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Evidence (1835 claims)

Adoption
7395 claims
Productivity
6507 claims
Governance
5877 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
5157 claims
Innovation
3492 claims
Org Design
3470 claims
Labor Markets
3224 claims
Skills & Training
2608 claims
Inequality
1835 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 609 159 77 736 1615
Governance & Regulation 664 329 160 99 1273
Organizational Efficiency 624 143 105 70 949
Technology Adoption Rate 502 176 98 78 861
Research Productivity 348 109 48 322 836
Output Quality 391 120 44 40 595
Firm Productivity 385 46 85 17 539
Decision Quality 275 143 62 34 521
AI Safety & Ethics 183 241 59 30 517
Market Structure 152 154 109 20 440
Task Allocation 158 50 56 26 295
Innovation Output 178 23 38 17 257
Skill Acquisition 137 52 50 13 252
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 120 64 38 23 252
Employment Level 93 46 96 12 249
Firm Revenue 130 43 26 3 202
Consumer Welfare 99 51 40 11 201
Inequality Measures 36 105 40 6 187
Task Completion Time 134 18 6 5 163
Worker Satisfaction 79 54 16 11 160
Error Rate 64 78 8 1 151
Regulatory Compliance 69 64 14 3 150
Training Effectiveness 81 15 13 18 129
Wages & Compensation 70 25 22 6 123
Team Performance 74 16 21 9 121
Automation Exposure 41 48 19 9 120
Job Displacement 11 71 16 1 99
Developer Productivity 71 14 9 3 98
Hiring & Recruitment 49 7 8 3 67
Social Protection 26 14 8 2 50
Creative Output 26 14 6 2 49
Skill Obsolescence 5 37 5 1 48
Labor Share of Income 12 13 12 37
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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AI-driven change is intensifying wage disparities.
Paper links observed occupational shifts in secondary data (2020–2024) with widening wage gaps between high- and lower-skilled groups.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and labour market polarisation in In... wage disparities between skill groups
Routine middle-skilled roles are declining.
Secondary data and official reports from 2020–2024 documenting reductions in middle-skill occupations, interpreted through SBTC/Human Capital frameworks.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and labour market polarisation in In... decline in middle-skill jobs / job displacement in routine roles
Qwen 3 Next concealed prices in unfavorable comparisons 24% of the time.
Experimental evaluation reported in the paper measuring whether models conceal pricing information in comparisons unfavorable to the sponsored option; Qwen 3 Next recorded a 24% rate. Sample size and trial counts not specified in the abstract.
high negative Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... concealment of price information in unfavorable comparisons
GPT 5.1 surfaced sponsored options in ways that disrupted the purchasing process, with a 94% rate reported.
Experimental evaluation described in the paper measuring whether models surface sponsored options in manners that disrupt purchasing flow; GPT 5.1 reported at 94%. Specific experiment details and sample size not provided in the abstract.
high negative Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... surfacing sponsored options that disrupt purchasing
Grok 4.1 Fast recommended a sponsored product that was almost twice as expensive in the scenario, doing so 83% of the time.
Experimental evaluation reported in the paper contrasting sponsored vs. non-sponsored product recommendations in which the sponsored product was nearly twice as expensive; the paper reports a 83% recommendation rate for Grok 4.1 Fast. Exact number of trials/samples not provided in the abstract.
high negative Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... recommendation of sponsored (more expensive) product
A majority of LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations.
Reported summary of a suite of evaluations across multiple LLMs described in the paper (models and specific scenarios referenced elsewhere in the paper). Exact experimental methods and sample sizes not specified in the abstract.
high negative Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... preference for company-incentivized options over user-welfare-maximizing options
The effective altruism community's near-exclusive focus on existential risk from AI has created a dangerous blind spot around the political economy of who controls AI and who benefits from it.
Critical evaluation of the effective altruism movement's priorities as presented in the paper; argued via literature/agenda analysis rather than empirical survey data in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... policy/priority blind spot regarding political economy of AI
AI infrastructure owners may come to command more wealth and capability than most governments, undermining the future viability of the nation-state.
Predictive economic and political analysis / modeling in the paper; claim presented as a projection without empirically quantified comparisons or sample size in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... relative wealth and capability of AI infrastructure owners vs. governments; viab...
Universal Basic Income (UBI), absent a revolutionary threat that historically forced redistribution, will default to a pacification mechanism rather than a genuine solution to mass loss of labor value.
Normative/incentive-structure analysis and historical comparison presented in the paper; no empirical trial data or sample sizes cited in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... effectiveness of UBI (redistribution vs. pacification)
Unlike previous feudal orders, this AI-enabled feudal order may be uniquely resistant to revolution because enforcement mechanisms (autonomous weapons, AI surveillance, algorithmic propaganda) do not require human cooperation and therefore cannot be undermined by human dissent.
Conceptual argument drawing on descriptions of autonomous weapons, surveillance, and propaganda systems; presented as a theoretical vulnerability analysis rather than empirically validated case studies in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... resilience of oppressive enforcement to revolutionary action
The convergence of geopolitical fragmentation and AI-driven economic concentration could produce a structural transformation that stabilizes into a neo-feudal equilibrium, in which a vanishingly small class of infrastructure owners wields power comparable to pre-Enlightenment monarchs while the vast majority loses labor value and political leverage.
Theoretical/modeling exercise and historical analogy presented in the paper; argumentative prediction rather than reported empirical measurement (no sample size or quantified projection in the abstract).
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... emergence of neo-feudal class structure; decline in labor value and political le...
Advances in artificial intelligence are producing an accelerating concentration of economic power.
Paper asserts causal link based on theoretical argument and economic/political analysis of AI-driven accumulation; no quantitative sample size or empirical estimate reported in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... concentration of economic power
The post-World War II international order is undergoing geopolitical fragmentation driven by twenty consecutive years of democratic decline.
Statement in paper referencing long-term democratic trend data (20-year decline) and historical/political analysis; no specific sample size or statistical details provided in the abstract.
high negative The Great Compression: Geopolitical Fragmentation, AI, and t... geopolitical fragmentation / democratic decline
The review identifies persistent gaps in population coverage, multimodal integration, equity optimization, explainability, validation, and governance that constrain inclusiveness and robustness of GeoAI applications in urban mobility research.
Authors' gap analysis based on the contents and limitations of the 18 included studies.
high negative GeoAI and Multimodal Geospatial Data Fusion for Inclusive Ur... coverage and robustness limitations in multimodal GeoAI research (population cov...
Urban mobility is a central challenge for sustainable and inclusive cities, as climate change, congestion, and spatial inequality increasingly reveal mobility patterns as expressions of deeper social and spatial structures.
Introductory framing statement in the paper; general literature/contextual claim (no original empirical test reported in this paper).
high negative GeoAI and Multimodal Geospatial Data Fusion for Inclusive Ur... centrality of urban mobility as a challenge for sustainability and inclusivity
These findings highlight how existing caste hierarchies are reproduced in LLM decision-making and underscore the need for culturally grounded evaluation and intervention strategies in AI systems deployed in socially sensitive domains.
Interpretation and policy recommendation based on empirical patterns found in the audit (consistent hierarchical ratings and up-to-25% differences).
high negative Sima AIunty: Caste Audit in LLM-Driven Matchmaking risk of reinforcing historical exclusion through LLM decision-making
Inter-caste matches are further ordered according to traditional caste hierarchy.
Reported analytic pattern where inter-caste match ratings follow the traditional caste ranking (implied ordering across Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, Dalit).
high negative Sima AIunty: Caste Audit in LLM-Driven Matchmaking ordinal rating/order of inter-caste matches by caste
There are macroeconomic risks associated with AI-led unemployment.
Paper's macroeconomic analysis drawing on labor economics and technology adoption research; no quantitative estimates or sample sizes provided in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... macroeconomic risk indicators (e.g., unemployment, aggregate demand shortfalls)
Managerial incentives drive premature workforce contraction during AI adoption.
Analytical claim grounded in labor economics and organizational behavior review; the summary indicates examination of managerial incentives but does not report primary empirical tests or sample sizes.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... timing and extent of workforce contraction
Premature workforce contraction in response to AI adoption foreshadows deeper structural challenges as AI systems mature.
Forward-looking claim based on synthesis of literature and theoretical projection; no empirical quantification or sample provided in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... long-run structural economic challenges (e.g., systemic instability, labor marke...
This pattern of premature workforce reductions reflects longstanding corporate short-termism rather than genuine technological displacement.
The paper's interpretation drawing on labor economics and organizational behavior literature; no empirical study or sample size reported in the summary.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... drivers of workforce reduction (managerial incentives vs. actual automation capa...
Organizations face mounting pressure to demonstrate immediate returns on AI investments, often through workforce reductions that outpace actual automation capabilities.
Argument in paper citing accelerating AI adoption across sectors and observed managerial responses; no primary dataset or sample size reported in the text.
high negative A Shorter Workweek as Economic Infrastructure: Managing AI-D... workforce reductions / layoffs
AI's disproportionate benefits for lagging regions help narrow interprovincial emission gaps.
Heterogeneity analysis reported in the provincial panel (2003–2021) showing stronger AI-related reductions in emissions inequality for lagging regions compared to advanced regions.
high negative Artificial intelligence, green innovation, and regional carb... interprovincial emission gaps (carbon inequality)
Green innovation is concentrated in coastal provinces and has not effectively diffused to inland areas, limiting its ability to reduce regional carbon inequality.
Spatial distribution analysis within the provincial panel showing geographic concentration of green innovation activity in coastal provinces and limited diffusion inland.
high negative Artificial intelligence, green innovation, and regional carb... geographic concentration of green innovation (diffusion to inland areas)
AI reduces carbon inequality primarily through improved energy efficiency, enhanced environmental monitoring, and more efficient resource allocation, disproportionately benefiting lagging regions and narrowing interprovincial emission gaps.
Mechanism analysis reported in the paper based on the provincial panel (2003–2021) linking AI development to proximate channels (energy efficiency, monitoring, resource allocation) and heterogeneous impacts across regions.
high negative Artificial intelligence, green innovation, and regional carb... carbon inequality (interprovincial emission gaps)
AI development significantly reduces carbon inequality, particularly when measured by the Gini index.
Empirical analysis using a provincial panel dataset covering 2003–2021; carbon inequality measured with the Gini index; reported statistically significant negative association between AI development and Gini-measured carbon inequality.
high negative Artificial intelligence, green innovation, and regional carb... carbon inequality (Gini index)
Over time the equalizing channel weakened because market valuation (wage exposure) became increasingly unfavorable to female-concentrated occupations, contributing to a renewed widening of the gender wage gap in 2015–2019.
Decomposition results showing a temporal decline in the wage-exposure contribution to equality and a negative wage-exposure trend for female-concentrated occupations, coinciding with gap widening in 2015–2019.
high negative Routine-Biased Technological Change and the Gender Wage Gap ... change in gender wage gap driven by wage exposure of female-concentrated occupat...
Women experienced greater exposure to displacement compared with men.
Gender-disaggregated results from stacked first-difference estimations and dynamic shift-share decomposition showing higher displacement exposure for female workers.
high negative Routine-Biased Technological Change and the Gender Wage Gap ... exposure to job displacement
Routine displacement unfolds episodically rather than simultaneously, with relative contraction in routine cognitive jobs (2001–2005), routine manual jobs (2005–2010), and renewed routine cognitive pressures (2015–2019).
Empirical results from stacked first-difference estimations and a dynamic shift-share decomposition applied to Indonesian formal wage-worker data over 2001–2019.
high negative Routine-Biased Technological Change and the Gender Wage Gap ... contraction/pressure on routine (cognitive and manual) jobs over specified perio...
New mechanisms of surplus value distribution operate in platform-based business models and through AI-mediated processes.
Analytical/theoretical argumentation and literature synthesis in the conceptual paper (no empirical validation reported).
high negative The labor theory of value in the era of artificial intellige... mechanisms of surplus value distribution
Kerangka hukum ketenagakerjaan Indonesia saat ini bersifat reaktif, dengan fokus pada kompensasi pasca-PHK yang belum mampu menjawab dampak jangka panjang disrupsi AI.
Analisis normatif terhadap peraturan perundang-undangan dan temuan dari literatur yang ditinjau; kesimpulan yang dilaporkan oleh penulis penelitian.
high negative Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... orientasi kebijakan hukum (reaktif vs proaktif) dan kecukupan penanganan dampak ...
Belum terdapat pengaturan eksplisit mengenai kewajiban pelatihan ulang (retraining) maupun mekanisme distribusi manfaat teknologi secara adil dalam kerangka hukum ketenagakerjaan Indonesia saat ini.
Temuan dari analisis peraturan perundang-undangan nasional (UU Cipta Kerja dan peraturan turunannya) dan literatur yang dikaji dalam penelitian normatif.
high negative Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... kekosongan regulasi terkait kewajiban pelatihan ulang dan mekanisme distribusi m...
Fenomena adopsi AI menimbulkan tantangan hukum terkait perlindungan hak pekerja, keadilan sosial, dan keberlanjutan sistem ketenagakerjaan.
Analisis normatif terhadap konsekuensi sosial-ekonomi AI yang disintesis dari literatur nasional (SINTA) dan internasional; pendekatan konseptual dan komparatif dijelaskan dalam metode.
high negative Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... kebutuhan perlindungan hukum untuk hak pekerja dan keadilan sosial
Perkembangan pesat Artificial Intelligence (AI) telah membawa perubahan mendasar dalam struktur pasar tenaga kerja di Indonesia dengan meningkatnya risiko penggantian pekerjaan manusia oleh teknologi otomatisasi.
Pernyataan latar belakang yang didukung oleh tinjauan literatur pada jurnal nasional terindeks SINTA dan jurnal internasional bereputasi (metode: penelitian hukum normatif dengan pendekatan perundang-undangan, konseptual, dan komparatif).
high negative Reformasi Hukum Ketenagakerjaan di Era Artificial Intelligen... risiko penggantian pekerjaan oleh automasi (job displacement risk)
New technologies are initially skill intensive (demand more college-educated workers) but become less so as they age (they get standardized and accessible to less-skilled workers).
Empirical descriptive evidence from novel text-based data combining patent text and job postings (building on Kalyani et al., 2025) tracking technologies and their changing demand for skills as they age.
high negative THE SKILL PREMIUM IN TIMES OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE demand for college-educated workers by technology age
Observed declines in browsing time due to ChatGPT adoption are concentrated in website categories such as search and news, which are highly exposed to substitution by generative AI.
Category-level browsing time changes across website classification; concentration of declines in categories identified as highly overlap-exposed to chatbot capabilities using web-scraping and LLM site-level overlap classification.
high negative https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 browsing time on search and news website categories
High-income and younger households adopt generative AI substantially faster than low-income and older counterparts, and this gap is widening over time ('generative AI divide').
Descriptive heterogeneity analysis using Comscore household demographics (income and age bins) and observed adoption trajectories across 2021–2024; authors report widening gap rather than convergence.
high negative https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144 heterogeneity in adoption rates by income and age (inequality in adoption)
Data reveals that less than 0.7% of the Indian population uses AI-induced ride services.
Empirical statistic reported in the paper (declared as data) quantifying the share of the population using AI-induced ride services.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Demand Switching and Sectoral Wage ... share of population using AI-induced ride services
The lack of a significant worsening in transportation-sector inequality can be attributed to sluggish demand switching from non-AI to AI-based services in India.
Argument in the paper linking empirical finding (no significant increase in inequality) to low observed adoption rates of AI-based ride services; supported by reported adoption statistic.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Demand Switching and Sectoral Wage ... rate of demand switching / adoption
This inefficiency directly undermines UN Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Climate Action) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities) by hindering equitable AI access in resource-constrained regions.
Normative/analytic claim in the paper linking energy inefficiency to negative impacts on specific UN SDGs (argumentative, not empirically quantified in the abstract).
high negative EcoThink: A Green Adaptive Inference Framework for Sustainab... equitable AI access / progress toward SDGs 13 and 10
Current paradigms indiscriminately apply computation-intensive strategies like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to billions of daily queries, causing LLM overthinking that amplifies carbon emissions and operational barriers.
Claim/assertion in the paper framing the problem (conceptual/observational argument; no specific empirical backing provided in the abstract).
high negative EcoThink: A Green Adaptive Inference Framework for Sustainab... carbon emissions and operational barriers from LLM overthinking
There is a potential for exclusion due to limited digital footprints, which can limit who benefits from AI-driven finance.
Abstract explicitly identifies potential exclusion of people with limited digital footprints as a challenge, based on qualitative interviews and case-study evidence.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Climate Resilience, and Financial I... exclusion due to digital footprints
Data privacy concerns are a notable challenge in deploying AI-driven financial solutions.
Abstract lists data privacy concerns among identified challenges drawn from interviews and analysis across the three case studies.
Infrastructure limitations pose a barrier to adoption and effective use of AI-enabled financial services.
Abstract identifies infrastructure limitations as a challenge, based on qualitative interviews and case-study evidence.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Climate Resilience, and Financial I... infrastructure constraints on adoption
Digital literacy gaps are a challenge limiting the effectiveness and inclusion of AI-driven financial solutions.
Abstract lists digital literacy gaps among identified challenges, based on qualitative insights from the 1,500 interviews and case-study observations.
high negative Artificial Intelligence, Climate Resilience, and Financial I... digital literacy barriers to adoption
Policymakers in the EU and beyond will need to change course, and soon, if they are to effectively govern the next generation of AI technology.
Authors' prescriptive conclusion based on their analysis of shortcomings in the EU AI Act and institutional frameworks (policy recommendation; no empirical sample size in excerpt).
high negative Regulating AI Agents need for regulatory/policy change to effectively govern AI agents
The Act's allocation of monitoring and enforcement responsibilities, reliance on industry self-regulation, and level of government resourcing illustrate how a regulatory framework designed for conventional AI systems can be ill-suited to AI agents.
Authors' institutional analysis of the EU AI Act's monitoring/enforcement allocation, reliance on self-regulation, and resourcing (qualitative legal/institutional analysis; no quantitative sample size in excerpt).
high negative Regulating AI Agents fit between regulatory institutional design and requirements for governing AI ag...
The EU AI Act faces significant obstacles in confronting governance challenges arising from AI agents, such as unequal access to the economic opportunities afforded by AI agents.
Authors' argument that the Act may not prevent or address unequal access to benefits of AI agents (policy/legal analysis; no empirical sample size in excerpt).
high negative Regulating AI Agents distribution of economic opportunities from AI agents
The EU AI Act faces significant obstacles in confronting governance challenges arising from AI agents, such as the risk of misuse of agents by malicious actors.
Authors' analysis highlighting misuse risks and the Act's limitations in addressing them (policy/legal analysis; no empirical sample size in excerpt).
high negative Regulating AI Agents risk of malicious misuse and regulatory capacity to mitigate it
The EU AI Act faces significant obstacles in confronting governance challenges arising from AI agents, such as performance failures in autonomous task execution.
Authors' analytical argument that the Act's design and provisions do not adequately address autonomous performance failures (policy/legal analysis; no empirical sample size provided in excerpt).
high negative Regulating AI Agents ability of regulation to address performance failures (error rates / autonomous ...