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Evidence (5877 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
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Current instability in U.S.–China relations arises less from complete ideological divergence or failure of outright containment policy than from a structured reaction–counterreaction dynamic triggered by chokepoint activation.
Argument based on qualitative analysis of U.S. export restraints after the first Trump administration and application of the 'weaponized interdependence' framework to advanced-technology sectors (paper's theoretical argument and case discussion).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... primary driver(s) of instability in U.S.–China technological relations
AIGC is reshaping the rights and obligations of platforms and workers.
Argument in the paper describing legal and practical impacts of AIGC on platform-worker relationships; based on doctrinal/legal analysis and discussion of platform practices rather than reported quantitative empirical data.
high mixed AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... rights and obligations (legal status)
The study explores implications of algorithmic enterprises for competitive advantage, labour markets, and regulatory policy.
Declared scope of the paper in the abstract; exploration is conceptual and analytical rather than reporting empirical findings or quantified effects.
high mixed Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... implications for firm competitive advantage, labour market outcomes, and policy
Survey evidence suggests public attitudes towards AI combine optimism with apprehension, and most respondents oppose granting AI systems final authority over hiring and dismissal decisions.
Review cites multiple public opinion and survey studies reporting mixed (optimistic and apprehensive) attitudes and opposition to AI final authority in employment decisions (survey evidence summarized).
high mixed From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... public attitudes toward AI and policy preferences (authority in hiring/dismissal...
These efficiency gains are offset by a growing 'Efficiency-Legitimacy Paradox' (i.e., improvements in efficiency come with worsening legitimacy concerns).
Conceptual synthesis from the systematic review (2018-2026) identifying a recurring trade-off across reviewed studies; specific empirical quantification not provided in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... trade-off between administrative efficiency and democratic legitimacy/procedural...
There is a structural shift from 'street level' bureaucracies to 'system-level' architectures that can be defined as the institutional division of 'Artificial Discretion' to algorithmic infrastructures.
Synthesis from the PRISMA-guided systematic review of literature (2018-2026) reporting observed changes in administrative architectures; specific studies not enumerated in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... institutional/administrative architecture (shift from street-level to system-lev...
As a General-Purpose Technology (GPT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reconfiguring state capacity, as well as the mechanics of global economic management.
Systematic review of current research studies (2018-2026) conducted following PRISMA guidelines; synthesis of literature claiming broad institutional and macroeconomic effects. Number of studies not specified in abstract.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Governance - impl... state capacity and the mechanics of global economic management
Agentic AI differs from traditional algorithmic trading and generative AI through its capacity for goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, and multi-agent coordination.
Analytic comparison and synthesis across prior research and technical architectures in the survey; descriptive/definitional rather than empirical testing.
high mixed Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Comprehensive ... capability differences (goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, multi-agent...
Uncertainty-aware exploration (in algorithms) alters fairness metrics compared to policies that ignore uncertainty.
Results from simulation experiments compare uncertainty-aware exploration policies to baseline policies and report changes in fairness metrics (as described in the abstract and results).
Analysis of more than two decades of M&A deals reveals shifts in acquisition activity and allows mapping of corporate linkages and overlapping investments.
Empirical longitudinal analysis of M&A deals over a period exceeding 20 years; method: mapping corporate linkages from M&A data (sample size/dataset not specified in the excerpt).
high mixed Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital t... acquisition activity and corporate linkages / overlapping investments
The emissions effects of digital trade are conditional rather than uniform, depending on complementary policy (carbon pricing, regulatory stringency), technological (AI-enhanced logistics), and energy (renewables) factors.
Synthesis of findings from fixed-effects regressions with interactions, carbon-pricing threshold analysis, machine-learning threshold detection, and SEM mediation on the monthly panel of 38 OECD economies (2000–2024).
Operationalizing hardware-based governance must address transition realities including legacy hardware, attestation at scale, and protection of civil liberties.
Policy implementation analysis in the paper identifying practical challenges to deploying hardware-layer controls (conceptual/operational analysis; no empirical trial data provided).
high mixed The Open-Weight Paradox: Why Restricting Access to AI Models... practical hurdles to governance deployment (legacy hardware, attestation scalabi...
The experimental findings are consistent with the paper's theoretical predictions.
Comparison reported in the paper between theoretical model predictions and observed outcomes from the controlled AI-agent trading experiments.
high mixed Information Aggregation with AI Agents consistency between theoretical predictions and experimental measures (e.g., agg...
A determinism study of 10 replays per case at temperature zero shows both architectures inherit residual API-level nondeterminism, but DPM exposes one nondeterministic call while summarization exposes N compounding calls.
Determinism experiment with 10 replays per case at temperature zero; qualitative/quantitative observation about number of nondeterministic LLM calls exposed by each architecture.
high mixed Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents system nondeterminism / number of nondeterministic LLM calls exposed per decisio...
Advanced prompting methods improve accuracy on inconclusive cases but over-correct, withholding decisions even on clear cases.
Empirical comparison of prompting methods reported in paper: advanced prompts increased accuracy on inconclusive (insufficient-information) cases but led to excessive deferral/withholding on clear cases.
high mixed Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Fact... accuracy on inconclusive cases and rate of withholding/deferral on clear cases
Effective AI policy mixes are contingent on regional resource endowments and development conditions (i.e., variation across configurations indicates contingency on regional context).
Observed variation across the fsQCA-derived configurations; authors interpret differences as reflecting dependence on regional resources and development conditions.
high mixed How Can Artificial Intelligence Policies Promote the Sustain... regional science and technology industrial competitiveness
The study was a preregistered experiment across seven leading LLMs and twelve investment scenarios covering legitimate, high-risk, and objectively fraudulent opportunities.
Methodological description in the paper stating preregistration, 7 LLMs, 12 scenarios; combined dataset included 3,360 AI advisory conversations and a 1,201-participant human benchmark.
high mixed Large Language Models Outperform Humans in Fraud Detection a... study design characteristics (models tested and scenario types)
There is significant heterogeneity in methodological rigor across studies.
Authors' thematic observation from quality appraisal/extraction noting wide variation in methods, validation approaches, and reporting standards among the 64 studies.
high mixed AI-Driven Financial Risk Management and Decision Intelligenc... methodological rigor/quality of studies
AI is increasingly being integrated into both existing and newly emerging digital infrastructures, altering their architecture, functional role, and strategic significance as these systems begin to operate as embedded cognitive infrastructures shaping knowledge production, decision-making, and institutional processes.
Conceptual and descriptive claim presented by the paper (theoretical analysis/literature-informed observation). No empirical sample size or quantitative methods reported in the provided text.
high mixed Digital Sovereignty in the Global Cognitive-Informational Or... change in the architecture/role of digital infrastructures and their effect on k...
Hybrid ML+rules systems achieve partial DES-property fillability.
Result of the paper's analytic comparison across the four architectures identifying relative fillability levels for hybrid ML+rules systems.
Artificial intelligence raises the threshold at which refinement adds value.
Theoretical/analytical statement in the paper describing AI's effect on the marginal value of refinement; no empirical quantification provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Market Dynamics, Governance and Open Research Metadata in th... threshold of refinement effort required before additional value is realized
AI is becoming a geopolitical tool that defines trade, finance, supply chains, surveillance abilities, and diplomatic bargaining power.
Conceptual/qualitative synthesis in the paper's argument; no empirical methods or sample size reported in the abstract.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF ECONOMIC IN... influence over trade, finance, supply chains, surveillance capabilities, and dip...
Variable importance improvements to zero-shot tabular classification produce mixed results with respect to algorithmic fairness.
Authors report experiments applying variable-importance-based adjustments to zero-shot LLM tabular classification and evaluating resulting algorithmic fairness outcomes; described as producing mixed results. (Sample size not provided in abstract.)
high mixed Auditing LLMs for Algorithmic Fairness in Casenote-Augmented... algorithmic fairness (classification error disparities) resulting from variable-...
Targeted prompt interventions significantly alter the magnitude of market bubbles (they can amplify or suppress bubble size).
Randomized (or otherwise experimentally manipulated) prompt interventions applied to LLM agents in the simulated open-call auction, with resulting differences in measured bubble magnitude reported.
high mixed Dissecting AI Trading: Behavioral Finance and Market Bubbles magnitude of market bubbles
By analyzing agents' reasoning text through a twenty-mechanism scoring framework, targeted prompt interventions causally amplify or suppress specific behavioral mechanisms.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of agents' chain-of-thought / reasoning text using a 20-mechanism scoring framework; experimental manipulations of prompts reported to change mechanism scores (interpreted causally as interventions on prompts).
high mixed Dissecting AI Trading: Behavioral Finance and Market Bubbles mechanism scores derived from agents' reasoning text (20-mechanism framework)
Both US and Chinese strategies depend on cross-country relationships in AI innovation.
Conceptual assertion motivating the network analysis of international collaborations and citations.
high mixed Polarization and Integration in Global AI Research dependence of national strategies on cross-country research relationships
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly generative AI and large language models, has reignited debates about the future of work and the potential for widespread labor market disruption.
Statement in the paper's introduction/abstract citing recent empirical studies, industry reports, and ongoing debates; no original sample or numerical evidence reported in the abstract.
Outcomes of AI deployment in labor-market settings depend on complementary organizational practices, workers’ access to skills, and the regulatory environment.
Synthesis-derived moderator/ mechanism claim from qualitative analysis of the 19 included studies identifying organizational practices, skill access, and regulation as contextual moderators.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market: Evidence on Wor... inclusion/exclusion outcomes contingent on moderators
No aggregation mechanism can simultaneously satisfy all desiderata of collective rationality (connection to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem); multi-agent deliberation navigates rather than resolves this constraint.
Theoretical argument connecting empirical multi-agent deliberation results to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and observations that deliberation trades off competing desiderata rather than achieving all simultaneously.
high mixed Beyond Arrow's Impossibility: Fairness as an Emergent Proper... satisfiability of collective rationality desiderata under aggregation mechanisms
Alignment systematically shapes negotiation strategies and allocation patterns between agents.
Experimentally comparing negotiation behavior and allocation outcomes across agent pairs where one agent is aligned (via RAG) and the partner is either unaligned or adversarially prompted; patterns of strategy and allocation differences reported.
high mixed Beyond Arrow's Impossibility: Fairness as an Emergent Proper... negotiation strategies and resource allocation patterns
Digitization is reshaping the structures of Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) instead of eliminating it completely (Yordanova & Hristozov, 2025).
Conceptual/theoretical claim supported by citation to Yordanova & Hristozov (2025); presented as an interpretive conclusion about how digitization interacts with organizational dependence structures. No empirical details provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Re-Evaluation of Resource Dependence in AI Enabled SME Finan... structure of resource dependence / organizational dependence on external resourc...
They can produce fluent outputs that resemble reflection, but lack temporal continuity, causal feedback, and anchoring in real-world interaction.
Descriptive claim made in the text contrasting surface-level fluency with missing properties; no empirical data or experiments provided.
high mixed Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for... fluency vs. temporal_continuity, causal_feedback, real-world_anchoring
Further research is needed to explore the longitudinal impact of these AI deployments on local labor markets and the creation of indigenous datasets that reflect Cameroon’s unique linguistic diversity.
Authors' identified research gaps and recommendations; statement of future research needs rather than empirical result.
high mixed A Framework for Sovereign AI Governance and Economic Growth ... longitudinal impacts on local labor markets and creation/use of indigenous lingu...
The results show how non-IID data, competition intensity, and incentives shape organizational strategies and social welfare.
Findings from the paper's experiments and analyses that vary non-IIDness, competition intensity, and incentive parameters; no numeric sample sizes provided in abstract.
high mixed Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Data Generation and Incentiv... organizational_strategies / social_welfare
Outcomes are shaped not only by benchmark quality but also by competitive pressure, including user switching, routing decisions, and operational constraints.
Argument/assertion in paper framing motivations for Marketplace Evaluation; conceptual reasoning listing mechanisms (user switching, routing, operational constraints); no empirical tests or sample size reported.
high mixed Evaluation of Agents under Simulated AI Marketplace Dynamics post-deployment system outcomes (e.g., success influenced by competition factors...
Alignment operates as a two-way translation, where models are made 'safe for worlds' while those worlds are reshaped to be 'safe for models.'
Conceptual claim supported by ethnographic examples illustrating reciprocal adaptations between models and social/institutional contexts in Nairobi's credit-scoring ecosystem.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya reciprocal adjustments between predictive models and social/institutional enviro...
Algorithmic credit scoring is accomplished through the ongoing work of alignment that stabilizes risk under conditions of persistent uncertainty, taking epistemic, modeling, and contextual forms.
The paper's theoretical argument grounded in nine-month ethnographic observations and analysis of how practitioners and institutions engage in alignment work across epistemic, modeling, and contextual dimensions.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya alignment practices that stabilize risk amid uncertainty (epistemic, modeling, c...
Practitioners negotiate model performance via technical and political means.
Observational data from the ethnography showing technical adjustments, benchmarks, and political negotiation (e.g., with regulators or management) to establish acceptable performance.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya practices used to achieve and justify model performance (technical tuning and po...
Practitioners formulate risk through multiple interpretations.
Ethnographic evidence from interviews and observations indicating that risk is characterized differently across actors (technical, legal, business interpretations).
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya variation in definitions and framings of risk among practitioners
Practitioners construct alternative data using technical and legal workarounds.
Field observations and interviews showing practitioners employing technical methods and legal strategies to create or repurpose alternative data sources for credit scoring.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya practices for generating and using alternative data in credit models
Algorithmic credit scoring is being transformed by new actors, techniques, and shifting regulations.
Ethnographic fieldwork documenting the entry of new actors, novel technical techniques, and regulatory changes affecting credit scoring in Nairobi's digital lending ecosystem.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya structural transformation of algorithmic credit scoring (actor composition, tech...
Credit scoring is an increasingly central and contested domain of data and AI governance.
Nine-month ethnography of credit scoring practices in Nairobi, Kenya; participant observation and interviews across stakeholders in digital lending.
high mixed Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya role of credit scoring in data and AI governance (centrality and contestedness)
Experiments on the MovieLens-100k dataset illustrate when the empirical payout aligns with — and diverges from — Shapley fairness across different settings and algorithms.
Empirical evaluation performed on the MovieLens-100k dataset (≈100,000 ratings) comparing the proposed payout rule and algorithmic outcomes to Shapley-value allocations across multiple experimental settings and algorithms.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... alignment/divergence between empirical payouts and Shapley-value fairness
For heterogeneous agents the cooperative game still admits a non-empty core, though convexity and Shapley value core-membership are no longer guaranteed.
Theoretical analysis for heterogeneous-agent case provided in the paper: establishes core non-emptiness but shows convexity and Shapley-in-core do not generally hold.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... core non-emptiness; lack of guaranteed convexity and Shapley membership
User interactions in online recommendation platforms create interdependencies among content creators: feedback on one creator's content influences the system's learning and, in turn, the exposure of other creators' contents.
Conceptual/empirical motivation stated in the paper; motivates the multi-agent bandit modeling of creator interactions in recommender systems.
high mixed Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... interdependencies in content exposure induced by user feedback
We ran two large preregistered experiments (N=17,950 responses from 14,779 people) using conversational AI models to persuade participants on a range of attitudinal and behavioural outcomes, including signing real petitions and donating money to charity.
Statement in paper reporting two preregistered experiments, sample sizes (17,950 responses; 14,779 people), use of conversational AI models, and target outcomes including petition signing and charitable donations.
high mixed Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take politica... use of conversational AI to persuade participants on attitudinal and behavioral ...
Overall, AI emerges as a transformative but context-dependent tool for business decision-making in Latin America.
The authors' overall interpretation and synthesis of the 27 reviewed studies highlighting variable outcomes depending on context and readiness.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence for Business Decision-Making in Lati... overall impact of AI on business decision-making (transformative effect conditio...
AI adoption outcomes depend on organizational routines, data arrangements, accountability structures, and public values.
Empirical and theoretical literature review and argument in the article drawing on scholarship in digital government and public-sector technology adoption.
high mixed Governing frontier general-purpose AI in the public sector: ... determinants of AI adoption in government (organizational, data, accountability,...
If employment losses are relatively small and productivity gains are realised, AI adoption could boost Exchequer revenues. But if job displacement is sizeable, tax receipts fall while welfare spending rises, resulting in potentially large pressures on the public finances.
Conditional fiscal scenarios simulated in the report combining employment, wage and benefit changes with the public finance implications (tax receipts and welfare spending); reported as scenario-based outcomes.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland Exchequer revenues / tax receipts and welfare spending
Ireland’s tax and welfare system absorbs most of the income loss for lower income households, and roughly half of the loss for households at the top of the income distribution.
Microsimulation using SWITCH to model taxes and transfers applied to simulated income changes across income groups; reported as a finding in the report.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland net income after taxes and transfers (absorption of income loss)