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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
The core problem is a trade-off between computational latency/resource cost and decision correctness: invoking more LLM reasoning improves correctness but increases latency; invoking less reduces latency but can increase failures.
Paper frames the research problem explicitly as this trade-off in the Introduction/Problem framing sections and motivates the need for adaptive orchestration.
high mixed When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Rein... trade-off between decision correctness (task success) and computational latency/...
There are potential measurement gaps in the data, particularly in capturing informal employment and rapid technology diffusion.
Authors' stated limitations noting data coverage issues: official statistics and surveys may not fully capture informal sector dynamics or fast-moving tech adoption. Specific metrics of missingness not provided.
high mixed The AI Transition: Assessing Vulnerability and Structural Re... data completeness / coverage for informal employment and real-time technology di...
The evidence presented in the study is largely correlational, with limited causal identification of AI causing job changes.
Study design and methods statement: reliance on descriptive analyses, occupation-vulnerability mapping, employer surveys, and case studies without quasi-experimental causal identification strategies.
high mixed The AI Transition: Assessing Vulnerability and Structural Re... strength of causal inference about AI → employment outcomes (design limitation)
The paper's proposed ISB+NDMS approach is tailored to the Russian institutional context (leveraging historical planning experience) and its transferability to other political-economic systems is uncertain.
Comparative/transferability claim based on institutional analysis and normative reasoning in the paper; no cross-country empirical comparisons provided.
high mixed DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S SOCIOECON... transferability/applicability of ISB+NDMS across institutional contexts
Teamwork partner type moderates the effect of service empathy on collaboration proficiency (i.e., the impact of service empathy on proficiency differs by human vs AI partner).
Reported interaction/moderated-mediation analyses from the online experiment (n = 861) indicating a significant partner-type × service-empathy interaction predicting collaboration proficiency.
Employees' emotional state significantly moderates the relationship between partner type (human vs AI) and collaboration proficiency.
Moderation analyses reported from the same online experimental dataset (n = 861), testing interaction terms between partner type and measured employee emotion on collaboration proficiency; authors report a significant moderating effect.
AI adoption has an inverted U-shaped effect on employee-related corporate social responsibility (ECSR).
Panel regression with quadratic specification (AI and AI^2) showing statistically significant positive coefficient on AI and statistically significant negative coefficient on AI^2; sample of 2,575 Chinese listed firms observed 2013–2023; controls, firm and/or year fixed effects and robustness checks reported.
high mixed Attention to Whom? AI Adoption and Corporate Social Responsi... Employee-related corporate social responsibility (ECSR)
Demand for labor will shift toward data scientists, ML engineers, and interdisciplinary scientists, while wet-lab expertise and translational teams remain crucial.
Workforce trend analysis and employer hiring patterns summarized in the paper; interviews/case studies indicating changes in team composition.
high mixed Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... demand composition for roles (data scientists, ML engineers, wet-lab scientists)...
AI excels at hypothesis generation but cannot replace scientific reasoning and experimental validation; human expertise remains essential.
Argument and case examples in the paper showing AI-generated hypotheses requiring human-led experimental design, interpretation, and validation.
high mixed Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... role of AI versus human scientists in hypothesis generation and experimental val...
Net gains from AI are not automatic nor evenly distributed; benefits depend on translation rates to clinical success and on addressing non-technical enablers.
Synthesis and conditional argument informed by sector observations; not backed by empirical distributional analysis in the paper.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research distribution of gains across firms and translation to clinical success
Alignment with evolving regulatory expectations (evidence standards, auditing, liability) is necessary to translate AI capabilities into products and reduce adoption risk.
Policy-focused argument referencing regulatory uncertainty; no empirical measures of regulatory impact included.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research adoption risk and time-to-market under regulatory regimes
Realized, sustained impact ('democratized discovery') from AI depends on non-technological enablers: high-quality interoperable data, rigorous validation, transparency/auditability, workforce upskilling, ethical oversight, and regulatory alignment.
Synthesis and prescriptive argument in editorial grounded in observed constraints; no empirical testing of causal dependence provided.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research sustained impact of AI on discovery (realized democratized discovery)
Reward mechanisms reviewed include up-front token sales, milestone-triggered payouts, bounties, and royalties/licensing revenue distribution.
Synthesis of literature and case-study descriptions documenting available reward/payment mechanisms used by DAOs in decentralized science contexts.
high mixed Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Pharmaceutical... presence and prevalence of specific reward/payment mechanism types
Decision models in DAO governance include token-weighted voting, quadratic voting, reputation/stake-based delegation, and multisig/DAO councils for off-chain execution.
Theoretical review of governance mechanisms and survey of existing DAO practices as reported in secondary sources and project documentation.
high mixed Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Pharmaceutical... types of decision mechanisms implemented across DAOs
Token overhead varies from modest savings to a 451% increase while pass rates remain unchanged.
Measured token usage for agent runs with and without skills, reporting a range from modest token savings up to a 451% token increase with no corresponding change in pass rates.
high mixed SWE-Skills-Bench: Do Agent Skills Actually Help in Real-Worl... token usage/overhead (percent change) and its relation to pass rates
The review synthesizes cross-domain evidence on the use of AI across the continuum from target identification to regulatory integration and critically evaluates existing limitations including data bias, interpretability discrepancy, and regulatory ambiguity.
Statement about the scope and content of the review (literature synthesis and critical evaluation). This is a description of the paper's methods/content rather than an empirical finding; the excerpt indicates these topics are discussed.
high mixed THE AI REVOLUTION IN PHARMACEUTICALS: INNOVATIONS, CHALLENGE... coverage of limitations in AI application (presence and discussion of data bias,...
The research methodology combines systemic analysis, comparative assessment of international practices, and analytical generalization of organizational learning models, enabling capture of both structural trends and concrete institutional responses to technological changes.
Methodological statement from the paper describing its approach; this is a factual claim about methods used rather than an empirical finding.
high mixed EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PREPARING HUMAN ... ability to capture structural trends and institutional responses (through the ch...
The impact of Generative AI on labor markets is heterogeneous across occupations and tasks.
Synthesis of recent empirical studies drawing on population-level data, online job postings, and systematic reviews as described in the paper.
high mixed The Impact of Generative AI on the Future of Employment: Opp... heterogeneity of impacts across occupations and tasks (employment patterns, dema...
The study investigates the benefits and drawbacks associated with the incorporation of innovative artificial intelligence technologies into industrial policies.
Author-stated research objective reported in the text; evidence claimed to come from literature review (novel studies and existing literature), but no specific studies, sample sizes, or empirical measures are provided in the excerpt.
high mixed A Study on Work-Life Balance of Women Employees in the IT Se... benefits and drawbacks of incorporating AI into industrial policy
Model output can be treated as evidence for studying human behavior, but there are important epistemic limits to interpreting model-generated text as direct evidence of human beliefs or social facts.
Epistemic analysis and methodological critique in the paper (discussion of limits of treating model outputs as evidence); no single empirical test cited in the provided text.
high mixed The Third Ambition: Artificial Intelligence and the Science ... validity and limits of using LLM outputs as evidence about human behavior and so...
The paper constructs three policy-contingent labor market scenarios for 2025–2035: (1) an Augmented Services Economy with inclusive productivity gains, (2) a Dual-Speed Labor Market characterized by polarization and uneven adjustment, and (3) a Disruptive Automation Shock involving significant displacement and social strain.
Prognostic, scenario-based approach integrating the three evidence bases (task-level capability mapping, occupational exposure/complementarity analysis, and firm- and worker-level adoption evidence). The scenarios are developed and described in the paper for the 2025–2035 horizon.
high mixed Labor Futures Under Artificial Intelligence: Scenarios for t... alternative labor market trajectories for 2025–2035 (employment levels by sector...
The validity of human–AI decision-making studies hinges on participants' behaviours; effective incentives can potentially affect these behaviours.
Conclusion from the authors' thematic review and theoretical rationale linking incentive design to participant behaviour and study validity (no quantitative effect sizes provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentive-Tuning: Understanding and Designing Incentives for... participant behaviour (engagement, effort, strategy) and resulting study validit...
The study's counterfactual analytical model links HR indicators (training intensity, absenteeism, labor productivity, turnover rates, workforce allocation) to organizational performance outcomes using regression-based simulations and predictive estimation.
Methodological claim explicitly stated: model construction from an industrial firm dataset using regression-based simulations and predictive techniques. (Specific sample size, variable operationalizations, and time frame not reported in the description.)
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Human Resource Management: A Cou... methodological estimate of counterfactual organizational performance outcomes
Helicoid dynamics is a specific failure regime: a system engages competently, drifts into error, accurately names what went wrong, then reproduces the same pattern at a higher level of sophistication, recognizing it is looping and continuing nonetheless.
Definition introduced in the paper and illustrated by the reported case series; the claim is conceptual/phenomenological rather than a statistical result.
high mixed AI Knows What's Wrong But Cannot Fix It: Helicoid Dynamics i... incidence and qualitative characterization of the helicoid pattern in LLM intera...
Only one study reported a modest improvement in predicting endoscopic intervention needs (AUC: 0.68).
Single-study result cited in the review reporting AUC = 0.68 for prediction of need for endoscopic intervention.
high mixed How Do AI-Assisted Diagnostic Tools Impact Clinical Decision... prediction of need for endoscopic intervention (AUC)
A minimal linear specification (linearized model) demonstrates how coupling strength, persistence, and dissipation determine local stability and oscillatory regimes through spectral conditions on the Jacobian.
Analytic linear model and local stability analysis in the paper: computation of Jacobian, derivation of spectral conditions (eigenvalue locations) that separate stable/oscillatory regimes; illustrative examples within the paper (no empirical data).
high mixed How Intelligence Emerges: A Minimal Theory of Dynamic Adapti... local stability/oscillatory behavior characterized by Jacobian eigenvalues (spec...
The review synthesizes findings across five thematic areas: AI‑driven task automation and decision support; digital literacy and capacity building; gender‑sensitive employment patterns; infrastructural and policy challenges; and sustainable development outcomes.
Thematic synthesis of the 55 included articles as described in the paper; themes explicitly listed by the authors.
high mixed Role of AI in Enhancing Work Efficiency and Opportunities fo... thematic categorization of evidence across included studies
Prevalence and risk factors for poverty differ by gender, as does the nature of vulnerability.
Stated as a general empirical claim in the introduction, drawing on broader literature (no specific study, method, or sample size provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Social Protection and Gender: Policy, Practice, and Research poverty prevalence and vulnerability (gender-disaggregated)
Major actors such as the United States, China, and the European Union pursue distinct models of AI development and regulation.
Comparative policy analysis and qualitative document review of national/regional AI strategies and regulatory proposals for the United States, China, and the EU (specific documents and sample size not specified).
high mixed The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Power, Regulatio... model of AI development and regulation adopted by each actor (US, China, EU)
The study identifies the emergence of three competing governance paradigms: the innovation-driven liberal model, the ethics-oriented regulatory model, and the state-controlled authoritarian model.
Finding from the paper's comparative policy analysis and qualitative review of policy documents across major actors (United States, European Union, China); underlying document sources referenced qualitatively but not enumerated as a quantitative sample.
high mixed The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Power, Regulatio... types of AI governance paradigms (innovation-driven liberal; ethics-oriented reg...
There is substantial heterogeneity in worker experiences within platform-mediated gig work.
Observed variation in roles (primary vs. supplementary), earnings distribution (median below traditional but top-decile premiums), and access to benefits across the 24-country dataset from surveys, administrative records, and platform transaction data.
high mixed The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Wor... heterogeneity in employment role, earnings, and benefits access among gig worker...
About 65% of gig workers engage in platform work as supplementary income alongside traditional employment or education.
Self-reported employment status and activity overlap from labor force surveys and administrative linkages in the 24-country dataset.
high mixed The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Wor... proportion of gig workers who treat platform work as supplementary income (%)
Distinct AI features (recommendation engines, chatbots, and comparison tools) influence consumer outcomes when modeled as latent constructs.
Methodological claim: the study modeled three AI features as latent constructs and analyzed their relationships with dependent variables using SEM (quantitative questionnaire data).
high mixed Role of artificial intelligence on consumer buying behavior:... influence on consumer trust, perceived decision-making support, and purchase int...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a positive and statistically significant effect on growth at lower conditional quantiles (τ = 0.10–0.25) but is insignificant at higher quantiles.
MMQR estimation results reported in the paper showing significant positive AI coefficients at τ = 0.10–0.25 and insignificant coefficients at higher quantiles.
high mixed Towards Smart, Economic Performance and Sustainable Monetary... GDP growth (conditional quantiles of growth)
Both time constraints and LLM use significantly alter the characteristics of decision-makers' mental representations.
Results from the 2 × 2 experiment (N = 348) comparing representation-related measures across manipulated conditions; reported statistically significant differences associated with time constraints and with LLM use.
high mixed AI-Augmented Strategic Decision-Making Under Time Constraint... characteristics of mental representations (representation-related measures colle...
We develop a theoretical framework - the productivity funnel - that traces how technological potential narrows through successive stages, from access and digital infrastructure, through organizational absorption and human capital adaptation, to ultimate value capture.
Conceptual/theoretical development presented in the paper; no empirical sample needed (framework-building).
high mixed The complementarity trap: AI adoption and value capture n/a (theoretical framework describing stages leading to value capture)
Effects of curated Skills are highly heterogeneous across domains (e.g., +4.5 pp in Software Engineering vs. +51.9 pp in Healthcare).
Per-domain pass-rate deltas reported in the paper (SkillsBench per-domain analysis). The example domain deltas (+4.5 pp and +51.9 pp) are taken from the reported per-domain results.
high mixed SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across ... task pass rate (per-domain average delta)
Institutional factors (education systems, active labor market policies, mobility, industrial policy, social protection) shape net employment outcomes from AI.
Theoretical and policy-focused synthesis; cross-country comparisons in literature highlight institutional mediation though no single new cross-country empirical estimate is provided.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... variation in employment outcomes and distributional impacts across countries wit...
Net employment effects depend on the balance of substitution and complementarity, sectoral exposure, and institutional responses.
Conceptual labor-economics framework (task-based, skill-biased change) and comparative review of cross-country/sectoral evidence emphasizing institutional mediation.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... net employment change (by sector/country) and distributional outcomes
AI will substantially restructure labor markets.
Task-based theoretical approach and cross-sectoral synthesis of empirical studies showing task substitution and complementarity effects across occupations and sectors.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... occupational composition, sectoral employment shares, task mix
The pandemic produced a 1.5% increase in people identifying as potential entrepreneurs but a 2.3% contraction in emerging entrepreneurs, indicating a breakdown in converting aspiration into formal entrepreneurial activity (pipeline disruption).
Reported percentage changes in pipeline stages (potential entrepreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs) measured in the survey before/after (or during) the pandemic within the >27,000 respondent sample; comparison of identification and transition rates along the entrepreneurial pipeline.
high mixed Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... transitions along the entrepreneurial pipeline (identification as potential entr...
Scholarly production, institutional incentives, funding, and the Cold War geopolitical context shaped which economic theories became prominent.
Historical institutional case study drawing on archives, correspondence, publication records, and contemporaneous debates to link institutional and funding environments to intellectual trajectories.
high mixed Ideological competition during the era of the 20th century c... prominence of economic theories (qualitative assessment tied to institutional/fu...
Whether AI increases or decreases overall inequality depends on AI’s technology structure (proprietary vs. commodity) and on labor-market institutions (rent‑sharing elasticity ξ and asset concentration).
Comparative statics and regime analysis within the calibrated model that varies the technological-form parameter (η1 vs. η0) and the rent‑sharing elasticity ξ, as well as measures of asset concentration.
high mixed When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asse... aggregate inequality (ΔGini) as a function of technology form and institutional ...
AI can equalize individual task performance while increasing aggregate inequality because rents accrue to owners of complementary assets rather than to workers.
Analytical model and calibrated simulations demonstrating that within-task compression (reduced worker dispersion) can coexist with rising aggregate inequality (ΔGini) owing to rent concentration at the firm/asset-owner level.
high mixed When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asse... within-task performance dispersion (decrease) and aggregate inequality (ΔGini, i...
Long-run integration (degree of long-run association) between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics differs systematically across national innovation systems.
Country-level decomposition of patent filing series and time-series econometric tests for long-run relationships / cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics patent series for each country/region (China, U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea).
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... measures of long-run association/cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced r...
Core AI, traditional robotics, and AI-enhanced robotics follow distinct historical trajectories over 1980–2019 and do not move together uniformly.
Time-series analysis using annual patent filing counts (1980–2019) for each domain; tests for common long-run relationships / co-movement across the three patent series (as reported in the paper). Country-aggregated and domain-specific patent time series were analyzed; exact sample size (total patents) not specified in the summary.
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... annual patent filing counts/time-series trajectories for each of the three domai...
Kondratieff, Schumpeter, and Mandel each highlight different drivers of capitalist long waves: Kondratieff emphasizes regular technological-driven renewal, Schumpeter emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation-led creative destruction, and Mandel emphasizes class relations and production structures.
Comparative theoretical analysis and literature synthesis across the three schools; conceptual summary of canonical positions (no original dataset; qualitative interpretation).
high mixed Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... theoretical drivers of capitalist cycles
The study's qualitative and exploratory design limits generalizability; the proposed framework requires quantitative testing and broader samples (practicing architects, firms, cross-cultural contexts).
Explicit limitations stated by authors; study is based on semi-structured interviews with architecture students (N unspecified) and inductive thematic analysis.
high mixed Human–AI Collaboration in Architectural Design Education: To... generalizability / external validity of findings and framework
XChronos reframes transhumanist technology evaluation in experiential terms, creating both market opportunities and measurement/regulatory challenges for AI economics.
Synthesis and concluding argument in the paper summarizing proposed implications; conceptual reasoning without empirical tests.
high mixed XChronos and Conscious Transhumanism: A Philosophical Framew... shift in evaluation criteria toward experiential measures and resultant market/r...
Across 182 reviewed studies, LLM-generated synthetic participants have modest and inconsistent fidelity to human participants.
Systematic review and synthesis of 182 empirical and methodological studies comparing LLM-generated participants to human samples; studies were coded and analyzed for fidelity outcomes.
high mixed Synthetic Participants Generated by Large Language Models: A... fidelity of synthetic participants to human participants (behavioral/response si...