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Evidence (4004 claims)

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

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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AI will affect political science research and teaching.
Report introduction explicitly notes the report investigates implications for political science research and teaching; based on the task force's review and analysis rather than a quantitative study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... research methods, replicability, teaching practices, and curriculum in political...
AI will affect public opinion and the information ecosystem.
Introductory chapter enumerates public opinion and the information ecosystem as report topics; based on conceptual synthesis and literature review.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public opinion formation and information ecosystem integrity (misinformation, pe...
AI will affect the labor market.
Report introduction identifies the labor market as an area the task force examines; presented as a conceptual claim without primary-sample estimates in the introduction.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... labor market outcomes (employment, occupational change, job tasks)
AI will affect international relations.
Introductory chapter lists international relations as a topic the report investigates; claim arises from conceptual analysis and synthesis by task force authors.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... international relations dynamics (state behavior, diplomacy, conflict/cooperatio...
AI will affect national security.
Report introduction stating a section addressing national security implications; based on expert assessment and literature review rather than a specific empirical sample.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... national security capabilities and decision-making (defense, intelligence operat...
AI will affect public administration.
Report introduction describing a section focused on how AI will affect public administration; based on expert synthesis rather than reported empirical study.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... public administration processes and organizational efficiency (service delivery,...
AI will affect democracy (i.e., democratic processes and institutions).
Report introduction listing a section of the report devoted to democracy and AI; conceptual argumentation rather than reported empirical tests.
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... democratic processes and institutions (electoral integrity, civic participation,...
AI has the potential to reshape politics and political science, similar to how it is transforming other social phenomena and academic fields.
Introductory chapter of the APSA Presidential Task Force report; conceptual framing and literature synthesis by the task force authors (no primary empirical sample reported).
high mixed Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... scope and practice of politics and political science as fields (institutional ro...
There are factor-share consequences from agent adoption (i.e., implications for the shares of income accruing to factors such as labor and capital).
Model-based discussion and comparative-static analysis in the paper deriving implications for factor shares as agents/compute capital alter production technology. The excerpt indicates qualitative/theoretical analysis rather than empirical measurement.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... factor shares (e.g., labor share vs capital share)
The CAW result generalizes through CES aggregation and, when tasks are separated into substitutable versus complementary, yields a directional inversion of skill-biased technical change.
Theoretical extension of the core model using CES (constant elasticity of substitution) aggregation and task decomposition in the paper; the claim arises from model generalization and comparative-static reasoning. No empirical validation provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... direction of skill-biased technical change (which skills gain/lose relative retu...
Agents are not labor; they are a production technology that converts compute capital K_c into effective units of cognitive labor L_A.
Theoretical argument and definitional framing in the paper: the authors recast agents as a technology that transforms compute capital into effective cognitive labor units within an analytical model (textual/theoretical exposition). No empirical sample or experimental data reported in the excerpt.
high mixed Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... classification of agents (technology vs labor)
Routine automation primarily dismantles specialised physical skills, enhancing mobility only within homogeneous manual clusters.
Simulation results distinguishing effects of the routine-task automation exposure measure vs. AI exposure; analysis of which skill types are eroded and resulting changes in mobility within occupational clusters.
high mixed Contrasting pathways of automation: routine task substitutio... skill_obsolescence and within-cluster mobility
Modeling fiscal policy as a government problem (instead of an abstract planner) implies a tax changes the firm's automation first-order condition, raises revenue only on the remaining automation base, and requires specifying rebates and administrative losses.
Explicit governmental optimization and budget-accounting setup in the model: taxes enter firms' automation first-order conditions; revenue is computed on post-tax automation activity and rebates/administration are modeled.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation effect of taxation on firm automation choice, tax revenue base, and fiscal accou...
The central analytic object is the derivative of household consumption demand and the collective wage bill with respect to automation.
Paper's stated modeling focus: comparative-static derivatives linking automation to household consumption demand and aggregate wages; used to characterize incidence and welfare effects.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation sensitivity (derivative) of household consumption demand and aggregate wage bill...
Automation reallocates income and ownership claims.
Theoretical model with heterogeneous households who hold capital/equity claims; equilibrium determines wages and returns and shows changes in income and ownership shares when automation increases.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation distribution of income and ownership (capital vs. labor income shares)
Institutional expertise (such as that created or possessed by universities and corporations) is viewed as in need of liberation or reform so it can be incorporated into the latest artificial intelligence systems.
Analysis of public communications from five annotation organizations and their CEOs indicating calls or framing that institutional knowledge should be freed/restructured to be integrated into AI systems.
high mixed Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... attitudes toward institutional reform for AI integration / institutional knowled...
Demand for expert-annotated data on the part of leading AI labs has created an expert gig economy with the potential to reshape white collar work and society's understanding of expertise.
Qualitative analysis of public communications (social media feeds and podcast appearances) from five industry data annotation organizations and their CEOs; sample of five organizations and their public-facing leaders.
high mixed Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... creation of an expert gig economy / effects on white-collar work and public unde...
Program outcomes are moderated by a person's prior occupational skill set, their area of work, and features of the local economy.
Heterogeneity analyses across subgroups defined by prior occupational skill composition, industry/area of work, and local labor-market conditions in the WIOA administrative data (2017-2023) show variation in outcomes.
high mixed Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... Retrainability Index / program outcomes stratified by prior skill set, area of w...
These divergences carry direct implications for policy interventions.
Interpretation/conclusion drawn from the divergence between RL Feasibility Index and existing measures (policy implication claimed by authors).
high mixed What Jobs Can AI Learn? Measuring Exposure by Reinforcement ... policy relevance of measurement divergences
Generative AI-powered tools like ChatGPT are reshaping market skill demands while also offering new forms of on-demand learning support to meet those demands.
Framed in paper as background/motivation; asserted from prior literature and the paper's motivating claims rather than reported as a quantified result in this study.
high mixed Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... impact of generative AI on market skill demands and availability of on-demand le...
The rise of digital agents will transform the foundations of production, labour markets, institutional arrangements and the international distribution of economic power.
Synthesis and theoretical projection across sections of the paper; presented as a broad conclusion without reported empirical quantification in the provided text.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... transformation of production systems, labour markets, institutions, and internat...
There is a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social reproduction: digital agents can compensate for productive functions of the population but are unable to substitute the population's functions of social reproduction.
Theoretical argument and conceptual distinction in the paper; no empirical study measuring substitution in social reproduction provided.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... capacity of digital agents to substitute productive vs social reproduction funct...
These patterns suggest that AI adoption is associated with expected efficiency gains that shape both firms' pricing behaviour and their macroeconomic expectations.
Interpretation based on observed increases in productivity/profitability and different pricing/inflation expectations among adopters vs non-adopters in survey and DID analyses.
high mixed The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... interpretive link between productivity/profitability gains and firms' pricing an...
The rapid growth of AI and automation offers Sub-Saharan Africa economic opportunities as well as labor market challenges.
Systematic review of the literature reported in the paper; scope and number of studies not specified in the abstract/summary provided.
high mixed The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... economic opportunities and labor market challenges in Sub‑Saharan Africa
AI adoption leads both to job displacement and job creation, including the emergence of new occupational categories.
Abstract states the review examines empirical evidence on both job displacement and creation and the emergence of new occupations; no numeric counts or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... job destruction and creation; emergence of new occupations
The study identifies short-term transitional risks and long-term productivity gains associated with AI integration in the workforce.
Abstract states the paper evaluates both short-term risks and long-term productivity gains from AI integration based on the reviewed literature; no empirical quantification given in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... transitional risks and productivity gains
AI-driven automation and augmentation are reshaping employment landscapes, with emphasis on sector-level disruption, skill transformation, and socioeconomic consequences.
Abstract states this as a conclusion of the review drawing on interdisciplinary empirical literature; no specific studies or sample sizes cited in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... employment landscape changes (sector disruption, skill transformation, socioecon...
The accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence across industries has fundamentally altered the structure of global labour markets.
Statement in abstract summarizing a systematic review of interdisciplinary literature (economics, computer science, organizational behaviour, public policy); no specific sample size reported in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... structure of global labour markets
The magnitude of AI’s effect on potential GDP varied across industries and depended on the level of digital maturity, human resources, and institutional conditions.
Decompositional analysis across aggregated industry data and scenario-based modeling drawing on sectoral sources and reviews.
high mixed THE IMPACT OF AI ON POTENTIAL GDP AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GRO... industry-specific magnitude of AI contribution to GDP
Firms may continue to exist as legal and physical entities, but their coordinating function will be displaced as they become data nodes within regionally governed AI infrastructure.
Predictive/conceptual claim within the framework; no empirical sample reported in the excerpt and presented as a theoretical outcome of Interface Internalization.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... change in the coordinating role of firms (from coordinators to data nodes)
The Structural Dissolution Framework challenges the Coasian view that organizational boundaries are determined by transaction cost minimization, arguing that AI makes such boundaries economically obsolete.
Theoretical critique of transaction-cost-based explanations for firm boundaries presented in the paper; argumentative and conceptual rather than supported by empirical tests in the provided summary.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... economic relevance of transaction-cost-based firm boundaries
Regional data sovereignty entities will emerge as organizational forms that replace the coordinating role of firms and markets.
Normative/predictive claim within the paper's framework arguing for new organizational forms (regional data sovereignty entities); illustrated conceptually (e.g., through resource-dependent regional economies) rather than empirically tested in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... emergence of regional data sovereignty entities as coordinators
Domain-specific data refinement infrastructure will become the new basis of positional control in industries.
Theoretical claim in the framework asserting a shift in positional control to data refinement infrastructure; presented as a predicted structural outcome rather than supported by empirical data in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... basis of positional control (movement to data refinement infrastructure)
AI adoption moves value creation away from physical resources and human collaboration toward continuous token flows produced through data refinement loops.
Theoretical/analytical claim within the Structural Dissolution Framework and illustrative discussion; no empirical quantification provided in the text excerpt.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... source of value creation (physical/human → data/token flows)
The mechanism driving this restructuring is 'Interface Internalization', through which inter-agent coordination is absorbed into intra-system computation.
Conceptual mechanism defined and argued in the paper; presented as the central theoretical mechanism rather than as an empirically validated finding.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... shift of coordination from inter-agent (firms/markets) to intra-system computati...
AI dissolves the boundaries that once separated firms, markets, experts, and consumers by internalizing human multimodal interfaces (language, vision, and behavioral data) into computational systems.
Theoretical argument and conceptual framework introduced in the paper (Structural Dissolution Framework); no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported for this claim in the text provided.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... dissolution of boundaries between firms, markets, experts, and consumers
AI-driven automation marks the beginning of a new political era—one in which the role of work in society becomes a central axis of welfare conflict.
Theoretical and interpretive claim in the paper, motivated by the survey findings and broader argumentation about political consequences.
high mixed AI, the Future of Work, and the Politics of the Welfare Stat... political salience of 'the role of work' in welfare politics / emergence of new ...
Demographic characteristics intersect with AI exposure—i.e., exposure varies by demographic groups.
Paper reports that it examines how demographic characteristics intersect with exposure based on recent empirical studies; no demographic breakdowns or sample sizes provided in the abstract.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... variation in AI exposure across demographic groups
Recent studies combine task-level exposure metrics with employment and usage data to assess AI exposure and impacts.
Paper notes that it draws on studies that use task-level exposure metrics alongside employment and usage data; methodological claim rather than a quantitative result.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... measurement approach for AI exposure (task-level exposure linked to employment/u...
Generative large language models (LLMs) present organizations with a transformative technology whose labor market implications remain nascent yet consequential.
Statement in paper synthesizing emerging empirical research; no specific study, method, or sample size reported in the abstract.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... labor market implications (disruption and augmentation)
The adoption of AI in Israel constitutes a systemic transformation of employment relations, necessitating doctrinal adaptation and institutional reform to keep the labor market aligned with foundational legal principles.
Synthesis and conclusion from the paper's combined legal and empirical analysis; presented as the author's overarching interpretive claim rather than as a specific quantified finding.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... degree of systemic transformation of employment relations and need for doctrinal...
Within the public sector, there is an emerging policy trend to incorporate AI considerations into workforce planning, including examining whether human positions may be substituted by technological solutions prior to recruiting new employees.
Paper reports an observed policy trend in public-sector workforce planning; specific policy documents, jurisdictions, or counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... public sector workforce planning practices (consideration of substituting human ...
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and compensation dynamics.
Econometric estimates (difference-in-differences and propensity score matched comparisons) using the combined datasets listed in the paper and controlling for industry, firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macroeconomic variables.
high mixed The Generative AI Revolution: Early Evidence of Structural T... compensation dynamics (wages/pay)
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in occupational structures.
Same econometric approach (difference-in-differences and propensity score matching) applied to combined datasets (Anthropic Economic Index, Census Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics), with controls for industry, firm size, location, occupation-level characteristics, and macroeconomic environment.
The study establishes statistically significant relationships between organizational AI adoption and changes in employment patterns in the United States during 2022–2025.
Econometric analysis using multiple large-scale data sources (Anthropic Economic Index, U.S. Census Bureau Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Federal Reserve regional surveys, labor market analytics) and methods described as difference-in-differences estimation and propensity score matching controlling for industry (NAICS 2-digit), firm size, geography, occupation characteristics, and macro conditions.
AI influences innovation performance in organizations.
Discussion and synthesis of studies and reports on AI adoption and innovation performance presented in the review.
AI adoption is producing organizational implications, including changes in project management practices.
Findings synthesized from conference papers, case studies and industry reports included in the review.
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... project management practices / organizational processes
Automation, generative AI, and intelligent systems are reshaping task structures, leading to both job displacement risks and the creation of new AI-driven roles.
Synthesis of empirical studies, conference findings, and industry reports reporting both displacement risks and new role emergence (review paper).
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... job displacement and role creation
AI is rapidly transforming the nature of work, the demand for skills, and the professional roles of Information Technology (IT) practitioners.
Stated as a synthesis result from a narrative review of recent empirical studies, conference findings, and industry reports (review paper).
high mixed The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... demand for skills / professional roles
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)