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Evidence (11677 claims)

Adoption
7395 claims
Productivity
6507 claims
Governance
5921 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
5192 claims
Org Design
3497 claims
Innovation
3492 claims
Labor Markets
3231 claims
Skills & Training
2608 claims
Inequality
1842 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 609 159 77 738 1617
Governance & Regulation 671 334 160 99 1285
Organizational Efficiency 626 147 105 70 955
Technology Adoption Rate 502 176 98 78 861
Research Productivity 349 109 48 322 838
Output Quality 391 121 45 40 597
Firm Productivity 385 46 85 17 539
Decision Quality 277 145 63 34 526
AI Safety & Ethics 189 244 59 30 526
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 36 106 40 6 188
Task Completion Time 134 18 6 5 163
Worker Satisfaction 79 54 16 11 160
Error Rate 64 79 8 1 152
Regulatory Compliance 69 66 14 3 152
Training Effectiveness 82 16 13 18 131
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
The regulatory architecture is in place; the verification instrument is not.
Paper's high-level diagnosis asserting that regulations establish obligations but lack a technical instrument for quantitative verification of acceptable risk.
high negative Bounding the Black Box: A Statistical Certification Framewor... presence of regulatory architecture versus presence of technical verification in...
The systems most in need of oversight are opaque statistical inference engines that resist white-box scrutiny.
Paper's characterization/analysis of contemporary high-risk AI systems as opaque statistical models that are difficult to inspect via white-box methods.
high negative Bounding the Black Box: A Statistical Certification Framewor... degree of model opacity / resistance to white-box scrutiny among high-risk AI sy...
This gap is not theoretical: as the EU AI Act moves into full enforcement, developers face mandatory conformity assessments without established methodologies for producing quantitative safety evidence.
Argument in paper linking imminent enforcement of EU AI Act to practical conformity-assessment requirements for developers and asserting lack of established methodologies for quantitative safety evidence.
high negative Bounding the Black Box: A Statistical Certification Framewor... availability of established methodologies for producing quantitative safety evid...
None [of these regulatory frameworks] specifies what 'acceptable risk' means in quantitative terms, and none provides a technical method for verifying that a deployed system actually meets such a threshold.
Paper's critical analysis of existing regulatory instruments, arguing absence of quantitative definitions and verification methods.
high negative Bounding the Black Box: A Statistical Certification Framewor... presence or absence of quantitative acceptable-risk definitions and technical ve...
Ethical concerns—such as transparency, explainability, psychological effects, and responsible AI governance—are critical factors influencing employability outcomes.
Review synthesis highlighting ethical issues from empirical and industry literature as influential on employability outcomes.
high negative The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... ethical concerns' impact on employability
There are significant AI adoption challenges in education and industry that affect employability and role transformation.
Synthesized evidence from industry reports and empirical studies discussed in the review highlighting barriers to adoption in education and industry.
Technological interdependence is not dissolving but being selectively restructured, producing a durable condition of partial, segmented decoupling in which interdependence persists under increasingly politicized rules of access.
Interpretation based on case-study observations of export controls, allied coordination, Chinese countermeasures, and emergent supply-chain and regulatory changes described in the paper.
high negative Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... degree and form of technological interdependence between the U.S. and China (str...
When the United States employs export controls and allied coordination to manage perceived technological risks, China responds through defensive reconfiguration aimed at reducing asymmetric vulnerability, in addition to retaliation in rare-earth export controls in certain instances.
Case-study evidence centered on advanced-technology sectors (particularly semiconductors) and observed policy responses following U.S. export restraints after the first Trump administration (qualitative policy and reaction examples described in the paper).
high negative Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... China's policy responses (defensive reconfiguration, occasional rare-earth expor...
From the perspectives of 'personal subordination' and 'economic subordination', AIGC deeply and implicitly controls the labor process through mechanisms such as dynamic path planning, blurring the boundaries of determination.
Analytical/legal argument in the paper linking conceptual standards of subordination to specific algorithmic mechanisms (e.g., dynamic path planning); supported by mechanistic discussion but no reported empirical measurement or sample.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... task_allocation / algorithmic control of tasks
AIGC constantly challenges traditional standards for determining labor relations.
Paper's analytic claim based on conceptual/legal argument that algorithmic features of AIGC complicate application of existing labor-relation tests; no quantitative validation or sample size provided.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... employment (classification/determination of labor relations)
The transformation toward algorithmic enterprises raises critical concerns regarding agency, accountability, data monopolization, and algorithmic bias.
Presented as a principal concern in the paper's conceptual discussion and interdisciplinary critique; based on analysis of governance and ethical literature rather than new empirical evidence in the abstract.
high negative Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... risks to agency, accountability, market power (data monopolization), and algorit...
Algorithmic management and monitoring have reduced employees’ autonomy and perceived work meaningfulness, contributing to 'AI anxiety' characterised by concerns about job loss, skill obsolescence, and diminished control.
Qualitative studies, survey evidence, and theoretical literature reviewed that document impacts of algorithmic management on autonomy, meaningfulness, and worker anxiety (mixed-methods literature).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... employee autonomy, perceived work meaningfulness, and AI-related anxiety
Automation has intensified income inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers.
Synthesis of empirical literature linking automation adoption to widening wage and income gaps across skill groups (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... income/wage inequality between skill groups
Displacement effects have extended from manufacturing into cognitive roles such as clerical work and customer service.
Review of empirical studies documenting automation/substitution effects in cognitive, clerical, and customer-service roles (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... occupational displacement in cognitive/clerical/customer-service roles
Automation has put downward pressure on wages.
Cited empirical studies and wage analyses in the reviewed literature indicating wage suppression associated with automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... wage levels / wage pressure
AI and robotics have led to contractions in low-skilled occupations.
Synthesis of empirical literature reporting occupational contractions in low-skilled jobs following automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... contraction in employment in low-skilled occupations
Extensive empirical evidence shows that AI and robotics can substitute for rule-based, codifiable routine tasks.
Review cites extensive empirical studies demonstrating substitution of rule-based, codifiable routine tasks by AI/robotics (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... substitution of routine tasks (automation exposure)
Artificial intelligence and robotic technologies are fundamentally reshaping labour markets and pose multifaceted challenges to workers engaged in routine and low-skilled tasks.
Narrative review of domestic and international scholarly literature over the past decade (literature review / synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... risks to routine and low-skilled workers (labor market disruption / challenges)
Structural barriers, workforce biases, and digital skill gaps affect women’s participation in AI-enabled sectors.
Claim derived from the paper's synthesis of literature (peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, preprints) identifying common barriers; the abstract does not report quantitative meta-analysis or specific sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... drivers of women's participation in AI-enabled sectors (barriers and gaps)
Routine-intensive sectors exhibit higher susceptibility to automation.
Synthesis result reported in the paper based on the systematic review of sector-specific literature (no numeric aggregation or sample size provided in the abstract).
high negative AI and the Future of Job Profiles: A systematic Review of Se... susceptibility to automation
Vibe coding (unstructured GenAI-driven coding) promises rapid prototyping but often suffers from architectural drift, limited traceability, and reduced maintainability.
Paper asserts this as a motivating observation and characterizes vibe coding's weaknesses; the abstract frames these as commonly observed problems motivating the Shift-Up approach (no sample size given in abstract).
high negative Shift-Up: A Framework for Software Engineering Guardrails in... architectural drift, traceability, maintainability
In post-AGI economies the presupposition of agent autonomy becomes nontrivial because artificial systems may exhibit varying degrees of autonomy, functioning as tools, delegates, strategic market actors, manipulators of choice environments, or possible welfare subjects.
Theoretical argumentation and conceptual classification in the paper; no empirical data reported (modeling/motivating discussion).
high negative Post-AGI Economies: Autonomy and the First Fundamental Theor... validity/applicability of the autonomy presupposition in welfare economics
Market incompleteness distorts the efficient development of AI (i.e., distorts innovation/output).
Claim made in the abstract as a theoretical implication of the asset-pricing model; no empirical data provided.
high negative Hedging the Singularity efficiency of AI development / innovation output
Market incompleteness distorts valuations.
Stated in the abstract as an implication of the model (theoretical analysis); no empirical quantification provided.
high negative Hedging the Singularity distortion of asset valuations
Every additional mechanism we test (planner evolution, per-tool selection, cold-start initialization, skill extraction, and three credit assignment methods) degrades performance.
Findings from the nine-variant ablation study reported in the paper; comparison of variants that add each listed mechanism versus the memory+reflection combination.
high negative AEL: Agent Evolving Learning for Open-Ended Environments performance (e.g., Sharpe ratio or other benchmark metrics) relative to memory+r...
There is a stark geopolitical divide between 'AI Core' nations and the Global South; the Global South faces acute risks of 'Digital Dependency' and eroded digital sovereignty.
Cross-study synthesis in the systematic review (2018-2026) identifying geopolitical patterns and risks; abstract does not quantify the number of studies or present empirical effect sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... digital dependency and digital sovereignty
The 'black box' nature of automated systems undermines the democratic social contract and principles of procedural justice, epitomised by the Australian 'Robo-debt' scandal.
Case study material and literature synthesized in the systematic review referencing the Australian Robo-debt case as an exemplar; abstract does not provide primary data or sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... democratic legitimacy and procedural justice
Agentic AI introduces novel challenges related to market stability, regulatory compliance, interpretability, and systemic risk.
Survey discussion synthesizing literature on systemic and governance risks of autonomous systems in markets; draws on conceptual and empirical prior work but does not present new quantitative results.
high negative Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Comprehensive ... market stability, regulatory compliance burden, interpretability deficits, syste...
Consolidation of corporate control of critical technologies (driven by AI industrial strategies that do not center democratic economic governance) threatens key democratic and societal objectives.
Stated implication in the paper's opening argument; supported by the paper's conceptual framing and (as indicated) review of how past and emerging tech/AI industrial strategies interact with democratic objectives. No quantitative sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative Fighting for Democracy Amid the AI Race: Designing Tech In... threats to democratic and societal objectives (e.g., democratic governance, publ...
Unless governments develop industrial policy strategies centered on strengthening democratic economic governance, they risk consolidating corporate control of critical technologies.
Main argumentative claim of the paper as stated in the abstract/introduction; presented as a normative risk argument supported in the paper by conceptual analysis and review of policy trends and historical examples (no empirical sample size reported in the excerpt).
high negative Fighting for Democracy Amid the AI Race: Designing Tech In... consolidation of corporate control over critical technologies
Scalable AI tutoring for procedural skill learning requires structured knowledge representations, yet constructing these representations remains a labor-intensive bottleneck.
Background/claim made in the paper's introduction framing the problem; no specific quantitative evidence reported in the abstract.
high negative Developing Models of Procedural Skills using an AI-assisted ... effort required to construct structured knowledge representations
Under-represented groups tend to be systematically under-observed because of historical exclusion and selective feedback, which exacerbates uncertainty for those groups.
Conceptual claim supported by illustrative examples (e.g., lending context) and simulations demonstrating selective feedback effects; literature citation likely included in paper.
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions observation frequency/data availability for under-represented groups; resulting ...
Policies that ignore the unobserved (counterfactual) space can harm decision makers (via unrealized gains or losses) and subjects (via compounding exclusion and reduced access).
Theoretical argumentation and illustrative examples (e.g., loan denial counterfactuals) and modelled simulations showing downstream harms when ignoring unobserved outcomes.
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions unrealized gains/losses for decision makers; compounding exclusion and reduced a...
Experiments on simulated data with varying bias show that unequal uncertainty and selective feedback produce disparities across groups.
Simulation experiments described in the paper manipulate bias and feedback patterns and report resulting group disparities (synthetic datasets; experiment details in methods/results sections).
high negative Fairness under uncertainty in sequential decisions group disparities (fairness metrics)
Industrial firms face a dual challenge: (1) the development and deployment of digital technologies and (2) the proliferation and integration of the corresponding skills portfolios.
Conceptual framing and literature synthesis presented in the paper (identification by authors); not tied to a specific quantitative sample in the provided text.
high negative Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital t... ability to develop and deploy digital technologies and integrate skills portfoli...
Renewable energy adoption further reinforces the beneficial effect of digital trade on emissions under stronger regulatory stringency (mediation via renewable energy and regulation).
Structural equation modelling (SEM) on the monthly panel (38 OECD economies, 2000–2024) assessing mediation paths through renewable energy adoption and regulatory stringency; reported as reinforcing the digital trade effect.
There is a carbon-pricing threshold at USD 40 per tonne, above which emissions decline significantly (Δ = −15%, p < 0.01).
Carbon-pricing threshold analysis applied to the monthly panel of 38 OECD economies (2000–2024); threshold identified and associated pre/post comparison reports a 15% decline with p < 0.01.
The environmental effect of digital trade becomes stronger (more negative on emissions) when combined with AI-enhanced logistics (interaction effect).
Econometric models including interaction terms for AI-enhanced logistics and digital trade on the monthly panel (38 OECD economies, 2000–2024); interaction effects identified via regression and machine-learning threshold techniques.
GVC participation is significantly associated with lower CO2 emissions (β = −0.064, p < 0.01).
Econometric analysis on a monthly panel of 38 OECD economies from 2000–2024 using fixed-effects models; coefficient and p-value reported in paper.
Traditional forecasting and optimization approaches often operate in isolation, limiting their real-world effectiveness in volatile-demand, uncertain-supply industries.
Positioning/background statement in the paper motivating the integrated framework (literature-based claim).
high negative Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Coupled Demand Forecasting... effectiveness of isolated forecasting/optimization approaches
The study is framed based on Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, positing that HAI-C task complexity is a job demand and AI self-efficacy/humble leadership act as resources that can mitigate negative effects on engagement.
Introduction states JD-R theory as the theoretical basis and describes job demands (HAI-C task complexity) and job/personal resources (humble leadership, AI self-efficacy) in the hypothesized model.
high negative How does human-AI collaboration task complexity affect emplo... theoretical framing / hypothesized relationships
HAI-C tech-learning anxiety reduces employees' work engagement (serves as the mediator between HAI-C task complexity and work engagement).
Mediation analysis via hierarchical regression and bootstrapping on the three-wave survey sample of 497 employees; reported in Results as the mediating mechanism.
Human-AI collaboration task complexity (HAI-C task complexity) negatively affects employees' work engagement by amplifying their HAI-C tech-learning anxiety.
Three-wave longitudinal survey of matched data from 497 employees; mediation analysis using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping reported in the Results section.
LLMs are not only less accurate on ideologically contested economic questions, but systematically less reliable in one ideological direction than the other, underscoring the need for direction-aware evaluation in high-stakes economic and policy settings.
Synthesis of empirical findings: lower accuracy on contested items, higher accuracy for intervention-aligned cases in 18/20 models, and error skew toward intervention-oriented predictions; policy recommendation follows from these empirical patterns.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning overall model reliability and directional bias on ideologically contested causal...
This directional skew is not eliminated by one-shot in-context prompting.
Intervention of one-shot in-context prompting applied to models; evaluation shows the intervention-oriented error skew persists despite one-shot prompting.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning effectiveness of one-shot in-context prompting at reducing ideological direction...
Ideology-contested items are consistently harder than non-contested ones.
Comparison of model performance (accuracy) on contested subset (1,056 items) versus non-contested items in the 10,490-triplet benchmark; reported consistent lower accuracy on contested items.
high negative Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning accuracy (difficulty of items measured by model error rate)
Important boundary conditions include data maturity, process integration, governance discipline, and the degree of functional trust between finance and operating units.
List of boundary conditions reported in the paper based on documentary case analysis and synthesis with literature.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... constraints on GenAI impact on management accounting decision quality
GenAI does not improve management accounting decision quality primarily by replacing managerial judgment.
Interpretive finding based on documentary analysis of disclosures from the three case firms and relevant literature; presented as a summary conclusion in the paper.
high negative Research on the Impact of Generative AI on the Quality of Ma... management accounting decision quality
The stakes are particularly high in spreadsheet environments, where process and artifact are inseparable: each decision the agent makes is recorded directly in cells that belong to and reflect on the user.
Conceptual / domain-specific argument made by the authors (no empirical sample attached to the claim).
high negative Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets risk associated with automated changes to user-owned artifacts
AI agents can perform sophisticated, multi-step knowledge work autonomously from start to finish, yet this process remains effectively inaccessible during execution: by the time users receive the output, all underlying decisions have already been made without their involvement.
Author assertion / conceptual description in the paper (no empirical quantification provided for this general statement).
high negative Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets process transparency / accessibility during execution