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Evidence (7870 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
Industry 1 1
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Modeling fiscal policy as a government problem (instead of an abstract planner) implies a tax changes the firm's automation first-order condition, raises revenue only on the remaining automation base, and requires specifying rebates and administrative losses.
Explicit governmental optimization and budget-accounting setup in the model: taxes enter firms' automation first-order conditions; revenue is computed on post-tax automation activity and rebates/administration are modeled.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation effect of taxation on firm automation choice, tax revenue base, and fiscal accou...
The central analytic object is the derivative of household consumption demand and the collective wage bill with respect to automation.
Paper's stated modeling focus: comparative-static derivatives linking automation to household consumption demand and aggregate wages; used to characterize incidence and welfare effects.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation sensitivity (derivative) of household consumption demand and aggregate wage bill...
Automation reallocates income and ownership claims.
Theoretical model with heterogeneous households who hold capital/equity claims; equilibrium determines wages and returns and shows changes in income and ownership shares when automation increases.
high mixed The Demand Externality of Automation distribution of income and ownership (capital vs. labor income shares)
The strategic interplay between antitrust regulation and vertical integration materially influences the evolutionary transitions of the computing power ecosystem.
Core focus of the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model which explicitly models government regulators, incumbents, and downstream innovators and analyzes resulting equilibria and transitions (method: theoretical evolutionary game + analytical derivation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... system transition dynamics as a function of regulatory and firm strategies
The evolution of the AI computing power innovation ecosystem manifests distinct stage-based progressions and threshold-driven bifurcation characteristics, potentially transitioning from an initial 'natural monopoly and passive dependence' state through intermediary states (e.g., 'comfort zone trap' or 'regulatory stalemate') toward a mature configuration of 'co-opetition and endogenous growth.'
Derived from the paper's tripartite evolutionary game model and analytical derivation of evolutionarily stable strategies, with supporting numerical simulations exploring parametric sensitivities (method: theoretical evolutionary game + numerical simulation).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... ecosystem evolutionary stage / configuration (e.g., monopoly, stalemate, co-opet...
The computing power industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from traditional linear supply chains toward complex, interdependent innovation ecosystems driven by the rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence.
Conceptual claim presented in the paper's introduction/motivation; supported by the paper's theoretical framing and literature-based motivation rather than empirical data (method: narrative/theoretical framing).
high mixed Evolutionary Dynamics of Openness, Dependence, and Regulatio... industry structural configuration (linear supply chains vs. interdependent innov...
Overall conclusion: AI offers substantial benefits to financial institutions, but ethical considerations and strategic workforce planning are essential for sustainable integration.
Synthesis/interpretation by the authors drawing on their empirical results (positive effects on ROA, efficiency, risk-adjusted returns, customer satisfaction, reduced compliance costs/breaches) and identified challenges (algorithmic bias, workforce displacement).
high mixed Research on the Transformation Acceleration of Financial Ins... Net impact of AI integration on firm performance and governance plus policy reco...
Empirical analysis of cases demonstrates that diverse, and often non-ethics-related, levers motivate organizations to abandon AI development.
Analysis of cases drawn from the AI incident database and practitioner survey contrasted with the taxonomy from the scoping review; specific counts/effect measures not provided in the summary.
high mixed To Build or Not to Build? Factors that Lead to Non-Developme... distribution of reasons (ethical vs. non-ethical) cited for AI abandonment
Three sovereignty boundaries determine whether AI remains an amplifier within a human-governed system or becomes a de facto control center: irreversible decision authority, physical resource mobilization authority, and self-expansion authority.
Conceptual model element in the paper; identification and definition of three 'sovereignty boundaries' used to analyze governance risks.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... sovereignty/control boundaries
The paper formalizes this claim through decision-energy density: the rate-weighted capacity of a node to generate, evaluate, select, and execute consequential decisions.
Formal/modeling claim — the paper defines and uses a formal metric called 'decision-energy density' within its theoretical framework.
high mixed AI Safety as Control of Irreversibility: A Systems Framework... decision-energy density (capacity to produce consequential decisions)
AI capabilities can be copied, invoked, embedded in workflows, and scaled across institutions at low marginal cost.
Descriptive claim about AI technology characteristics made in the paper; supported by conceptual argument and examples rather than quantified empirical data.
Earlier high-risk technologies were slowed by capital intensity, physical bottlenecks, organizational inertia, and specialized supply chains.
Historical/analytic claim presented as background context in the paper; supported by conceptual comparison rather than a specific empirical study.
Scientific institutions, distinctively, manufacture legitimate judgment, so they do not merely adapt to AI; they compete with it for the same functional role.
Conceptual/theoretical assertion in the paper describing institutional roles; no empirical data or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high mixed AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities competition between scientific institutions and AI for the functional role of pr...
No single governance setting dominates across all contexts; moderate governance becomes increasingly competitive as the learner accumulates experience within the governed action space.
Empirical finding reported from experiments with the contextual-bandit learner operating under different governance constraints and learning over time; comparative performance over learning horizon described in the paper. Sample size / trial counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relative performance of governance settings over learning/experience (competitiv...
This workload-buffering effect (governance improving performance while reducing fatigue) contradicts the usual framing of governance as pure overhead.
Interpretation and comparison of empirical manufacturing results against prior framing in literature (qualitative claim within the paper). No sample size provided.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... relationship between governance and combined measures of performance and fatigue
Governance is not a binary switch but a tunable design variable: tighter constraints predictably convert autonomous AI assignments into supervised collaborations, with domain-specific costs and benefits.
Empirical finding reported from experiments using the HAAS benchmark across the two domains (software engineering and manufacturing); qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of allocations under varying governance constraints. Paper does not state sample size in the provided text.
high mixed HAAS: A Policy-Aware Framework for Adaptive Task Allocation ... distribution of collaboration modes / assignment types (autonomous vs supervised...
AI learns indiscriminately from implicit knowledge, acquiring both beneficial patterns and harmful biases.
Asserted in the paper as a conceptual point about training data and learned patterns; no empirical evaluation or quantified bias measures provided.
high mixed Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... patterns and biases acquired by AI from implicit knowledge
Whether the futures these configurations help create remain governable and worth inhabiting will depend on leaders who can see, early enough, where and how consequential decisions are actually being shaped.
Normative/prognostic claim linking future governability to leaders' detection capabilities (conceptual; no empirical test provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Leading Across the Spectrum of Human-AI Relationships: A Con... future governability of organizations/systems with human–AI decision configurati...
These configurations will shape how power, responsibility, and trust are distributed in organizational life.
Theoretical/prognostic claim in the paper linking configurations to distribution of power, responsibility, and trust (no empirical quantification in the excerpt).
high mixed Leading Across the Spectrum of Human-AI Relationships: A Con... distribution of power, responsibility, and trust within organizations
In operational meteorology, adjoint-based methods derive value from the forecast model itself but require full data assimilation infrastructure.
Technical background in paper describing adjoint-based methods and their infrastructural requirements (methodological literature references; no new empirical data).
high mixed Calibrating Attribution Proxies for Reward Allocation in Par... suitability and infrastructure requirements of adjoint-based value methods
The rise of digital agents will transform the foundations of production, labour markets, institutional arrangements and the international distribution of economic power.
Synthesis and theoretical projection across sections of the paper; presented as a broad conclusion without reported empirical quantification in the provided text.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... transformation of production systems, labour markets, institutions, and internat...
There is a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social reproduction: digital agents can compensate for productive functions of the population but are unable to substitute the population's functions of social reproduction.
Theoretical argument and conceptual distinction in the paper; no empirical study measuring substitution in social reproduction provided.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... capacity of digital agents to substitute productive vs social reproduction funct...
The retrieved sources are substantially different for each search engine (average pairwise Jaccard similarity < 0.2).
Computed average Jaccard similarity of source-domain sets returned by each engine (Google organic results, Google AIO, Gemini Flash 2.5) across the 11,500 queries; reported average similarity < 0.2.
high mixed How Generative AI Disrupts Search: An Empirical Study of Goo... overlap (Jaccard similarity) of retrieved source domains across engines
The rapid growth of AI and automation offers Sub-Saharan Africa economic opportunities as well as labor market challenges.
Systematic review of the literature reported in the paper; scope and number of studies not specified in the abstract/summary provided.
high mixed The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... economic opportunities and labor market challenges in Sub‑Saharan Africa
Susceptibility to visual priming varies across state-of-the-art VLMs.
Comparative experiments run across multiple state-of-the-art vision-language models showing differential changes in IPD behavior when exposed to the same visual primes and color cues. (Paper notes variation in susceptibility and mitigation effectiveness across models; specific model list and per-model sample sizes not given in the abstract.)
high mixed The Effects of Visual Priming on Cooperative Behavior in Vis... magnitude of change in cooperation/defection behavior due to visual priming, per...
Color-coded reward matrices alter VLM decision patterns.
Experimental condition varying the visual presentation of the IPD payoff matrix (color-coding of rewards) and measuring resulting decision patterns of multiple VLMs in IPD trials. (Reported as part of the experimental setup across models; exact counts not provided in abstract.)
high mixed The Effects of Visual Priming on Cooperative Behavior in Vis... changes in cooperation/defection choices in IPD when reward matrices are color-c...
VLM behavior can be influenced by image content depicting behavioral concepts (kindness/helpfulness vs. aggressiveness/selfishness).
Experimental manipulation in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD): VLMs were exposed to images labeled/connoting 'kindness/helpfulness' versus 'aggressiveness/selfishness' and subsequent choices in IPD rounds were recorded across multiple state-of-the-art VLMs. (Paper reports experiments across multiple VLMs; exact sample sizes per model/condition not stated in the abstract.)
high mixed The Effects of Visual Priming on Cooperative Behavior in Vis... cooperation rate (choice to cooperate vs. defect) in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma...
AI adoption leads both to job displacement and job creation, including the emergence of new occupational categories.
Abstract states the review examines empirical evidence on both job displacement and creation and the emergence of new occupations; no numeric counts or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... job destruction and creation; emergence of new occupations
The study identifies short-term transitional risks and long-term productivity gains associated with AI integration in the workforce.
Abstract states the paper evaluates both short-term risks and long-term productivity gains from AI integration based on the reviewed literature; no empirical quantification given in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... transitional risks and productivity gains
AI-driven automation and augmentation are reshaping employment landscapes, with emphasis on sector-level disruption, skill transformation, and socioeconomic consequences.
Abstract states this as a conclusion of the review drawing on interdisciplinary empirical literature; no specific studies or sample sizes cited in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... employment landscape changes (sector disruption, skill transformation, socioecon...
The accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence across industries has fundamentally altered the structure of global labour markets.
Statement in abstract summarizing a systematic review of interdisciplinary literature (economics, computer science, organizational behaviour, public policy); no specific sample size reported in abstract.
high mixed AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... structure of global labour markets
Firms may continue to exist as legal and physical entities, but their coordinating function will be displaced as they become data nodes within regionally governed AI infrastructure.
Predictive/conceptual claim within the framework; no empirical sample reported in the excerpt and presented as a theoretical outcome of Interface Internalization.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... change in the coordinating role of firms (from coordinators to data nodes)
The Structural Dissolution Framework challenges the Coasian view that organizational boundaries are determined by transaction cost minimization, arguing that AI makes such boundaries economically obsolete.
Theoretical critique of transaction-cost-based explanations for firm boundaries presented in the paper; argumentative and conceptual rather than supported by empirical tests in the provided summary.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... economic relevance of transaction-cost-based firm boundaries
Regional data sovereignty entities will emerge as organizational forms that replace the coordinating role of firms and markets.
Normative/predictive claim within the paper's framework arguing for new organizational forms (regional data sovereignty entities); illustrated conceptually (e.g., through resource-dependent regional economies) rather than empirically tested in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... emergence of regional data sovereignty entities as coordinators
Domain-specific data refinement infrastructure will become the new basis of positional control in industries.
Theoretical claim in the framework asserting a shift in positional control to data refinement infrastructure; presented as a predicted structural outcome rather than supported by empirical data in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... basis of positional control (movement to data refinement infrastructure)
AI adoption moves value creation away from physical resources and human collaboration toward continuous token flows produced through data refinement loops.
Theoretical/analytical claim within the Structural Dissolution Framework and illustrative discussion; no empirical quantification provided in the text excerpt.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... source of value creation (physical/human → data/token flows)
The mechanism driving this restructuring is 'Interface Internalization', through which inter-agent coordination is absorbed into intra-system computation.
Conceptual mechanism defined and argued in the paper; presented as the central theoretical mechanism rather than as an empirically validated finding.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... shift of coordination from inter-agent (firms/markets) to intra-system computati...
AI dissolves the boundaries that once separated firms, markets, experts, and consumers by internalizing human multimodal interfaces (language, vision, and behavioral data) into computational systems.
Theoretical argument and conceptual framework introduced in the paper (Structural Dissolution Framework); no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported for this claim in the text provided.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... dissolution of boundaries between firms, markets, experts, and consumers
Architectural interventions can instead be used to trade off personalization against preference privacy.
Proposed solution described in the paper (architectural interventions) as an alternative to prompt-level fixes; presented as a design tradeoff rather than empirically validated mitigation in the excerpt.
high mixed When Agents Shop for You: Role Coherence in AI-Mediated Mark... trade-off between personalization and preference privacy under architectural int...
AI-driven automation marks the beginning of a new political era—one in which the role of work in society becomes a central axis of welfare conflict.
Theoretical and interpretive claim in the paper, motivated by the survey findings and broader argumentation about political consequences.
high mixed AI, the Future of Work, and the Politics of the Welfare Stat... political salience of 'the role of work' in welfare politics / emergence of new ...
This hybrid Make governance form has qualitatively different economics, capability requirements, and governance structures than pre-AI in-house development.
Paper's conceptual comparison between pre-AI hierarchy and post-AI hybrid Make governance (theoretical reasoning and examples; no empirical quantification).
high mixed The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... economics and capability requirements of in-house development governance
AI reshapes seven canonical decision determinants for make-or-buy choices: cost, strategic differentiation, asset specificity, vendor lock-in, time-to-market, quality and compliance, and organizational capability.
Paper's factor-level conceptual analysis enumerating and discussing seven determinants (theoretical synthesis rather than empirical measurement).
high mixed The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... sensitivity of canonical make-or-buy determinants to AI
Demographic characteristics intersect with AI exposure—i.e., exposure varies by demographic groups.
Paper reports that it examines how demographic characteristics intersect with exposure based on recent empirical studies; no demographic breakdowns or sample sizes provided in the abstract.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... variation in AI exposure across demographic groups
Recent studies combine task-level exposure metrics with employment and usage data to assess AI exposure and impacts.
Paper notes that it draws on studies that use task-level exposure metrics alongside employment and usage data; methodological claim rather than a quantitative result.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... measurement approach for AI exposure (task-level exposure linked to employment/u...
Generative large language models (LLMs) present organizations with a transformative technology whose labor market implications remain nascent yet consequential.
Statement in paper synthesizing emerging empirical research; no specific study, method, or sample size reported in the abstract.
high mixed AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... labor market implications (disruption and augmentation)
The adoption of AI in Israel constitutes a systemic transformation of employment relations, necessitating doctrinal adaptation and institutional reform to keep the labor market aligned with foundational legal principles.
Synthesis and conclusion from the paper's combined legal and empirical analysis; presented as the author's overarching interpretive claim rather than as a specific quantified finding.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... degree of systemic transformation of employment relations and need for doctrinal...
Within the public sector, there is an emerging policy trend to incorporate AI considerations into workforce planning, including examining whether human positions may be substituted by technological solutions prior to recruiting new employees.
Paper reports an observed policy trend in public-sector workforce planning; specific policy documents, jurisdictions, or counts not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... public sector workforce planning practices (consideration of substituting human ...
We identify significant differences between human and AI negotiation behaviors, finding that humans favor lower-complexity deals and are significantly less reliable partners compared to LM-based agents.
Results from the user study comparing human vs LM-based agent negotiation behavior (statements in the results section).
high mixed Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent ... deal complexity preference and partner reliability in negotiations
High-value uses require broader authority exposure — data access, workflow integration, and delegated authority — when governance controls have not yet decoupled capability from authority exposure.
Conceptual/mechanism claim articulated in the paper (motivating assumption for the analytical model; no empirical sample given in the abstract).
high mixed The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... authority exposure associated with AI deployment
Firms are deploying more capable AI systems, but organizational controls often have not kept pace.
Stated as background context in the paper's abstract/introduction (observational claim; no empirical sample or experiment reported in the abstract).
high mixed The Security Cost of Intelligence: AI Capability, Cyber Risk... deployment of capable AI systems / governance maturity