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Evidence (2966 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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Increased monitoring and algorithmic management raise concerns about worker autonomy and privacy and will prompt regulatory responses (data protection, algorithmic transparency) that shape adoption costs and trajectories.
Recurring concerns reported across included studies and the review's policy implication section; grounded in qualitative and normative discussions within the literature.
medium negative Data-Driven Strategies in Human Resource Management: The Rol... worker autonomy/privacy incidents, regulatory actions, adoption costs
Over-standardisation of curricula can create mismatches between certified competencies and firm-specific needs.
Stated in Risks: the paper warns that overly standardized curricula may not fit firm-specific requirements. This is a conceptual caution, not supported by within-paper empirical comparisons.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... alignment between certified competencies and firm-specific job demands (skill-ma...
High fixed costs may concentrate training capacity among a few providers, risking reduced competition.
Listed under Risks to Watch: the paper warns that high fixed costs could concentrate capacity. This is a theoretical market-concentration risk; no empirical market analysis is provided.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... market concentration (Herfindahl index), number of active training providers
Upfront and maintenance costs are substantial; economic evaluation should compare these costs to downstream benefits such as placement rates and productivity gains.
Paper recommends economic evaluation, lists cost-per-curriculum and other cost metrics; presented as advice rather than results. No empirical cost–benefit data provided.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... cost-per-curriculum, ROI metrics, placement rates, productivity measures
Complexity and lock-in to specific standards may raise barriers to innovation and increase switching costs.
Discussed in Regulation and compliance economics and Risks: claims that standardisation and embedded processes could produce vendor/standard lock-in. This is a theoretical risk flagged by the authors, not supported by empirical data in the paper.
medium negative Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and manag... switching costs, rate of innovation adoption, vendor dependence indicators
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...
Optional LLM access without training was associated with shorter written answers compared with no LLM access.
Measured answer length in the randomized trial (n = 164); comparison between untrained optional-access arm and no-access arm showed shorter answers in the untrained-access group.
medium negative Training for Technology: Adoption and Productive Use of Gene... Answer length (measured length of exam answers)
Short-run displacement risks from AI adoption create distributional concerns that warrant active labor market policies (retraining, wage insurance) and portable social protections.
Worker-level evidence of short-run employment losses in routine occupations, particularly in emerging economies, and literature synthesis on displacement effects motivating policy recommendations.
medium negative S-TCO: A Sustainable Teacher Context Ontology for Educationa... short-run employment changes in vulnerable occupations and implied welfare/distr...
AI-enabled platforms can increase market concentration and platform power, creating competition and data-governance risks and uneven distributional effects across regions and worker skill levels.
Observational platform-concentration indicators and distributional analyses in the case material; scenario and sensitivity checks on distributional outcomes under alternative adoption/policy regimes.
medium negative Artificial Intelligence–Enabled E-Commerce Systems and Autom... market concentration measures (e.g., platform market share), distributional outc...
AI substitutes for and displaces many routine and low-skill occupations, increasing automation risk for those roles.
Multiple empirical studies in the reviewed sample document higher automation/substitution risk and observed employment declines in routine/low-skill tasks and occupations.
medium negative The role of generative artificial intelligence on labor mark... employment levels in routine and low-skill occupations
Young workers experience pronounced negative effects in occupations exposed to AI.
Demographic breakdowns in occupation-level analyses showing larger employment declines (or weaker employment growth) for younger cohorts in AI-exposed occupations.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment outcomes for young workers in AI-exposed occupations
Diffusion of AI skills is associated with lower employment in occupations that are both highly exposed to AI and have low complementarity with it.
Panel/cross-sectional analyses linking occupation-level AI exposure and measured worker–AI complementarity to employment changes, using occupation classifications of exposure and complementarity.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment changes in occupations with high AI exposure and low complementarity
Middle-skilled occupations are most at risk, contributing to a shrinking middle class (declines in middle-skilled employment).
Occupation-level analyses showing employment declines concentrated in middle-skilled occupations as new skills (IT/AI) diffuse.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment levels in middle-skilled occupations
AI adoption can reinforce winner‑take‑most market dynamics and increase market concentration due to data‑ and AI‑driven advantages.
Theoretical arguments and industry analyses on platform markets and data economies; empirical market‑structure studies and descriptive evidence cited in the review; the claim is derived from synthesis rather than a single causal identification design.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... market concentration measures and firm market shares (competition outcomes)
Impacts of AI on labor are uneven globally: developing regions face larger risks due to digital infrastructure gaps, limited reskilling capacity, and weaker social protections.
Cross‑country comparative analyses, policy and industry reports highlighting infrastructure and institutional differences, and sectoral case studies; review notes geographic bias toward advanced economies in the empirical literature, making some cross‑region inference provisional.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... vulnerability to job displacement, capacity for reskilling, and distributional i...
There is widespread displacement of routine and lower‑skilled tasks associated with AI and automation.
Task‑based analyses decomposing occupations into automatable vs augmentable tasks, econometric studies correlating measures of automation/AI exposure with declines in employment and/or hours in routine occupations, and industry reports documenting automation of routine tasks; evidence is largely from cross‑country and country‑specific empirical work summarized in the review.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... employment levels and task content in routine and lower‑skilled occupations
Prevailing reskilling strategies assume access to stable employment, time and funds for training, certification systems, and institutional support — conditions that are weak or absent for informal platform workers; therefore standard reskilling policies are poorly suited to this context.
Qualitative synthesis of policy analyses and literature on reskilling programs and labour-market institutions; conceptual critique rather than new empirical testing.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... effectiveness of reskilling programs in producing stable employment outcomes for...
Algorithmic management (opaque algorithms for assignment, pricing, and performance metrics) restructures platform work in ways that both change task composition and intensify precarity, reducing workers' ability to adapt to automation.
Draws on prior empirical studies and policy analyses of algorithmic management cited in the literature review; no new empirical data collected in this paper.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... worker precarity and adaptability (e.g., job security, ability to transition to ...
Task versus job displacement operate differently across institutional contexts: in formal labour markets, task automation can be accommodated through reallocation or protections, while in informal platform work task loss typically becomes outright job loss.
Argument built from secondary literature comparing formal and informal labour-market institutions and existing empirical studies on reallocation mechanisms; conceptual analysis in the paper (qualitative synthesis only).
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... rate of worker reallocation vs complete job loss following task automation
AI-driven automation in platform-based informal work in India primarily displaces tasks, but because workers lack job security, institutional protections, and access to alternative labour tracks, task-level automation often manifests as full job displacement.
Synthesis of prior empirical studies, policy analyses, and theoretical work on platform-based labour and automation focused on India and comparable developing-country settings; conceptual framing distinguishing task-level vs job-level effects; no primary data or new empirical analysis in this paper.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... job displacement / employment loss among platform-based informal workers
Reduced labor shares disproportionately harm lower- and middle-skill workers relative to higher-skill workers, increasing distributional inequality.
Micro and firm-case analyses linking K_T exposure to occupation- and skill-level wage/employment outcomes; regressions showing heterogeneous effects across skill groups; supporting evidence from sectoral studies.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... employment and wages by skill group; inequality indicators across skill deciles
The loss of labor share and payrolls materially undermines PAYG pension sustainability and payroll-tax revenue bases under realistic adoption trajectories.
Dynamic general equilibrium overlapping-generations model calibrated and simulated to incorporate substitution between labor and K_T and a PAYG pension sector; fiscal simulations show declining contributor bases and pressure on pension balances; sensitivity analyses across adoption speeds.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... PAYG pension sustainability metrics (e.g., contribution-revenue ratios, projecte...
Wages for workers in K_T‑intensive firms/industries fall or grow more slowly relative to less-exposed counterparts, compressing wage contributions to income.
Panel regressions estimating wage outcomes conditional on K_T intensity measures, with controls and robustness specifications; supported by matched employer‑employee microdata in case studies and industry-level decompositions.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... wage levels and wage growth
AI changes the nature of capital (digital/algorithmic assets) and complicates productivity accounting; researchers should decompose firm-level productivity gains into AI technology, complementary organizational capital, and human capital effects.
Theoretical proposal grounded in productivity accounting literature and conceptual discussion; no single decomposition empirical result presented.
medium neutral Modern Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Str... components of multifactor productivity attributable to AI assets versus organiza...
Policy and governance issues become salient: liability, IP, security, and certification of AI-generated code require new standards for provenance, testing, and accountability.
Argument based on practitioner-raised concerns about security, IP, and provenance in the Netlight study; authors recommend policy attention; no legal/regulatory analysis or empirical policy evaluation provided.
medium neutral Rethinking How IT Professionals Build IT Products with Artif... need for regulatory standards and governance mechanisms for AI-assisted developm...
Time-series metrics (e.g., derivatives like d/dt(student enrollment)) are useful monitoring signals for validation and system oversight.
Methodological suggestion in the paper proposing time-series analysis of enrollment and other administrative data; no empirical demonstration or threshold criteria provided.
medium neutral Establishes a technical and academic bridge between the educ... sensitivity of monitoring to enrollment changes, anomaly detection lead time
The community has not yet articulated a clean mechanism for when Skills help and when they are merely redundant overhead.
Authors' literature/benchmark synthesis and framing observation about gaps in prior work; presented as motivation for their re-analysis and hypothesis.
medium null result When Skills Don't Help: A Negative Result on Procedural Know... state of community understanding / theoretical mechanism for Skill utility
When an agent's tool layer returns strict, schema-validated, low-latency observations, the environment itself supplies the procedural correction signal that Skills are normally needed to provide.
Authors' explanatory hypothesis based on the re-analysis results and comparison of environments with high-bandwidth, schema-validated feedback versus lower-bandwidth feedback.
medium null result When Skills Don't Help: A Negative Result on Procedural Know... degree to which environment feedback substitutes for Skills (procedural correcti...
The proposed framework was evaluated across healthcare and software engineering.
Paper statement that the framework was evaluated in both domains; abstract does not give evaluation method, sample sizes, or quantitative results.
medium null result From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asympto... cross-domain evaluation (applicability/generalizability) of the framework
Undercontrolled workers exhibited minimal effects despite engaging with the frameworks.
Reported experimental observation: the undercontrolled cluster showed little to no measurable benefit from any of the interventions, despite engagement with the coaching frameworks.
medium null result Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workpla... measured intervention effects (minimal/no change across reported outcomes)
A Sankey diagram of thematic evolution shows lexical convergence over time and indicates that a small set of authors has disproportionate influence in structuring the discourse.
Thematic evolution analysis visualized with a Sankey diagram; author influence inferred from performance trends (citations/publication counts) in the bibliometric data.
medium null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... lexical convergence across themes and concentration of author influence (disprop...
Overall employment in Albania has not fallen sharply; instead, changes are concentrated within occupational groups (i.e., occupational restructuring).
Official labor market statistics analyzed descriptively over the recent period, complemented by business survey and case-study evidence of within-occupation shifts. No causal identification; sample details not provided.
medium null result The AI Transition: Assessing Vulnerability and Structural Re... aggregate employment levels and occupational distribution (no large net decline ...
AI adoption in Albania is driving occupational restructuring rather than producing large net job losses.
Descriptive analysis of official labor market statistics, business surveys, and selected firm case studies comparing employment levels and occupational composition over the recent period; study notes limited causal identification. Sample size not specified in summary.
medium null result The AI Transition: Assessing Vulnerability and Structural Re... aggregate employment level and occupational composition (changes in employment a...
The study is the first empirical investigation of human–AI assistance in a live CTF setting with a direct comparison to autonomous AI agents on the same fresh challenges.
Authors' positioning of their work as novel; methodology involved a live onsite CTF, instrumentation of human–AI interactions (41 participants), and direct benchmarking of four autonomous agents on the same fresh challenge set.
medium null result Understanding Human-AI Collaboration in Cybersecurity Compet... novelty claim (existence of prior comparable live CTF human–AI empirical studies...
Many early-stage AI advances have not translated into higher Phase II/III success rates.
Synthesis of reported outcomes and failures from industry experience; no new systematic statistical analysis provided.
medium null result Learning from the successes and failures of early artificial... Phase II/III clinical success rates
After roughly a decade of adoption in large biopharma, AI has not yet changed late-stage (Phase II/III) clinical success rates.
Qualitative assessment of industrywide experience and reported outcomes; statement based on narrative review rather than systematic, long-run quantitative analysis or causal estimates.
medium null result Learning from the successes and failures of early artificial... Phase II/III clinical success rates (late-stage trial success probability)
Three primary adoption archetypes in large pharma are (1) partnership-driven acceleration, (2) culture-centric transformation, and (3) production-first democratization.
Conceptual classification in the editorial derived from trends and illustrative examples rather than empirical survey or sampling; no quantitative validation provided.
medium null result AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research types of organizational approaches to AI adoption
Existing research largely focuses on general computer literacy and lacks precise measurement of the economic returns to specific vocational digital skills.
Paper's literature review and motivating statements (qualitative assessment of prior studies; no quantitative meta-analysis reported in the excerpt).
medium null result Measuring the Economic Returns of Vocational Digital Skills ... coverage/precision of prior research on economic returns to vocational digital s...
We did not observe significant differences between using Gemini (free or paid) and not using Gemini in terms of secure software development.
Statistical comparison of code-security outcomes across the three experimental groups (no AI, free Gemini, paid Gemini) in the n = 159 participant sample; the paper reports no statistically significant group differences.
medium null result The Impact of AI-Assisted Development on Software Security: ... secure software development / code security (e.g., detected vulnerabilities or s...
Collaborative ability is distinct from individual problem-solving ability.
Model-based estimates from the Bayesian IRT framework that separately parameterize collaborative ability and individual problem-solving ability, with results indicating they are separable constructs (analysis on n = 667 benchmark data).
medium null result Quantifying and Optimizing Human-AI Synergy: Evidence-Based ... separability/distinctness of model parameters for collaborative ability versus i...
Early evidence from nationally representative datasets shows limited aggregate wage and employment changes following GenAI's emergence.
Empirical analyses referenced in the paper that use nationally representative population-level datasets (specific datasets and sample sizes not provided in the excerpt).
medium null result The Impact of Generative AI on the Future of Employment: Opp... aggregate wages and employment levels
This study empirically tests a theoretically acknowledged but rarely tested relationship (AI adoption → performance conditional on structural constraints) in an emerging-economy setting.
Literature gap claim supported by the authors' review and execution of an empirical test using survey data from 280 Tunisian SMEs and PLS-SEM.
medium null result Structural Constraints as Moderators in the Ai–performance R... existence and nature of the conditional relationship between AI adoption and fir...
Institutional conditions do not exert a significant moderating influence on the relationship between AI adoption and firm performance in this sample.
PLS-SEM moderation tests on the 280 Tunisian SMEs found the institutional-environment moderator to be non-significant.
medium null result Structural Constraints as Moderators in the Ai–performance R... AI adoption → performance (moderated by institutional conditions)
Logistics efficiency does not mediate (fails to fulfill) the anticipated role in transmitting AI's effects to supply chain stability.
Mechanism/mediation tests in the DML analysis on the 45 Chinese listed SEs (2012–2023) indicate no significant mediation via logistics efficiency.
medium null result Can Artificial Intelligence Enhance the Stability of Supply ... logistics efficiency as a mediator of AI's effect on supply chain stability
The Photo Big 5 is only weakly correlated with cognitive measures such as test scores.
Correlation/associational analysis between Photo Big 5 trait scores and cognitive measures (e.g., test scores) reported for the MBA graduate sample.
medium null result AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implicati... correlation with cognitive measures / test scores
The study presents an advanced systematic ranking of I4.0 adoption barriers in the Thai automotive industry.
Paper outputs a ranked list of barriers produced by the integrated Fuzzy BWM-PROMETHEE II-DEMATEL framework; full ranked list and quantitative ranks not included in the supplied summary.
medium null result Evaluating Critical Barriers to Industry 4.0 Adoption in the... systematic ranking/prioritization of I4.0 adoption barriers
The study explores the influence of AI on HRM practice specifically within top IT companies.
Scope statement in the paper: empirical study involved HR professionals from various (described as top) IT firms. The summary does not supply the list of companies or sampling criteria.
medium null result AI-Driven Decision Making and Digital Recruitment: Transform... influence of AI on HRM practices within selected IT companies
In the sentiment-analysis task, those individual differences do not produce human–AI complementarity: the joint performance of humans and AI did not exceed that of either alone.
Empirical finding reported from the preregistered sentiment-analysis experiment showing no complementarity effect (joint human-AI performance ≤ best individual performance). (Statistical tests and sample size not included in the excerpt.)
medium null result Who Needs What Explanation? How User Traits Affect Explanati... human–AI joint performance compared to human-alone and AI-alone performance (e.g...
Self-generated (model-authored) Skills provide no average benefit.
Comparison of three evaluation conditions (no Skills, curated Skills, self-authored Skills) across SkillsBench. Averaged pass-rate deltas show that model-authored Skills do not increase average pass rate relative to baseline; analysis used 7,308 trajectories over 86 tasks and 7 agent–model configurations.
medium null result SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across ... task pass rate (average delta for self-authored Skills vs. baseline)
AI will not cause permanent mass unemployment at the aggregate level.
Analytical argument and literature synthesis using labor-economics theory (Skill-Biased Technological Change and structural transformation). No primary microdata, no stated empirical identification strategy or sample size in the paper (methodology appears to be theoretical and sectoral synthesis).
medium null result Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... aggregate employment / unemployment