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Evidence (2332 claims)

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

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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AI should be understood as a productive rentier asset whose returns derive from constructed scarcity and access control rather than from commodity exchange.
Conceptual/theoretical framing based on political economy and sociological analysis (argumentative, no empirical sample reported).
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset basis of economic returns to AI (constructed scarcity and access control vs comm...
Experts in the study assign a 14% probability to 'rapid-progress' scenarios characterized by substantial GDP growth, declining labor force participation, and accelerating wealth inequality.
Result from the 2025 forecasting study of experts (69 economists + 52 AI experts), reporting a probability estimate (14%) for a named scenario with specified macroeconomic and labor-market features.
high negative Preparing Organizations for AI's Economic Disruption: Eviden... probability assigned to a rapid-progress scenario with substantial GDP growth, d...
Developed economies leverage educational capital to mitigate the adverse inequality effects of AI adoption.
Reported interaction/moderation findings from OLS and Random Forest analyses on the World Bank/OECD dataset showing weaker or offset association between AI adoption and Gini in higher-education / higher-development country groups.
high negative Analyzing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Adoption on ... Gini index (income inequality)
There is a substantial lag in the adoption of state-of-the-art AI techniques in RERS research.
Synthesis of methodological findings from the 59-study review, including low deep-learning usage (15%) and absence of state-of-the-art XAI/TL implementations.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... adoption of state-of-the-art AI techniques in RERS literature
Fairness auditing in RERS research is limited despite documented discrimination risks in housing markets.
Assessment of evaluation and ethical practices across the 59 reviewed studies; authors note few studies perform fairness auditing and cite broader literature on discrimination risks in housing.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... presence/absence of fairness auditing in RERS studies
The literature is dominated by residential property studies (91% of reviewed works).
Domain/topic classification of the 59 studies in the review; authors report 91% focus on residential properties.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... proportion of studies focused on residential properties
Research is geographically concentrated in Asia (56% of reviewed studies).
Geographic coding of study origins in the systematic review; authors report 56% of studies originate from Asia (n=59 total studies).
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... geographic distribution of RERS research (share from Asia)
A reliance on proprietary datasets is pervasive: 80% of reviewed studies use proprietary data.
Reported percentage (80%) derived from categorization of dataset types across the 59 reviewed studies.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... use of proprietary datasets in RERS research
No reviewed work implements state-of-the-art post hoc explainable AI (XAI) or transfer learning (TL) frameworks.
Systematic review of methods reported across 59 studies; authors state absence of implementations of state-of-the-art post hoc XAI or TL.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... implementation of state-of-the-art post hoc XAI and transfer learning frameworks...
Deep learning is employed in 15% of reviewed RERS studies.
Count/percentage reported from the systematic review of 59 studies; percentage (15%) directly reported in paper.
high negative Real Estate Recommender Systems: A PRISMA-Compliant Systemat... use of deep learning techniques in RERS studies
The effectiveness of prompt injection rapidly diminishes as more candidates inject, collapsing when manipulation becomes widespread.
Controlled experiments that vary the share of candidates performing prompt injection and observe changes in manipulation effectiveness; exact sample size not provided in the abstract.
high negative Prompt Injection in Automated Résumé Screening with Large La... change in manipulation effectiveness as measured by shifts in applicant rankings
There is a global disparity in data centre infrastructure (concentrations favouring some regions over others).
Analysis drawing on external data sources cited in the paper illustrating geographic distribution of data centre infrastructure.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... geographic distribution / concentration of data centre infrastructure
Data workers in Kenya report direct employment by big tech corporations and exposure to graphic content.
Qualitative interviews / responses from data workers in Kenya collected and reported in the paper.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... employment relationship (direct employment by big tech) and exposure to graphic ...
Hyper-datafication systematically redistributes labour risks and representational harms toward the Global South.
Qualitative responses from data workers in Kenya describing labour conditions and exposure; analysis of language data representation; external data on global data centre infrastructure and geography.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... labour risks (e.g., exposure to graphic content) and representational harms in l...
Hyper-datafication drives substantial and growing environmental costs.
Quantitative analysis of dataset growth and estimated storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint across the analysed Hugging Face datasets (≈550k); modelled storage and emissions impacts.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint
These results demonstrate how people's decision-making processes can be insufficient for overseeing AI in high-stakes domains.
Synthesis/interpretation of experimental findings (longer viewing when no AI, small increases in selection probability with more time for non-recommended candidates, IAT effects) to argue that human decision processes may not adequately supervise biased AI in high-stakes settings. This is an interpretive/concluding claim based on the experiment; not a direct empirical measure. Sample size not stated in the excerpt.
high negative Resume Screening, Fast and Slow: (Biased) AI Recommendations... adequacy of human decision-making processes for overseeing AI
Policy asymmetries, digital literacy gaps, and regional inequalities deepen digital divides and impede inclusive development.
Policy analysis and comparative case studies documenting how policy differences, literacy, and regional disparities affect digital inclusion; China used as a focal example. No quantitative sample sizes or causal estimates given in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital divide / inclusiveness of development
Agriculture remains digitally marginalized due to infrastructural and institutional deficits.
Comparative case studies and sectoral data showing lower digital adoption in agriculture; qualitative policy analysis identifies infrastructure and institutional shortcomings. No sample size or quantified adoption metrics provided in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital adoption / marginalization in agriculture
The essay introduces the concept of a 'vouching gap' to describe a growing divide between students who graduate with credible advocates willing to stake their reputations on their behalf and those who do not.
Conceptual contribution defined in the essay and motivated by social capital theory and mentoring research; no empirical quantification or sample provided.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... presence and growth of a gap in access to credible advocates among graduates
Automation of student work and candidate screening will widen existing inequalities between students.
Theoretical claim in the essay linking AI-driven automation to differential outcomes across students, motivated by social capital and mentoring literature; no empirical data or sample reported.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... distributional inequality in graduate outcomes/access to opportunities
This automation threatens to hollow out the value of a university degree.
Argument presented in the essay, grounded in social capital theory and mentoring research; no empirical test or sample size reported.
high negative Vouching towards Bethlehem: what colleges and universities o... market and signaling value of a university degree
A 'critical transmission path' can occur in which AI-induced productivity gains are weakly transmitted to households and may generate absorption tension.
Conceptual framework / theoretical argument in the review (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Labour Income and Effective Demand:... degree of transmission of productivity gains to households and resulting absorpt...
Productivity gains from AI do not automatically translate into broadly distributed welfare or into output fully absorbed by market demand.
Conceptual review / theoretical argument and literature synthesis presented in the paper (no empirical sample reported).
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Labour Income and Effective Demand:... broadly distributed real purchasing power and household consumption (i.e., distr...
The root causes of these problems include the disruption of labor relations boundaries by the transformation of the means of production, the exclusion of implicit data labor from distribution rules, the concentration of capital driven by high industry barriers, and social structural constraints on technological dissemination.
Synthesis and causal argumentation grounded in Marx's theory of reproduction; conceptual reasoning rather than empirical testing.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Structural causes of inequality and power concentration in human-machine collabo...
In the consumption phase, high costs lead to service stratification, making it difficult for technological dividends to benefit the general public.
Theoretical/qualitative argument about cost barriers and unequal access to AI-enabled services; no empirical evidence or sample sizes reported.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Distribution of benefits / access to services (service stratification, consumer ...
In the exchange phase, high barriers to entry for technology and capital foster market monopolies.
Analytical claim based on structural characteristics of AI/embodied intelligence industries; no empirical sample or quantitative measures provided in the paper.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Market concentration / monopoly formation
In the distribution phase, behavioral data unconsciously generated by workers drives algorithmic iteration yet remains excluded from the distribution system, resulting in hidden data exploitation.
Theoretical argument that worker-generated behavioral data fuels algorithmic development but is not accounted for in value distribution; no empirical data or sample reported.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Value distribution of data contributions (hidden data exploitation)
In the production stage, workers are alienated into becoming data producers.
Conceptual claim based on Marxian analysis of labor and data extraction; no empirical sample or quantitative evidence presented.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Role shift of workers toward producing data as labor
In the production stage, workers are disciplined by algorithms.
Theoretical/qualitative argument in the paper describing algorithmic management and control; no empirical measures or sample provided.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Algorithmic control/discipline over workers
In the production stage, workers lose decision-making power.
Theoretical analysis of production relations using Marxist reproduction framework; qualitative claim without reported empirical data.
high negative Challenges and Reconstruction of Human-Machine Collaboration... Workers' decision-making power
Income inequality has the opposite effect (it works against poverty reduction).
Negative and statistically significant coefficient on an income inequality measure in the CS-ARDL estimates for BRICS (2008–2023).
Automation reduces employment-based tax revenue and increases public financial pressure.
Explicit finding reported in paper; derived from the scoping review of existing literature (method: qualitative scoping review following Arksey & O'Malley). No quantitative sample or meta-analysis size reported in the abstract.
high negative Robot taxation as a fiscal policy instrument for sustainable... employment-based tax revenue / public finances
Automation often displaces workers without adequate retraining, leading to unemployment and reduced income tax contributions, which worsens income inequality.
Statement in paper's purpose/intro; synthesized from the literature via a qualitative scoping review (framework of Arksey & O'Malley). No primary empirical sample size reported in the abstract.
high negative Robot taxation as a fiscal policy instrument for sustainable... worker displacement, unemployment, and reduced income tax contributions leading ...
These findings highlight the risk of bias propagation in AI-assisted writing, calling for fairness-aware design in educational AI tools.
Authors' conclusion and recommendation based on the experimental results described above (N = 123 study showing bias transfer).
high negative Contaminated Collaboration: Measuring Gender Bias Transfer i... risk of bias propagation and need for fairness-aware design
Comparing a six-group score spread against a two-run noise difference overstates disparity by approximately 2.4X through statistic arity alone.
Methodological comparison reported in pilot analysis showing that using a six-group spread versus a two-run noise baseline produces ~2.4X larger apparent disparity attributable to arity; based on pilot dataset and statistical comparisons.
high negative AgentFairBench: Do LLM Agents Discriminate When They Act? degree of overstatement of disparity when using higher-arity statistic versus tw...
We should not train AIs to share those specific value systems (i.e., we should not align AI to aggregated or particular human value sets that may be oppressive or unhealthy).
Normative recommendation offered by the authors as part of their argumentation; presented without empirical quantification in the abstract.
high negative Position: Align AI to Our Aspirations, Not Our Flaws policy/ethical prescription for AI alignment targets
Aligning AI to aggregated human preferences is the wrong target.
Normative/argumentative claim stated in the paper; no empirical sample, presented as the authors' thesis.
high negative Position: Align AI to Our Aspirations, Not Our Flaws alignment target (aggregated human preferences)
These mechanisms produce ethical harms such as accountability deficits, epistemic injustice, labour precarity, and constrained sovereignty.
Reported synthesis finding drawing on the reviewed literature (50 articles) linking the named mechanisms to listed ethical harms.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... ethical harms (accountability deficits, epistemic injustice, labour precarity, c...
These dynamics operate through four mechanisms: epistemic templating, governance transfer, infrastructural lock-in, and labour opacity.
The paper reports these four mechanisms as the pathways identified via the critical synthesis of the 50 articles.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... mechanisms by which power asymmetries are reproduced
The analysis identifies four interrelated dynamics—algorithmic colonialism, data colonialism, platform imperialism, and platform sub-imperialism—through which dependency and domination are reproduced across global and intra-South contexts.
Synthesis of the 50 reviewed peer-reviewed articles; these dynamics are reported as the paper's analytical findings.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... dynamics reproducing dependency and domination
AI adoption may reproduce entrenched inequalities in postcolonial contexts.
Critical synthesis (literature review) of 50 peer-reviewed articles from 2019–2025 reported by the paper.
high negative AI ethics in postcolonial contexts: a critical synthesis of ... reproduction of entrenched inequalities
The study identifies specific retention issues including rigid work practices, a predominantly masculine culture, and occurrences of bullying and harassment.
Findings from thematic analysis of 23 interviews using NVivo 13; participants' accounts raised these specific themes as retention-related issues.
high negative Exploring digital’s role in retaining women in construction presence of workplace practices and culture (rigid practices, masculine culture,...
Women in UK construction continue to face major retention challenges driven by structural biases that lead to feelings of disrespect, insufficient support, and being undervalued.
Thematic analysis of 23 qualitative interviews with women involved in digitally enabled projects; participants reported experiences and perceptions related to retention and workplace culture.
high negative Exploring digital’s role in retaining women in construction feelings of respect, support, and value (RSV) as drivers of retention
Women make up less than 15% of the UK construction workforce.
Statement in the paper likely citing national labour/industry statistics or prior literature (not primary data from this study).
One in three Scheduled Tribe (ST) graduates work in farm or elementary occupations untouched by AI.
Occupational distribution from PLFS 2025 after mapping AI-exposure indices; reported share of ST graduates in farm/elementary (AI-unexposed) occupations in the 83,000-employed-graduate sample.
high negative The Privilege of Exposure: Caste and Generative AI in India'... share of ST graduates employed in farm or elementary (AI-unexposed) occupations
One in four Scheduled Caste (SC) graduates work in farm or elementary occupations untouched by AI.
Occupational distribution from PLFS 2025 after mapping AI-exposure indices; reported share of SC graduates in farm/elementary (AI-unexposed) occupations in the 83,000-employed-graduate sample.
high negative The Privilege of Exposure: Caste and Generative AI in India'... share of SC graduates employed in farm or elementary (AI-unexposed) occupations
Graduates from the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes are 0.24--0.37 standard deviations less exposed than upper-caste graduates within the same district.
Within-district comparisons using three occupational AI-exposure indices mapped to PLFS 2025; reported standardized exposure differences for SC and ST graduates relative to upper-caste graduates in the 83,000-employed-graduate sample.
high negative The Privilege of Exposure: Caste and Generative AI in India'... AI exposure index (standardized)
Reporting on ethics, transparency and governance was inconsistent.
Reported synthesis result from the scoping review noting variability in reporting practices across included studies.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... consistency of reporting on ethics, transparency and governance in the literatur...
Formal theory use was limited, with only a small minority of studies explicitly drawing on established frameworks.
Authors' assessment of methodological/theoretical characteristics of the included empirical studies in the scoping review.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... use of formal theoretical frameworks in studies
Fewer studies evaluated individual-facing developmental support, and sustained career outcomes were rarely measured.
Reported gap identified in the scoping review findings summarised in the abstract.
high negative Artificial intelligence applications supporting women’s care... number of studies evaluating individual-facing developmental support and measure...