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Evidence (4114 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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In multi-good economies, a planner can raise poor agents' real incomes not only by affecting factor incomes but also by focusing technological progress on making goods cheaper that are disproportionately consumed by poorer agents.
Extension of the baseline model to multiple goods (Section 5) identifying distributional consumption-channel effects.
high positive Steering Technological Progress real income of poorer agents
When capital and labor are gross complements, a planner concerned with workers' welfare would favor capital-augmenting innovations to raise wages.
Analytical result from a factor-augmenting application of the paper's model examining complementarity conditions between capital and labor.
high positive Steering Technological Progress wages
A welfare-maximizing planner will impose positive robot taxes when robots substitute for human labor, with the optimal tax rate increasing in the planner's concern for workers' welfare.
Model application to robot taxation presented in the paper; comparative statics on planner weights.
high positive Steering Technological Progress optimal robot tax rate
When redistribution is costly or incomplete, production efficiency is no longer optimal and a planner will distort technology choice to improve distribution (i.e., engage more in steering).
Theoretical derivation extending Atkinson-Stiglitz framework with endogenous technology and costly redistribution; comparative statics on redistribution cost.
high positive Steering Technological Progress extent of technological steering
The welfare benefits of steering technological progress are greater the less efficient social safety nets are.
Theoretical result derived in the paper's baseline and extended models analyzing a planner who can shape technology choices and faces costly/incomplete redistribution.
high positive Steering Technological Progress welfare benefits of technological steering
Under an extreme calibration where A.I. makes the entire economy grow like the computer industry, growth 'explodes' with incomes becoming infinite in finite time; infinite income does not occur until around 2060 even in this extreme calibration.
Simulation of the endogenous-automation endogenous-growth model calibrated to the fast-automation (computer industry) scenario.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... occurrence and timing of a finite-time singularity (infinite income) in simulate...
Simulating the calibrated endogenous-automation model under an 'A.I. as a continuation of historical patterns' calibration yields growth rates reaching only 2.5% by 2075.
Forward simulations of an endogenous-growth model calibrated to historical private business sector patterns (model + calibration + simulation).
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... projected economy-wide growth rate by 2075
The main benefit of automation is that it allows production of a task to shift from slowly-improving human labor to rapidly-improving machines.
Theoretical argument within the task-based model and supporting historical accounting showing faster capital-augmenting productivity growth relative to labor.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... contribution of automation to productivity/TFP growth
At the task level, capital productivity has grown at least 3 percentage points per year faster than labor productivity.
Historical task-level growth accounting across sectors using BEA/BLS data and the paper's task-based decomposition; statement appears in abstract and introduction summarizing empirical findings across sectors.
high positive Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... gap in growth rates between capital productivity and labor productivity at the t...
Historically, TFP growth is driven primarily by improvements in capital productivity.
Growth accounting using a task-based model applied to aggregate U.S. data (BEA and BLS) and industry-level data; theoretical decomposition separating capital-augmenting, labor-augmenting, and "other" productivity components.
AI facilitates access to distant knowledge domains.
Theoretical model (Schumpeterian quality-ladder recombinant-innovation framework). The paper models R&D as recombining ideas across a knowledge space and shows analytically that AI increases firms' ability to combine ideas across longer distances.
high positive Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... access to distant knowledge domains (distance of recombinations)
Applying the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) allows the study to capture heterogeneous impacts of robotics across performance levels.
Authors describe use of MMQR in methodology and justify it as appropriate for detecting heterogeneity across quantiles of the dependent variable (value added).
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... heterogeneity of estimated impacts across quantiles
The study uses panel data from Eurostat, the International Federation of Robotics (2024), and World Robotics covering three key sectors in selected EU countries.
Data sources explicitly listed in the paper (Eurostat, IFR 2024, World Robotics); the scope is described as three key sectors in selected EU countries.
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... data coverage / sample scope
Policymakers should support automation through fiscal incentives, invest in reskilling programs, and develop innovation strategies tailored to specific sectors to foster inclusive and sustainable growth.
Policy recommendations derived from empirical findings showing heterogeneous effects of robot density, R&D and human capital across sectors; authors explicitly recommend fiscal incentives, reskilling, and sector-targeted innovation strategies.
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... policy intervention recommendations aiming at inclusive and sustainable growth
The paper’s novelty lies in its differentiated, cross-sectoral approach integrating technological adoption (robotics) with sectoral gross value added using advanced econometric techniques (MMQR).
Authors state the study's contribution is differentiated cross-sectoral analysis and use of MMQR to capture heterogeneous impacts; methodological description provided in paper.
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... methodological contribution / sectoral analysis of value creation
The positive effect of robot density on value added is particularly strong in higher-performing sectors (i.e., at higher quantiles of the value-added distribution).
Results from MMQR showing heterogeneous impacts across performance levels/quantiles; authors state larger positive coefficients of robot density at upper quantiles.
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... gross value added across quantiles (sector performance levels)
Increased robot density significantly enhances value added.
Empirical analysis using panel data (Eurostat, International Federation of Robotics 2024, World Robotics) estimated with Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR); gross value added used as dependent variable and robot density as a core explanatory variable; authors report statistically significant positive coefficients.
high positive Automation and growth in the European Union: sectoral insigh... gross value added (value added)
The proposed framework outlines a pathway toward large-scale cooperative intelligence and offers a constructive perspective on the coevolution of human and artificial agents in the informational ecosystems of the future.
Claim about the paper's contribution; based on conceptual synthesis and theoretical framing rather than empirical validation.
high positive A Case for Coevolution emergence of large-scale cooperative intelligence
A voluntary ecosystem of free rational agents, human and artificial, who cooperate through transparent and fair exchange of information maximizes their adaptive capacity and long-term well-being.
Normative proposition in the paper derived from theoretical principles (information theory, collective intelligence); presented as a proposed ideal rather than an empirically tested policy.
high positive A Case for Coevolution adaptive capacity and long-term well-being of participating agents
Emerging opportunities exist for stabilizing these ecosystems through new forms of informational verification and monitoring made possible by advanced artificial agents.
Forward-looking claim grounded in conceptual analysis of capabilities of advanced agents; proposed as an opportunity in the paper rather than demonstrated empirically.
high positive A Case for Coevolution stability of informational ecosystems via verification and monitoring tools
Systems that preserve diversity of exploration while minimizing barriers to information exchange exhibit superior capacity for discovery and adaptation in complex environments.
Theoretical claim supported by the paper's appeal to principles from information theory, adaptive systems, and collective intelligence; presented as an argument rather than as empirically validated result.
high positive A Case for Coevolution capacity for discovery and adaptation
The primary contribution is a controlled agent-payment infrastructure and reference architecture that demonstrates how agentic access monetization can be adapted to fiat systems without discarding security and policy guarantees.
Summary of the paper's claimed contribution (architectural demonstration and reference implementation).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... existence of a controlled agent-payment infrastructure adapting monetization to ...
Multiple trial runs show low variance across scenarios, demonstrating high reproducibility with 95% confidence intervals.
Reported statistical characterization from repeated trials in the paper (statement of low variance and 95% confidence intervals across scenarios).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... variance / reproducibility across scenarios (95% CIs reported)
Security mechanisms impose low latency overhead (19.6ms average).
Performance measurement reported in the paper's experiments (average latency overhead reported as 19.6ms).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... latency overhead introduced by security mechanisms
Security mechanisms achieve 100% block rate for both replay attacks and invalid tokens.
Experimental security evaluation reported in the paper (block rate reported at 100% for replay attacks and invalid tokens).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... block rate for replay attacks and invalid tokens
The system uses FastAPI, SQLite, and Python standard libraries, making it transparent, inspectable, and reproducible.
Implementation stack specified in the paper and availability of reference implementation; asserted reproducibility.
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... technology stack and reproducibility/inspectability of the implementation
APEX implements a challenge–settle–consume lifecycle with HMAC-signed short-lived tokens, idempotent settlement handling, and policy-aware payment approval.
Implementation details described in the methods/architecture section and supported by the provided reference implementation.
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... presence of challenge–settle–consume lifecycle and specific security/payment mec...
We present APEX, an implementation-complete research system that adapts HTTP 402-style payment gating to UPI-like fiat workflows while preserving policy-governed spend control, tokenized access verification, and replay resistance.
System design and implementation presented in the paper (codebase built using FastAPI, SQLite, Python; demonstration/implementation claimed).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... ability to adapt HTTP 402-style gating to UPI-like fiat while preserving spend c...
API providers need request-level monetization with programmatic spend governance.
Normative recommendation in the paper (argumentation rather than empirical evidence).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... need for request-level monetization and spend governance
Autonomous agents are moving beyond simple retrieval tasks to become economic actors that invoke APIs, sequence workflows, and make real-time decisions.
Framing statement / literature-motivated claim in the paper's introduction (qualitative argumentation, no experimental sample reported).
high positive APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Age... agents invoking APIs, sequencing workflows, and making real-time decisions (agen...
The future of transformative transformer-based AI is fundamentally many, not one.
Concluding synthesis and normative prediction based on the paper's theoretical arguments and literature synthesis; no empirical data or quantified projection provided in the excerpt.
high positive The Future of AI is Many, Not One architectural and organizational form of future transformative AI (multi-agent/d...
Developing diverse AI teams addresses critics' concerns that current models are constrained by past data and lack the creative insight required for innovation.
Argumentative claim drawing on conceptual critique of current models and the proposed remedy of diverse AI teams; supported by referenced disciplinary literatures but no empirical validation provided in the excerpt.
high positive The Future of AI is Many, Not One creative insight and capacity for innovation in AI systems
Having a diverse team broadens the search for solutions, delays premature consensus, and allows for the pursuit of unconventional approaches.
Theoretical/argumentative claim referencing literature in complex systems and organizational behavior as support; no quantitative evidence or sample reported in the excerpt.
high positive The Future of AI is Many, Not One search breadth, timing of consensus formation, and pursuit of unconventional sol...
Deep intellectual breakthroughs should be expected to come from epistemically diverse groups of AI agents working together rather than singular superintelligent agents.
Predictive/theoretical claim motivated by referenced research and formal results in complex systems, organizational behavior, and philosophy of science; no empirical experiment or sample size given in the excerpt.
high positive The Future of AI is Many, Not One occurrence of deep intellectual breakthroughs (scientific/innovative discoveries...
We should abandon the individual approach if we're hoping for AI to support groundbreaking innovation and scientific discovery.
Normative prescription based on theoretical argument and synthesis of literature from complex systems, organizational behavior, and philosophy of science; no empirical trial or quantified evaluation reported in the excerpt.
high positive The Future of AI is Many, Not One ability of AI to support groundbreaking innovation and scientific discovery
AI innovation achieves corporate low-carbon development by reorienting investment toward green assets.
Mechanism analysis reported in the paper (mediation/path analysis) using the same 21,428 firm-year observations; investment reorientation toward green assets identified as a mediation path.
high positive Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (mediated via investment reorientation towar...
AI innovation achieves corporate low-carbon development by upgrading emission-reducing production processes.
Mechanism analysis reported in the paper (mediation/path analysis) on the 21,428 firm-year sample; production-process upgrades identified as a mediation path.
high positive Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (mediated via production process upgrades)
AI innovation achieves corporate low-carbon development by optimizing low-carbon organizational governance.
Mechanism analysis reported in the paper (mediation/path analysis) using the same sample of 21,428 firm-year observations; paper identifies organizational governance optimization as one of three mediation paths.
high positive Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Internal Structure Optim... corporate carbon emission intensity (mediated via organizational governance chan...
Improvements in operational resilience enhance firms' capacity for sustainable development.
Further analysis in the paper showing a positive relationship between OR improvements and indicators of firms' sustainable development capacity.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... capacity for sustainable development
The enabling effect of AI on operational resilience is more pronounced for capital-intensive enterprises.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis showing larger AI effects on OR for capital-intensive firms.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... operational resilience (OR) — heterogeneous treatment effect by capital intensit...
The enabling effect of AI on operational resilience is more pronounced for technology-intensive enterprises.
Heterogeneity/subsample tests reported in the paper indicating stronger AI effects on OR for technology-intensive firms.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... operational resilience (OR) — heterogeneous treatment effect by technology inten...
The enabling effect of AI on operational resilience is more pronounced for enterprises in the growth stage.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis showing larger AI-induced OR gains among firms classified as in the growth stage.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... operational resilience (OR) — heterogeneous treatment effect by firm life-cycle ...
The enabling effect of AI on operational resilience is more pronounced for enterprises located in the coastal eastern region.
Heterogeneity/subsample analysis reported in the paper showing larger AI effects for firms in the coastal eastern region compared to other regions.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... operational resilience (OR) — heterogeneous treatment effect by region
AI promotes operational resilience by optimizing supply chain allocation performance.
Mechanism tests in the paper linking AI adoption to improved supply chain allocation/performance metrics, which are associated with higher OR.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... supply chain allocation performance
Application of AI significantly enhances corporate operational resilience (OR).
Staggered DID estimation exploiting AIIAPZ policy as quasi-natural experiment on Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms (2012–2023); main regression results reported as significant.
high positive Does Artificial Intelligence Improve the Operational Resilie... operational resilience (OR)
Voluntary safety commitments can sustain cooperative (higher-quality) outcomes when they are observable and credible.
Theoretical analysis of an equilibrium with voluntary, observable commitments: when commitments are binding/credible and observable, firms can coordinate to avoid preemption and achieve cooperative outcomes.
high positive Optimal Release Timing of AI Systems: A Strategic Analysis w... sustaining cooperative (higher-quality) release outcomes via voluntary safety co...
Minimum quality standards can implement the first-best outcome.
Theoretical policy analysis within the model: imposing a minimum quality threshold for release is shown to align private incentives with the social optimum, implementing the first-best.
high positive Optimal Release Timing of AI Systems: A Strategic Analysis w... achievement of the social optimum (first-best) via regulatory minimum quality st...
The empirical results are robust across parallel trend analysis, placebo tests, propensity score matching (PSM), and alternative measures of sustainable performance.
Reported battery of robustness checks listed in the abstract (parallel trend, placebo, PSM, alternative outcome measures).
high positive The impact of R&D innovation strategy on the sustainable... robustness of estimated policy effect on sustainable development performance
The R&D deduction policy has stronger effects on larger-scale firms.
Heterogeneity analysis reported in the paper showing larger estimated effects for firms of larger scale.
high positive The impact of R&D innovation strategy on the sustainable... heterogeneous treatment effect on sustainable development performance (by firm s...
The R&D deduction policy has stronger effects on non-state-owned firms.
Heterogeneity analysis contrasting policy effects between state-owned and non-state-owned firms reported in the paper.
high positive The impact of R&D innovation strategy on the sustainable... heterogeneous treatment effect on sustainable development performance (by owners...