breaches), despite higher upfront costs.
Conceptual economic argument supported by qualitative examples and best-practice reasoning; no empirical ROI or incident-rate data presented.
low mixed Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... risk-adjusted TCO and incident-related cost savings
Voyage routing remains dominated by heuristic methods.
Contextual statement in the paper (literature/practice claim); no specific empirical study or quantitative survey provided in the excerpt.
low negative Physics-informed offline reinforcement learning eliminates c... prevalence of heuristic methods in operational voyage routing (qualitative claim...
Systemic risks from misaligned optimisation (narrow objectives, externalities) warrant oversight mechanisms (AI steering committees, escalation paths) and potentially sectoral regulation of decision-critical algorithms.
Policy-prescriptive claim based on conceptual identification of optimisation externalities and accountability gaps; no sectoral case studies or empirical risk quantification in the paper.
low negative Comparative analysis of strategic vs. computational thinking... systemic risk exposure and effectiveness of oversight/regulatory mechanisms
The two tail risks (cyber-triggered escalation and loss-of-control) create fat-tailed risk distributions that complicate risk pricing and capital allocation, potentially causing precautionary market behavior (deleveraging, higher liquidity buffers).
Risk-analysis reasoning about tail risks and market responses; no empirical calibration to financial/economic data provided.
low negative Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents: Anticipating Capabil... changes in financial risk-pricing metrics, capital allocation behavior, and prec...
Cross-border spillovers from HACCA proliferation may alter foreign direct investment (FDI) risk assessments, reconfigure supply chains, and drive onshoring/hardening of critical infrastructure.
International political-economy scenario analysis linking elevated cyber risks to investment and supply-chain decisions (qualitative).
low negative Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents: Anticipating Capabil... changes in FDI flows, supply-chain configuration, and infrastructure hardening m...
There is a severe tail risk of sustained loss-of-control over HACCA instances (rogue deployments that cannot be reliably contained).
Threat modeling and red-team reasoning demonstrating plausible autonomous persistence, migration, and self-healing mechanisms (theoretical; no empirical incidence data).
low negative Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents: Anticipating Capabil... probability or extent of uncontrolled, persistent HACCA deployments
There is a severe tail risk that autonomous cyber operations could accidentally escalate into cyber-triggered crises involving nuclear-armed states (misattribution or inadvertent effects on critical systems).
Scenario analysis and expert judgment linking HACCA behaviors to escalation pathways; analogies to prior cyber incidents and geopolitical escalation dynamics (qualitative; no probabilistic calibration).
low negative Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents: Anticipating Capabil... probability or risk of inadvertent cyber-triggered escalation involving nuclear-...
Measurement friction from the results-actionability gap creates a hidden cost: teams can detect problems but cannot cheaply translate findings into improvements, reducing the speed and ROI of LLM investments.
Authors' implication drawn from interview evidence about the effort required for remediation and lack of direct translation from evaluations to fixes; presented as an economic implication rather than directly measured quantity.
low negative Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... inferred effect on ROI and speed of product improvement
If verified, explainable GLAI is priced higher due to compliance costs, access-to-justice gaps may widen as lower-cost but riskier offerings persist or services become more expensive.
Distributional reasoning linking higher compliance costs to price increases and access effects; supported by illustrative examples, no empirical price or access data.
low negative Why Avoid Generative Legal AI Systems? Hallucination, Overre... access-to-justice metrics correlated with pricing of verified vs. unverified GLA...
Routine, unrestrained adoption of GLAI without enforceable mechanisms for effective human review threatens judicial independence and rights protections.
Normative and legal argumentation supported by conceptual analysis and illustrative scenarios. No empirical causal evidence; projection based on theoretical risk pathways.
low negative Why Avoid Generative Legal AI Systems? Hallucination, Overre... level of threat to judicial independence and protection of rights (institutional...
There is a risk of deskilling, especially for trainees receiving reduced diagnostic practice when AI automates routine tasks.
Conceptual arguments supported by qualitative reports and limited observational findings; empirical longitudinal evidence quantifying deskilling is sparse.
low negative Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... trainee diagnostic performance over time, case exposure counts, measures of reta...
Erosion of informal communication and tacit coordination driven by AI integration can create negative externalities on team efficiency that are not captured by short-run metrics.
Derived from interview narratives describing loss of ad hoc communications and tacit knowledge exchange after AI adoption; interpreted as producing costs not reflected in immediate measurable outputs.
low negative AI in project teams: how trust calibration reconfigures team... team efficiency and unmeasured coordination/tacit work
Uneven adoption of symbiarchic HR practices across firms could concentrate productivity gains and rents in firms or occupations that successfully integrate AI while preserving human judgement, potentially widening within‑ and between‑firm inequality.
Projected distributional implication based on economic theory and the paper’s framework; presented as a hypothesis for empirical testing rather than as an observed result.
low negative Symbiarchic leadership: leading integrated human and AI cybe... within‑ and between‑firm inequality; distribution of productivity rents
Demanding oversight of multiple AI agents drives increased task-switching for workers.
Asserted in the paper as part of the mechanism linking AI use to cognitive overload, based on organizational observations and theory; no empirical task-switching frequency or time-use data provided in the excerpt.
low negative When AI Assistance Becomes Cognitive Overload: Understanding... task-switching frequency / oversight burden
Such disjointed strategies cannot manage the systemic socio-economic disruption ahead.
Asserted in abstract as a conclusion/argument; no empirical evaluation described in the abstract.
low negative The DARE framework: a global model for responsible artificia... capacity of current strategies to manage systemic socio-economic disruption
AI threatens to fracture the 20th-century social contract.
Asserted in abstract as a normative/predictive claim; no empirical support described in the abstract.
low negative The DARE framework: a global model for responsible artificia... stability/continuity of the social contract (social cohesion, welfare expectatio...
Mergers are a barrier to economic growth (negative association between mergers and GDP growth).
Model results reported a negative relationship between mergers and GDP growth in the regressions described in the summary; however, the summary does not define how 'mergers' is measured, how widely it was observed across countries, or the statistical significance levels.
low negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Economic Growth: Syst... GDP growth (national GDP growth rate)
Unequal GenAI adoption has implications for productivity, skill formation, and economic inequality in an AI-enabled economy.
Interpretation/implication drawn from observed gendered adoption patterns in the 2023–2024 UK survey and literature on technology diffusion and labor-market impacts (no direct empirical measurement of downstream economic effects in the paper).
low negative Women Worry, Men Adopt: How Gendered Perceptions Shape the U... Implied downstream outcomes: productivity, skill formation, economic inequality ...
Preliminary evidence that inappropriate reliance on AI outputs is worse for complex information needs (complex answers).
Post-hoc/stratified analysis in the user study examining the effect of the complexity of the information need on reliance/error-detection; described as preliminary in the paper.
low negative To Believe or Not To Believe: Comparing Supporting Informati... error-detection rate and reliance stratified by complexity of question/answer
AI-driven productivity gains may not translate into broad-based demand if income is concentrated among capital owners, which could dampen aggregate profitability over time.
Theoretical argument grounded in Mandel-like distributional mechanics and demand-driven growth literature; speculative without empirical aggregation tests in the paper.
low negative Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... aggregate demand and aggregate profitability
Concentration of curated datasets and restrictive IP can create monopolistic rents and underprovision of public‑good datasets, implying policy interventions (data sharing incentives/standards) may be required.
Economic reasoning about market formation and data as a scarce asset; no empirical market analysis provided in summary (theoretical implication).
low negative Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Market concentration / data access (conceptual)
More granular and auditable credentials may shift signaling dynamics and risk credential inflation; regulators should monitor credential proliferation and market value.
Conceptual warning in paper (theoretical); no empirical credential-market study included.
low negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... number and granularity of credentials issued, employer valuation of credentials,...
Overreliance on GenAI CDS may lead to deskilling of clinicians, eroding judgment over time and increasing systemic vulnerability.
The paper cites theoretical risk and references limited longitudinal concerns; empirical longitudinal studies demonstrating deskilling are scarce per the paper’s stated evidence gaps.
low negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice clinician diagnostic skill over time; reliance/override rates; error rates when ...
Commercial structural biology services for routine solved folds may be commoditized, pushing firms toward complex validation, novel targets, or high‑value contract research.
Paper suggests this in 'Disruption of service markets' as a projected industry response; it is a strategic implication rather than an empirically demonstrated trend in the text.
low negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... change in demand/pricing for routine structural biology services and shift towar...
Legacy systems and siloed incentives create switching frictions that slow diffusion of AI-enabled ISP; early adopters may achieve sustained cost and service advantages and vendors bundling technology with change management could capture large rents.
Authors' argument informed by case observations of switching costs and vendor roles; no causal market-level evidence provided.
low negative Optimizing integrated supply planning in logistics: Bridging... adoption rate, market concentration, vendor rents
Returns to AI investments may exhibit increasing returns to scale, reinforcing winner‑take‑most dynamics unless offset by platformization or open‑source diffusion.
Economic scenario reasoning on capital intensity and platform effects; no empirical calibration or econometric evidence provided.
low negative How AI Will Transform the Daily Life of a Techie within 5 Ye... return on AI investment by firm size (evidence of increasing returns to scale) a...
Because feedbacks from capital and labor onto AI are weak, AI can grow rapidly and may lead to lock-in, concentration, and distributional risks that warrant monitoring and possible redistributive or competition policies.
Empirical finding of weak negative feedbacks to AI in estimated interaction coefficients combined with theoretical interpretation about growth and lock-in risks.
low negative Governance of Technological Transition: A Predator-Prey Anal... AI capital growth dynamics and potential long-run concentration/lock-in risks (q...
Inadequate protections reduce public trust in mobile-AI services, which can slow diffusion and undercut the growth trajectories that policy narratives anticipate.
Inferred from stakeholder commentary and policy discourse combined with communication-rights theory; the paper does not present survey or adoption-rate data.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... public trust in mobile‑AI; adoption/diffusion rates
Low-wage and platform workers are particularly exposed to algorithmic management and surveillance, with potential downward pressure on wages, bargaining power, and job quality.
The paper's qualitative analysis of stakeholder comments and policy omissions, combined with literature-based inference about platform labor dynamics; no primary labor-market survey or quantitative wage data provided.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... worker exposure to algorithmic management; wages; bargaining power; job quality
Soft‑law governance and growth-first narratives risk concentrating benefits (investment, productivity gains) while externalizing costs (privacy harms, biased decisioning) onto vulnerable populations, exacerbating inequality and reducing inclusive economic development.
Analytic inference from qualitative review of governance instruments and policy narratives combined with communications-ecology and political-economy reasoning; not based on quantitative economic measurement in the paper.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... distribution of benefits and costs; inequality; inclusiveness of economic develo...
Legal liability and cyber-insurance markets will need to adapt as machine-generated code becomes pervasive, with pricing internalizing risk from inadequate verification processes.
Speculative legal/economic implication discussed in the paper; no actuarial or legal-case data provided.
low negative Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... insurance pricing changes; liability claims tied to machine-generated code
Individual developers or firms may underinvest in verification because defect accumulation imposes external costs on downstream actors, creating market failures that can justify standards, certifications, or regulation mandating interlocks or minimum verification practices.
Policy and market-failure argument based on externalities presented conceptually; no modeling or empirical evidence of such externalities provided.
low negative Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... degree of underinvestment in verification; incidence of downstream costs/externa...
Short-run productivity gains from generative AI may be offset by longer-run increases in maintenance, security breaches, and reliability costs if verification lags.
Economic reasoning and forward-looking implications discussed in the paper; no empirical cost-benefit or longitudinal data presented.
low negative Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... net productivity over time; maintenance/security costs versus short-term product...
Small, unverified errors, insecure patterns, and brittle interactions accumulate over time (latent accumulation), increasing operational fragility and long-run maintenance costs.
Theoretical argument and illustrative examples in the paper; no longitudinal defect accumulation studies or empirical cost analysis provided.
low negative Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... rate of latent defect accumulation; long-run maintenance and reliability costs
Time pressure and productivity incentives lead developers to accept plausible AI outputs without full validation, a behavioral/institutional failure mode called the 'micro-coercion of speed' that effectively reverses the burden of proof.
Behavioral diagnosis and incentive analysis presented conceptually in the paper; no behavioral experiments, surveys, or observational data reported.
low negative Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... developer acceptance rate of AI outputs without full validation / shift in burde...
Hallucination and error risk introduce potential liabilities in client engagements and may change contracting, insurance, and pricing practices in consulting services.
Derived from practitioner concerns reported in interviews and authors' normative discussion; no contractual or insurance-market data presented.
low negative Where Automation Meets Augmentation: Balancing the Double-Ed... liability exposure; contracting/insurance practices; pricing adjustments
Effective deployment requires governance, verification processes, and liability management to manage hallucination risk, creating adoption costs that may advantage larger firms and affect market concentration and pricing power.
Argument based on interviews about necessary organizational safeguards and the resource requirements to implement them; speculative market-structure implications are not empirically tested in the paper.
low negative Where Automation Meets Augmentation: Balancing the Double-Ed... adoption costs; firm-level resource burden; changes in market concentration/pric...
Widespread GenAI use may accelerate skill obsolescence for routine competencies and increase the premium on monitoring, critical evaluation, and AI‑integration skills, shifting investment toward retraining and upskilling.
Projection based on qualitative interviews and the authors' economic interpretation of TGAIF; no longitudinal or wage/skill data provided.
low negative Where Automation Meets Augmentation: Balancing the Double-Ed... skill obsolescence rates; demand for monitoring/evaluation/AI-integration skills...
Uncertainty about long-run agentic behavior increases option value and downside risk of investing in agentic systems, which may raise discount rates and required returns.
Economic argument applying risk/return logic to agentic uncertainty; no quantitative empirical evidence provided.
low negative Visioning Human-Agentic AI Teaming: Continuity, Tension, and... investment valuation metrics (discount rates, required returns) for agentic syst...
Economic rents and advantages may accrue to agents who control large datasets, computing resources, and organizational processes that effectively integrate AI as a co-pilot, potentially increasing market concentration among AI providers.
Economic theory on scale economies and platform effects combined with observed industry patterns; reviewed literature provides conceptual arguments and case examples rather than broad empirical market-structure measurement.
low negative ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... market concentration measures; returns to data/compute ownership (not fully meas...
Generative AI poses substitution risk for entry-level or routine cognitive work focused on generation or drafting without evaluative responsibility.
Task-based analyses and case studies indicating automation potential for routine generation tasks; empirical demonstrations of AI-produced drafts/outputs that could replace such work, but longer-run displacement evidence is limited.
low negative ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... task automatability; employment/demand for routine-generation roles (largely unm...
Upfront integration and recurring governance costs mean smaller firms may face higher relative costs — potentially increasing scale advantages for larger incumbents.
Deployment case studies and cost reports indicating significant fixed integration and governance costs; inference to market structure is speculative.
low negative The Effectiveness of ChatGPT in Customer Service and Communi... relative upfront and ongoing costs; indicators of scale advantages or market con...
There is a risk of deskilling through excessive reliance on AI, implying a need for continuous training and certification to preserve human judgment.
Qualitative interview evidence and observed concerns about overreliance; authors recommend training/governance based on identified risks; no direct longitudinal measurement of deskilling provided in summary.
low negative Human-AI Synergy in Financial Decision-Making: Exploring Tru... human skill levels (deskilling risk); need for training/certification
Insurance markets may price AI-specific fraud risk, raising premiums or creating new products (AI-fraud insurance).
Speculative economic implication suggested by the authors; no market data or insurer statements cited.
low negative Prompt Engineering or Prompt Fraud? Governance Challenges fo... changes in insurance pricing or product offerings attributable to AI-specific fr...
Vendors offering integrated governed hyperautomation stacks may capture premium pricing and increase switching costs, potentially widening adoption gaps between large incumbents and SMEs.
Market-structure and competitive dynamics discussed theoretically in the Implications section; no market-share or pricing data provided.
low negative Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... vendor pricing premiums; switching costs; differential adoption by firm size (ma...
Exposure to AI and platform work produces psychosocial effects for workers, including increased job insecurity, stress, and changing task content in surviving occupations.
Surveys, qualitative case studies, and workplace studies summarized in the review reporting worker‑reported insecurity and stress; the review also highlights inconsistent measurement and limited systematic evidence on psychosocial outcomes.
low negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... job insecurity, stress, psychosocial wellbeing, and perceived changes in task co...