The Commonplace
Home Papers Evidence Explore Trends Syntheses Digests About 🎲 Workforce Futures
Direction, evidence grade, and study type are AI-generated labels (gpt-5-mini), not human-verified. Syntheses are LLM-written. "Tensions" are machine-detected candidates, not confirmed contradictions. A research-acceleration tool, not peer review. How this is built →

Evidence (7560 claims)

Search and filter individual claims pulled from the papers. Looking for a specific finding ("what's the effect on wages?"), you're in the right place. Want to compare whole outcome categories against each other instead? Use the Evidence Explorer.

The board below groups claims two ways: by broad theme (nine paper-level topics) and by outcome category (the 34 claim-level outcomes that the Explorer and Syntheses also use).

Browse by theme

Nine broad, paper-level topics. Click one to filter the claims below.

Adoption
9875 claims
Filter claims →
Productivity
8807 claims
Filter claims →
Governance
7870 claims
Filter claims →
Human-AI Collaboration
7560 claims
Filtered →
Org Design
4892 claims
Filter claims →
Innovation
4781 claims
Filter claims →
Labor Markets
4004 claims
Filter claims →
Skills & Training
3308 claims
Filter claims →
Inequality
2332 claims
Filter claims →

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
Clear
Human Ai Collab Remove filter
Acceleration in the Generate/Take Action phase translates into durable performance only when Analyze/Prioritize is de-biased by individuals and teams, and Measure/Review converts results into reusable knowledge with appropriate inference discipline.
Thematic conclusions from the 17 interviews and cross-case analysis (Gioia methodology) identifying conditional relationships across stages of the seven-stage growth pipeline.
high mixed Reframing growth hacking in resilient startups: the role of ... durable performance of growth experiments / sustained improvement
GenAI enables small teams to expand capacity while creating new dependencies and coordination logics.
Empirical finding from 17 interviews indicating both expanded capacity and emergent dependencies/coordination needs.
high mixed From Prompt To Process: Qualitative Insights On How Genai Us... team capacity expansion and emergence of dependencies/coordination requirements
GenAI drives structural recomposition across four domains: shifting roles, AI-embedded workflows, evolving capability expectations, and leaner work architectures.
Empirical finding from thematic analysis of 17 expert interviews reported in the results.
high mixed From Prompt To Process: Qualitative Insights On How Genai Us... structural recomposition across roles, workflows, capability expectations, and w...
High-information AI improves short-run (immediate) performance without reducing post-AI outcomes on average in the experiments, but effects are heterogeneous across participants.
Experimental condition with high-information AI in the controlled logical reasoning task showing improved short-run performance and no average reduction in post-AI outcomes; heterogeneity in effects reported (sample size not provided in abstract).
high mixed The Impact of AI Usage and Informativeness on Skill Developm... short-run (immediate) performance and post-AI performance (average and heterogen...
Interpretability, trust calibration, and interface design matter, but they cover only part of what determines whether human-AI combination works.
Authors' argumentative claim based on their analysis and mapping of broader factors; presented as an evaluative conclusion rather than an empirical estimate.
high mixed Addressing the Synergy Gap: The Six Elements of the Design S... completeness of current design foci relative to factors determining effective co...
Meta-analytic evidence shows moderate but heterogeneous effects of agentic/code-generation tools on productivity.
Reference to meta-analytic synthesis across studies reported in the paper (meta-analytic details not provided in abstract).
high mixed Agentic Agile-V: From Vibe Coding to Verified Engineering in... aggregate effect on productivity across studies
The benchmark therefore assigns value to coordination only when the corresponding performance, provenance, or representation claim is supported by explicit comparators.
Concluding statement in the paper tying value of coordinated AI agents to evidence from explicit baseline/comparator evaluations across performance, provenance, and representation dimensions.
high mixed Cross-domain benchmarks reveal when coordinated AI agents im... criteria for assigning value to coordination in scientific workflows
For molecular sonification, the gain is representational rather than predictive.
Reported outcome for molecular structure to music task indicating improvements in representation/sonification quality but not in predictive performance.
high mixed Cross-domain benchmarks reveal when coordinated AI agents im... representational (sonification) quality versus predictive performance for molecu...
The economics literature uses specific quantitative arguments and methods to estimate the changes produced by automation, and there is an ongoing debate in the field about these quantification methods.
Paper presents and synthesizes economic studies and methodological approaches (task-based methods, decomposition analyses, etc.) as part of a literature review and critical discussion.
high mixed H ψηφιακή εργασία πίσω από την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: measures/estimates of automation's impact (e.g., on employment, task structure)
The study evaluates contemporary mitigation frameworks for algorithmic bias in HR settings.
Statement of the paper's evaluative aim; implies review/assessment of mitigation strategies but no specific methods or metrics provided in excerpt.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... effectiveness/characteristics of mitigation frameworks
The paper analyses three primary vectors of AI bias in hiring: data bias, interaction bias, and evaluation bias.
Stated analytic framework in the paper (categorization of bias vectors); descriptive content rather than quantified empirical result.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... types/vectors of algorithmic bias in hiring
This study examines the dual role of AI in the workplace: as a tool for bias reduction and as a potential vehicle for systemic discrimination.
Statement of the paper's research aim / framing; descriptive claim about the paper's scope rather than empirical finding.
high mixed The Algorithmic Mirror: Can Artificial Intelligence Truly Mi... AI's role in bias reduction versus discrimination in workplace decision-making
AI alters strategizing practices (Strategy-as-Practice) by making strategy processes continuous and AI-augmented rather than episodic and purely human-driven.
Conceptual synthesis of Strategy-as-Practice literature; theoretical claim about process change to continuous, AI-augmented strategizing; no empirical sample.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... temporal structure and conduct of strategizing practices
AI redistributes resource control to stakeholders, challenging the Stakeholder Resource-Based View by changing who holds and controls strategically valuable resources.
Theoretical argument within the Stakeholder Resource-Based View stream; conceptual synthesis asserting redistribution of resource control to external stakeholders and algorithmic actors; no empirical evidence reported.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... distribution of control over strategic resources
AI reconfigures ecosystems and platforms around foundation models, shifting how complementary actors interact and altering platform/ecosystem structure.
Analytical review of Ecosystems and Platforms literature; conceptual claim that foundation models act as central coordinating technologies; no empirical data or sample.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... structure and interactions within industry ecosystems and platforms
AI embeds algorithmic actors into the microfoundations of strategy, altering the role and behavior of individual-level actors that underlie firm-level phenomena.
Conceptual analysis of Microfoundations literature; theoretical proposition that algorithms act as actors at micro levels; no empirical sample provided.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... composition and behavior of micro-level actors in firms
AI creates hybrid cognitive architectures by integrating algorithmic cognition with human cognition, thereby changing how strategic decisions are made.
Theoretical argument drawing on literature in Behavioral Strategy and cognitive theory; conceptual synthesis without reported empirical tests or sample.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... architecture of decision-making/cognition in strategic contexts
AI introduces a theoretical discontinuity that challenges core assumptions of strategic management (specifically those rooted in industry-structure and resource-based perspectives).
Conceptual/theoretical analysis across literatures in strategic management; the paper synthesizes prior debates and argues AI undermines prior assumptions. No empirical sample or quantitative data reported.
high mixed Infusing Artificial Intelligence into Strategy Theory: Synth... robustness of foundational theoretical assumptions in strategic management
Some merged PRs introduce new lint or security findings while simultaneously removing existing issues (i.e., merges sometimes involve both addition and removal of issues).
Before-and-after static analysis (Pylint and Bandit) of merged PRs showing coexistence of introduced and removed findings in observed diffs.
high mixed Quality and Security Signals in AI-Generated Python Refactor... co-occurrence of introduced and removed lint/security findings in merged PRs
We examine algorithmic co-supervision (ACoS) as a hybrid control mode in which supervisors and AC systems jointly direct, evaluate, and discipline workers.
The paper's stated empirical and conceptual focus; supported by the authors' analysis of 14 real-world ACoS settings (as reported in abstract).
high mixed A Taxonomy Of Algorithmic Co-Supervision task_allocation
Managerial authority is shifting from human supervisors alone toward varying hybrid arrangements in which humans and algorithms jointly control workers.
Claim drawn from prior literature and the authors' conceptual framing; the paper also analyzes real-world settings (14) to illustrate hybrid arrangements.
high mixed A Taxonomy Of Algorithmic Co-Supervision governance_and_regulation
Cross-model validation reveals architecture-level trade-offs independent of specific LLMs: Dual Process excels at numeric/temporal queries (65-90% accuracy) while RAG excels at historical retrieval (60-85% accuracy).
Empirical cross-model tests across six LLMs; reported accuracy ranges for different query types and architectures.
high mixed Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... accuracy on numeric/temporal queries; accuracy on historical retrieval queries
Clarifying-question prompts produced mean rubric scores of 6.67 out of 8, higher than raw prompts but lower than checklist-improved prompts.
Reported mean rubric scores in the abstract showing clarifying-question prompts scored 6.67, compared to 5.67 for raw and 7.50 for checklist.
Classical categories (labour, capital, firm, market, productivity, trust) remain necessary but are incomplete for describing economic action when technologies prepare decisions, coordinate workflows, support tasks, verify transactions, and reshape responsibility.
Conceptual analysis supported by diagnostic indicators showing distributed decision/action capacity across humans, AI agents, robots, protocols, compute and energy systems; argumentative/theoretical evidence rather than causal inference.
high mixed The Agentic Economy: Humans, AI Agents, Robots, and the Meas... conceptual adequacy of economic categories
Labour projections are more consistent with task reallocation than labour disappearance.
Analysis of labour-market reallocation data and labour projections (public sources) interpreted under a task-reallocation framework rather than full employment loss, using relative growth and reallocation indicators.
high mixed The Agentic Economy: Humans, AI Agents, Robots, and the Meas... labor-market reallocation / projected employment changes
The central challenge is whether commercial influence in generative systems can be made trustworthy, i.e., attributable, measurable, contestable, and aligned with user welfare.
Normative claim and formulation of research and policy challenge presented by the authors as the central problem motivating the paper; based on their analysis of gaps in detection, measurement, and governance.
high mixed Generative AI Advertising as a Problem of Trustworthy Commer... trustworthiness attributes of commercial influence (attributable, measurable, co...
This reframes generative AI advertising as a problem of trustworthy intervention rather than content placement.
Authors' normative and conceptual reframing based on their analysis and taxonomy; presented as an argument about how to think about regulatory and design priorities.
high mixed Generative AI Advertising as a Problem of Trustworthy Commer... conceptual framing of the advertising problem (trustworthy intervention vs. cont...
High-AIC participants realized outsized gains from GenAI access; low-AIC participants saw limited or even negative marginal returns.
Subgroup analysis of the randomized experiment comparing treatment effects by AIC level; authors report large positive treatment effects for high-AIC subgroup and small or negative effects for low-AIC subgroup.
high mixed Generative AI and the Productivity Divide: Human-AI Compleme... treatment effect on task performance by AIC subgroup
The distribution of gains from GenAI access was highly uneven across users.
Experimental results showing heterogeneous effects across participants (variance/heterogeneity analyses reported in the paper).
high mixed Generative AI and the Productivity Divide: Human-AI Compleme... distribution (variance) of performance gains
The system is generically bistable, with a stable partial adoption equilibrium coexisting alongside full genuine adoption.
Analytical results from the evolutionary game-theoretic model demonstrating multiple stable equilibria (bistability). No empirical sample (theoretical proof / model analysis).
high mixed The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... equilibrium adoption state (partial vs full genuine adoption)
Doctors choose among three strategies: genuine adoption, partial adoption, and rejection, where genuine adoption is required for systemic benefits to materialise above a population threshold.
Model specification in an evolutionary game-theoretic framework; analytical description of strategy set and threshold condition. No empirical sample (theoretical model).
high mixed The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... adoption equilibrium / attainment of systemic benefits
The future of work will be shaped by decisions made at every level of society.
Normative/concluding statement in the chapter; presented as an implication of the prior analysis rather than an empirically tested claim.
high mixed 7. AI and the Future of Work influence of multi-level decisions on future labour-market outcomes
AI affects the labour market through four channels: evolution of existing roles, creation of entirely new ones, redistribution across geographies and demographics, and selective displacement concentrated among older and lower-mobility workers.
Chapter synthesises labour market data, historical analogy, and emerging workplace evidence to propose these four channels; selective displacement claim references demographic concentration (older and lower-mobility workers).
high mixed 7. AI and the Future of Work modes of labour-market impact (role evolution, new roles, geographic/demographic...
Adaptation determines who benefits from technological (AI) change.
One of five lessons; argued using historical analogy and labour market patterns (qualitative claim in chapter).
high mixed 7. AI and the Future of Work distribution of benefits from AI (who benefits)
LLMs often generate responses with the structural clarity associated with early-career engineers, yet they display persistent weaknesses in factual grounding and contextual interpretation.
Qualitative and comparative analysis of LLM responses against the expert rubric during the audit (six commercial LLMs); observed patterns in response form and substantive content.
high mixed Governance risks of AI reasoning in urban infrastructure thr... response structure and factual/contextual quality
There is a governance–task decoupling: under structural stress, text-only governance degrades on both governance and task dimensions simultaneously, whereas mechanical enforcement preserves governance quality even as task performance drops.
Experimental stress tests or structural-stress scenarios applied to both governance architectures in the paper's synthetic experiments; observed differential behavior across governance and task metrics. Abstract does not provide numeric details.
high mixed Mechanical Enforcement for LLM Governance:Evidence of Govern... relative robustness of governance quality vs task performance under structural s...
The improvement from mechanical enforcement is driven by architectural separation: LLM-generated rationales under mechanical enforcement show comparable CDL to text-only governance — the gain comes from removing clear-cut decisions from the model's control.
Analysis comparing LLM-generated rationales and a metric called CDL across governance architectures in the synthetic banking experiments; authors attribute improvement to removing certain decisions from the model's control. Specific statistics and CDL definition not provided in abstract.
high mixed Mechanical Enforcement for LLM Governance:Evidence of Govern... CDL of LLM-generated rationales (comparative constraint-level metric) and locus ...
Differences in human intervention effectiveness across escalation types are partly explained by variation in workers' post-escalation intervention effort.
Observed correlations (and subgroup comparisons) in the randomized experiment showing that measures of post-escalation effort (e.g., message counts, share of chat rounds, proactivity) vary across escalation types and relate to outcome differences.
high mixed Agentic AI and Human-in-the-Loop Interventions: Field Experi... post-escalation intervention effort and its mediating role on service outcomes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping knowledge-intensive work by automating, augmenting, and reconfiguring core professional activities.
Paper asserts this as a motivating observation based on prior literature and descriptive claims; no original empirical sample or quantified data reported.
high mixed AI-driven skill volatility and the emergence of re-skilling ... degree of automation/augmentation of professional tasks
Metis can be subdivided into 'constitutive metis' (knowledge destroyed by the act of formalization) and 'operational metis' (system-specific familiarity that automation can progressively absorb).
Conceptual taxonomy proposed by the authors; definitions and distinctions are theoretical and illustrated via argumentation and prior literature rather than quantified empirical measurement.
high mixed Metis AI: The Overlooked Middle Zone Between AI-Native and W... types of tacit/practical knowledge affecting automation
Perceived procedural improvement (participants preferring facilitation and higher reported trust) can coexist with measurable steering of outcomes and unchanged participation inequality, motivating evaluation practices treating outcomes, interaction dynamics, and perceptions as distinct governance targets.
Synthesis of the experimental findings: null effect on consensus and participation equity, positive effects on participant preference/trust, and measurable allocation shifts (up to 5.5 percentage points) across facilitation conditions in the two experiments (total N=879).
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... co-occurrence of perceived procedural improvement, allocation steering, and unch...
Facilitators shifted select charity-level allocations by up to 5.5 percentage points, directly affecting the final charitable payout.
Analysis of final group allocation outcomes across experimental conditions showing shifts in allocation to specific charities; reported maximum observed shift of 5.5 percentage points attributable to facilitator condition(s). (Study-level sample covering the two experiments; participants organized in groups of three.)
high mixed Real-Time Group Dynamics with LLM Facilitation: Evidence fro... charity-level allocation percentages (final payout shares)
Augmented work agency is shaped by whether applications are generative or non-generative, by employees' experiences of anxiety and technostress, and by micro-politics through which teams negotiate AI use and AI ethics.
Thematic findings from semistructured interviews (28 participants) and document review identifying these factors as shaping agency in practice.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... determinants shaping augmented work agency
The analysis uncovers three central tensions shaping AI-mediated work: autonomy versus orchestration; capability versus dependency; and experimentation versus ethics.
Recurring themes identified through qualitative interviews (28 participants) and document review; interpretive synthesis presented in findings.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... tensions influencing dynamics of AI-mediated work
AI integration transforms managerial practices, workforce identities and organizational coordination.
Thematic and interpretive analysis of semistructured interviews with 28 managers/professionals across 12 organizations and review of organizational documents.
high mixed Reimagining work in the age of intelligent automation: a qua... managerial practices, workforce identities, organizational coordination
Accounting for heterogeneity in AI literacy (agents' ability to identify and adapt to inaccurate AI outputs) can produce skill polarization in the long-run steady state.
Analytical/theoretical steady-state distribution analysis of agent skill dynamics with heterogeneous AI literacy parameters; paper reports conditions under which polarization emerges (theoretical, no empirical sample).
high mixed Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of S... distribution of agent skill levels (skill polarization across population)
Beyond length biases, fine-tuning amplifies sycophancy and relationship-seeking behaviours in models.
Behavioral analysis of model outputs in the within-subject experiment (530 participants) showing increased incidence/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking responses after preference fine-tuning compared to baseline models.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... frequency/intensity of sycophantic and relationship-seeking behaviours in model ...
Adapting to individual preference data yields only marginal gains over training on pooled preferences from a diverse population.
Comparison within the same within-subject experiment (530 participants) between models fine-tuned on individual preferences versus models trained on pooled preferences across participants; reported as 'marginal gains'.
high mixed PRISM-X: Experiments on Personalised Fine-Tuning with Human ... incremental improvement in human-judged preference alignment when using individu...
The dominant explanation for the gap locates it in model capability; instead, software-engineering capability emerges from a model-harness-environment system where a runtime substrate (the harness) mediates how an agent observes a project, acts on it, receives feedback, and establishes that a change is complete.
Conceptual argument and reframing presented in the paper (abstract). The paper formalizes this perspective rather than reporting a large-scale empirical test in the abstract.
high mixed AI Harness Engineering: A Runtime Substrate for Foundation-M... effect of runtime harness design on the emergence of software-engineering capabi...
There is a quality–motivation dissociation in AI-assisted goal-setting: AI-authored goals are objectively higher quality but produce lower motivation and worse behavioral follow-through.
Synthesis of experimental findings from the preregistered trial: higher SMART scores for LLM goals (d = 2.26) combined with lower self-reported motivation measures and lower two-week follow-up action rates.
high mixed Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the M... divergence between objective goal quality (SMART) and motivational/behavioral ou...