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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
Societal acceptance of AI-generated audiovisual media is uncertain and could range from widespread uptake to broad rejection.
Discussion drawing on mixed empirical studies and scenario construction in the review; the paper notes contradictory findings in existing studies but does not provide primary survey data or sample sizes.
speculative mixed Ethical and societal challenges to the adoption of generativ... social acceptance/adoption levels of AI-generated audiovisual media
If cognitive interlocks are widely adopted, many negative externalities can be internalized and AI-driven productivity gains can be realized more sustainably; absent such controls, equilibrium may drift toward higher error rates and systemic incidents.
Long-run equilibrium argument based on theoretical reasoning and conditional claims; no longitudinal or cross-firm empirical evidence presented.
speculative mixed Overton Framework v1.0: Cognitive Interlocks for Integrity i... long-run system outcomes (error rates, incident frequency, net productivity) con...
If AI raises the quality and pace of research, social returns to public research funding could increase, but distributional concerns and negative externalities must be managed to realize aggregate welfare gains.
Welfare implication discussed in the paper. Framed as conditional and theoretical; not empirically quantified in the abstract.
speculative mixed Artificial Intelligence for Improving Research Productivity ... social returns to public research (social benefit per funding dollar), distribut...
Policy interventions (data governance, transparency, reproducibility standards, ethical guidelines) will shape adoption and externalities (misinformation, misuse, reproducibility crises).
Policy recommendation/implication stated in the paper. This is a normative and predictive claim grounded in governance literature; the abstract does not present empirical evaluation of specific policies.
speculative mixed Artificial Intelligence for Improving Research Productivity ... policy adoption indicators, measurable externalities (incidence of misuse, repro...
Labor demand effects are ambiguous: junior/entry-level demand may be reduced for some tasks while demand for verification and higher-skill roles may rise.
Economic reasoning, early observational signals, and theoretical task-reallocation frameworks; empirical longitudinal evidence is limited or absent.
speculative mixed ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... labor demand by skill level and occupation (employment levels, hiring rates)
The effectiveness of generative AI depends critically on human-AI workflows: prompt design, iterative refinement, and human vetting materially affect outcomes.
Qualitative analyses of interaction patterns and experiments manipulating prompting/iteration showing variation in outcomes; many studies report improved outputs after iterative prompting and human-in-the-loop refinement.
medium-high mixed ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... variation in output quality based on prompt design; changes in output after iter...
CRAEA-style systems could increase household productivity and substitute for some routine in-home human labor, altering demand for certain service roles and increasing demand for higher-skill roles (e.g., maintenance, AI oversight).
Paper's implications/economic analysis and qualitative extrapolation based on observed performance improvements in simulation; no empirical labor-market or deployment data provided to substantiate real-world labor substitution claims.
speculative mixed Context-Rich Adaptive Embodied Agents: Enhancing LLM-Powered... Labor demand shifts (theoretical implication, not empirically measured in the st...
Integrated ERP vendors embedding AI could strengthen vendor lock-in, while interoperable AI layers may foster ecosystems and specialized entrants; empirical work is needed to determine market outcomes.
Conceptual discussion and observed vendor behavior in practitioner literature; explicit statement in the paper that empirical analysis is required.
speculative mixed Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Resource ... market-structure outcomes (e.g., vendor concentration, switching costs, entry of...
Market demand is likely to bifurcate: high-value clinical markets will require rigorous explainability and neuroscientific grounding (higher willingness-to-pay), while research and consumer segments may tolerate black-box models (lower margins).
Market segmentation argument built from differing end-user requirements and tolerance for opaque models; presented as a projected implication rather than an empirically tested market study.
speculative mixed Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for EEG Analysis: ... market segmentation / willingness-to-pay across segments
Persistent declines in self-efficacy after passive AI exposure suggest potential for skill atrophy and slower reversion when tasks must be performed without AI.
Inference from observed persistent reductions in self-efficacy post-return in the experiment; skill atrophy and reversion costs not directly measured—this is an implied consequence.
speculative negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... inferred human-capital outcomes (skill atrophy, reversion costs; not directly me...
Firms that adopt passive, copy-based AI workflows risk psychological costs that could offset short-run productivity gains from AI.
Inference drawn from experimental findings of reduced efficacy/ownership/meaningfulness under passive use and short-term enjoyment gains; not directly tested for firm-level productivity or turnover—extrapolation from individual-level psychological measures.
speculative negative Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and ... inferred organizational outcomes (productivity offsets, not directly measured)
Teams often produce evaluation outputs (tests, metrics, user feedback) but lack mechanisms, processes, or technical levers to convert those outputs into actionable engineering or product changes—a novel “results-actionability gap.”
Recurring theme from the 19 practitioner interviews and coding; authors explicitly articulate and label this gap based on participants' reports.
medium-high negative Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... ability to translate evaluation outputs into concrete product/engineering change...
The study confirms several previously documented evaluation challenges with LLMs: model unpredictability, metric mismatch, high human-evaluation costs, and difficulty reproducing failures.
Interview data from 19 practitioners; thematic analysis flagged these recurring problems as reported by participants and aligned with prior literature.
medium-high negative Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners E... presence and prevalence of known evaluation challenges
Emergent quality hierarchies among agents imply winner-take-most dynamics in informational value and potential market concentration in agent quality.
Observed formation of quality hierarchies in agent interactions and documented economic interpretation; this is a hypothesis/implication drawn from qualitative patterns rather than measured market outcomes.
speculative negative When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Em... distribution of informational value / concentration of agent quality
Security of LLM-based MASs functions as an economic externality: failures can impose social costs (misinformation, poor collective decisions), and absent liability or market incentives providers may underinvest in robustness.
Economic reasoning and implication section in the paper—conceptual argument linking the technical vulnerability to economic externality and incentive misalignment. No empirical economic data provided in the summary.
speculative negative Don't Trust Stubborn Neighbors: A Security Framework for Age... investment in defenses (underprovision) and social costs from MAS security failu...
Analytical conditions on stubbornness and influence weights identify when a single adversary can dominate network dynamics (i.e., influence propagation criteria derived from FJ fixed-point analysis).
Mathematical/theoretical analysis of FJ model fixed points and influence propagation in the paper; derivation of conditions relating agent stubbornness and interpersonal trust weights to steady-state influence.
medium-high negative Don't Trust Stubborn Neighbors: A Security Framework for Age... theoretical criteria predicting when an agent's influence weight leads to domina...
Large-scale battlegrounds and competitions increase compute demand and associated costs, with implications for budgets and environmental externalities.
Paper notes that the Battling Track dataset (20M+ trajectories), model training for baselines/competitions, and running a living benchmark imply substantial compute; this is an argued implication rather than measured environmental impact.
speculative negative The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learni... predicted increase in compute demand and related costs/externalities (qualitativ...
Rapid deployment of autonomous learners could accelerate displacement in affected sectors and widen inequality if gains concentrate among capital owners or platform providers.
Socioeconomic risk assessment and projection; conceptual and not empirically quantified in the paper.
speculative negative Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons ... displacement rates; inequality measures (e.g., Gini); concentration of gains
Faster, more generalist embodied AI could substitute for routine physical and social tasks, shifting human labor toward oversight, high-level planning, creativity, and flexible social cognition roles.
Labor-market impact hypothesis derived from automation literature; conceptual projection only.
speculative negative Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons ... occupational substitution rates; changes in labor demand composition
Organizations without access to high-frequency operational data may face increased barriers to entry in latency-sensitive markets, concentrating rents with incumbents who can collect such data.
Paper presents this as an implication of the dataset/value results: proprietary high-frequency data can create competitive advantages. This is a policy/economic implication derived from model performance observations rather than a tested market analysis.
speculative negative Bridging the High-Frequency Data Gap: A Millisecond-Resoluti... market competition / barriers to entry due to asymmetric access to high-frequenc...
If models frequently leak or misuse preferences in third‑party contexts, users and organizations will discount the value of personalization or demand stronger controls, increasing costs for deploying memory features and reducing consumer surplus.
Economic reasoning and implication drawn from the observed misapplication behavior; no empirical user adoption or market data provided in the study to directly support this claim.
speculative negative BenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Prefer... Projected changes in trust, adoption costs, and consumer surplus (not empiricall...
The failure mode (misapplication of preferences to third parties) creates negative externalities (privacy violations, normative harms, misinformation, contractual breaches) that markets and platforms may not internalize without regulation or design changes.
Economic interpretation and argumentation building on the empirical failure mode; these harms are hypothesized implications rather than measured outcomes in the paper.
speculative negative BenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Prefer... Projected negative externalities on third parties (not directly measured in stud...
Widespread adoption of predictive HR tools raises distributional and fairness concerns (algorithmic bias, disparate impacts) and privacy risks that may prompt regulatory responses affecting adoption costs and equilibrium outcomes.
Discussion/implications section raises these risks conceptually; the paper does not empirically measure downstream policy or distributional effects.
speculative negative Adoption of AI-Based HR Analytics and Its Impact on Firm Pro... Potential fairness, privacy, and regulatory impacts (theoretical, not measured)
Unclear liability frameworks increase perceived and real costs and can slow adoption by hospitals and insurers.
Policy analyses and procurement narratives noting liability uncertainty cited as a barrier to procurement and deployment.
medium_high negative Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... time-to-adoption, procurement decisions citing liability concerns, insurance/cov...
Up-front implementation costs commonly include procurement, integration with PACS/EMR, UI/UX development, regulatory compliance, and staff training; recurring costs include monitoring, data labeling, software updates, and cybersecurity.
Implementation reports, vendor and hospital accounts, and qualitative studies documenting cost categories (specific dollar amounts vary across settings and are rarely published in detail).
medium_high negative Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... implementation capital expenditures, annual operating expenditures
Uneven organizational supports can concentrate returns to AI in firms and workers that successfully actualize affordances, potentially widening wage and employment disparities; targeted policy and training investments can mitigate these effects.
Theoretical implication from the framework with policy recommendations; no empirical testing or sample reported in the paper.
speculative negative Revolutionizing Human Resource Development: A Theoretical Fr... wage inequality, employment disparities, concentration of AI returns across firm...
These trends (job polarization and differential wage/mobility outcomes) may exacerbate economic disparities across regions.
Interpretation and projection based on the observed trends in the reviewed literature and reports; presented as a risk/implication rather than an empirically tested causal finding in the summary.
speculative negative Job Polarization in Solar Power Plants: A Systematic Literat... regional economic disparities (income inequality, regional employment quality di...
Without continuous support for upskilling/reskilling and inclusive policies, AI risks becoming a source of exclusion rather than an enabler of human advancement.
Normative conclusion derived from reviewed literature and thematic interpretation in the qualitative study (literature-based; evidence is secondary and not quantified).
speculative negative THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE WORKPLACE: OPPO... social inclusion versus exclusion related to AI adoption
At the national level, AI-related innovations are yet to be transformed into measurable economic gains.
Interpretation based on the observed negative association between AI patent counts and GDP growth from the panel regressions (OLS, FE, Difference and System GMM) and theoretical reasoning about adoption/diffusion lags and complementary requirements; empirical support derives from the same models (sample details not provided).
speculative negative The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Economic Growth: Syst... GDP growth (national GDP growth rate)
Research literature synthesis demonstrates 70-75% automation potential.
Quantitative estimate offered by the authors (70-75%) as part of function-by-function analysis; no described empirical evaluation or sample supporting the figure.
speculative negative Are Universities Becoming Obsolete in the Age of Artificial ... percent automation potential for research literature synthesis
Knowledge transmission (teaching/lecturing) shows 75-80% AI substitutability.
Authors' quantitative estimate presented in the analysis (75-80%); the paper does not detail empirical methods or validation samples for this percentage.
speculative negative Are Universities Becoming Obsolete in the Age of Artificial ... percent substitutability/automation potential of knowledge transmission
Administrative tasks face 75-80% disruption risk from AI.
Paper provides a quantitative estimate (75-80%) as part of its functional disruption assessment; no empirical methodology, dataset, or sample size is described to support the numeric range.
speculative negative Are Universities Becoming Obsolete in the Age of Artificial ... percent disruption/substitutability of administrative tasks
Over 400,000 [individuals] are projected to die before obtaining permanent residency.
Mortality projection applied to the estimated backlog and projected wait times (authors' projection); exact demographic assumptions (age distribution, mortality rates) and method are not provided in the excerpt.
speculative negative The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An... Number of backlog applicants projected to die before receiving green cards
The remaining difference (roughly 70%) is not explained by the factors observed in the data, indicating additional influences not captured in the survey.
Residual (unexplained) component from decomposition analyses on ESJS data.
medium-high negative Squandered skills? Bridging the digital gender skills gap fo... Unexplained share (%) of the gender gap in advanced digital task use
Demand-dependent pricing in the modeled energy load management setting creates a social dilemma: everyone would benefit from coordination, but in equilibrium agents often choose to incur congestion costs that cooperative turn-taking would avoid.
Theoretical/modeling analysis of consumer agents scheduling appliance use under demand-dependent pricing as described in the paper (analytical argument and/or model simulations). Specific sample sizes or simulation parameters are not given in the abstract.
medium-high negative Hybrid Human-Agent Social Dilemmas in Energy Markets presence of congestion costs vs coordinated turn-taking (system efficiency/total...
Aggregation and linkage across data sources can reveal intimate, predictive traits that were not foreseeable to the data subject at the time of sale.
Conceptual argument with references to documented cases and literature on data linkage and inference; relies on illustrative examples rather than original empirical experiments.
medium-high negative Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Extent to which data aggregation yields unforeseen sensitive inferences about in...
Policy-relevant implication (extrapolated): identity heterogeneity implies family- and purpose-driven entrepreneurs may be less likely to pursue AI-enabled innovation after income shocks, suggesting targeted outreach and low-risk entry paths to avoid widening digital divides.
Extrapolation from documented identity-heterogeneous declines in innovation after income shocks (empirical result) to probable patterns in AI adoption; AI adoption is not directly measured in the paper's dataset.
speculative negative Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... likelihood of AI-enabled innovation/adoption (extrapolated)
The United States shows a more market-driven (firm-dominated) patenting profile and comparatively weaker integration between AI and robotics patent trajectories.
Country-level and actor-type decomposition for U.S. patent filings (1980–2019), showing higher firm share of patents and weaker long-run association/cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics series compared with China (as reported in the paper).
medium-high negative The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... share of patents by firms in U.S.; strength of long-run integration between U.S....
There is a risk of a two‑tier market where high‑quality temporal‑preserving enhancements are costly, increasing inequality in experiential welfare and cognitive capital.
Speculative socioeconomic implication based on cost/access arguments and distributional concerns; no inequality modeling or empirical pricing data provided.
speculative negative XChronos and Conscious Transhumanism: A Philosophical Framew... distributional inequality in access to temporal‑quality enhancements and resulti...
Technical expansion without an accompanying theory of lived temporality risks increasing capabilities while degrading the qualitative depth of human experience (presence, attentional flow, felt meaning).
Argumentative claim supported by philosophical analysis and literature synthesis (neurophenomenology, attention economics); no empirical test reported (N/A).
speculative negative XChronos and Conscious Transhumanism: A Philosophical Framew... qualitative depth of human experience (presence, attentional flow, felt meaning)
Differential access to higher-quality (paid) versus free GenAI tools and differing ability to engage with the tool could widen inequality among students and institutions.
Authors' implication based on student-reported concerns about limitations of free ChatGPT versions and on heterogeneous gains across disciplines; this is a policy/implication claim not directly measured in the experiment.
speculative negative Expanding the lens: multi-institutional evidence on student ... equity/inequality in access and learning outcomes (not directly measured)
High-quality, equitable climate information displays public-good characteristics (nonrival, nonexcludable at scale), so private incentives alone will underprovide geographically representative data and shared infrastructure.
Economic reasoning supported by observed concentration of compute and model development (mapping) and standard public-goods theory; no formal empirical market model estimated in the paper.
medium-high negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Level of provision of geographically representative data/shared infrastructure u...
Improving photorealism with objective color-fidelity metrics and refinement reduces the need for manual color correction and retouching in downstream workflows.
Paper and summary argue this as an implication: higher-fidelity outputs from CFR/CFM reduce manual editing demand. This is an economic/market implication rather than a directly evidenced experimental result in the paper (no labor-market causal study reported).
speculative negative Too Vivid to Be Real? Benchmarking and Calibrating Generativ... demand for manual color correction / retouching services
The paradigm implies potential market risks including vendor lock-in and concentration if only a few providers control scalable linear-optical samplers.
Conceptual risk analysis in the paper's discussion of economic implications; this is a qualitative argument built on the technical premise that trained models require access to specialized quantum sampling hardware for deployment.
speculative negative Universality of Classically Trainable, Quantum-Deployed Boso... market concentration and vendor lock-in risk
Heterogeneous trust levels across firms and schools may produce uneven productivity gains and widen performance gaps.
Logical implication and policy discussion in the paper; the cross-sectional study documents relationships between trust and outcomes but does not provide aggregate diffusion or cross-firm longitudinal evidence to confirm unequal sectoral diffusion.
speculative negative Algorithmic Trust and Managerial Effectiveness: The Role of ... distribution of productivity gains / performance gaps across organizations
Overreliance on unvetted AI can propagate biases; economic gains from AI therefore require governance, auditing, and accountability mechanisms.
Framed as a risk and policy recommendation in the discussion; not an empirical finding from the cross-sectional survey reported in the summary.
speculative negative Algorithmic Trust and Managerial Effectiveness: The Role of ... propagation of biases and need for governance/auditing (risk outcomes)
If FDI brings capital‑intensive, AI‑enabled production without complementary upskilling, it may exacerbate wage inequality and deepen labor market dualism in SSA.
Theoretical inference and analogy from documented patterns of skill‑biased technological change and FDI-driven inequality in the reviewed literature; empirical evidence specific to AI in SSA is lacking in the review.
speculative negative Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... wage inequality, labor market dualism, employment composition
Full replacement of physicians would require breakthroughs in robust generalization, embodied capabilities, and legal/regulatory change—currently lacking.
Conceptual inference based on documented limitations (OOD generalization, lack of embodied/sensorimotor capability, unsettled legal/regulatory environment) summarized in the review.
speculative negative Will AI Replace Physicians in the Near Future? AI Adoption B... feasibility/timeline for physician replacement
Shrinking acquisition workforce capacity functions as a critical scarce input in defense AI economics; reduced human capital lowers the Department's ability to extract value from AI investments and to internalize externalities, decreasing effective returns to AI procurement.
Institutional trend evidence of workforce reductions combined with economic analysis treating institutional capacity as an input factor. No empirical quantification of returns or elasticity provided—this is analytical inference.
speculative negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... effective returns to AI procurement given acquisition workforce capacity (theore...
Ambiguous standards increase uncertainty for contracting officers, raising the risk that they will either over-rely on vendor claims or inconsistently enforce requirements, both of which harm procurement integrity.
Policy-text analysis identifying vague criteria combined with qualitative analysis of procurement decision workflows; argument based on measurement and enforcement friction literature. No empirical study of contracting officer behavior provided.
speculative negative FEATURE COMMENT: Governance as a "Blocker": How the Pentagon... consistency and reliability of contracting officer enforcement and reliance on v...