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Evidence (4189 claims)

Adoption
8625 claims
Productivity
7686 claims
Governance
6917 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
6574 claims
Org Design
4189 claims
Innovation
4131 claims
Labor Markets
3588 claims
Skills & Training
2985 claims
Inequality
2066 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 761 200 101 904 2020
Governance & Regulation 829 400 191 122 1566
Organizational Efficiency 784 193 125 84 1197
Technology Adoption Rate 637 236 124 97 1103
Research Productivity 431 131 58 340 972
Output Quality 481 183 59 47 770
Decision Quality 332 177 82 49 647
Firm Productivity 439 57 88 20 610
AI Safety & Ethics 218 279 66 33 602
Market Structure 181 170 123 24 503
Task Allocation 214 64 72 33 388
Skill Acquisition 174 62 62 17 315
Innovation Output 204 27 45 18 295
Employment Level 105 54 108 13 282
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 132 69 43 26 277
Consumer Welfare 117 63 42 11 233
Firm Revenue 154 48 26 3 231
Task Completion Time 173 31 8 12 225
Inequality Measures 44 123 50 6 223
Worker Satisfaction 89 65 22 12 188
Error Rate 71 92 10 2 175
Regulatory Compliance 77 69 14 5 165
Automation Exposure 58 56 26 13 156
Training Effectiveness 96 21 14 19 152
Wages & Compensation 77 37 25 6 145
Team Performance 86 17 27 10 141
Developer Productivity 95 17 14 6 133
Job Displacement 12 81 21 1 115
Hiring & Recruitment 52 7 8 3 70
Creative Output 32 20 8 3 64
Skill Obsolescence 5 47 6 1 59
Social Protection 28 16 8 2 54
Labor Share of Income 17 19 17 53
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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Make is most compelling for commodity utilities and for differentiating custom applications in the AI era.
Paper's typology and normative recommendation derived from conceptual analysis (no empirical validation reported).
high positive The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... relative attractiveness of in-house development (Make) across application catego...
AI fundamentally transforms the governance properties of the Make option, shifting it from Williamson's pure hierarchy to a hybrid governance form that combines code ownership with external AI infrastructure dependency.
Conceptual argument combining transaction cost economics, resource-based view, and assessment of AI infrastructure characteristics (no empirical testing reported).
high positive The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... governance form of in-house software development (Make)
The 'SaaSocalypse' narrative predicts that AI will render large segments of the Software-as-a-Service market obsolete by enabling firms to build software in-house at a fraction of historical cost.
Statement summarizing an extant narrative in industry and literature (paper cites/describes this narrative; no empirical test in the paper).
high positive The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... obsolescence of SaaS offerings / shift from buy to make
Advances in generative artificial intelligence, particularly agentic coding systems capable of autonomous software development, are disrupting the economics of the make-or-buy decision for enterprise applications.
Paper's conceptual analysis combining transaction cost economics, resource-based view, and assessment of current AI capabilities (no empirical sample reported).
high positive The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... economics of the make-or-buy decision for enterprise applications
The framework produces a list of testable empirical questions that we leave as open problems.
Statement in the paper that it derives testable empirical questions from the theoretical framework; no empirical tests are executed in the paper itself.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... set of testable empirical research questions derived from the framework
The framework operationalizes aspects of earlier qualitative work on supervisory control (Sheridan, 1992), common ground (Clark & Brennan, 1991), and mixed-initiative interaction (Horvitz, 1999) within a single normative ratio.
Conceptual synthesis and mapping of prior qualitative literature into the new per-task leverage formalism presented in the paper; this is a theoretical linkage rather than empirical validation.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... conceptual operationalization of supervisory control/common ground/mixed-initiat...
The per-task ceiling does not bind the windowed measure, though both remain bounded: L_task by per-task novelty, L_window by the stock of accumulated planning investment that pays out within the window.
Theoretical derivation/argument in the paper distinguishing bounds on per-task leverage (L_task) and windowed leverage (L_window) and identifying their respective limiting factors; no empirical evidence provided.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... bounds on L_task and L_window (per-task novelty and accumulated planning investm...
We extend this per-task analysis to a windowed leverage measure that accommodates recurring tasks, spawned subtasks, and amortized system-design investment.
Conceptual/theoretical extension in the paper defining a windowed leverage metric and describing how it accounts for recurring tasks, subtasks, and amortized design investments; no empirical tests reported.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... windowed leverage (aggregated leverage over a time window accounting for amortiz...
The asymptotic behavior of leverage decomposes into two scaling axes (capability and memory) with a non-zero floor on the planning term set by irreducible task novelty bounded by human throughput.
Mathematical/theoretical asymptotic analysis within the paper; conceptual derivation linking capability and memory as scaling axes and asserting a lower bound on planning cost due to task novelty and human throughput.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... leverage scaling behavior and lower bound on planning term
Information density itself is directional and bounded by separate ceilings on human-to-agent and agent-to-human flow.
Theoretical argument/derivation in the paper establishing directional information-density and distinct upper bounds for each flow direction; no empirical validation reported.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... directional information flow bounds between human and agent
The denominator decomposes into three channels through which a conserved per-task information requirement must flow, each with its own time-cost scalar (specify the task, resolve mid-run interrupts, and review the result).
Analytic decomposition within the paper's theoretical framework; conceptual argument rather than empirical measurement.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... components of human time cost (specification, interrupt resolution, review)
We propose a per-task leverage ratio for human-agent collaboration: human work displaced by an agent, divided by the human time required to specify the task, resolve mid-run interrupts, and review the result.
Theoretical/conceptual proposal and formal definition provided in the paper; no empirical sample or experimental data reported.
high positive Leverage Laws: A Per-Task Framework for Human-Agent Collabor... human work displaced per unit human time (per-task leverage)
Grounding recommendations in validated research offers leaders a framework for navigating AI's labor implications responsibly.
Paper asserts that its synthesis and recommendations provide a practical framework for leaders; no empirical validation of the framework is reported in the abstract.
high positive AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... ability of leaders to navigate AI labor implications and mitigate harm
Evidence-based organizational responses (transparent workforce planning, skills investment, redesigned roles, adaptive governance, and long-term capability-building) can mitigate harm and prepare organizations for workplace transformation.
Paper proposes these organizational responses grounded in the synthesized empirical literature; this is a recommendation rather than an empirically tested intervention in the paper abstract.
high positive AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... organizational readiness and mitigation of AI-related harms
There is an absence of a comprehensive national strategy in Israel for AI in employment, and the paper calls for the development of a forward-looking regulatory framework that balances innovation with protection of fundamental rights (dignity, equality, privacy), transparency, human oversight, and fairness.
Normative policy recommendation based on the paper's regulatory analysis; not an empirical finding and no policy-design experiments are reported in the excerpt.
high positive Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... existence of a comprehensive national AI-employment strategy and recommended pol...
The AI-driven transformation is accompanied by an increasing emphasis on reskilling and continuous learning, reflecting a shift from workforce replacement to reconfiguration of modes of employment.
Reported observation in the paper about workforce development trends; no quantitative measures of reskilling uptake or program counts are provided in the excerpt.
high positive Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... emphasis and activity in reskilling and continuous learning related to AI adopti...
Israeli legal scholarship reflects broad interdisciplinary engagement with AI across labor law, intellectual property, privacy, constitutional law, and additional fields; the study advances theoretical models, including reconceptualizations of accountability, creativity, and the role of AI as a legal actor.
Literature review/academic survey and theoretical contributions reported in the paper; specific counts of publications or analytical methods not provided in the excerpt.
high positive Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... scope and interdisciplinarity of Israeli legal scholarship on AI and the paper's...
Israel is a leading “AI Nation,” characterized by exceptionally high levels of technological integration across both the private and public sectors.
Statement in paper based on the author's characterisation of national-level technological integration; specific empirical measures or sample size not provided in the excerpt.
high positive Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... level of technological integration of AI across private and public sectors
Governance maturity is therefore not merely a constraint on AI adoption; it is a condition that shapes whether capability improvements translate into productive deployment.
Synthesis/conclusion drawn from the analytical model showing governance affects the mapping from capability to productive deployment.
high positive The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... translation of AI capability improvements into productive deployment
Governance investment that reduces breach-loss magnitude shrinks the paradox region itself.
Analytical model result showing how changes in governance (modeled as reductions in breach-loss magnitude) affect the parameter region where the deployment paradox occurs.
high positive The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... size of the 'paradox region' (parameter range where better AI reduces deployment...
AI agents are now running real transactions, workflows, and sub-agent chains across organizational boundaries without continuous human supervision.
Statement in abstract describing observed industry trend; paper reports a structured survey of industry trends, emerging standards, and technical literature as its method for situating this observation.
high positive AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI... deployment of autonomous agents to execute transactions/workflows across organiz...
Addressing AI in evaluative systems requires treating monitoring (AI detection) and loosened selectivity as complementary design instruments.
Policy implication derived from model results and constrained optimization of editorial policy in the post-transition regime; argued in the paper's conclusion.
high positive Buying the Right to Monitor:Editorial Design in AI-Assisted ... effectiveness of combined interventions (monitoring + loosened selectivity) on e...
Taken together, these insights provide theoretical clarity and practical guidance for responsible GenAI integration into creative work.
Authors' stated contribution and practical recommendations derived from the conceptual framework; no empirical evaluation of guidance effectiveness provided.
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... theoretical clarity and practical guidance for responsible GenAI integration
The study reinterprets process-oriented creativity theories through structural parallels with GenAI.
Conceptual reanalysis and theoretical reinterpretation based on literature synthesis (paper's theoretical contribution).
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... process-oriented creativity theory reinterpretation
The authors propose a role-based integration model that aligns GenAI capabilities with key creative functions: idea generation, synthesis, strategic framing, and facilitation.
Presentation of a novel conceptual model / framework in the paper (theoretical design); no empirical validation or measured outcomes reported.
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... alignment of GenAI capabilities with creative functions (idea generation, synthe...
The paper repositions GenAI as a cognitive collaborator rather than merely a productivity tool.
Argumentative / conceptual claim supported by the proposed theoretical reframing and role-based model in the paper; no empirical testing reported.
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... role of GenAI in organizational workflows (cognitive collaborator vs productivit...
There are structural parallels between GenAI architectures and human cognition—such as heuristic search, divergent thinking, and iterative refinement.
Conceptual mapping and theoretical comparison between GenAI architecture characteristics and cognitive/creativity constructs presented in the paper (literature synthesis / theoretical argument).
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... structural parallels between GenAI architectures and human cognition (heuristic ...
The study revisits foundational creativity theories to develop a framework for integrating GenAI into creative workflows.
Paper describes a conceptual review and theoretical synthesis of foundational creativity theories leading to a proposed integration framework; methodological (theoretical / conceptual) contribution rather than empirical validation.
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... framework for integrating GenAI into creative workflows
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping organisational creativity by emulating cognitive processes traditionally associated with human innovation.
Paper's theoretical argument and literature-grounded conceptual claims (conceptual analysis / literature review); no empirical sample or quantitative data reported.
high positive Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... organisational creativity
That compliance layer can improve oversight by making departures from law easier to detect.
Claim supported by the paper's analytical argumentation (no empirical evidence reported).
high positive AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... detectability of departures from law (oversight effectiveness)
For probabilistic AI to be incorporated into public administration it must be embedded in a compliance layer that makes decisions reviewable, repeatable, and legally defensible.
Stated as a normative/architectural claim in the paper; supported by conceptual argument rather than empirical testing.
high positive AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... requirements for legal/administrative incorporation of probabilistic AI
Governments are increasingly interested in using AI to make administrative decisions cheaper, more scalable, and more consistent.
Stated as background motivation in the paper (no empirical data or sample size reported).
high positive AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surfac... government interest in AI adoption for administrative decisions (cost, scale, co...
A follow-up intervention where we add information about capabilities from prior experiments to the context improves calibration.
Follow-up experimental intervention reported in the paper: augmenting model context with prior capability information and measuring calibration change.
high positive MarketBench: Evaluating AI Agents as Market Participants change in calibration of predicted success probability and token usage after add...
Markets are a promising way to coordinate AI agent activity for similar reasons to those used to justify markets more broadly.
Conceptual/theoretical argument presented in the paper (no empirical test reported in the excerpt).
high positive MarketBench: Evaluating AI Agents as Market Participants suitability of markets for coordinating AI agents (theoretical promise)
The framework shifts manual harness engineering into automated harness engineering, and takes one step further — automating the design of the automation itself.
Conceptual claim about the scope/implication of the proposed framework stated in the paper; the excerpt contains no empirical measures, experiments, or sample sizes to verify the claim.
high positive The Last Harness You'll Ever Build replacement of manual design processes with automated meta-design (automation of...
The Meta-Evolution Loop optimizes the evolution protocol Λ across diverse tasks, learning a protocol Λ^(best) that enables rapid harness convergence on any new task — so that adapting an agent to a novel domain requires no human harness engineering at all.
Strong methodological claim and intended outcome stated in the paper (formalization and algorithms promised); no empirical validation, benchmarks, or sample sizes given in the excerpt to substantiate the universality or 'no human' guarantee.
high positive The Last Harness You'll Ever Build speed/ability of harness convergence on new tasks and elimination of human harne...
The Harness Evolution Loop optimizes a worker agent's harness H for a single task: a Worker Agent W_H executes the task, an Evaluator Agent V adversarially diagnoses failures and scores performance, and an Evolution Agent E modifies the harness based on the full history of prior attempts.
Description of the proposed algorithmic component/architecture in the paper (conceptual specification); no empirical results or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high positive The Last Harness You'll Ever Build worker agent harness optimization (improvements in agent task performance via it...
We present a two-level framework that automates this process.
Methodological claim: the paper proposes a two-level framework (Harness Evolution Loop and Meta-Evolution Loop) and states it in the text; no experimental validation or sample size reported in the excerpt.
high positive The Last Harness You'll Ever Build automation of harness engineering (replacing manual design)
Adopting the proposed co-evolutionary governance framing enables a charter of coexistence that permits bounded AI development while preserving human dignity, contestability, collective safety, and fair distribution of gains.
Normative claim extrapolated from the theoretical framework and ethical argumentation; no empirical or quantitative validation provided.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... feasibility of preserving dignity, contestability, safety, and fair distribution...
Human-AI coexistence should be designed as a co-evolutionary governance problem rather than as a one-shot obedience problem.
Normative argument supported by the theoretical model and interdisciplinary synthesis; prescriptive conclusion, not empirically tested.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... recommended design paradigm for human-AI relations
Reciprocal complementarity between humans and AI can strengthen stable coexistence.
Model analysis showing how reciprocal complementarity affects stability properties of equilibria in the formalized dynamical system; theoretical result rather than empirical test.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... stability of human-AI coexistence equilibria
The proposed coexistence model yields conditions for existence, uniqueness, and global asymptotic stability of equilibria.
Analytical/mathematical results from the formal model presented in the paper (proofs/derivations claimed); no empirical validation sample.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... existence, uniqueness, and global asymptotic stability of equilibria in the mode...
Human-AI coexistence can be formalized as a multiplex dynamical system across physical, psychological, and social layers with reciprocal supply-demand coupling, conflict penalties, developmental freedom, and governance regularization.
Formal modeling work presented in the paper (mathematical formulation of a multiplex dynamical system); no empirical sample.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... formalizability of human-AI coexistence as a multiplex dynamical system
A better framework for human-AI relations is 'conditional mutualism under governance': a co-evolutionary relationship where humans and AI develop, specialize, and coordinate while institutions ensure the relationship is reciprocal, reversible, psychologically safe, and socially legitimate.
Theoretical proposal and normative argument supported by interdisciplinary synthesis (computability, machine learning, HRI, ecological mutualism, governance); no empirical trials reported.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... suitability of conditional mutualism as normative framework for human-AI relatio...
Contemporary AI systems are increasingly adaptive, generative, embodied, and embedded in physical, psychological, and social worlds.
Synthesis of recent work across ML, deep learning, transformers, generative/foundation models, world models, and embodied AI; descriptive claim, no empirical sample provided.
high positive A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism,... technological characteristics of contemporary AI systems
The presence of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) strengthens the influence of both the peer group and the peer leader on a focal firm’s AI adoption, with the influence of the peer leader being more pronounced when a CIO is present.
Subgroup/interaction analysis in fixed-effects regression models on panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023), comparing firms with and without a CIO.
high positive Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (moderated by presence of CIO for peer group and pe...
Industry digital maturity enhances (strengthens) the impact of the peer group on a focal firm’s AI adoption.
Interaction/heterogeneity analysis in fixed-effects regression models on panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023), using an industry digital maturity moderator.
high positive Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (moderated by industry digital maturity for peer gr...
The influence of the peer group on a focal firm’s AI adoption is stronger than the influence of the peer leader.
Comparative estimates from fixed-effects regression models using panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023); tests comparing coefficients/magnitudes for peer group vs. peer leader effects.
high positive Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (relative effect sizes of peer group vs. peer leade...
The AI adoption level of the peer leader (the most advanced AI adopter among industry peers) positively influences the focal firm’s AI adoption level.
Panel dataset of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023); fixed-effects regression models estimating effect of peer leader AI adoption on focal firm AI adoption.
high positive Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level
The AI adoption levels of the peer group positively influence the focal firm’s AI adoption level.
Panel dataset of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023); fixed-effects regression models estimating effect of peer group AI adoption on focal firm AI adoption.
high positive Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level