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Evidence (4793 claims)

Adoption
5539 claims
Productivity
4793 claims
Governance
4333 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
3326 claims
Labor Markets
2657 claims
Innovation
2510 claims
Org Design
2469 claims
Skills & Training
2017 claims
Inequality
1378 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 402 112 67 480 1076
Governance & Regulation 402 192 122 62 790
Research Productivity 249 98 34 311 697
Organizational Efficiency 395 95 70 40 603
Technology Adoption Rate 321 126 73 39 564
Firm Productivity 306 39 70 12 432
Output Quality 256 66 25 28 375
AI Safety & Ethics 116 177 44 24 363
Market Structure 107 128 85 14 339
Decision Quality 177 76 38 20 315
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 89 58 33 22 209
Employment Level 77 34 80 9 202
Skill Acquisition 92 33 40 9 174
Innovation Output 120 12 23 12 168
Firm Revenue 98 34 22 154
Consumer Welfare 73 31 37 7 148
Task Allocation 84 16 33 7 140
Inequality Measures 25 77 32 5 139
Regulatory Compliance 54 63 13 3 133
Error Rate 44 51 6 101
Task Completion Time 88 5 4 3 100
Training Effectiveness 58 12 12 16 99
Worker Satisfaction 47 32 11 7 97
Wages & Compensation 53 15 20 5 93
Team Performance 47 12 15 7 82
Automation Exposure 24 22 9 6 62
Job Displacement 6 38 13 57
Hiring & Recruitment 41 4 6 3 54
Developer Productivity 34 4 3 1 42
Social Protection 22 10 6 2 40
Creative Output 16 7 5 1 29
Labor Share of Income 12 5 9 26
Skill Obsolescence 3 20 2 25
Worker Turnover 10 12 3 25
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Current simulation practice is insufficiently integrated with enabling technologies (digital twins, data analytics, AI/ML) and with relevant government policy constraints.
Synthesis of literature and gap analysis in the paper; assertions are conceptual and not empirically tested within the paper.
medium negative A Review of Manufacturing Operations Research Integration in... level of integration between simulation models and enabling technologies/policy ...
Current simulation practice has limited strategic orientation, often focusing more on tactical and operational questions than on firm strategy.
Literature review and analysis in the paper highlighting the emphasis in existing studies on tactical/operational problems.
medium negative A Review of Manufacturing Operations Research Integration in... strategic relevance of simulation research and models
Current simulation practice lacks contextualization to firm‑ and industry‑specific realities.
Findings from the paper's literature review and critique sections; no new empirical measurement provided.
medium negative A Review of Manufacturing Operations Research Integration in... degree of firm/industry contextualization in simulation models
Current manufacturing and supply‑chain simulation practices are insufficiently contextualized, strategically focused, or integrated with modern technologies and policy considerations.
Literature review and critique of existing simulation practice presented in the paper; no original empirical data or case studies.
medium negative A Review of Manufacturing Operations Research Integration in... simulation relevance (contextualization, strategic alignment, technology and pol...
Personalization raises distributional concerns and risks of manipulation or biased treatment; regulators may need to set transparency, fairness, and data-use standards.
Policy analysis and normative recommendation based on known risks of personalization systems; not empirically demonstrated in robotic deployments here.
medium negative Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundation... incidence of biased treatment, transparency compliance, regulatory adoption rate...
LLM-based personalization generates context-aware responses but often fails to model long-term preferences and fine-grained user/item relations needed for consistent, proactive personalization.
Conceptual critique based on surveyed limitations of LLM-based approaches; no new experimental data reported.
medium negative Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundation... consistency of personalization over time, representation of long-term user prefe...
Trade policy (trade openness) should be modeled as a moderating factor when estimating technology-driven urban outcomes because openness can dampen local price effects of digital trade.
Inference based on the reported negative moderation effect of trade openness on the digital-trade → house-price relationship from interaction regressions.
medium negative Is digital trade affecting city house prices? An artificial ... city-level house prices (policy implication)
Greater trade openness weakens (attenuates) the positive effect of digital trade on city-level house prices.
Interaction terms between digital trade and a measure of trade openness in the panel regressions; reported negative moderation effect (exact openness measure and sample details not provided).
medium negative Is digital trade affecting city house prices? An artificial ... city-level house prices
Policy and regulatory vacuum (data governance, interoperability, safeguards) limits scale and inclusive diffusion of AI in agriculture.
Authors' thematic finding from reviewed literature and institutional reports noting weak policy frameworks and governance gaps.
medium negative A systematic review of the economic impact of artificial int... policy/regulatory environment effects on adoption and inclusivity
Limited digital literacy and human capacity among smallholders is a key barrier to adoption and effective use of AI solutions.
Multiple studies and reports in the review documenting low digital literacy, limited extension capacity, and training needs among target users.
medium negative A systematic review of the economic impact of artificial int... adoption and effective use of AI tools; digital literacy metrics
Scalable adoption of AI in developing-country agriculture is constrained by infrastructure gaps (connectivity, power, data platforms).
Thematic synthesis across reviewed studies and reports identifying recurring infrastructure constraints limiting deployment and scale-up.
medium negative A systematic review of the economic impact of artificial int... adoption rates / scalability mediated by connectivity, power, platform availabil...
Data governance, privacy, and cybersecurity risks can create negative externalities and raise adoption costs, requiring governance frameworks that affect social welfare outcomes.
Recurring risk themes across reviewed papers (conceptual analyses, case reports) that highlight governance and cybersecurity concerns associated with DT data.
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... adoption costs, negative externalities, social welfare impacts
Principal barriers to DT adoption include paper‑based or legacy regulatory/compliance processes that slow digitisation.
Findings from reviewed studies noting regulatory and compliance processes as impediments to digital handover and automated workflows.
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... regulatory/compliance digitisation level and its impact on adoption
Principal barriers to DT adoption include misaligned stakeholder incentives and fragmented project delivery models.
Synthesis of conceptual and case literature describing contractual and incentive misalignments that impede lifecycle data continuity.
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... stakeholder incentive alignment / project delivery fragmentation
Principal barriers to DT adoption include low digital maturity and uneven capabilities across supply chains.
Recurring observations in the literature review about heterogeneous digital skills and maturity across firms in the supply chain.
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... digital maturity/capability distribution across supply chain
Principal barriers to DT adoption include data quality and continuity problems at handover.
Thematic synthesis across reviewed literature reporting frequent issues with data quality and handover continuity between project phases.
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... data quality/continuity issues at handover
Principal barriers to DT adoption include interoperability gaps and lack of standards.
Thematic findings from qualitative synthesis of the 160 reviewed studies (recurring theme across conceptual papers, case studies and pilots).
medium negative Digital Twins Across the Asset Lifecycle: Technical, Organis... presence of interoperability/standards barriers affecting adoption
ANN analysis ranks need-for-human-interaction barriers as the most important predictor of GAICS adoption outcome.
ANN feature-importance analysis reported in the paper that ranks predictors for adoption outcome and finds the human-interaction barrier as the top predictor; paper abstract does not include details on ANN implementation or sample characteristics.
medium negative Reimagining Stakeholder Engagement Through Generative AI: A ... GAICS adoption (likelihood/decision to adopt)
Platformization and data moats in digital lending can increase concentration risks: firms with richer data histories gain sustained access to cheaper finance, potentially raising market concentration.
Market structure analysis and conceptual synthesis of two‑sided platform economics applied to fintech; argued via theoretical mechanisms and qualitative observations rather than new empirical measurement of concentration effects.
medium negative Traditional vs. contemporary financing models for MSMEs and ... market concentration in finance access, differential access/costs based on data ...
Contemporary financing alternatives introduce new risks including data/privacy vulnerabilities, regulatory compliance gaps, and lender heterogeneity.
Synthesis of regulatory and institutional context and qualitative assessment of financing models; supported by discussion of practical risks observed in case studies and literature on digital finance governance.
medium negative Traditional vs. contemporary financing models for MSMEs and ... risk exposure (data/privacy breaches, compliance risk, variability in lender pra...
Lowered cost and faster design cycles increase biosecurity and dual‑use concerns, and therefore economic policy should consider regulation, liability, and monitoring.
Paper raises these concerns in 'Externalities, regulation, and biosecurity'; it is a policy recommendation based on reduced barriers to design rather than empirical incidents presented in the text.
medium negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... risk level for biosecurity/dual‑use stemming from faster, cheaper design cycles ...
High compute requirements favor incumbents with capital and cloud access, increasing barriers to entry and potential for market concentration in biotech AI.
Paper argues this in 'Capital, compute, and concentration', linking compute intensity to entry barriers; no quantitative thresholds or firm‑level data are presented.
medium negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... barriers to entry and market concentration metrics in biotech AI
Economic value and competitive advantage will concentrate around entities that control large sequence/structure datasets, compute resources, and refined models (platform effects).
Paper states this as a likely market outcome in 'Market structure and value capture' and 'Capital, compute, and concentration' sections; no quantitative market analysis is provided.
medium negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... degree of value capture/market concentration by organizations with data, compute...
Students raised concerns about ChatGPT producing factual errors, the risk of overreliance that could reduce independent thinking, and functional constraints of free ChatGPT versions.
Qualitative analysis of open-ended student survey responses; concerns consistently reported across responses in the sample of 254 students.
medium negative Expanding the lens: multi-institutional evidence on student ... student-reported concerns and perceived risks
Biased or unrepresentative AI outputs produce negative externalities, including maladaptation and inefficient investments in vulnerable regions.
Conceptual analysis and illustrative cases linking misleading model outputs to maladaptive decisions; the paper notes risks rather than providing quantified incidence or cost estimates.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Incidence of maladaptation and associated economic inefficiencies attributable t...
Returns to scale in compute and data favor incumbents; without intervention this dynamic can entrench inequality in the global climate-information market.
Economic theory of returns to scale combined with observed compute concentration; no empirical elasticity or returns-to-scale estimates provided.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Degree to which compute/data scale advantages increase incumbents' market share ...
Concentration of compute and model development creates market power for Northern institutions and companies, likely leading to unequal pricing, control over standards, and capture of high-value climate services.
Descriptive mapping of concentration plus economic analysis of market structure and returns to scale; illustrative rather than quantitatively proven across markets.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Market power indicators (pricing, standard-setting control, market share in clim...
Rapid AI adoption without a shift from model-centric to data- and equity-centric development risks producing systematically worse performance and misleading recommendations for the most climate-vulnerable, data-sparse regions.
Synthesis of domain-specific case studies (weather/climate, impact models, LLMs) and conceptual causal tracing demonstrating how infrastructure asymmetry can degrade outputs in vulnerable regions; evidence illustrative rather than causal-estimate based.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Model performance and recommendation quality in climate-vulnerable, data-sparse ...
Large language models (LLMs) that rely on dominant, textualized climate knowledge tend to foreground Northern epistemologies and marginalize local or indigenous knowledge, reinforcing biases in climate narratives and recommendations.
Case studies and analysis of training-corpus composition and output examples illustrating the dominance of Northern textual sources and examples of sidelining local knowledge; no large-scale audit results provided.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Representation of local/indigenous knowledge in LLM outputs and bias in generate...
In climate impact modelling, sparse and unrepresentative exposure and vulnerability data combined with inadequate validation generate high uncertainty and risk of misleading interventions and maladaptation in vulnerable locales.
Targeted case studies and literature synthesis showing gaps in exposure/vulnerability datasets and validation failures; argument is illustrated rather than quantified across all systems.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Uncertainty in impact estimates and likelihood of misleading policy/intervention...
In weather and climate modelling, historically and spatially biased observational data produce systematic performance gaps in under-observed tropical and low-income regions, reducing forecast fidelity where adaptive capacity is lowest.
Comparative, domain-specific case studies and literature review documenting observational data sparsity and illustrative empirical performance gaps; no single cross-system statistical estimate provided.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Forecast fidelity/accuracy in under-observed tropical and low-income regions (mo...
The geographic concentration of compute and model development creates path dependence: model design, training datasets, and validation reflect Northern priorities and contexts.
Conceptual analysis supported by cross-disciplinary synthesis and illustrative case studies showing dataset selection, validation practices, and model design choices aligned with Northern contexts rather than global representativeness.
medium negative The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Im... Degree of alignment between model design/validation choices and Northern (vs. lo...
Creators who systematize high-throughput AI workflows or control distribution channels may capture outsized returns, potentially increasing winner-take-most dynamics on platforms.
Theoretical implication extrapolated from observed high-throughput practices and monetization strategies in the 377 videos; not directly measured or quantified in the dataset.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... earnings concentration / market concentration effects (suggested, not measured)
Widespread unverifiable income claims and promotional framing create noisy signals about viable earnings, complicating entrants’ investment decisions and labor market expectations.
Analytical inference based on the documented prevalence of unverifiable earnings claims in the 377 videos and theory about market signaling; not quantitatively tested in the paper.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... information quality / market signaling affecting entrant decisions (hypothesized...
GenAI lowers the time and skill cost of producing many types of creative outputs, which can increase content supply and exert downward pressure on wages for routine creative tasks.
Inference drawn as an implication from observed practices (e.g., mass production workflows) in the 377 videos and existing literature; not directly measured in this study.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... potential change in labor costs, content supply, and wage pressure (not empirica...
Creators and the community knowledge base document shifting norms around authorship and attribution: GenAI blurs who is considered the creator and complicates labor recognition and rights.
Coding captured explicit discussion and contested norms about authorship, attribution, and creator identity across the 377 videos.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... frequency and content of discussions about authorship and attribution
Some creators recommend or describe synthetic engagement practices (e.g., automated posting, synthetic comments/engagement) as tactics to inflate visibility.
Thematic coding noted advice or descriptions of engagement-inflating tactics across videos in the 377-video corpus.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... presence of recommendations for synthetic or automated engagement tactics
Creators surface and often employ practices that raise content misappropriation concerns (use of copyrighted or third-party material in synthetic outputs).
Instances and discussions captured in the 377-video sample where creators show or recommend synthesizing, transforming, or repurposing third‑party content.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... occurrence of recommendations or demonstrations involving third-party/copyrighte...
Many videos advertise earnings or income claims that are unverifiable within the content, producing noisy market signals.
Qualitative observations from coding the 377 videos noting frequent asserted earnings without reproducible evidence or transparent accounting.
medium negative Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... presence of unverifiable income/earnings claims in videos
Numerical simulations using calibrated parameter sets produce phase diagrams and time-paths that show when gradual adjustment transitions into explosive demand collapse and financial stress under different combinations of capability growth, diffusion speed, and reinstatement rate.
Calibrated numerical simulation experiments described in the methods and results sections, using FRED, BLS, and occupational AI-exposure inputs and varying key model parameters.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... simulated time-paths of labor income, consumption, AI adoption, intermediary mar...
Because consumption is concentrated and top incomes have high AI exposure, shocks to top-income labor/income disproportionately affect aggregate consumption and thereby threaten private credit and mortgage markets — the paper maps plausible exposures to roughly $2.5 trillion of global private credit and about $13 trillion of mortgages.
Calibration exercise linking household-level demand shocks (based on concentration and AI-exposure mapping) to aggregate credit and mortgage aggregates; reported dollar-amount mappings in the paper's scenarios.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... aggregate consumption loss and exposed credit/mortgage balances (USD trillions)
Top-quintile households are also the cohort with the highest measured AI exposure (i.e., incomes/occupations most exposed to AI substitution), increasing the concentration of AI-driven demand risk.
Mapping occupation-level AI-exposure indices to household income quantiles using BLS occupation employment and wage data; used in calibration and scenario analysis.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... AI exposure by income quantile (top quintile exposure)
Intermediation collapse: AI agents reduce information frictions and automate advice/coordination tasks, compressing intermediary margins toward logistics/execution costs and repricing business models across SaaS, payments, consulting, insurance, and financial advisory, with knock-on effects for firm valuations and collateral values that underpin credit markets.
Modeling of intermediary margins and information rents within the macro-financial framework; calibrated scenarios and sectoral discussion mapping margin compression to valuation and collateral effects.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... intermediary markups/margins, firm valuations, collateral values, and credit-mar...
Ghost GDP: AI output that replaces labor-intensive output can create a wedge between measured GDP (which may rise) and consumption-relevant income (which can fall) because a declining labor share reduces monetary velocity absent proportionate transfers — producing hidden demand shortfalls.
Formalization in the paper linking labor share to monetary velocity and thus to consumption-relevant income; calibration using FRED macro time series and monetary-aggregate/velocity proxies.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... monetary velocity and consumption-relevant income (consumption) versus headline ...
When firms rationally substitute AI for labor, aggregate labor income can fall and lower demand, which accelerates further AI substitution — a 'displacement spiral' whose net feedback is either self-limiting (convergent) or explosive (runaway adoption + demand collapse) depending on AI capability growth rate, diffusion speed across firms/sectors, and the reinstatement rate (rate at which new paid human roles or demand reappear).
Formal model derivations that identify key parameters and inequalities separating convergent vs explosive regimes; calibrated simulations that vary capability growth, diffusivity, and reinstatement elasticity to produce different phase outcomes.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... aggregate labor income; AI adoption rate; regime outcome (convergent vs explosiv...
Rapid AI adoption can create a macro-financial stress scenario not primarily through productivity collapse or existential risk but via a distribution-and-contract mismatch: AI-generated abundance reduces the need for human cognitive labor while institutions (wage contracts, credit, consumption patterns, financial intermediation) remain anchored to the scarcity of human cognition, producing a self-reinforcing downward spiral in labor income, demand, and intermediary margins that can tip into an explosive crisis unless offset by sufficiently fast reinstatement of human-paid demand or deliberate policy/market responses.
Analytical macro-financial model coupling firm-level substitution decisions, aggregate demand mapping, and financial-sector balance-sheet propagation; calibrated numerical simulations using U.S. macro time series (FRED), BLS occupation-level employment and wages, and published occupation-level AI-exposure indices; phase diagrams and scenario time-paths reported in the paper.
medium negative Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... macro-financial stress (aggregate labor income, demand, intermediary margins, an...
Distributional shifts and regime changes require periodic revalidation or TSFM updates to maintain reliable performance.
Paper discussion of limitations and recommended operational procedures (revalidation and periodic TSFM updates) to handle non-stationarity and regime shifts; rationale based on time-series modeling risks.
medium negative Regression Models Meet Foundation Models: A Hybrid-AI Approa... Robustness of forecasting performance under distributional/regime shifts
If the TSFM produces biased or poor forecasts in certain regimes, those errors can propagate into the downstream regression and harm performance.
Stated caveat in the paper (theoretical/empirical rationale); logical consequence of using TSFM-generated features as inputs—error propagation risk discussed in analysis/limitations section.
medium negative Regression Models Meet Foundation Models: A Hybrid-AI Approa... Downstream forecast error sensitivity to TSFM forecast quality
These methodological adaptations reduce but do not eliminate validity threats; they often increase complexity and cost while leaving unresolved issues of generalizability and time-dependence.
Practitioner accounts (n=16) describing limits/tradeoffs of adaptations; authors' synthesis concluding residual threats remain despite adaptations.
medium negative RCTs & Human Uplift Studies: Methodological Challenges and P... effectiveness and tradeoffs of mitigation strategies for validity threats
External validity is limited: results from a given trial may not generalize across model versions, populations, tasks, or to temporally distant deployments.
Interview-derived themes (16 practitioners) and authors' analytic mapping to external validity concerns; supported by examples of model/version dependence discussed in interviews.
medium negative RCTs & Human Uplift Studies: Methodological Challenges and P... generalizability/external validity of trial results across versions, populations...