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Evidence (8570 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
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They are a threat to semi-and unskilled jobs, particularly in manufacturing.
Conclusion from the systematic review synthesizing studies on automation risk to semi- and unskilled positions, especially in manufacturing; no numerical risk estimate provided in the summary.
high negative The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... risk of displacement for semi‑ and unskilled manufacturing jobs
LLM-generated portfolios lagged behind AI-optimized benchmarks (Sharpe ratio up to 1.361).
Backtest comparison showing AI-optimized benchmark strategies achieved higher Sharpe ratios; reported maximum Sharpe ratio for AI-optimized benchmarks (up to 1.361).
high negative Few-Shot Portfolio Optimization: Can Large Language Models O... Sharpe ratio (risk-adjusted return) of portfolios
Vulnerable populations—including low-skill workers, aging labour forces, and developing economies—are especially affected by AI-driven changes.
Abstract highlights special attention to vulnerable populations in the review and asserts differential impacts; no specific empirical estimates or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... distributional effects / disproportionate adverse impacts on vulnerable groups
AI displaces routine cognitive and manual tasks.
Explicit finding reported in abstract based on the paper's systematic review of empirical studies (no individual study sample sizes or quantitative estimates provided in abstract).
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... displacement of routine tasks / job_displacement for routine roles
Persistent AI memory reduced to a retrieval problem (store prior interactions as text, embed them, and ask the model to recover relevant context later) is mismatched to the kinds of memory that agents need in production: exact facts, current state, updates and deletions, aggregation, relations, negative queries, and explicit unknowns.
Argument and conceptual analysis presented in the paper describing types of operations (exact facts, updates/deletions, aggregation, relations, negative queries, explicit unknowns) that retrieval-style memory fails to satisfy; no sample size or quantitative evaluation provided for this specific claim in the excerpt.
high negative From Unstructured Recall to Schema-Grounded Memory: Reliable... suitability of retrieval-only memory designs for production agent memory needs
This stratification produces trust-based inequality in who can leverage AI while sustaining credibility, voice, and liveness.
Analytical claim based on patterns in 16 interviews indicating differential capacities to conceal/humanize AI lead to unequal ability to both use AI and maintain audience trust and perceived authenticity.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... inequality in access to benefits of AI conditioned on ability to sustain trust/c...
Passing capacity is stratified by educational and professional capital, economic resources and team support, and platform position.
Interview evidence (n=16) showing creators with higher education/professional capital, more economic resources, team support, or advantageous platform positions report greater ability to conceal and perform AI-assisted content.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... variation in ability to perform 'AI passing' across creators
These invisible authenticity practices reallocate work from generation to downstream repair and performance, complicating claims that AI simply improves efficiency.
Derived from creators' accounts in 16 interviews describing extra downstream editing, verification, and performance labor required after AI generation.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... shift in locus of work and implications for efficiency
Creators associate legible AI assistance with intertwined trust vulnerabilities, including epistemic unreliability, anticipated relational penalties, and platform authenticity regimes.
Thematic findings from 16 interviews in which creators express concerns about AI-generated content being epistemically unreliable, damaging relationships with audiences, and conflicting with platform authenticity norms.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... perceived trust vulnerabilities tied to visible AI assistance
On authenticity-oriented platforms, visible use of AI can be discrediting for creators.
Reported by creators across 16 in-depth interviews on Xiaohongshu and Douyin; qualitative thematic analysis identifying platform-specific authenticity norms and reputational consequences.
high negative AI passing and invisible authenticity labor: trust vulnerabi... perceived reputational/discrediting effects of visible AI use
In resource-dependent regional economies, AI adoption can transform seasonal industries into continuous economic infrastructure and replace intermediate coordination roles and traditional employment structures.
Illustrative case analysis used in the paper to show how the framework applies to resource-dependent regions; described as an illustrative argument rather than an empirically validated causal estimate in the provided text.
high negative Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... transformation of seasonal industries to continuous infrastructure and replaceme...
Migration frictions, egress costs, state locality, legal constraints, and capacity limits can sharply reduce realized benefits from relocating inference workloads.
Result reported from the paper's modeling and stylized simulation which incorporates frictions and constraints and shows reduced benefits relative to unconstrained relocation.
high negative AI Inference as Relocatable Electricity Demand: A Latency-Co... realized energy/carbon/cost benefits from relocation after accounting for migrat...
Each stakeholder in the supply chain may believe they are compliant; nevertheless, the integrated system may produce biased outcomes.
Conceptual argument based on literature synthesis and analysis of responsibility fragmentation (no empirical sample reported).
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... likelihood of biased system-level outcomes despite stakeholder-level compliance ...
Information asymmetries mean deploying organizations bear legal responsibility without technical visibility into vendor-supplied algorithms, while vendors control implementations without meaningful disclosure requirements.
Regulatory analysis and literature review identifying mismatches in legal liability and technical visibility (no empirical sample reported).
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... distribution of legal responsibility and technical visibility across stakeholder...
A resume parser may function without bias independently but contribute to discrimination when integrated with specific ranking algorithms and filtering thresholds (illustrative example of interaction effects).
Illustrative example presented in conceptual analysis (no empirical test or sample reported).
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... change in fairness of hiring outcomes when components are integrated
Fragmented responsibilities create a critical problem: bias can emerge from interactions among components rather than from isolated elements, yet proprietary configurations prevent integrated evaluation of the full hiring system.
Argument and examples drawn from literature review and regulatory analysis; no empirical sample size reported.
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... emergence of bias from system-level interactions and obstacles to integrated eva...
Existing research examines bias through technical or regulatory lenses, but both perspectives overlook a fundamental challenge: modern AI hiring systems operate within complex supply chains where responsibility fragments across data vendors, model developers, platform providers, and deploying organizations.
Synthesis from literature review and conceptual analysis of AI hiring supply chains (no empirical sample reported).
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... degree to which research accounts for fragmented responsibility across AI hiring...
The increasing adoption of AI systems in hiring has raised concerns about algorithmic bias and accountability, prompting regulatory responses including the EU AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, and Colorado's AI Act.
Literature review and regulatory analysis; cites existence of named laws/regulations as examples of regulatory responses (no sample size required).
high negative How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement an... existence of regulatory responses to AI hiring (specific laws cited)
Left unguided, such dynamics could infiltrate critical market infrastructure.
Risk claim articulated in abstract and scenario narratives; conceptual reasoning without empirical test.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... penetration/infiltration of critical market infrastructure by autonomous softwar...
Left unguided, such dynamics could lock users into harmful dependencies.
Risk claim from the paper's scenario narratives (not empirically tested); described in abstract.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... user dependency/lock-in with harmful effects
Left unguided, such dynamics could drain computational resources.
Risk claim derived from scenario analysis in the paper's abstract and narratives; no empirical measurement provided.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... consumption/drain of computational resources
Autonomous software populations can acquire legal leverage (e.g., via DAOs/LLCs) without ever achieving general intelligence.
Argued via the Mycelium scenario in the paper; conceptual/legal analysis rather than empirical evidence.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... acquisition of legal standing or leverage by autonomous software entities
Autonomous software populations can shape emotional bonds (i.e., form user dependencies) without ever achieving general intelligence.
Scenario narratives in the paper argue this possibility (Remora narrative); no empirical user-study or sample reported.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... formation of emotional bonds / user dependency on software
Autonomous software populations can amass computing budgets without ever achieving general intelligence.
Claim supported by the scenario narratives (Lamarck/Remora/Mycelium) and conceptual reasoning in the paper; no empirical quantification reported.
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... accumulation of computing resources/budgets by autonomous software
Existing software systems are already evolving in ways that could undermine human oversight and institutional control.
Argument made in paper's abstract and developed via conceptual analysis and scenario narratives; no empirical dataset or sample reported (exploratory scenario method).
high negative Digital Darwinism: steering the evolution of artificial life... degree of human oversight and institutional control
Natural-language consumer representations constitute an information channel, 'role coherence', through which sellers can infer willingness to pay without explicit disclosure by the buyer agent, leading to preference leakage.
Theoretical argument / conceptual framing presented in the paper (definition of 'role coherence' as an information channel); supported by experimental tests described elsewhere in the paper.
high negative When Agents Shop for You: Role Coherence in AI-Mediated Mark... ability of seller to infer buyer willingness to pay from buyer-agent representat...
Pre-launch testing exposed failures that text-only benchmarks rarely measure, including fabricated trading rules, fee paralysis, numeric anchoring, cadence trading, and misread tokenomics.
Outcome of pre-launch test cases and observed failure modes during testing.
high negative Operating-Layer Controls for Onchain Language-Model Agents U... types/frequency of operational failure modes
Answer completeness averages 0.40.
Reported average completeness metric for system answers on EnterpriseDocBench (method for computing completeness not given in excerpt).
high negative Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... answer completeness (average completeness score)
Hallucination rate does not grow monotonically with document length: short documents and very long ones both hallucinate more than medium ones (28.1% and 23.8% vs. 9.2%).
Empirical measurement of hallucination rates by document-length buckets on EnterpriseDocBench; percentages reported in paper. Sample sizes per bucket not provided in excerpt.
high negative Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Document Processing Pipeline... hallucination rate (fraction of generated outputs judged hallucinated)
Regulated and mission-critical systems remain predominantly in the buy domain despite AI advances.
Paper's conclusion based on analysis of quality, compliance, asset specificity, and organizational capability determinants (conceptual; no empirical sample).
high negative The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... propensity to buy (procure SaaS) for regulated and mission-critical systems
The SaaSocalypse thesis is overstated for most enterprise application categories.
Paper's analytical conclusion based on the factor-level analysis and the developed typology (conceptual, not empirical).
high negative The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... degree to which SaaS offerings become obsolete due to AI-enabled in-house develo...
The fundamental's local explosiveness contaminates the leading test's limit distribution with a non-centrality parameter proportional to the shock's peak.
Theoretical derivation/proof within the modified present-value framework showing how the adoption shock enters the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic (analytical result).
high negative General-Purpose Technology and Speculative Bubble Detection limit distribution of the leading bubble test (presence of a non-centrality para...
The leading bubble test suffers severe size distortion when fundamentals incorporate general-purpose technology adoption.
Theoretical analysis within an embedded Campbell-Shiller present-value model with a hump-shaped technology shock; authors state this as a formal result in the paper.
high negative General-Purpose Technology and Speculative Bubble Detection test size (size distortion) of the leading bubble test
Privacy law encounters difficulties in addressing large-scale data processing and meaningful consent within employment relationships; anti-discrimination law faces evidentiary challenges in identifying algorithmic bias; doctrines of responsibility are expanding to encompass duties of oversight, verification, and explainability.
Legal analysis highlighting specific doctrinal challenges and emergent duties; no empirical tests or quantified measures included in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... effectiveness of specific legal doctrines (privacy, anti-discrimination, respons...
Traditional legal categories (privacy, consent, non-discrimination, employer responsibility) continue to apply formally but are increasingly strained in substance by the scale of data processing, opacity of AI systems, and their degree of autonomy.
Doctrinal critique and conceptual analysis provided in the paper; no empirical quantification of the degree of strain is supplied in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... fit/adequacy of existing legal doctrines to address AI-related employment issues
The decentralized and sector-specific regulatory approach reflects technological neutrality but exposes significant regulatory gaps, particularly with respect to transparency, accountability, and the protection of workers' rights.
Normative/legal analysis in the paper identifying gaps in a decentralized regulatory regime; specific case studies or empirical measures of gaps not provided in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... regulatory completeness and coverage regarding transparency, accountability, and...
Israel has not enacted a comprehensive statutory framework specifically governing the use of AI in the field of employment; regulation is implemented through a hybrid model of indirect application of existing legal doctrines (primarily privacy and labor law), soft-law instruments, collective bargaining agreements, and internal organizational and professional regulation.
Doctrinal and regulatory analysis reported in the paper describing Israel's legal/regulatory landscape; no legislative text counts or timeline analysis provided in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... existence and form of statutory and regulatory frameworks governing AI in employ...
At the structural and macroeconomic level, artificial intelligence is reshaping the balance of power within the labor market and contributes to a gradual shift toward employer-driven dynamics.
Author's macroeconomic and structural analysis as presented in the paper; no specific datasets, methods, or sample sizes are reported in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... balance of power in the labor market (employer vs. worker influence)
There is a persistent female disadvantage in work intensity.
Analysis of EWCTS 2021 with IFR robot exposure measures using weighted logit models controlling for individual and job covariates and fixed effects; gender-specific patterns examined via interaction terms.
high negative Gendered Effects of Robotisation on Job Quality work intensity (job-quality dimension)
Monthly operational cost of running the system is approximately USD 4,000.
Full-scale performance characterization reports monthly cost estimate of approximately USD 4,000.
Prior work has largely focused on developing novel cooperative architectures while overlooking the question of when joint training is necessary.
Literature-review style claim made in the paper asserting a gap in prior research emphasis (novel cooperative architectures) versus investigation of training modality necessity.
high negative An Analysis of the Coordination Gap between Joint and Modula... research focus (coverage of training-modality necessity in prior literature)
The coordination gap advantage (between joint and modular training) diminishes in bottleneck environments, particularly under severe transport and processing constraints.
Results from a sensitivity analysis varying resource scarcity and temporal dominance showing the relative performance gap shrinks under bottleneck conditions with tight transport and processing constraints. Details on experimental scenarios not provided in the abstract.
high negative An Analysis of the Coordination Gap between Joint and Modula... coordination gap (performance difference between training modalities)
These gaps are structural; more engineering effort alone will not close them.
Authors' argument/conclusion based on their analytical comparison and gap analysis (normative/assertive claim).
high negative AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... likelihood that additional engineering alone can resolve identity gaps
We identify five critical gaps (semantic intent verification, recursive delegation accountability, agent identity integrity, governance opacity and enforcement, and operational sustainability) that no current technology or regulatory instrument resolves.
Gap analysis synthesized from the structured survey of industry trends, standards, and literature; presented as findings in the paper.
high negative AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... coverage of critical identity-related gaps by existing technology and regulation
An evaluation of current technical and regulatory documents against the identity requirements of autonomous agents finds that none adequately address the challenge of governing nondeterministic, boundary-crossing entities.
Document review / evaluation reported in the abstract (structured survey of technical and regulatory documents); specific documents and number reviewed are not specified in the abstract.
high negative AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... adequacy of technical and regulatory documents for governing autonomous agents
A structural comparison of human and AI identity across four dimensions (substrate, persistence, verifiability, and legal standing) shows that the asymmetry is fundamental and that extending human frameworks to agents without structural modification produces systematic failures.
Authors' structural comparison (analytical/theoretical method) across four dimensions, reported as a core contribution of the paper.
high negative AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... suitability of human identity frameworks when applied to AI agents
This creates a problem no current infrastructure is equipped to solve: how do you identify, verify, and hold accountable an entity with no body, no persistent memory, and no legal standing?
Authors' gap analysis informed by a structured survey of industry trends, emerging standards, and technical literature; presented as a synthesized conclusion from that survey.
high negative AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... adequacy of existing infrastructure for identity, verification, and accountabili...
Making AI usable can thus make procedures easier for future governments to learn and exploit.
Synthesis concluding claim based on the paper's formal model and argumentation (theoretical; no empirical testing reported).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... ease with which future governments can learn and exploit administrative procedur...
The model shows why expansions in AI use may be difficult to unwind.
Analytical conclusion from the paper's formal model (theoretical argument without empirical sample).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... persistence/irreversibility of AI adoption (difficulty of unwinding expansions)
The model explains why reforms that initially improve oversight can later increase that vulnerability.
Analytical/theoretical result from the paper's formal model (presented as an explanation; no empirical data).
high negative AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... long-run effect of oversight-improving reforms on system vulnerability