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Evidence (2066 claims)

Adoption
8570 claims
Productivity
7631 claims
Governance
6869 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
6491 claims
Org Design
4175 claims
Innovation
4114 claims
Labor Markets
3566 claims
Skills & Training
2966 claims
Inequality
2066 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 758 199 100 900 2007
Governance & Regulation 826 400 191 122 1563
Organizational Efficiency 777 193 124 84 1189
Technology Adoption Rate 635 233 124 97 1098
Research Productivity 422 128 57 336 954
Output Quality 476 179 59 47 761
Decision Quality 328 177 81 47 640
Firm Productivity 435 57 88 20 606
AI Safety & Ethics 218 277 65 33 599
Market Structure 180 170 123 24 502
Task Allocation 213 64 72 33 387
Skill Acquisition 170 61 61 17 309
Innovation Output 203 27 43 18 292
Employment Level 105 54 107 13 281
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 131 69 43 26 276
Consumer Welfare 117 63 42 11 233
Firm Revenue 153 48 26 3 230
Task Completion Time 173 31 8 12 225
Inequality Measures 44 122 49 6 221
Worker Satisfaction 89 65 22 12 188
Error Rate 69 92 10 2 173
Regulatory Compliance 77 69 14 5 165
Automation Exposure 56 56 26 13 154
Training Effectiveness 94 21 13 19 149
Wages & Compensation 77 36 25 6 144
Team Performance 86 17 27 10 141
Developer Productivity 95 17 14 6 133
Job Displacement 12 80 20 1 113
Hiring & Recruitment 52 7 8 3 70
Creative Output 31 18 8 3 61
Skill Obsolescence 5 46 6 1 58
Social Protection 27 16 8 2 53
Labor Share of Income 17 19 17 53
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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Introducing ‘agent capital’ (AI that lowers coordination costs) reduces coordination costs inside firms (coordination compression).
Definition and central assumption of the paper's formal task-based model; analytical setup assumes agent capital parametrically reduces coordination frictions.
medium negative AI as Coordination-Compressing Capital: Task Reallocation, O... coordination costs (firm-internal coordination friction parameter)
Extractive industries often deliver limited local employment and mainly generate rents rather than broad employment or skill spillovers.
Review of empirical studies and case evidence showing extractive FDI tends toward enclave production with low local hiring and limited upstream/downstream linkages; coverage varies by country and project.
medium negative Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... local employment, local value capture/rents, spillovers
FDI may increase within‑country wage inequality, especially when concentrated in extractive sectors or low‑skill activities.
Cross-study empirical results and theoretical arguments summarized in the review showing wage premia accruing to skilled workers and enclave effects in extractives; underlying studies vary in location, methods, and samples.
medium negative Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... within-country wage inequality (wage distribution)
FDI may deepen labor market dualism: creating formal, higher‑paying jobs for a minority while many remain in precarious, low‑pay informal work.
Literature synthesis pointing to patterns where foreign investment produces enclave formal jobs while broader labor markets remain informal or precarious; evidence drawn from firm- and sector-level studies cited in the review.
medium negative Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... job quality distribution (formal vs informal employment), incidence of precariou...
A one standard-deviation increase in AI adoption lowers wages in the middle income quintile by 1.4%.
Panel of 38 OECD countries, 2019–2025; wage outcomes by income quintile using the AI Adoption Index and IV estimation; robustness checks reported.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Transformation: Emp... Wage change in middle income quintile (percent change per 1 SD increase in AI ad...
Loss of control over research data impedes local capture of value (knowledge, IP, downstream services) and can create externalities when data are repurposed or commercialized without equitable benefit sharing.
Conceptual argument grounded in case observations about data flows and provider practices; no quantitative measures of value capture provided.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... local value capture; intellectual property and benefit sharing
Dominant AI/cloud providers become de facto gatekeepers of data processing and storage; researchers and institutions, particularly in lower‑capacity jurisdictions, have limited bargaining power to enforce data‑sovereignty or transparency terms.
Mapping of third‑party dependencies and interview/observational evidence of institutional procurement constraints in the Chile case; normative discussion of market power implications.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... bargaining power; market gatekeeping
Algorithmic opacity and cross‑border regulatory fragmentation raise monitoring, compliance, and contractual costs for collaborative research, effectively increasing the transaction costs of data‑intensive science.
Analytical inference from qualitative findings (opacity, legal fragmentation) and normative economic reasoning presented in the implications section; no quantitative transaction‑cost measurement reported.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... transaction costs; monitoring and compliance costs
Inequalities in infrastructure (local compute, storage, institutional procurement power) amplify these problems: researchers in weaker jurisdictions face higher risks and fewer mitigation options.
Case study observations about local infrastructure capacity, procurement practices, and institutional constraints in Chile; qualitative reports of limited mitigation choices.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... risk exposure and available mitigation options by jurisdiction/institutional cap...
Rather than shifting liability away from researchers, AI systems increase researchers' ethical responsibilities: researchers must assess third‑party tools, negotiate data flows, and manage risks despite having limited contractual leverage.
Qualitative interviews and institutional observations reporting researchers' roles in assessing tools and managing data flows; normative analysis of accountability responsibilities in the case study.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... researcher responsibility/liability burden
Algorithmic opacity (hidden models, undocumented data flows, proprietary cloud stacks) reduces researchers' ability to control or even know how participant data are used, transferred, or monetized.
Interview data and mapping of third‑party dependencies showing opaque provider practices and limited transparency about model/data flows in the Chile case study.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... researcher control over data use/transfer/monetization
Everyday AI services used in research introduce new, diffuse points of data capture and processing that complicate informed consent and privacy management.
Observations and documented mappings of tool use and data flows (e.g., transcription services, cloud platforms, meeting assistants) reported in the case study; supported by qualitative interviews with researchers/administrators.
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... informed consent processes; privacy management
AI tools embedded in everyday research infrastructures intensify — rather than reduce — ethical accountability burdens: they constrain researcher autonomy and undermine data sovereignty, especially in cross‑national settings where legal protections are fragmented or weaker.
Qualitative case study centered on environmental science research in Chile that uses GDPR as a normative framework; methods reported include interviews, observation, and mapping of data flows and third‑party dependencies (sample sizes not reported).
medium negative Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of d... ethical accountability burden; researcher autonomy; data sovereignty
Insufficient regulation increases risks of negative externalities (privacy harms, biased hiring/management) that can reduce labor supply attachment or lower human capital investments.
Theoretical reasoning and synthesis of documented case studies and reports referenced in the commentary; not supported by new causal empirical analysis in the paper.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... privacy harms; biased hiring/management; labor supply attachment; human capital ...
Absent strong worker voice or mandated impact assessments, AI-driven surveillance, algorithmic management and task reallocation are more likely, increasing risks of deskilling, displacement, and discriminatory outcomes.
Policy synthesis identifying plausible channels from AI system use to worker harms; supported by case-study reports in the symposium but no systematic empirical quantification in this commentary.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... incidence of surveillance and algorithmic management; worker outcomes (deskillin...
Weakening of organized labor and stalled worker-protection legislation raises the probability that AI adoption will increase employer bargaining power, potentially depressing wages and worsening job quality for affected occupations.
Analytic inference from labor economics theory and policy review; commentary does not present causal microdata linking AI adoption to wage or job-quality outcomes.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... employer bargaining power; wages; job quality in affected occupations
Export controls may constrain access to advanced models and hardware, affecting productivity gains unevenly across firms and sectors.
Policy analysis of current export control instruments and their potential economic effects; no firm- or sector-level quantitative analysis presented.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... access to advanced AI models/hardware; sectoral/productivity gains
A conservative Supreme Court majority increases the risk of rulings that could further constrain organized labor and weaken labor’s power to negotiate AI-related workplace rules.
Legal analysis connecting Supreme Court composition and recent jurisprudence to possible effects on labor law and collective bargaining; predictive inference rather than empirical testing.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... legal constraints on organized labor’s bargaining power (court rulings affecting...
The incoming second Trump administration is dismantling many Biden-era worker-protection initiatives (notably rescinding or undercutting the Biden Executive Order intended to hold employers accountable for AI impacts).
Policy/legal analysis referencing recent executive actions and reported rollbacks of Biden-era frameworks; synthesis of documents and news/administrative actions reviewed in the commentary; no original empirical sample.
medium negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... existence and scope of executive-order-based worker-protection initiatives
Regulatory fragmentation increases compliance costs and stifles cross-border scale economies; international coordination and mutual recognition of standards can lower trade costs.
Comparative governance analysis and economic reasoning about cross-border trade and compliance; no cross-country causal estimates provided in the report.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... compliance costs, cross-border scale economies, trade costs
Large incumbents with data/network advantages may entrench market power.
Policy and literature review noting data/network effects, observed tendencies in tech markets; sectoral examples discussed in the report.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... market power metrics, entry barriers, data advantage effects
Without targeted policy, AI can amplify winner-take-all dynamics (market concentration, superstar firms) and spatial inequalities (urban vs. rural).
Theoretical economic arguments and review of literature on data/network effects and concentration; comparative policy analysis that raises distributional concerns.
medium negative AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... market concentration, firm market shares, spatial inequality indicators
There is a persistent gap between policy intent (promises of ethical protection and economic opportunity) and lived experience, producing new forms of social exposure—especially for vulnerable groups.
Synthesis of qualitative findings from documents, ethics guidelines, industry statements, and stakeholder commentary indicating aspirational policy language contrasted with limited enforceable protections; specific lived-experience case data are not provided.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... gap between policy intent and lived experience; social exposure to harm
Lack of enforceable data-rights and accountability mechanisms strengthens incumbent platforms’ control over data markets, potentially reducing competition and hindering entry by smaller firms.
Qualitative review of regulatory texts and industry positioning showing limited enforceable data-rights provisions; theoretical market-structure inference without empirical market-share analysis.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... market concentration; competition; barriers to entry
Weak or non‑enforceable rules create conditions for negative externalities (data exploitation, discriminatory automation) that markets alone may not correct.
Argumentative synthesis from document analysis and theoretical framing (communication rights, market-failure logic); supported by examples in policy and industry discourse but not by empirical market-level measurement in the paper.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... incidence of negative externalities (data exploitation, discriminatory automatio...
The dominant framing privileges economic imaginaries of competitiveness and development over communication rights, producing regulatory blind spots and reinforcing existing inequalities.
Interpretive analysis using communication-rights theory and SCOT applied to policy and industry discourse; comparison of economic-oriented language versus rights-oriented provisions in reviewed documents.
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... presence of communication-rights considerations; regulatory blind spots; inequal...
Regulatory attention typically overlooks vulnerable and marginalized populations (low-wage workers, women, rural communities), whose mobile communication practices and data are disproportionately exposed to harm.
Document-based qualitative analysis identifying patterns of inclusion/exclusion in regulatory texts and public debate; stakeholder commentary reviewed indicates limited consideration of these groups. (Sample count not provided.)
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... inclusion of vulnerable groups in regulatory attention; exposure to harm
Indonesia’s governance of mobile-AI rests largely on soft‑law, aspirational instruments (guidelines, non‑binding ethics codes), which limits enforceability and accountability.
Qualitative discourse- and document-based analysis of key policy documents, national ethics guidelines, industry statements, and public stakeholder commentary related to mobile-AI in Indonesia. (The paper identifies dominant use of non‑binding instruments; exact number of documents reviewed is not specified.)
medium negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... policy enforceability and accountability
There is evidence of problematic patterns in automated decision appeals and workflow interactions when AI is integrated into clinical processes.
Case studies, deployment reports, and observational analyses cited in the synthesis that document increased appeals, workflow friction, or unexpected interactions caused by automation.
medium negative Framework for Government Policy on Agentic and Generative AI... workflow burden / frequency of appeals / process failures
Failing to retrain health workers for AI will produce structural labor-market mismatches, slow adoption, and reduce realized economic benefits.
Labor-market analysis and workforce readiness findings from the narrative synthesis and Delphi inputs; argument is inferential based on observed skill gaps and adoption barriers in the reviewed literature.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... adoption rates of AI tools, productivity gains, workforce skill alignment metric...
Indonesia risks technological dependency on foreign vendors if domestic capability, data governance, and procurement are not strengthened.
Market and policy assessment from the review, including procurement analyses and discussion in supplementary national reports and Delphi studies; based on observed market structures and procurement practices identified in the literature.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... degree of market reliance on foreign AI vendors / domestic market share
Approximately 58.7% of the relevant Indonesian health workforce lacks the AI competence or literacy needed for safe, scalable adoption.
Workforce readiness estimate derived from reviewed workforce assessments, Delphi consensus studies, and national reports included in the narrative synthesis; the summary does not specify sample frames or exact survey instruments that produced the 58.7% figure.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... percent of health workforce lacking AI competence/literacy
Indonesia’s AI healthcare maturity score is approximately 52/100, trailing regional peers (example comparators: Singapore ≈ 92, Malaysia ≈ 78).
Benchmarking performed in the review against regional maturity catalogues and international standards (EU AI Act, Singapore, Australia); maturity scoring method referenced in the paper but detailed scoring rubric and underlying metrics not fully reproduced in the summary.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in Indonesia: Are We R... composite AI-health system maturity score (0–100)
Data‑driven agritech platforms exhibit network effects and potential for market power, implying a policy need for data portability and interoperability to preserve competition.
Economic reasoning, policy reports, and case study examples summarized in the review; the claim is grounded in market analysis rather than large‑scale causal studies.
medium negative MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION market concentration, barriers to entry, interoperability metrics
If left unregulated and untargeted, AI and digital agritech platforms risk concentrating surplus with technology providers and capital owners, potentially increasing rural inequality and weakening smallholder bargaining power.
Theoretical market‑structure analysis, case studies of platform markets, and policy analyses cited in the paper; empirical causal evidence on long‑run distributional effects is limited.
medium negative MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION distribution of surplus/value capture, measures of rural inequality, smallholder...
Data ownership, lack of interoperability, privacy concerns, and concentration of digital agritech platforms create risks for competition and equitable value capture in agricultural value chains.
Policy reports, market analyses, and case studies discussed in the paper; the claim is supported by descriptive evidence and theoretical assessments rather than large causal estimates.
medium negative MODERN APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION market concentration, distribution of surplus/value capture, competition indicat...
Existing extrapolation‑based projection systems understate AI’s nonlinear, spillover, and augmentation effects and miss differential impacts across occupations, industries, regions, and demographic groups.
Theoretical argument and literature-based reasoning in the paper; no quantitative demonstration comparing extrapolation systems to the proposed approach.
medium negative Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... magnitude and distribution of AI effects (nonlinearity, spillovers, augmentation...
Traditional BLS projection methods are insufficient for forecasting labor market changes driven by rapid AI adoption.
Conceptual critique and argumentation in the paper; no empirical evaluation or comparative forecast error statistics provided.
medium negative Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... forecasting accuracy / ability to capture AI-driven labor market changes
Conversely, lack of standards or failed validation can create regulatory setbacks, reputational risk, and stranded R&D spending.
Case reports and regulatory analysis in the narrative review describing negative outcomes from failed validation or non-aligned AI tools (qualitative evidence).
medium negative Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Development: R... incidence of regulatory setbacks, reputational damage, amount of stranded/wasted...
Market dominance by global platforms can stifle local entrants and distort competition; policies should address market power and data monopolies.
Review of platform economics and competition policy literature; policy argumentation rather than new empirical competition analysis in this paper.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... market concentration indices, entry/exit rates of local firms, measures of compe...
If local data ownership, capacity and governance are weak, economic gains from AI risk accruing to foreign firms and exacerbating income and wealth concentration.
Conceptual synthesis referencing empirical studies on platform rents and data monetization; no original economic distribution analysis presented.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... distribution of AI-related revenues, market share of foreign vs local firms, mea...
AI and automation can displace labour—particularly routine tasks—heightening the need for retraining, active labour policies and social protection.
Review of literature on automation and labour markets combined with normative inference for African contexts; no primary labour market data presented.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... job displacement rates, changes in task composition, employment levels in routin...
AI adoption raises a risk of digital colonialism: foreign control of data, platforms, and value capture may divert economic gains away from local actors.
Conceptual analysis drawing on policy documents and empirical literature about data flows, platform economics, and international investment; no original quantitative measurement in this paper.
medium negative Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emergi... data ownership, revenue capture by foreign firms, local value capture, concentra...
Biased training data or objective functions in AI models could perpetuate gender disparities by offering different products or risk scores to men and women.
Review of AI fairness literature and examples of algorithmic disparate impacts summarized in the paper (conceptual and case evidence; not an empirical test tied specifically to fintech products in the review).
medium negative Women's Investment Behaviour and Technology: Exploring the I... differences in product recommendations, risk scoring disparities, disparate outc...
AI systems trained on incomplete, adult-centric, or high-income–biased data risk perpetuating inequities in prediction, resource allocation, and policy recommendations for children and LMICs.
Data-justice and algorithmic fairness literature cited conceptually in the review; applies generalizable concerns about biased training data to the One Health/child-health context without empirical bias audits in this paper.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... equity and fairness of AI-driven predictions and allocation decisions affecting ...
Data gaps, especially child-specific and cross-sectoral One Health data, reduce the reliability and fairness of AI-driven disease prediction and economic models.
Methodological argument grounded in the review of data availability; authors connect observed surveillance gaps to model limitations—no empirical model performance analyses presented.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... reliability and fairness metrics of AI-driven disease forecasting and economic m...
Fragmented governance and funding structures hinder cross-sectoral prevention and response for child-centered One Health challenges.
Policy analyses and governance literature synthesized in the review; narrative evidence of siloed funding and governance limiting cross-sector action (no quantitative governance metrics provided).
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... effectiveness of cross-sector prevention and response mechanisms for child healt...
Integrated One Health research and policy implementation are limited—particularly in LMICs—creating gaps in prevention and response for children.
Policy, programmatic, and academic literature reviewed; authors note under-representation of LMIC contexts and limited cross-sectoral integration in the published literature and surveillance systems.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... degree of One Health research integration and policy implementation affecting ch...
Geographic ranges of many vectors and zoonoses are shifting (due to climate and land-use change), increasing children's exposure in new areas.
Ecological and epidemiological modeling studies and surveillance trends cited in the review indicating range shifts for some vectors/zoonoses; evidence is region- and agent-specific and heterogeneously reported.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... geographic incidence and exposure risk of vector-borne and zoonotic infections a...
Extreme weather events amplify children's exposure to pathogens and degrade health infrastructure and services.
Disaster and public-health case studies and surveillance reports summarized in the review documenting post-event increases in infectious disease exposure and disruptions to services; narrative evidence, context-dependent.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... post-disaster infectious disease incidence and health-service disruption metrics...