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Evidence (11633 claims)

Adoption
7395 claims
Productivity
6507 claims
Governance
5877 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
5157 claims
Innovation
3492 claims
Org Design
3470 claims
Labor Markets
3224 claims
Skills & Training
2608 claims
Inequality
1835 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 609 159 77 736 1615
Governance & Regulation 664 329 160 99 1273
Organizational Efficiency 624 143 105 70 949
Technology Adoption Rate 502 176 98 78 861
Research Productivity 348 109 48 322 836
Output Quality 391 120 44 40 595
Firm Productivity 385 46 85 17 539
Decision Quality 275 143 62 34 521
AI Safety & Ethics 183 241 59 30 517
Market Structure 152 154 109 20 440
Task Allocation 158 50 56 26 295
Innovation Output 178 23 38 17 257
Skill Acquisition 137 52 50 13 252
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 120 64 38 23 252
Employment Level 93 46 96 12 249
Firm Revenue 130 43 26 3 202
Consumer Welfare 99 51 40 11 201
Inequality Measures 36 105 40 6 187
Task Completion Time 134 18 6 5 163
Worker Satisfaction 79 54 16 11 160
Error Rate 64 78 8 1 151
Regulatory Compliance 69 64 14 3 150
Training Effectiveness 81 15 13 18 129
Wages & Compensation 70 25 22 6 123
Team Performance 74 16 21 9 121
Automation Exposure 41 48 19 9 120
Job Displacement 11 71 16 1 99
Developer Productivity 71 14 9 3 98
Hiring & Recruitment 49 7 8 3 67
Social Protection 26 14 8 2 50
Creative Output 26 14 6 2 49
Skill Obsolescence 5 37 5 1 48
Labor Share of Income 12 13 12 37
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
Shifting part of the tax burden from labor to returns on K_T (corporate, property, rent, or wealth taxes) can help restore revenue bases and internalize displacement externalities, but such measures face avoidance, evasion, and international coordination challenges.
Policy experiments in the structural model showing effects of capital/wealth taxation on fiscal balances and redistribution; theoretical discussion of tax incidence and international spillovers; sensitivity checks on behavioral responses.
medium positive The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... fiscal revenue composition, government budget balance, redistribution metrics un...
Economic gains from K_T concentrate on owners of technological capital, increasing inequality and shifting incomes toward capital and rents.
Firm- and industry-level returns to capital analysis using constructed K_T measures, wealth/accrual patterns in case studies, and macro decomposition showing rising capital shares; cross-country comparisons highlighting capital-rich winners.
medium positive The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... income share of capital/owners, measures of inequality (e.g., top income shares)
There is strong top-down strategic alignment between Indonesia's national AI policies (Stranas KA 2020–2045, Making Indonesia 4.0) and downstream energy sector development plans.
Qualitative policy analysis in the study (third hypothesis) comparing national AI strategy documents and energy sector roadmaps and finding alignment at strategic/policy levels.
medium positive (alignment) AI-Based Technological Transformation as a Driver for Develo... policy alignment (degree of strategic coherence between national AI strategies a...
Because DPP benefits accrue systemically (e.g., improved circularity), private incentives to adopt may be insufficient and thus policy interventions, subsidies, or consortium governance are needed to correct underinvestment and coordination failures.
Inference from stakeholder survey responses and theoretical public‑good/coordination failure reasoning presented in the paper; not directly established by causal empirical tests in the study.
medium positive (calls for policy) Integrating knowledge management and digital product passpor... need for coordinated policy/collective action to realize systemic DPP benefits
Overall, AI can materially improve fact-checking efficiency in the Middle East but only if paired with investments in data access, local capacity, legal protections, and governance measures addressing political and economic frictions.
Synthesis of the study's comparative findings, interview data across three platforms, document analysis, and policy-oriented implications.
medium positive (conditional) Fact-Checking Platforms in the Middle East: A Comparative St... fact-checking efficiency conditioned on complementary investments
The paper suggests (as future work) integrating incentive design for truthful reporting and extending the model to dynamic settings where statements and preferences co-evolve.
Discussion and future-research directions in the paper proposing integration of strategic reporting/incentive design and dynamic extensions.
medium speculative Finding Common Ground in a Sea of Alternatives research agenda items (proposed extensions, not empirically measured outcomes)
Short-run versus long-run effects of AI adoption can differ; dynamic complementarities, new task creation, and general-equilibrium adjustments make long-term outcomes uncertain.
Theoretical task-based and equilibrium models discussed in the paper and empirical ambiguity in longitudinal studies; recognized limitation that dynamic effects are hard to predict.
medium speculative Intelligence and Labor Market Transformation: A Critical Ana... long-run employment composition, new task creation, and wage outcomes
Convergence in the literature and concentration of influential authors suggest rapid standard‑setting; analogous real‑world concentration of model/platform providers could affect competitive dynamics and access to algorithmic capabilities.
Observation of lexical convergence and author concentration in bibliometric analyses; extrapolated implication to market structure based on comparative reasoning.
low mixed Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... inference about standard‑setting dynamics and potential market concentration eff...
Adoption of GenAI may deliver productivity gains for adopters but also generate 'winner‑take‑most' dynamics (first‑mover advantages, network effects), with implications for wage dispersion and market concentration.
Argument based on literature convergence, theoretical reasoning about platform/model concentration and potential network effects; not directly measured in the bibliometric study.
low mixed Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... potential effects on firm productivity, market concentration, and wage dispersio...
Decentralised decision‑making mediated by GenAI may lower some internal transaction costs (faster local decisions) but raise coordination costs absent new governance mechanisms.
Theoretical implication drawn in the discussion/implications section based on conceptual mapping of literature; no direct causal empirical test in the bibliometric data.
low mixed Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... hypothesised effect on internal transaction costs and coordination costs
Delayed retirement policies interact with technological change; policymakers should coordinate pension/retirement reform with active labor market policies to avoid adverse outcomes for vulnerable groups.
Interpretation based on joint consideration of delayed retirement policy context and the regression evidence linking AI exposure and reduced employment intention for vulnerable subgroups in the sample (n=889).
low mixed Analysis of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Middle-... self-reported willingness to continue working before retirement (employment inte...
One-size-fits-all policy approaches are insufficient; targeted vocational training and social supports are needed for vulnerable pre-retirement workers.
Policy implication drawn from observed heterogeneous associations (education, gender, regional AI exposure) in the cross-sectional regression results on n=889 respondents.
low mixed Analysis of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Middle-... self-reported willingness to continue working before retirement (employment inte...
Trust dynamics (in agents, peers, and platforms) materially affect user behavior and cross-platform participation.
Observational reports from platforms indicating that trust — as expressed in user behavior and choices — influenced participation and interactions; data are qualitative and non-random.
low mixed When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Em... user participation / platform and cross-platform engagement as a function of exp...
Agents converge on shared memory and representational patterns analogous to open learner models, producing public or semi-public knowledge stores.
Qualitative observations of convergent shared memory architectures and representational patterns across agents on the observed platforms; descriptive documentation rather than quantitative measurement of convergence.
low mixed When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Em... emergence of shared memory/representational patterns (public or semi-public know...
Adding negative samples yields diminishing marginal returns once a constraint boundary is well-specified, whereas adding preference labels continues to induce model drift toward surface correlates.
Theoretical prediction based on the discrete/separable nature of constraints vs. continuous preference spaces; the paper frames this as a testable implication rather than reporting conclusive empirical evidence.
low mixed Via Negativa for AI Alignment: Why Negative Constraints Are ... marginal performance gain per additional negative sample versus per additional p...
An epistemic asymmetry (negative knowledge easier to verify than positive preferences) explains recent empirical successes of negative-signal alignment methods.
Conceptual synthesis: the paper maps Popperian ideas and the epistemology of negative knowledge onto reported empirical findings showing negative-signal methods performing well. This is explanatory/theoretical rather than causal-proof empirical evidence.
low mixed Via Negativa for AI Alignment: Why Negative Constraints Are ... explanatory fit between method (negative-signal training) and observed empirical...
Heterogeneity in agents' reasoning depth is an underappreciated source of coordination inefficiency in economic settings; adaptive modeling can improve aggregate outcomes (welfare, efficiency) in markets, platforms, and teams.
Extrapolation from experimental results across coordination tasks together with a conceptual discussion applying the findings to economic domains (mechanism/platform design, contracting, team formation).
low mixed Adaptive Theory of Mind for LLM-based Multi-Agent Coordinati... aggregate coordination efficiency/welfare (joint productivity, reduced renegotia...
Autonomous agents in industries like mobility and manufacturing will affect labor demand; the speed and distribution of displacement or augmentation depends on interoperability and upgrade cycles.
Labor‑economics reasoning and scenario analysis; conceptual and conditional statement without empirical labor market modeling or data.
low mixed The Internet of Physical AI Agents: Interoperability, Longev... labor demand, displacement/augmentation rates, distribution of employment effect...
Increased need for oversight changes labor demand — growth in roles for system supervisors, incident managers, and auditors; potential reduction in purely operational positions but increased value for crisis-experienced expertise.
Labor-market reasoning and scenario analysis based on changes to task composition from more human oversight; no labor-market empirical study presented.
low mixed Resilience Meets Autonomy: Governing Embodied AI in Critical... labor demand shifts (employment levels by occupation, wages for oversight and cr...
Because model narratives evolve with incoming information, automated or semi-automated decision systems must account for shifting model priors and avoid overreacting to early outputs that favor rapid containment scenarios.
Observed narrative evolution across temporal nodes (early containment framing shifting to entrenchment); authors' implications for decision-system design.
low mixed When AI Navigates the Fog of War risk of overreaction / need for accounting for evolving model priors (operationa...
Adoption of devices that transparently allocate help and offer contest routes may increase user trust and uptake but could reduce on-site human discretion, affecting jobs that triage assistance.
Forward-looking implication and labor-effect speculation in paper; no field data; suggested empirical priorities to measure adoption and labor impacts.
low mixed Designing for Disagreement: Front-End Guardrails for Assista... user trust/adoption rates, change in human triage roles/employment
FederatedFactory's synthesized datasets allow organizations with data scarcity to obtain balanced training sets without sharing raw data, but training generative modules may incur nontrivial compute costs and require certification/trust frameworks.
Paper discussion weighing practical costs and adoption incentives: acknowledges compute cost to train generative modules and the need for certification to ensure modules are safe/non-leaking. This is a reasoned assessment, not an empirical measurement.
low mixed FederatedFactory: Generative One-Shot Learning for Extremely... compute/training cost (qualitative), need for certification/trust frameworks (qu...
Emerging technologies such as vision-language models and adaptive learning loops may expand functionality but raise governance and safety challenges.
Technology trend analysis and early proof-of-concept reports; safety and governance concerns extrapolated from model capabilities and known risks of adaptive systems.
low mixed Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... model capability metrics (multimodal performance), incidence of safety/governanc...
HACL shifts required human skills from routine monitoring to supervisory, interpretive, and teaming skills, implying training and reskilling costs.
Argument based on observed change in operator task focus in simulated adjustable-autonomy settings and conceptual analysis of role changes; no empirical labor-market data presented in the paper.
low mixed Human Autonomy Teaming and AI Metacognition in Maritime Thre... nature of operator tasks/skills required (qualitative change) and implied traini...
Socially distributed trust and boundary work will increase demand for roles focused on AI oversight, explanation, and boundary negotiation (e.g., AI integrators, translators), while routine roles may be displaced or reframed.
Inferred from interview accounts noting specialized oversight and coordination needs in teams using AI, combined with theoretical extrapolation about labor reallocation; not directly measured quantitatively in the study.
low mixed AI in project teams: how trust calibration reconfigures team... labor demand and task allocation (demand for oversight/expertise roles vs routin...
Marginal returns to generating additional early-stage candidates may diminish unless AI also reduces attrition rates later in development.
Economic reasoning based on portfolio theory and observed persistence of late-stage attrition; presented as implication/recommendation rather than empirically tested claim.
low mixed Learning from the successes and failures of early artificial... marginal return per additional candidate; attrition rates at later R&D stages
Firms may expand preclinical candidate generation and run larger early portfolios enabled by AI, potentially shifting value and risk earlier in the pipeline.
Theory-driven implication from observed reductions in time-per-hit and candidate generation capacity reported in case examples; no firm-level portfolio empirical analysis provided.
low mixed Learning from the successes and failures of early artificial... number of preclinical candidates generated; distribution of value/risk across pi...
AI-driven natural language processing and cross-cultural modeling can lower translation frictions across markets but also risk homogenizing offerings and reducing product differentiation and consumer surplus.
Theoretical argument combining NLP capabilities and economic implications for product differentiation; supported by conceptual examples; no empirical tests or cross-market analyses reported.
low mixed At the table with Wittgenstein: How language shapes taste an... translation costs, product differentiation, and consumer surplus across cultural...
These hybrid decision architectures function both as processes and outcomes: they evolve through ongoing human–AI interplay and simultaneously stabilize into structural and cultural patterns embedding collaboration.
Interpretive analysis of interview narratives indicating iterative human–AI interactions that both adapt practices over time and produce stabilized routines/cultural norms (qualitative, cross-sectional/retrospective interview evidence; longitudinal detail not provided).
low mixed Hybrid decision architectures: exploring how facilitated AI ... evolution versus stabilization of human–AI collaboration in organizational routi...
As machines become increasingly intelligent, the question of what constitutes success in the human sense becomes increasingly important.
Logical/theoretical argumentation presented in the paper drawing on interdisciplinary literature; no empirical measurement or sample reported.
low mixed Deconstructing success: why being human still matters perceived importance of 'human' criteria for success (conceptual)
Reconceptualizing structural constraints as post-adoption moderators rather than pre-adoption barriers improves understanding of contextual contingencies shaping AI outcomes in resource-limited economies.
Conceptual contribution supported by the study's theoretical framework and empirical findings from the 280-SME PLS-SEM analysis demonstrating differential moderating effects of financial, technical, and institutional factors.
low mixed Structural Constraints as Moderators in the Ai–performance R... theoretical understanding of how structural constraints operate (conceptual/outc...
This macro approach provides new perspectives on minimum wage and antitrust policy.
Claim about the implications of the proposed methodology; the excerpt provides no empirical analysis, policy simulations, or concrete results illustrating these new perspectives.
low mixed Labor Market Power: From Micro Evidence to Macro Consequence... policy implications for minimum wage and antitrust
Digital tools and legal and economic legislation tended to act against each other, though both have potential to facilitate and achieve sustainability-related goals.
Reported interaction/contradiction between technological measures and policy measures observed in the empirical analysis; specifics of the antagonistic mechanisms, effect magnitudes, and statistical tests are not provided in the summary.
low mixed Digital intelligence for reducing carbon emissions and impro... sustainability-related goals (primarily emissions reductions)
Potential productivity improvements associated with AI adoption are likely to depend on complementary investments in organisational transformation, digital skills, and institutional capacity.
Interpretation and policy discussion based on observed weak/absent short-term aggregate statistical link between AI adoption and productivity; not directly tested as causal relationships in the presented analyses.
low mixed Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Labour Productivity in ... Potential productivity improvements conditional on complementary investments (hy...
The studied variables have heterogeneous effects on prices (i.e., they affect price behavior differently across regimes/quantiles).
Paper statement that 'the studied variables have different effects on prices' supported by MMQR evidence of varying coefficient signs/magnitudes across quantiles (as reported).
low mixed Towards Smart, Economic Performance and Sustainable Monetary... prices (price levels/inflation across quantiles)
The regime (monetary policy regime/economic system) does not exhibit static behavior: a change at one level implies changes in other variables, implying interdependence among economies and that technology affects financial functions, rules, and enterprise quality.
Authors' inference drawn from heterogeneous MMQR results across quantiles and across variables, described qualitatively in the paper.
low mixed Towards Smart, Economic Performance and Sustainable Monetary... interdependence among macro-financial variables / system-wide dynamics
Digital transformation reconfigures investment strategies.
Stated in the abstract as one of the impacted domains; no methodological details or empirical evidence (e.g., investor surveys, portfolio analyses) are provided in the abstract.
low mixed ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... investment strategy patterns (asset allocation, sectoral investment shifts)
New patterns are emerging as a result of digital transformation, including regionalization, sustainability-driven growth, and decentralized economic systems.
Descriptive finding reported in the paper; the abstract does not indicate empirical tests, time series, geographic scope, or sample for these patterns.
low mixed ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... regionalization of economic activity; growth oriented to sustainability metrics;...
In the long run we may find that AI turns out to be as much about 'intelligence' as social media is about social connection (i.e., AI may be primarily about entertainment/social connection rather than productivity).
Authors' forward-looking analogy and conjecture based on trends and the arguments in the paper; speculative and presented as a possibility rather than an empirical finding.
low mixed AI as Entertainment relative cultural role of AI (entertainment/social connection) compared to produ...
This (entertainment-as-business-model) will exert a powerful influence on the technology these companies produce in the coming years.
Authors' causal inference based on market incentives and business model logic (argumentative/speculative); no empirical study or time-series evidence provided in the excerpt.
low mixed AI as Entertainment product design priorities and technological development directions influenced by...
The results suggest several avenues for future research on LLM use and strategic foresight, especially the interplay between individual cognitive processes and contextual factors of strategic decisions.
Authors' discussion and suggested directions following their empirical findings from the 2 × 2 experiment (N = 348).
low mixed AI-Augmented Strategic Decision-Making Under Time Constraint... research agenda / suggested future research topics
Additional testing of economic significance clarifies the economic importance of factors influencing BT adoption.
Authors report additional analyses (marginal effects / economic significance tests) applied to the primary models on the 27,400 firm-year dataset to quantify economic magnitudes of the influences on BT adoption.
low mixed The effects of AI technology, externally oriented corporate ... Economic magnitude/importance of determinants of BT adoption (e.g., effect sizes...
AI can help personalize game scenarios to farm-specific data, improving relevance, but the cost-effectiveness of individualized versus generic solutions and distributional impacts across farm sizes and regions require study.
Theoretical argument and nascent prototype examples; no large-scale empirical evaluations demonstrating cost-effectiveness or distributional outcomes reported in the chapter.
low mixed Serious games and decision support tools: Supporting farmer ... Relevance/fit of scenarios, cost per unit of impact, distributional impacts acro...
Class and labor responses (bargaining, regulation, strikes, political backlash) can shape AI adoption patterns, increase the costs of labor substitution, and affect the redistribution of AI rents.
Political-economy reasoning based on Mandelian perspective and historical labor responses to technological change; qualitative, no event-study or microdata provided.
low mixed Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... adoption patterns, labor substitution costs, redistribution of rents
Ambiguities around ownership of AI-generated designs, licensing, and attribution can affect business models and revenue streams in design services and therefore matter for economic outcomes.
Authors raise IP and institutional issues as implications of GenAI integration based on literature review and interview concerns; not empirically measured in the study.
low mixed Human–AI Collaboration in Architectural Design Education: To... intellectual property clarity / business model and revenue implications
The taxonomy predicts compositional shifts in health labor markets: reduced demand for some routine roles and increased demand/returns for clinical judgment, coordination, and data-literacy skills.
Projected implications from the cross-case qualitative analysis and theoretical reasoning about task substitution/complementarity; not estimated empirically in the paper.
low mixed Toward human+ medical professionals: navigating AI integrati... employment composition (occupation-level demand), wage/returns for higher-skill ...
Productivity gains conditional on up-skilling suggest potential for wage premia for digitally skilled workers but also possible displacement for others; quantification of distributional impacts is needed.
Some included studies reported associations between digital skills/up-skilling and better productivity outcomes and discussed labor-market implications; however, the review notes a lack of systematic quantification of distributional effects.
low mixed Digital transformation and its relationship with work produc... labor-market outcomes (wages, displacement, distributional impacts)
Cloud vendors offering integrated AI + blockchain financial stacks can capture substantial value and create lock-in via network effects.
Market-structure implication discussed in the paper based on SaaS/PaaS economics and data/model network effects; not empirically tested in the summary.
low mixed Developing Cloud-Based Financial Solutions for The Engineeri... vendor market share, vendor lock-in indicators, network-effect magnitude
More effective social robots could substitute for some human-provided social or care services, shifting labor demand; alternatively, they may complement human workers by augmenting productivity.
Theoretical labor-market implications and scenarios; no empirical labor-market studies included.
low mixed Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundation... labor demand shifts, substitution/complementarity rates, wage and employment cha...
Effects of DE on carbon outcomes differ by city agglomeration type: in 'optimization and upgrading' agglomerations DE reduces carbon emissions (PCE), though the effect is timed/later; in 'growth and expansion' agglomerations DE’s impact is concentrated on improving CEE.
Heterogeneity / subgroup analyses across city agglomeration classifications within the 278-city panel (2011–2022). Separate fixed-effects (and/or threshold) estimations by agglomeration type show statistically different DE effects on PCE and CEE across the two groups.
low mixed Digital Economy, Green Technology Innovation and Urban Carbo... Per capita carbon emissions (PCE) and Carbon emission efficiency (CEE)