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Evidence (1835 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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Aggregate productivity (output per worker or per unit of inputs) can rise while labor’s share and employment decline due to substitution toward K_T.
Macro growth-accounting exercises decomposing output growth into contributions from labor, traditional capital, and technological capital; model simulations showing productivity gains coexisting with falling labor shares under substitution elasticities.
high mixed The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... productivity (e.g., TFP or output per worker) and labor share
The analysis also identifies risks linked to exclusion, symbolic compliance, and concentration of control over compliance processes.
Theoretical risk mapping produced by the integrative review and interpretive synthesis; no primary empirical evidence presented.
high negative RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... risks of RegTech governance (exclusion, symbolic compliance, concentration of co...
Uncertainty around compliance and excessive risk avoidance reduce the space for lawful business activity.
Interpretive synthesis of evidence and arguments across the reviewed literatures (sanctions compliance, institutional voids); no original empirical test.
high negative RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... extent of lawful business activity (regulatory-compliance-driven market particip...
Firms working under such conditions often experience limited access to finance and markets.
Claim derived from literature on firm constraints in weak institutional/sanctioned contexts as reviewed in the paper; no primary empirical data reported.
high negative RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... access to finance and markets for firms
Post-conflict and sanctions-affected environments are strongly affected by sanctions pressure, weak rule enforcement, and high levels of corruption risk.
Synthesis of literature on sanctions, weak institutions, and corruption risk presented in the integrative review; no new empirical sample reported.
high negative RegTech-enabled governance of sanctions-safe enterprise ecos... institutional environment quality (sanctions pressure, rule enforcement, corrupt...
Currently, systematic assessment errors cause owners of lower-valued properties to face disproportionately high tax burdens, creating regressivity in the property tax system.
Empirical analysis of property assessments and tax burdens using 26 million property sales across ~95% of U.S. counties, showing systematic errors that bias tax burdens toward lower-valued properties.
high negative Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairn... distributional tax burden (regressivity across property value quintiles)
There are limits to technology‑led growth strategies in labor‑abundant contexts; such strategies do not reliably deliver inclusive employment gains.
Argument based on synthesis of theory and comparative field evidence demonstrating weak employment outcomes from technology‑led growth in labor‑abundant settings (no quantitative effect sizes reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... effectiveness of technology-led growth strategies for employment generation
Digital media play a significant role in shaping youth mobilization and political unrest in migrants' countries of origin.
Empirical observations and regional field evidence reported in the paper linking digital media use to youth mobilization and political outcomes (qualitative/comparative evidence; no numeric sample size provided).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... youth mobilization and political unrest
Developing countries face macroeconomic vulnerabilities because of dependence on remittances, which are exposed by automation-driven changes in migrant labor demand.
Analytical linkage developed in the paper supported by comparative field evidence and macroeconomic reasoning; remittance dependence highlighted as a vulnerability (no quantitative estimates or sample sizes reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... macroeconomic vulnerability arising from remittance dependence
Technology adoption in core industries in advanced economies is linked with labor displacement, rising youth unemployment, and urban labor saturation in South Asia and North Africa.
Geographically grounded framework combined with comparative regional field evidence focused on South Asia and North Africa (qualitative/comparative field data referenced; no numeric sample sizes provided).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... labor displacement / youth unemployment / urban labor saturation
AI adoption and accelerating automation amplify employment precarity in labor‑surplus economies.
Conceptual synthesis grounded in economic geography and labor economics, supported by comparative field evidence cited for labor‑surplus contexts (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Automation, Migration, and Development: Geography of Job Pre... employment precarity (job quality and stability)
Automation functions as a transnational shock that contracts demand for migrant labor in advanced economies.
Theoretical argument drawing on economic geography, labor economics, and development studies; comparative/regional field evidence referenced in the paper (no numerical sample size reported).
Unless labour law evolves to address digitally mediated control and platform-based asymmetry, the gig economy risks normalising exploitative labour conditions under the guise of innovation and flexibility.
Predictive/theoretical claim based on the paper's synthesis of platform practices, legal gaps, and normative concerns; argued through comparative analysis and conceptual reasoning rather than quantitative forecasting.
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... future trajectory of labour conditions and normalization of exploitative practic...
The paper uses the concept of 'digital slavery' as a normative framework to describe labour conditions shaped by coercive algorithmic management, absence of bargaining power, and structural precarity.
Conceptual and normative framing within the paper, using the 'digital slavery' metaphor to interpret observed platform labour practices and their implications; theoretical argumentation rather than empirical measurement.
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... characterisation of labour conditions under algorithmic management
While several jurisdictions (UK, US, EU, India) have attempted to regulate gig work, most regulatory responses remain incomplete and fail to fully address platform accountability.
Comparative policy/regulatory analysis of the United Kingdom, United States, European Union and India assessing statutes, litigation and policy measures; qualitative assessment rather than statistical evaluation (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... completeness/effectiveness of regulatory responses to platform accountability
Platform companies rely on contractual misclassification, corporate structuring, and the legal fiction of neutrality to separate control from liability.
Legal and corporate-structure analysis across jurisdictions, examining contracts, corporate forms and legal doctrines; based on comparative statutory and case-law review (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... allocation of legal liability and regulatory accountability
The platform economy produces a deeply unequal labour structure marked by algorithmic control, economic dependency, surveillance, and lack of social protection.
Synthesis and critical analysis combining literature, policy review and comparative jurisdictional study to argue systemic effects on labour structure; primarily qualitative evidence and theoretical framing (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... distributional labour outcomes and social protection coverage
Gig workers, though formally classified as independent contractors, are functionally subjected to pricing control, performance monitoring, automated penalties, and deactivation mechanisms that closely resemble managerial authority.
Descriptive/qualitative evidence in the paper: examples and analysis of platform design and management practices (algorithmic pricing, monitoring, penalties, deactivation); based on platform policy documents, case examples and comparative review (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... degree of algorithmic/managerial control over workers
Digital labour platforms exercise employer-like control while avoiding employer-like legal responsibilities.
Argument and comparative legal analysis across jurisdictions (United Kingdom, United States, European Union, India) demonstrating platform practices and legal/regulatory responses; based on documentary/legal review and critical analysis (no quantitative sample size reported).
high negative Corporate Accountability in the Gig Economy: Re-examining La... legal employment classification and control/responsibility
Severe penalties in underfunded Eastern systems, mediated by financial distress, drive families toward resource exhaustion.
Cross-country comparisons in SHARE-derived analyses showing larger financial penalties in underfunded Eastern European systems, with mediation analysis implicating financial distress and resultant resource exhaustion.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Household resource exhaustion / severe financial toxicity in underfunded Eastern...
Financial distress acts as a profound multiplier of the burdens associated with palliative care.
Interaction/moderation analyses in SHARE-derived synthetic data showing that pre-existing financial distress amplifies financial and caregiving burdens under PC.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Magnitude of financial toxicity / household financial burden under PC, condition...
Socio-demographics heavily modulate exposure: lacking a spousal net inflates the burden.
Subgroup/moderation analyses in SHARE-derived data comparing households with and without spousal support, showing higher burdens when no spouse is present.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Increased household burden (financial/time) when no spousal support is available
Non-cancer trajectories drive massive structural penalties that escalate at the distribution's tail, mechanically compounded by physical dependency.
Stratified analyses by disease trajectory (non-cancer vs cancer) using SHARE data (2016-2021) and quantile models showing larger penalties for non-cancer cases, especially in tail quantiles; physical dependency identified as a compounding factor.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Increased financial penalties/out-of-pocket expenditures (especially at tails) a...
Quantile treatment models expose a 'broken shield' for vulnerable households and severe tail events (PC protection fails or reverses at distributional tails).
Application of quantile treatment effect models to synthesized SHARE-derived digital twins (2016-2021), explicitly examining distributional/tail effects.
high negative The Broken Shield of European Palliative Care: Evidence from... Extreme-tail outcomes of out-of-pocket expenditures and caregiving burden
Increased levels of AI assistance may degrade productivity, leading to potentially significant shortfalls under the model's identified conditions.
Model-based comparative-statics and steady-state analysis showing scenarios where marginal increases in AI assistance reduce expected task output; examples/parameter illustrations provided in the paper (theoretical, no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... expected task output / productivity shortfalls associated with increased AI assi...
Introducing AI unreliability (errors/noise in AI outputs) in the model can also generate a productivity paradox: greater AI assistance may lower productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model incorporating AI unreliability; model derivations and examples demonstrating conditions under which unreliability leads to reduced productivity (no empirical data).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as influenced by AI assistance and AI unreliabi...
Incorporating endogeneity in skill development into the model can induce a productivity paradox where increased AI assistance reduces productivity.
Analytical/theoretical model of human-AI interaction with utility-maximizing human agents and endogenous skill development; steady-state and comparative-static analysis reported in the paper (no empirical sample).
high negative Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... agent productivity (task output) as a function of AI assistance and endogenous s...
Direct demographic targeting excludes users whose demographics the platform cannot infer ('unknown users') if advertising platforms do not provide a way to target unknown users directly, as is the case on Google Ads.
Platform capability statement about Google Ads (authors' description of Google Ads targeting options); no sample size provided.
high negative Into the Unknown: Accounting for Missing Demographic Data wh... inclusion/exclusion of 'unknown' users under direct demographic targeting on Goo...
Skewed ad delivery of public-service ads can prevent certain groups of individuals from accessing information about resources on the basis of their demographic identity.
Argument/implication drawn from observed demographic skew in ad delivery and its relevance to public-service outreach; no specific empirical sample size reported in the excerpt.
high negative Into the Unknown: Accounting for Missing Demographic Data wh... access to public-service information due to demographic skew in ad delivery
Ad delivery can be skewed by demographic attributes, such that ads are systematically under-delivered to certain groups despite advertiser intent to reach groups proportionally.
Cites prior audits of ad delivery (literature/audit studies referenced by the paper); descriptive claim based on prior empirical work (no sample size stated in the provided excerpt).
high negative Into the Unknown: Accounting for Missing Demographic Data wh... gender-based (and demographic) skew in ad delivery / under-delivery of ads to ce...
Credential erosion is evident in the aggregate pattern (credentials losing signaling value relative to AI-augmented skill demonstrations).
Synthesis statement from included studies noting credential erosion alongside skill signaling changes; not quantified in the excerpt.
high negative Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... credential value / credential signaling (erosion)
Developing economies reliant on cognitive services outsourcing face disproportionate disruption through both direct exposure and indirect demand-erosion channels.
Preliminary empirical evidence across included studies indicating larger negative impacts for economies dependent on cognitive-services exports; described as preliminary but material.
high negative Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... disruption to employment/demand in developing economies reliant on cognitive ser...
Observable labor market data already document patterns consistent with AI-driven displacement rather than mere transformation—concentrated among routine cognitive tasks and junior roles.
Synthesis of observed labor market indicators from retained empirical studies since 2020 showing concentration of declines in routine cognitive tasks and junior roles.
high negative Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... concentration of job losses/displacement among routine cognitive tasks and junio...
Evidence from online labor markets shows a 2%–21% reduction in posting volumes for automatable creative tasks following ChatGPT's release.
Empirical analyses of online labor market posting volumes reported in multiple studies included in the review; range reported across studies.
high negative Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... posting volumes for automatable creative tasks on online labor markets
Across synthesized studies, there was a 14–41% reduction in postings for entry- and mid-level software development and content-creation roles in high-income economies between 2022 and 2024 (range across individual studies: −14% to −41%; median: −23%).
Synthesis of empirical studies retained in the systematic review (numerical range and median reported across non-overlapping study designs and geographies); no pooled meta-analytic estimate provided.
high negative Creation, validation, obsolescence: observed evidence of AI-... job postings for entry- and mid-level software development and content-creation ...
Without parallel investment in digital literacy, organizational culture, and inter-firm networks, AI will reproduce rather than reduce employment inequalities.
Authors' conclusion drawn from thematic analysis of interviews and conceptual framing; predictive statement based on qualitative findings.
AI adoption in peripheral economies is not a purely technological or financial challenge but a social and human capital challenge, embedded in a biocultural environment shaped by brain drain, institutional thinness, and weak civic intermediation.
Synthesis of interview findings using Bitsani's Biocultural City framework; qualitative evidence from 12 interviews supports this argument.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Social Capital, and Sustainable Emp... nature_of_challenges_to_AI_adoption
Knowledge deficits and financial constraints emerge as primary barriers [to AI adoption].
Thematic analysis of the twelve semi-structured interviews reporting these themes as primary barriers.
Taken together, AI’s effects on labor and capital may strain democracy unless a set of policies we outline here are gradually implemented.
Paper's normative/predictive claim linking labor- and capital-market effects of AI to political strain on democratic institutions and proposing policy remedies (presented as contingent and prescriptive; no empirical test of democratic outcomes provided in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... risk of democratic strain from AI-driven labor and capital shifts
AI’s training and computing needs are intensifying the technological sector’s interest in regulatory capture.
Paper's causal/inferential claim that increased capital concentration and fixed investments raise incentives for regulatory capture in the tech sector (asserted reasoning; no political-economy empirical test reported in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... technological sector's interest/incentive for regulatory capture
AI’s current training and computing needs have magnified capital concentration and business investment in fixed assets.
Paper's economic claim linking AI compute/training requirements to increased capital concentration and fixed-asset investment (no quantitative investment or market-concentration data provided in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... capital concentration and fixed-asset business investment
Many fear AI may displace them from their jobs.
Paper reports survey-style finding about public fear of job displacement (no specific surveys, question wording, dates, or sample sizes given in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... perceived risk of job displacement
Although AI may affect nonroutine jobs in particular.
Statement in paper; asserted as a general finding about which types of jobs AI impacts (no specific dataset, sample size, or empirical method reported in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... vulnerability of nonroutine jobs to AI
LLM hallucinations are infiltrating knowledge production at scale, threatening both the reliability and equity of future scientific discovery as human and AI systems draw on the existing literature.
Synthesis/conclusion drawn from the observed prevalence, growth, distribution across fields and authorship patterns, and limited correction by moderation/publication processes described above.
high negative LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from no... risk to reliability and equity of scientific discovery (qualitative assessment)
Preprint moderation and journal publication processes capture only a fraction of these errors.
Comparison of hallucinated-reference prevalence in preprints versus versions that underwent moderation or journal publication, showing many errors remain uncaught.
high negative LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from no... fraction of hallucinated references detected/removed by moderation and publicati...
A policy irreversibility result: there exists a critical time before the singularity after which redistribution becomes politically impossible because wealth concentration makes feasible tax rates vanishingly small.
Proof/argument in the paper showing that as time approaches the singularity the set of tax rates that satisfy political-feasibility constraints (workers' budget / feasibility) shrinks to zero, implying a latest feasible intervention time.
high negative The Economic Singularity: Core Mathematical Model political_feasibility_of_redistribution (feasible tax rates over time)
Financialization amplifies the exponent of the super-exponential divergence by a factor γ_F/η.
Mathematical derivation in the paper showing that the exponent in the asymptotic growth rate near the singularity is multiplied by γ_F/η when including the financialization term γ_F K_f^2 and its coupling parameter η.
high negative The Economic Singularity: Core Mathematical Model growth_exponent of wealth_ratio (asymptotic)
Near the singularity, the wealth ratio between capital owners and workers diverges super-exponentially.
Asymptotic analysis near the finite-time singularity showing that the ratio of capital-owner wealth to worker wealth grows faster than exponential (super-exponentially) as time approaches the blow-up time.
high negative The Economic Singularity: Core Mathematical Model wealth_ratio (capital owners vs. workers)
Municipal 311 call centers and complaint intake systems face a structural mismatch between incoming volume and classification capacity that produces a bottleneck and differential service quality that follows income and racial lines.
Stated in the paper's introduction; cites prior work (Liu 2024 SLA) as support for the differential service-quality / demographic claim. No sample size or quantitative result reported in the excerpt.
high negative Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call... differential service quality by income and race
The Price of Fairness can be large even when group distributions are nearly identical.
Theoretical result/constructive example in the paper showing instances where PoF is large despite near-identical group distributions.
high negative Price of Fairness in Short-Term and Long-Term Algorithmic Se... utility loss due to fairness constraints (PoF)