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Evidence (3308 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

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
Industry 1 1
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How software developers interact with AI-powered tools, including Large Language Models (LLMs), plays a vital role in how these AI-powered tools impact them.
Based on qualitative analysis of twenty-two interviews with software developers about using LLMs for software development; asserted as a central finding in the paper's analysis.
high mixed Towards an Appropriate Level of Reliance on AI: A Preliminar... impact of AI tools on developers (broadly: productivity, skills, quality)
Outcomes of AI deployment in labor-market settings depend on complementary organizational practices, workers’ access to skills, and the regulatory environment.
Synthesis-derived moderator/ mechanism claim from qualitative analysis of the 19 included studies identifying organizational practices, skill access, and regulation as contextual moderators.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market: Evidence on Wor... inclusion/exclusion outcomes contingent on moderators
Benefits of technology and data analytics are context-dependent, with emerging markets facing unique regulatory and infrastructural barriers.
Narrative synthesis of included studies noting heterogeneity by context and reports of regulatory/infrastructural constraints in emerging markets.
high mixed The Use of Technology and Data Analytics in Modern Auditing:... realized benefits / adoption in varying contexts
Cybersecurity has a moderating effect on audit data analytics.
Synthesis statement in the review summarizing included studies that report cybersecurity influences the effectiveness/usability of audit data analytics.
high mixed The Use of Technology and Data Analytics in Modern Auditing:... effectiveness of audit data analytics
They can produce fluent outputs that resemble reflection, but lack temporal continuity, causal feedback, and anchoring in real-world interaction.
Descriptive claim made in the text contrasting surface-level fluency with missing properties; no empirical data or experiments provided.
high mixed Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for... fluency vs. temporal_continuity, causal_feedback, real-world_anchoring
A within-subject human study with 20 players and 600 games shows that our interventions significantly improve performance for low- and mid-skill players while matching expert-engine interventions for high-skill players.
Within-subject human experiment reported in the paper: N = 20 players, 600 games total; comparisons of performance under the proposed interventions versus expert-engine interventions.
high mixed Improving Human Performance with Value-Aware Interventions: ... human player performance in chess games (game outcomes / performance metrics) by...
This work establishes a foundation for understanding how generative AI systems not only augment cognitive performance but also reshape self-perception and perceived expertise.
Paper's stated contribution presenting theory and conceptual groundwork; no empirical validation provided in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... interaction between augmented cognitive performance and changes in self-percepti...
The LLM fallacy has implications for education, hiring, and AI literacy.
Implications and argumentation presented in the paper; these are prospective and conceptual rather than supported by empirical data in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... impacts on education practices, hiring decisions, and AI literacy needs
The analysis reveals a non-linear, U-shaped relationship between changes in frontier skill intensity and employment growth.
Statistical linkage of changes in frontier skill intensity (OTSS changes) to employment growth using administrative data from 2012–2023; reported functional form is U-shaped.
high mixed AI‐powered skill classification: mapping technology intensit... relationship between changes in frontier skill intensity and employment growth
Frontier technologies remain concentrated in specialised occupations, while digital technologies are widespread.
Distributional analysis of OTSS across occupations showing concentration patterns of frontier technologies versus ubiquity of digital technologies.
high mixed AI‐powered skill classification: mapping technology intensit... distribution/concentration of technology-intense skills across occupations
For the average worker in 2023, manual technologies account for the largest share of skill content (42 per cent), followed by digital (38 per cent) and frontier technologies (20 per cent).
Computed OTSS applied to occupation-level data for Germany in 2023; reported shares for the "average worker".
high mixed AI‐powered skill classification: mapping technology intensit... share of occupational skill content by technology type (manual, digital, frontie...
AI plays a dual role as enhancer and eroder, simultaneously strengthening performance while eroding underlying expertise (the 'AI-as-Amplifier Paradox').
Framing claim presented in the paper's conceptual argument and grounded by the paper's stated year-long empirical study among cancer specialists (no numerical sample size reported in abstract).
high mixed From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asympto... preservation of underlying expertise vs. short-term performance
The local labor market will follow a dual trajectory: low-skill, routine jobs face high automation risk while demand will rise for AI-collaborative, higher-skill roles.
Paper's analytical prediction based on distinguishing current job roles into routine/repetitive vs cognitive/non-routine and projecting likely impacts; no numeric forecasts or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high mixed PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... combined job displacement for routine roles and increased demand for AI-collabor...
Sensitivity analyses indicate the observed positive belief changes likely reflect recovery from carry-over effects rather than genuine training-induced shifts.
Authors' sensitivity analyses discussed in the paper that examined alternative explanations (e.g., carry-over effects) and concluded the belief-change result is likely due to recovery from such effects.
high mixed Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... validity of belief-change effect (source attribution: training vs. carry-over re...
Simulations demonstrate that standard methods, such as principal components analysis and inverse covariance weighting, can generate spurious cross-study differences, whereas our approach recovers comparable latent treatment effects.
Simulation experiments reported in the paper comparing the proposed method to PCA and inverse covariance weighting; results show PCA and inverse-covariance-weighted estimators can produce spurious cross-study differences while the proposed method recovers comparable latent treatment effects (no simulation sample sizes provided in the abstract).
high mixed Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Causal Effect... comparability/accuracy of estimated latent treatment effects across studies (sim...
While AI may reduce certain traditional roles, it also enhances job quality and creates new career pathways within the commerce sector.
Reported finding from the paper's synthesis of existing studies and sectoral observations (qualitative literature synthesis).
high mixed IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMME... reductions in traditional roles vs. improvements in job quality and new career p...
AI exhibits a dual nature—both as a disruptor and an enabler of employment in the commerce sector.
Paper-level synthesis of contradictory findings and sectoral patterns reported across reviewed literature (qualitative literature synthesis).
high mixed IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMME... net disruptive vs. enabling effects on employment
Bounded agents act as an amplifying but not necessary extension to the foundation-model stack for changing work coordination.
Conceptual argument within the paper distinguishing bounded agents from the core stack; no empirical comparison or measurement reported.
high mixed Remote-Capable Knowledge Work Should Default to AI-Enabled F... role of bounded agents in amplifying coordination impacts
The effects of generative AI on work and organisations are heterogeneous and context-dependent, shaped by job roles, skill levels, and institutional environments.
Synthesis across the included studies noting variation in outcomes conditional on role, skill, and institutional context.
high mixed Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... heterogeneity of AI effects across roles/skills/institutions
Although the concurrent paradigm performs worse than the sequential paradigm in terms of immediate task performance, it is more effective in promoting users' emotional trust.
Comparison between concurrent and sequential AI-assisted decision-making paradigms in the RCT (N=120); authors report concurrent < sequential for immediate task performance, but concurrent > sequential for emotional trust.
high mixed How AI-Assisted Decision-Making Paradigms and Explainability... immediate task performance (negative) and emotional trust (positive)
If employment losses are relatively small and productivity gains are realised, AI adoption could boost Exchequer revenues. But if job displacement is sizeable, tax receipts fall while welfare spending rises, resulting in potentially large pressures on the public finances.
Conditional fiscal scenarios simulated in the report combining employment, wage and benefit changes with the public finance implications (tax receipts and welfare spending); reported as scenario-based outcomes.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland Exchequer revenues / tax receipts and welfare spending
Ireland’s tax and welfare system absorbs most of the income loss for lower income households, and roughly half of the loss for households at the top of the income distribution.
Microsimulation using SWITCH to model taxes and transfers applied to simulated income changes across income groups; reported as a finding in the report.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and income inequality in Ireland net income after taxes and transfers (absorption of income loss)
The productivity decomposition classifies deployments into five regimes that separate beneficial adoption from harmful adoption and identifies which deployments are vulnerable to the augmentation trap.
Model-based taxonomy produced from the analytical decomposition (classification into five regimes described in the paper).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... classification of AI deployment regimes (beneficial vs harmful, vulnerability to...
Small differences in managerial incentives can determine which skill path a worker takes (whether they realize full potential or deskill).
Comparative statics / theoretical sensitivity analysis in the dynamic model indicating tipping behavior based on managerial incentives.
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker skill trajectory contingent on managerial incentives
Result 3: When AI productivity depends less on worker expertise, workers can permanently diverge in skill: experienced workers realize their full potential while less experienced workers deskill to zero.
Analytical result from the dynamic model showing path-dependent divergence in skill levels under particular parameterizations (lower dependence of AI on worker expertise).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... long-run worker skill distribution (experienced vs less experienced)
India exhibits a distinctive polarisation pattern: a shrinking middle-skill workforce alongside a persistently large low-skill labour segment.
Descriptive analysis of secondary data and official reports from 2020–2024 comparing occupational and skill distributions in India.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and labour market polarisation in In... changes in the share of labour across skill bands (middle vs low skill)
Mathematics (SAFI: 73.2) and Programming (71.8) receive the highest automation feasibility scores; Active Listening (42.2) and Reading Comprehension (45.5) receive the lowest.
SAFI benchmark results reported for specific O*NET skills (numerical SAFI scores provided in the paper).
high mixed The AI Skills Shift: Mapping Skill Obsolescence, Emergence, ... SAFI score by skill (automation feasibility)
These results suggest the need for AI model development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task completion.
Authors' policy/research recommendation based on experimental findings showing short-term gains but longer-term harms.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... recommendation for AI development priorities (design objective, not an empirical...
These effects are observed across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension.
Trials included multiple task types (explicitly naming mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension); cross-task analysis reported.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... task-specific performance and persistence across task types (math reasoning, rea...
AI adoption significantly reshaped task profiles for 73% of respondents, particularly affecting routine data processing, administrative tasks, and scheduling activities.
Survey data and secondary data analysis reported in this study (sample size not stated); self-reported change in task profiles with reported percentage (73%).
high mixed Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Career Reconfiguration ... task profile change (impact on routine data processing, administrative tasks, sc...
AI adoption across firms is heterogeneous, varying across sectors such as finance, technology, and manufacturing.
Survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms across finance, tech, and manufacturing showing variation in AI integration; supported by qualitative interviews and policy analysis.
high mixed Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... heterogeneity in AI adoption across firms/sectors
The rapid, heterogeneous integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is profoundly reshaping the dynamics of work across the Nigerian business sector, generating both significant economic opportunities and acute labor market challenges.
Mixed-methods study combining a quantitative survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms across finance, tech, and manufacturing and qualitative analysis of government policy and workforce interviews.
high mixed Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... dynamics of work (economic opportunities and labor market challenges)
The influence of human capital (number of specialists in scientific and technological fields) on value added varies across sectors.
Number of specialists in scientific and technological fields included as a covariate in MMQR; reported heterogeneous effects across sectors/quantiles in the results section.
The influence of R&D expenditure on value added varies across sectors.
R&D expenditure included as a core explanatory variable in panel MMQR estimations; authors report differing coefficient sizes/signs across sectors/quantiles.
AI-driven conversational coaching is increasingly used to support workplace negotiation, yet prior work assumes uniform effectiveness across users.
Background claim in paper indicating prior literature trends and assumptions (stated in introduction/motivation).
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... adoption/use of AI coaching in workplace negotiation
Participants were clustered into three profiles -- resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled -- based on the Big-Five personality traits and ARC typology.
Paper reports clustering analysis on participants using Big-Five trait measures and ARC typology; clustering result described as three profiles. Total sample reported as N=267.
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... personality profile membership (resilient, overcontrolled, undercontrolled)
We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N=267) comparing theory-driven AI (Trucey), general-purpose AI (Control-AI), and a traditional negotiation handbook (Control-NoAI).
Stated experimental design in paper: between-subjects randomized comparison across three conditions with total sample N=267.
high mixed Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... effectiveness of coaching modalities (psychological and negotiation performance ...
Practitioners see the socio-emotional gap not as AI's failure to exhibit SEI traits, but as a functional gap in collaborative capabilities.
Reported interpretation from interview data (10 practitioners) indicating practitioners framed the gap functionally rather than as missing emotional traits.
high mixed Bridging the Socio-Emotional Gap: The Functional Dimension o... framing of the AI–human socio-emotional gap (functional vs. emotional)
Big Data-based FinTech can contribute to financial stability only when its implementation is strategically justified, ethically grounded and supported by effective regulation, robust data governance and investment in human capital.
Normative conclusion drawn from systemic and structural analysis of literature and synthesis of empirical studies; no empirical test provided within the paper.
high mixed Implications of Big Data Technologies for the Resilience of ... contribution of Big Data-based FinTech to financial stability conditional on gov...
The effectiveness of Big Data solutions varies across the financial sphere and depends critically on data quality, regulatory alignment and organisational readiness.
Derived from comparative analysis of sector-specific applications and synthesis of findings in the reviewed literature; no quantified cross-sector sample reported.
high mixed Implications of Big Data Technologies for the Resilience of ... effectiveness of Big Data solutions
AI intensity and employment elasticity are linked by a U-shaped relationship.
Result reported by the paper based on the authors' empirical/econometric analysis of international datasets (OECD/ILO/World Bank).
high mixed Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment employment elasticity (relationship to AI intensity)
The paper analyzes AI as a continuous process using data from the OECD, ILO, and the World Bank to study job displacement, creation, and reallocation.
Empirical analysis described in the paper using datasets from OECD, ILO, and World Bank; econometric approach implied.
high mixed Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment job displacement, job creation, and job reallocation
AI is recognized as a primary change agent that influences various aspects of economies the world over, and thus it profoundly changes not only the number of jobs but also their quality.
Stated as a high-level conclusion in the paper's introduction/abstract; based on literature synthesis of studies from 2013-2025 and references to international sources (OECD, ILO, World Bank).
high mixed Impact Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) On Employment number of jobs and job quality (employment and quality of work)
Leader emotional intelligence (EI) moderates decision quality, delegation, and managerial communication when generative AI tools (Copilot/ChatGPT) are used in corporate management.
Theoretical EI-moderated human–AI model described in the paper and proposal to test it using a randomized online experiment.
high mixed LEADER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE GENERATIVE AI ERA: “HUM... decision quality (and delegation quality, managerial communication)
The four-variable account (produced output, underlying understanding, calibration accuracy, self-assessed ability) better explains phenomena like overconfidence, over- and under-reliance on AI, 'crutch' effects, and weak transfer than the simpler claim that generative AI merely amplifies the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Argumentative synthesis in the paper comparing explanatory power of the proposed four-variable framework against the more general Dunning–Kruger metaphor; draws on examples and empirical patterns from the reviewed literature rather than a single empirical test.
high mixed Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... explanatory fit for phenomena such as overconfidence, reliance patterns, crutch ...
A useful working model is 'AI-mediated metacognitive decoupling': LLM use widens the gap among produced output, underlying understanding, calibration accuracy, and self-assessed ability.
Conceptual synthesis and theoretical proposal grounded in reviewed empirical findings from multiple literatures (human–AI interaction, learning research, model evaluation); presented as the paper's working model rather than as a single empirical estimate.
high mixed Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupli... degree of alignment/decoupling between produced output, underlying understanding...
This paper offers a forward-looking framework that emphasizes the decentralizing potential of AI on labor markets, moving beyond the traditional displacement-versus-creation dichotomy.
Paper's stated contribution; based on conceptual framework and synthesis of historical and contemporary analyses (no empirical validation presented in the abstract).
high mixed AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work conceptual framing of AI's labor-market effects
The emergence of artificial intelligence and robotics is catalyzing a profound transformation in the nature of human labor.
Stated as a central premise in the paper's abstract; supported by the paper's synthesis of economic history, contemporary labor market data, and analysis of digital platform growth (no specific datasets or sample sizes reported in the abstract).
high mixed AI Civilization and the Transformation of Work nature of human labor / structure of labor markets
AI agents are approaching an inflection point where the binding constraint shifts from raw capability to how work is delegated, verified, and rewarded at scale.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper's introduction/positioning; no empirical data, experiments, or sample reported.
high mixed EpochX: Building the Infrastructure for an Emergent Agent Ci... how work is delegated, verified, and rewarded
These findings contribute to the literature by providing empirical insights from a developing economy, where unique socioeconomic and institutional factors shape the impact of AI.
Scope/claim of contribution based on the study's context (Cambodia) and its dataset (n = 351).