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Evidence (16496 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
The GPTs exposure scores have temporal, geographic, and ontological limitations that do not always travel with the scores as they are reused.
Authors' methodological critique discussing the limits named by Eloundou et al. (2023) and how those limits are often ignored when scores are repurposed.
high negative AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and w... validity/applicability of exposure scores across time, place, and task ontology
AI serves as a financial risk factor for platform-based illustrators by increasing price pressures, enhancing market transparency, and increasing exposure to revenue volatility.
Author interpretation based on the statistical finding of a significant association between AI and income plus theoretical/accounting discussion; no additional quantified causal mechanism presented in the reported results.
high negative The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Revenue Performa... price pressure; market transparency; revenue volatility (as financial risks affe...
Under individual selection, self-interested prompts dominate, causing populations to collapse into collective defection.
Simulation experiments with individual-level selection/transmission showing emergence and dominance of self-interested prompts and subsequent decline into collective defection.
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... prevalence of defection / decline in cooperative behavior
As frontier training shifts toward individual rewards for verifiable tasks (e.g., mathematics and coding), this outcome-based focus may further undermine cooperation in multi-agent settings.
Argumentative/prognostic claim in the paper's motivation; not an empirical result from the study but framed as a risk informed by the literature and authors' reasoning.
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... extent of cooperation in multi-agent settings
Current approaches to instill prosociality in LLM agents often rely on humans specifying desired behaviors at the individual level, which does not guarantee cooperation within LLM populations.
Background statement in paper; conceptual critique of human-specified, individual-level reward/behavior specification as commonly used in LLM alignment and fine-tuning literature (no new empirical test reported in this study).
high negative Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of... guarantee of cooperation in LLM populations
In the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), factors shaping last-mile costs and platform dependence include territorial scale, low population density, concentration of demand in Yakutsk, seasonal navigation and northern supply constraints.
Regional empirical analysis focused on the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) considering territorial scale, population density, demand concentration, seasonal navigation and supply chains as presented in the paper.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... drivers of last-mile costs and regional platform dependence
Common mechanisms through which food delivery platforms form market power include network effects, economies of scale and scope, data control, algorithmic management and ecosystem lock-in.
Comparative case analysis of major Chinese platforms (Meituan, Ele.me/Taobao Instant Commerce, JD Waimai), supported by statistical data review and academic literature on platform markets.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... mechanisms driving platform market power
Traditional indicators of market share, price and commission do not sufficiently reflect the influence of platforms that control data, algorithms, access rules, ratings and couriers’ work practices.
Conceptual argument and comparative case analysis drawing on the study's qualitative review of platform governance (Meituan, Ele.me/Taobao Instant Commerce, JD Waimai), supplemented by literature and regulatory/legal acts analysis.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... platform influence beyond conventional market metrics (data and algorithmic cont...
Lagged AI-related R&D activity is negatively associated with subsequent participation in education and training (one-year lag).
Lagged (one-year) structural panel models (two-way fixed effects) on 18 European countries, 2017–2024. One-year lag coefficients reported as −1.2310 (ages 18-74), −0.9392 (ages 45-54), and −0.8911 (ages 50-74).
high negative National AI development and adult lifelong-learning particip... subsequent realized participation in education and training (lifelong-learning p...
Average lifelong-learning participation declines with age: 20.09% among adults aged 18-74, 14.82% among those aged 45-54, and 9.34% among those aged 50-74.
Descriptive statistics computed from the study panel of 18 European countries (2017–2024).
high negative National AI development and adult lifelong-learning particip... lifelong-learning participation rate (percentage)
Critical post-work thought posits that not only certain jobs, but also jobs in general, are disappearing.
Statement summarizing the position of a body of theoretical work ('critical post-work thought') as described by the author; this is a characterization of a viewpoint rather than an empirical finding.
high negative New Technologies and Increase in Employment claim of general job disappearance
The majority of extant studies focus exclusively on the 'technical' aspect of new technologies replacing labour, thereby ignoring their social dimension and consequently falling into the trap of technology fetishism.
Claim about the literature based on the paper's review and critique of existing studies; no citation counts or systematic review methodology described in the excerpt.
high negative New Technologies and Increase in Employment focus of extant studies (technical vs. social dimensions)
Existing frameworks address AI-assisted development maturity or the productivity-reliability tension but offer no mechanism for calibrating human oversight intensity to regulatory impact.
Comparative framework analysis and literature review reported in the paper (claims about gaps in existing frameworks).
high negative Governed AI-Assisted Engineering: Graduated Human Oversight ... absence of mechanisms to calibrate human oversight intensity with regulatory imp...
The adoption of agentic AI coding systems -- where autonomous agents generate, review, test, and deploy code with minimal human intervention -- creates a governance challenge in regulated industries.
Argumentation in the paper framing the problem; conceptual analysis of agentic AI capabilities and regulatory constraints (literature/contextual reasoning rather than empirical data).
high negative Governed AI-Assisted Engineering: Graduated Human Oversight ... governance challenge / regulatory risk arising from agentic AI code generation
Neither the task design nor the retrieval approach of Finance Agent v2 addresses the distinct challenges of IPO due diligence.
Author argument comparing periodic reporting tasks to IPO due-diligence requirements, noting Finance Agent v2's task and retrieval design do not address IPO-specific complexities.
high negative IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyo... suitability for IPO due diligence
The Finance Agent v2 agentic harness relies on naive, unenriched chunk retrieval.
Author statement describing the retrieval approach used by Finance Agent v2 as naive chunk retrieval.
high negative IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyo... retrieval architecture (chunk retrieval)
Policy asymmetries, digital literacy gaps, and regional inequalities deepen digital divides and impede inclusive development.
Policy analysis and comparative case studies documenting how policy differences, literacy, and regional disparities affect digital inclusion; China used as a focal example. No quantitative sample sizes or causal estimates given in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital divide / inclusiveness of development
Agriculture remains digitally marginalized due to infrastructural and institutional deficits.
Comparative case studies and sectoral data showing lower digital adoption in agriculture; qualitative policy analysis identifies infrastructure and institutional shortcomings. No sample size or quantified adoption metrics provided in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital adoption / marginalization in agriculture
Fertility is strongly countercyclical and almost perfectly negatively correlated with hours worked in the model, placing household time allocation at the center of the mechanism.
Model-simulated correlations and business-cycle dynamics showing fertility and hours worked time series and their correlation.
high negative Automation and Aging in General Equilibrium: AI Capital, Fer... correlation between fertility and hours worked (countercyclicality)
The longevity shock compresses asset returns and lowers the real interest rate, and generates hump-shaped, persistent dynamics.
Numerical impulse-response dynamics from the overlapping-generations model following a longevity shock; reported time paths for returns and the real interest rate.
high negative Automation and Aging in General Equilibrium: AI Capital, Fer... asset returns and real interest rate (time path/persistence)
The essay introduces the concept of a 'vouching gap' to describe a growing divide between students who graduate with credible advocates willing to stake their reputations on their behalf and those who do not.
Conceptual contribution defined in the essay and motivated by social capital theory and mentoring research; no empirical quantification or sample provided.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... presence and growth of a gap in access to credible advocates among graduates
Automation of student work and candidate screening will widen existing inequalities between students.
Theoretical claim in the essay linking AI-driven automation to differential outcomes across students, motivated by social capital and mentoring literature; no empirical data or sample reported.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... distributional inequality in graduate outcomes/access to opportunities
This automation threatens to hollow out the value of a university degree.
Argument presented in the essay, grounded in social capital theory and mentoring research; no empirical test or sample size reported.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... market and signaling value of a university degree
Manual preparation of engineering designs for thousands of wells constitutes an enormous administrative burden and is prone to inconsistencies.
Introductory/background statement in the paper describing the pre-existing manual workflow burden; no numerical study reported for this specific statement.
high negative Transforming Engineering Workflows: A Data-Driven Generative... administrative burden and inconsistency in design preparation
The demand premium enjoyed by workers with strong human capital declines in more AI-exposed categories.
Heterogeneity analysis within the Upwork dataset: workers characterized by stronger human-capital signals (via profile embeddings) show a reduced demand premium in job categories more exposed to AI following ChatGPT; identified using difference-in-differences around ChatGPT release. (Sample size not reported in abstract.)
high negative Human Capital, AI, and Labor Commoditization demand premium for workers with strong human capital
In more AI-exposed job categories, the importance of human capital information in predicting labor demand declines.
Empirical analysis of Upwork platform data using high-dimensional text embeddings to represent worker profiles; the paper computes the predictive importance of human-capital-related profile information and uses a difference-in-differences design around the release of ChatGPT to estimate changes by AI exposure of job categories. (Sample size not reported in abstract.)
high negative Human Capital, AI, and Labor Commoditization importance of human capital information in predicting labor demand
The most significant challenge for the AI ecosystem is not creating demand but the capacity of supporting infrastructure to scale alongside rapidly growing computational requirements.
Theoretical scaling arguments (scaling laws) and empirical/secondary-source discussion in the article, drawing on energy and infrastructure literature (IEA, Fed, Brookings) and observed compute demand trends.
high negative THE AI INVESTMENT CYCLE: STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES WITH THE DOT-C... ability of infrastructure (compute, energy, grid) to scale with computational de...
Energy availability, grid expansion, and infrastructure financing constitute the principal unresolved risks and may represent the primary bottleneck to future AI growth.
Argument based on International Energy Agency reports, analyses of energy and infrastructure constraints cited in the article, and supporting literature on scaling/computational requirements (review and secondary data).
high negative THE AI INVESTMENT CYCLE: STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES WITH THE DOT-C... energy infrastructure capacity and financing (ability to scale compute/energy su...
One of the most consequential layers of American law remains largely absent from existing machine-readable corpora: local ordinances.
Paper's literature/field observation asserting gap in existing corpora (no systematic comparison details provided in abstract).
high negative Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the... presence/absence of local ordinances in existing machine-readable legal corpora
Algorithmic management introduces significant challenges related to fairness, transparency, and worker dignity.
Synthesis of qualitative interview findings (16 gig workers and 21 stakeholders) interpreted through a social justice framework.
high negative The Algorithmic-Human Manager: AI, Apps, and Workers in the ... fairness, transparency, worker dignity
Algorithmic systems are not structured to reward additional labour with proportionate pay.
Worker and stakeholder interviews (N=37) reporting that increased labour/intensity does not yield proportionate compensation under platform algorithms.
high negative The Algorithmic-Human Manager: AI, Apps, and Workers in the ... pay for additional labour
Algorithmic systems produce inequitable outcomes for gig workers.
Interview data (16 workers, 21 stakeholders) reporting examples and perceptions of unequal treatment and distributional harms arising from algorithmic rules.
Algorithmic systems are opaque by design (lack transparency in allocation, monitoring, and evaluation).
Qualitative evidence from interviews with 16 gig workers and 21 stakeholders describing opaque/black-box practices of algorithmic management.
high negative The Algorithmic-Human Manager: AI, Apps, and Workers in the ... algorithmic transparency / opacity
Adoption remains fragmented and rarely aligned with transfer workstreams.
Findings reported from the same set of 12 semi-structured expert interviews and inductive qualitative analysis.
high negative AI Use Cases in Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Evidence ... alignment of AI adoption with transfer workstreams
HCAI reduces AI-related ethical risks in firms by aligning AI design and implementation with stakeholders' diverse expectations.
Theoretical/conceptual argument integrating situated AI theory with socio-technical systems theory presented in the paper; authors posit HCAI as a strategy that lowers ethical risks through stakeholder alignment.
Executive shareholding strengthens the risk-reducing effect of HCAI on firm idiosyncratic risk.
Empirical moderation analysis using the multi-source panel dataset of Chinese listed firms (2015–2023); authors report that higher executive shareholding amplifies the negative association between HCAI and IR.
Digitalisation strengthens the risk-reducing effect of HCAI on firm idiosyncratic risk.
Empirical moderation analysis on the same multi-source panel of Chinese listed firms (2015–2023); authors report a positive moderating effect of digitalisation on the HCAI–IR relationship (i.e., greater digitalisation amplifies HCAI's ability to reduce IR).
Human-centric AI (HCAI) is associated with lower firm idiosyncratic risk (IR).
Empirical analysis using a multi-source panel dataset of Chinese listed firms from 2015 to 2023; authors report a negative association between HCAI and firm-level idiosyncratic stock volatility (IR).
high negative Exploring the Relationship Between Human-Centric AI and firm... firm idiosyncratic risk (firm-level stock volatility isolated from systematic fa...
Sentiment framing is unstable: whether a brand is framed positively or negatively flips about 6.7 times more often than whether it is mentioned at all.
Comparison of occurrence variability versus sentiment-flip frequency measured in the Ranqo dataset of AI responses; paper reports sentiment flips occur ~6.7× more often than mention-presence flips.
high negative Generative Engine Optimization at Scale: Measuring Brand Vis... relative_frequency_of_sentiment_flips_vs_mention_presence
A 'critical transmission path' can occur in which AI-induced productivity gains are weakly transmitted to households and may generate absorption tension.
Conceptual framework / theoretical argument in the review (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Labour Income and Effective Demand:... degree of transmission of productivity gains to households and resulting absorpt...
Productivity gains from AI do not automatically translate into broadly distributed welfare or into output fully absorbed by market demand.
Conceptual review / theoretical argument and literature synthesis presented in the paper (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Labour Income and Effective Demand:... broadly distributed real purchasing power and household consumption (i.e., distr...
Adding relevant collaborators can lower performance when teams lack structure to coordinate their contributions.
Empirical comparisons across experimental sessions in the Collaborative Gym / DiscoveryBench setup; result reported across the study (1,482 sessions).
high negative Searching for Synergy in Shared Workspace Human-AI Collabora... team performance (task success / accuracy)
Automation AI raises program closures and reduces new program openings.
Chapter 3: program-supply analysis (program closures and openings) using U.S. higher-education program data 2010–2022 with IV identification (lagged CS research intensity); reported associations for automation AI exposure.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Skills, and Labor Mobility: Underst... program closures and new program openings (program supply)
Automation AI is associated with a greater likelihood of not pursuing postgraduate studies and with higher rates of field-switching after graduation.
Chapter 3: individual-level analyses of post-graduation decisions (postgraduate enrollment and field-switching) using U.S. data 2010–2022 and IV with lagged CS research intensity.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Skills, and Labor Mobility: Underst... postgraduate enrollment decisions and field-switching after graduation
In those European countries, demand for Social skills declines in AI-exposed occupations.
Chapter 2: same 75 million job postings dataset, multilingual skill extraction, and IV approach with lagged CS research intensity to identify effects on skill demand between 2018–2023.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Skills, and Labor Mobility: Underst... demand for Social skills (skill mentions in job postings)
Automation AI harms low-skilled workers.
Chapter 1: heterogeneous effects across skill groups estimated using occupational exposure measures and IV approach (lagged CS research intensity); results reported by skill group (low-skilled vs high-skilled).
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Skills, and Labor Mobility: Underst... labor-market outcomes for low-skilled workers (employment and/or wages)
Automation AI depresses wages in the U.S.
Chapter 1: same occupational exposure measures and IV strategy (lagged computer-science research intensity) applied to U.S. wage data, 2015–2022.
Early detection of disruptive technologies is difficult because disruptive impact is uncertain and often becomes visible only years after invention.
Conceptual background statement in the paper; literature-motivated assertion (no empirical sample or experiment reported for this claim).
high negative A CD index guided ensemble framework for screening potential... time-to-visible-disruptive-impact (conceptual)
A wide range of empirical evidence shows that humans avoid complexity, delegate judgement, and prefer simplified social worlds.
Asserted as empirical background; paper references a broad empirical literature but does not report primary data, sample sizes, or specific studies in the provided text.
high negative The Simplicity Paradox: Why Evolution Does Not Produce Unive... propensity to avoid complexity / delegate judgment / preference for simplified s...
Mainstream multi-agent hierarchical decision architectures often rely on coarse-grained instructions that underspecify analytical procedures, leading to degraded inference quality and reduced transparency.
Framing/critique stated in the paper about prior approaches; no empirical comparison statistics provided in the excerpt to quantify the extent of degradation.
high negative Toward Expert Investment Teams: A Multi-Agent LLM System wit... inference quality and transparency of mainstream architectures