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Evidence (3231 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
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AI-executed steps co-occur in contiguous chains rather than being randomly scattered across a production workflow.
Empirical analysis linking O*NET tasks to human assessments of AI exposure (Eloundou et al., 2024), realized AI execution outcomes from Anthropic’s Economic Index (Handa et al., 2025), and GPT-generated workflow orderings for occupations; statistical tests comparing observed contiguity to random/scaled baselines reported in the paper.
high positive Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation contiguity of AI-executed steps in occupation workflows
Economists strongly favor targeted policy interventions such as AI-focused worker retraining (71.8% support) over broad structural interventions like job guarantees (13.7% support) or universal basic income (37.4% support).
Survey items asking respondents to indicate normative support for six policy proposals; reported support percentages for the economist group for specific policies (retraining, job guarantee, UBI).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI policy support percentages among economists
Economists (as a group) forecast GDP growth of 3.5% under the rapid AI scenario.
Conditional forecasts reported in Key Findings (economist subgroup forecasts under the rapid progress scenario).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI annual GDP growth under rapid AI scenario (economists)
The median respondent in each group expects annual U.S. GDP growth of about 2.5% (unconditional forecast).
Unconditional (all-things-considered) survey forecasts of annual GDP growth elicited from respondents across five groups; compared in text to government and private-sector baseline forecasts (typical medium-run 2.0% and long-run 1.7%).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI annual GDP growth (unconditional forecast)
The average economist assigns a 61.4% probability to moderate or rapid AI progress by 2030.
Survey responses from the economist respondent group reporting the mean/average subjective probability for the combined 'moderate' and 'rapid' scenario categories.
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI probability assigned to moderate or rapid AI progress by 2030
The median respondent in each group expects substantial advances in AI capabilities by 2030.
Survey of five respondent groups (academic economists, AI-company employees, AI policy researchers, highly accurate forecasters, and the general public) eliciting unconditional and conditional forecasts about AI capabilities and economic outcomes (details and sample sizes referenced in Section 2.1, not provided in excerpt).
high positive Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI AI capability progress by 2030
Organizations and policymakers that treat work-time policy as foundational economic planning will better position their economies to harness AI's benefits while mitigating systemic instability.
Policy-prescriptive conclusion based on cross-disciplinary analysis; no empirical trial or quantification offered in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... economic resilience / ability to harness AI benefits and mitigate instability
Work-time reduction can distribute productivity gains more equitably.
Argument supported by examination of historical work-time transitions and pilot programs referenced in the article; no empirical effect sizes or sample details in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... distribution of productivity gains / equity in gains
Coordinated reduction in working hours helps maintain aggregate demand.
The paper's synthesis of historical transitions and pilot programs and argument about distribution of productivity gains; no quantitative evidence or sample sizes provided in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... aggregate demand / consumption
Gradual, policy-led reduction in standard working hours can preserve employment.
Claim based on examination of historical work-time transitions, contemporary pilot programs, and cross-sector implementation strategies referenced in the paper; no specific studies or sample sizes cited in the summary.
high positive A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... employment levels / preservation of jobs
Competition law assessments of a dominant undertaking’s conduct must consider not only the product market but also the labor market, particularly in cases of significant market structure changes.
Conclusion stated in abstract summarizing the paper’s findings; supported by the paper's legal analysis and referenced case law (no empirical sample provided in abstract).
high positive Employee Poaching as An Abuse of Dominance Under Article 102... scope of competition law assessment (inclusion of labor market considerations)
Poaching employees is an inherent aspect of competition for highly qualified talent and is particularly pronounced among tech giants.
Statement in abstract; general observation supported by literature/case-law references implied in paper (no specific empirical sample or quantitative method reported in abstract).
high positive Employee Poaching as An Abuse of Dominance Under Article 102... frequency/prevalence of employee poaching among firms (not quantitatively measur...
The paper proposes five architectural requirements for genuine human oversight systems.
Stated methodological/prescriptive contribution of the paper (a proposal rather than an empirical finding); no sample size or empirical validation reported in the provided excerpt.
high positive Beyond Symbolic Control: Societal Consequences of AI-Driven ... design requirements for systems enabling genuine human oversight
Increasing the strictness of algorithmic control paradoxically increases the evolutionary fitness of coordinated resistance (e.g., coordinated log-offs).
Results from the EGT model and simulations showing fitness/payoff changes for coordinated resistance strategies as platform surveillance strictness parameter increases; model-only (no empirical N reported).
high positive THE RED QUEEN in the DASHBOARD: CO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS of ... evolutionary fitness (payoff) of coordinated resistance strategies
Achieving near-perfect success rates at this minimally sufficient quality level or comparable success rates at superior quality would require several additional years.
Authors' forecast/commentary on timeline beyond the 2029 projection; conditional expectation based on historical pace of improvements.
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... time-to-reach near-perfect or superior-quality success rates
If recent trends in AI capability growth persist, LLMs will be able to complete most text-related tasks with success rates of, on average, 80%-95% by 2029 at a minimally sufficient quality level.
Longer-term projection contingent on continuation of recent capability growth trends (model-based forecast stated by the authors).
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... projected average task success rate for most text-related tasks by 2029 (minimal...
AI success rates for those tasks increase to about 65% by 2025-Q3.
Short-term projection / trend extrapolation reported in the paper (from the ongoing evaluation data).
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... projected task success rate by 2025-Q3
In 2024-Q2, AI models successfully complete tasks that take humans approximately 3-4 hours with about a 50% success rate.
Empirical measurement/estimate from the ongoing evaluation (reported temporal snapshot for 2024-Q2); based on tasks mapped to human completion time and observed model success rates from the >17,000 evaluations.
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... task success rate for tasks taking humans ~3–4 hours
AI performance is high and improving rapidly across a wide range of tasks.
Empirical results from the ongoing evaluation of >3,000 tasks and >17,000 evaluations showing high and increasing success/performance metrics.
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... AI success/performance on tasks (performance level and trend)
Substantial evidence that rising tides are the primary form of AI automation.
Patterns observed in the same large-scale evaluation across tasks and human judgments indicating broad-based, continuous capability improvements across many tasks.
high positive Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI ... breadth and continuity of AI capability improvements across tasks ('rising tides...
Employment reallocation exerted a narrowing influence on the gender wage gap, particularly in 2005–2010.
Dynamic shift-share decomposition attributing a portion of changes in the gender wage gap to employment reallocation effects, with a notable equalizing contribution in 2005–2010.
high positive Routine-Biased Technological Change and the Gender Wage Gap ... contribution of employment reallocation to change in the gender wage gap
Displaced women reallocated substantially toward non-routine interpersonal roles (occupational upgrading).
Observed occupational transition patterns in decomposition results showing female movement into non-routine interpersonal occupations; authors interpret this as occupational upgrading.
high positive Routine-Biased Technological Change and the Gender Wage Gap ... occupational reallocation toward non-routine interpersonal roles
Design implication: adaptive AI coaching systems should align support intensity with individual readiness, rather than assuming universal effectiveness.
Authors' design recommendation derived from experimental results showing heterogeneous effects by personality profile.
high positive Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... appropriateness of intervention intensity (design recommendation)
HEWU is designed to become the cited standard before better-resourced players define competing frameworks, establishing measurement infrastructure for the cognitive industrial revolution the way GAAP established it for capital markets.
Aspirational/strategic claim made by the authors about intended role and adoption of HEWU (no empirical support provided).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... prospective standard adoption and institutionalization
In that deployment the framework measured approximately $378,000 in annual labor value of machine-equivalent work.
Same empirical manufacturing deployment reported in the paper (single case/example).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... annual labor value ($) of machine-equivalent work
In a representative manufacturing deployment, the framework measured 8.4 FTE of machine-equivalent labor.
Empirical example reported in the paper described as a 'representative manufacturing deployment' (appears to be a single deployment/case).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... machine-equivalent labor expressed in FTE
The paper introduces the Machine Labor Index (HEWU-PSI), a time-series economic indicator designed to track aggregate machine labor output at company, sector, and national level, analogous in function to the Purchasing Managers' Index.
Methodological contribution described in the paper (proposal of an index and its intended scope; no empirical time-series dataset reported).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... proposed time-series indicator of machine labor output
The paper introduces AILU (AI Labor Units) as a software-specific subset metric.
Methodological contribution described in the paper (definition of a software-specific metric subset).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... software-specific measurement of AI labor
The paper presents the conceptual foundation, mathematical model (HEWU = MO ÷ HB × CF × QF), calibration framework, Baseline Library architecture, and auditability mechanisms underlying the standard.
Paper's methodological content (explicit model formula and supporting frameworks described).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... availability of a formal model and supporting calibration/audit mechanisms
This paper introduces the Human-Equivalent Work Unit (HEWU), a standardized metric that converts AI and automation system output into human labor equivalents, expressed as full-time employee (FTE) equivalents and annual labor value ($).
Methodological contribution described in the paper (definition and proposal of a new metric; no empirical validation sample reported).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... metric mapping machine output to human-equivalent labor (FTE and $ value)
Artificial intelligence systems are autonomous agents performing economically meaningful labor at scale across customer service, software engineering, logistics, manufacturing, and knowledge work.
Author's conceptual/empirical assertion in the paper (no specific sample, presented as general observation).
high positive HEWU: A Standardized Framework for Measuring Machine-Generat... extent of AI performing economically meaningful labor
The analysis identifies seventeen emerging occupational categories benefiting from reinstatement effects, concentrated in human-AI collaboration, AI governance, and domain-specific AI operations roles.
Modeling/taxonomy result reported in the paper listing 17 emerging occupational categories characterized as benefiting from reinstatement effects (human-AI collaboration, governance, operations).
high positive Agentic AI and Occupational Displacement: A Multi-Regional T... emergence/creation of occupational categories (employment opportunities)
The binding constraint on human–AI complementarity in the Global South is not technology access but labor market institutions (formality).
Interpretation of empirical findings (formality interactions, triple interaction result) from the augmented Mincer regressions on Colombian data (N = 105,517).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... binding constraint on human–AI complementarity (institutional vs. technological)
These results provide the first developing-country evidence of cognitive factor decomposition in AI-augmented labor markets.
Claim based on the empirical results from the study using Colombian data and comparison to literature (author statement).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... evidence of cognitive factor decomposition in AI-augmented labor markets (novelt...
The augmentation premium is strongest in the health and education sectors.
Heterogeneity analysis / sectoral estimates in the augmented Mincer regression using the merged dataset (N = 105,517); reported strongest effects in health and education.
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... wages (sectoral heterogeneity of augmentation premium)
The augmentation premium (return to H^A with AI) is strongest for experienced workers (ages 46-65).
Heterogeneity analysis / subgroup estimates by age in the augmented Mincer regression using the merged dataset (N = 105,517); reported finding that ages 46–65 show the largest augmentation premium.
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... wages (heterogeneous augmentation premium by age cohort)
A triple interaction confirms formality as the binding mechanism: beta_{AHC x D x Formal} = +0.272 (p < 0.001).
Coefficient on triple interaction term in augmented Mincer regression estimated on merged dataset (N = 105,517); reported estimate +0.272, p < 0.001.
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... wages (interaction effect showing formal-sector amplification of H^A returns wit...
In the estimated augmented Mincer equation, the wage return to augmentable-cognitive capital (H^A) increases with AI adoption in the formal sector (beta_2 = +0.051, p < 0.001).
Econometric estimate from augmented Mincer regression using merged data (household survey N = 105,517; LLM-based occupational augmentability measures); reported coefficient beta_2 = +0.051 with p < 0.001.
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... wages (return to H^A conditional on AI adoption and formality)
The empirical analysis uses LLM-generated measures of occupational augmentability for 18,796 O*NET task statements mapped to 440 Colombian occupations, merged with household survey microdata (N = 105,517 workers).
Data construction described in the paper: LLM scoring of O*NET tasks (18,796 tasks), mapping to 440 occupations, merged with household survey microdata (sample N = 105,517).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... occupational augmentability measure / dataset construction
I derive a corrected Mincerian wage equation and show that the standard specification is misspecified in AI-augmented economies.
Analytical derivation in the paper (theoretical correction to Mincerian wage equation).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... wage equation specification / wage determination
AI capital interacts asymmetrically with those components: it substitutes for routine cognitive work (H^C) while complementing augmentable cognitive work (H^A) through an amplification function phi(D).
Theoretical production-function model and derivation in the paper (analytical result).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... AI–human capital complementarity / substitution (impact on task allocation/autom...
The paper proposes a decomposition of human capital into three orthogonal components: physical-manual (H^P), routine-cognitive (H^C), and augmentable-cognitive (H^A).
Theoretical proposal in the paper (modeling framework).
high positive Augmented Human Capital: A Unified Theory and LLM-Based Meas... human capital decomposition (H^P, H^C, H^A)
This research contributes to debates about the future of work, power asymmetries in platform economies, and the development of worker-protective regulatory frameworks, engaging perspectives from feminist economics, institutional theory, and surveillance capitalism studies.
Stated contribution in the abstract based on theoretical engagement and literature synthesis (conceptual claim; no empirical citation in abstract).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... scholarly contribution to debates on work, power asymmetries, and regulatory fra...
Theoretical frameworks developed in the paper require future empirical validation via case studies, quantitative analysis, and ethnographic research.
Methodological statement within the abstract describing the paper's limitations and next steps (self-report about the paper's status).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... need for empirical validation of theoretical frameworks (research methods to tes...
The study proposes institutional frameworks for realizing labor value and for worker-protective regulatory frameworks applicable to digital/platform economies.
Normative/theoretical proposals derived from conceptual analysis and engagement with feminist economics, institutional theory, and surveillance capitalism literature (no empirical testing reported).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... presence and design of institutional/regulatory frameworks to realize labor valu...
The paper identifies key characteristics of value formation specific to platform economies.
Theoretical framework and literature synthesis presented in the study (conceptual; no empirical cases reported in abstract).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... characteristics of value formation in platform economies
Living labor remains the sole source of new value; the core insights of the labor theory of value remain essential for critiquing contemporary digital capitalism.
Argumentative/theoretical development grounded in Marxist political economy and literature synthesis (conceptual paper, no empirical testing reported).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... source of new economic value (living labor versus capital/AI)
AI should be classified as constant capital rather than as labor.
Theoretical analysis and critical literature synthesis in a conceptual study (no empirical sample reported).
high positive The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... classification of AI as constant capital versus labor
Overall, findings highlight that AI serves as a revolutionary (transformative) tool rather than merely a replacement tool for employment—changing the nature of human work rather than simply disengaging it.
Synthesis conclusion in the paper drawing on the literature review and the authors' empirical results indicating task reallocation and changing job content.
high positive Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment degree of job replacement versus task transformation
The paper argues for equal technology governance as a necessary policy response to AI's labor market effects.
Policy recommendations discussed in the paper that call for equitable governance of AI; based on literature synthesis and empirical findings.
high positive Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment technology governance / equity in AI deployment