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Evidence (3224 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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Many fear AI may displace them from their jobs.
Paper reports survey-style finding about public fear of job displacement (no specific surveys, question wording, dates, or sample sizes given in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... perceived risk of job displacement
Although AI may affect nonroutine jobs in particular.
Statement in paper; asserted as a general finding about which types of jobs AI impacts (no specific dataset, sample size, or empirical method reported in the excerpt).
high negative AI’s Economy and Its Political and Institutional Consequence... vulnerability of nonroutine jobs to AI
There is an absence of agreed-upon benchmarks for evaluating AI systems.
Introductory chapter notes lack of standardized evaluation benchmarks as a cross-cutting concern; presented as an analytical observation by the task force.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... existence of standardized evaluation benchmarks for AI
AI systems exhibit bias.
Introductory chapter points to bias in AI systems as a recurring theme; supported by the broader literature cited in the report (no numerical sample reported in the introduction).
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... bias and fairness issues in AI system outputs and decisions
AI model outputs are often opaque and non-replicable.
Introductory chapter identifies opacity and non-replicability of AI outputs as a cross-cutting theme; claim is based on literature synthesis and conceptual critique in the report.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... transparency and replicability of AI model outputs
A small number of AI corporations have unprecedented power.
Introductory chapter highlights the theme of concentrated corporate power in AI; asserted as an observational claim in the report's framing rather than derived from a presented empirical sample in the introduction.
high negative Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Politic... concentration of corporate power in the AI industry (market control, platform in...
The price-setter for cognitive labor is no longer the labor market.
Central normative/conceptual claim of the paper supported by the analytical model and the CAW bound: authors argue the compute capital market (through rental price of compute) sets the effective price for cognitive labor. Stated as the paper's concise position; based on theoretical derivation and argumentation.
high negative Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... which market determines cognitive labor price
Compute-Anchored Wage (CAW) bound: on tasks where human and agent cognitive labor are substitutes, the competitive human wage is bounded above by λ · k · r_c (where r_c is the rental rate of compute capital, k is the compute intensity of one effective agent-labor unit, and λ is the relative human-to-agent productivity).
Formal analytical result presented in the paper (mathematical derivation within the factor-pricing model). This is a theoretical bound derived from the model rather than an empirical estimate.
high negative Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... competitive human wage (upper bound)
Once agents are recognized as a production technology, the elastic-supply margin that anchors the equilibrium wage migrates from the labor market to the compute capital market.
Analytical derivation using a textbook factor-pricing framework (citing Mankiw 2020) within the paper's theoretical model; derivation and verbal argument linking supply-elasticity margins to compute capital market. No empirical data reported in the excerpt.
high negative Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position ... source of wage determination / wage-anchoring margin
With strong exposure of low-wealth, high-MPC households and concentrated ownership, privately chosen automation can be excessive even though it raises high-skilled labor income.
Theoretical welfare/comparison analyses in the model with heterogeneous households (differing in wealth and marginal propensities to consume) and ownership concentration; shows private incentives lead to automation choices that are suboptimal from a social perspective under these parameter constellations.
high negative The Demand Externality of Automation extent of automation chosen relative to social optimum (welfare-relevant automat...
Automation reduces paid human labor.
Model comparative statics in the same equilibrium framework showing substitution away from paid human labor as firms choose automation; result reported in the paper's static benchmark and general-equilibrium analysis.
high negative The Demand Externality of Automation paid human labor (labor share / labor employed in production)
These industry visions have implications for human experts, whose professional lives may be transformed and revalued by the expert-annotation industry.
Synthesis and interpretation of themes from public statements by five data-annotation firms and CEOs; authors draw implications for professionals based on observed framings and industry positioning.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... professional transformation and revaluation of human experts (risk of role chang...
Human expertise is viewed by the industry as an extractable resource whose value can be judged relative to AI expertise.
The paper's thematic analysis of public-facing statements from five annotation firms/CEOs showing language that frames human expertise as a resource to be extracted and monetized for AI training.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... valuation and treatment of human expertise (commodification/extraction)
The industry envisions AI expertise as cheap, meaning that it can offer a better return on investment than human expertise.
Interpretive coding of statements from five data-annotation firms and their CEOs on social media and podcasts indicating that AI-based expertise is framed as lower-cost and higher-ROI relative to human experts.
high negative Cheap Expertise: Mapping and Challenging Industry Perspectiv... relative valuation/price of AI expertise versus human expertise (implications fo...
These dynamics may produce an asymmetric barbell-shaped structure of value capture in advanced economies: high-volume synthetic production controlled by owners of AI infrastructure at one pole, and scarce, high-status human labor valued for verified human presence at the other.
Conceptual projection and economic argument in the paper (no empirical decomposition, distributional statistics, or sample reported in the excerpt).
high negative Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Inf... concentration of value capture across economic actors (inequality / distribution...
AI compresses the value of standardized middle-tier labor by making good-enough synthetic substitutes scalable at low marginal cost, hollowing out the middle of the skill distribution currently categorized by knowledge work.
Conceptual/theoretical argument presented in the paper (no reported empirical sample, statistical analysis, or quantified experiment in the excerpt).
high negative Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Inf... value of standardized middle-tier knowledge work (wages / scarcity premiums)
AI development may reduce firms' labor income share.
Further analysis reported in the paper linking firm-level AI development to reductions in the labor income share within firms.
high negative The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Labor Skill Pre... firms' labor income share
AI increases the firm-level skill premium by substituting for low-skilled labor.
Mechanism analysis reported in the paper (firm-level regressions investigating labor composition / substitution effects following AI development).
high negative The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Labor Skill Pre... low-skilled labor employment / displacement (substitution away from low-skilled ...
WIOA is not well-equipped to support large-scale, cross-industry labor transitions.
Low observed incidence of cross-industry occupational transitions and limited shifts into less automation-exposed occupations in the WIOA data (2017-2023) lead authors to conclude the program is poorly suited for large-scale cross-industry reallocation.
high negative Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... cross-industry occupational transitions / shifts in RTI after program participat...
A substantial portion of WIOA participants simply return to their prior field after program participation.
Descriptive and outcome analyses on the WIOA participation records (2017-2023) showing many participants re-enter the same occupation/industry rather than transitioning to different occupations.
high negative Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... occupational/industry re-entry (return to prior field) following program partici...
WIOA rarely shifts workers into less automation-exposed work.
Analysis of WIOA administrative records (2017-2023) using a newly introduced 'Retrainability Index' that decomposes outcomes into post-intervention wage recovery and shifts in routine task intensity (RTI). The paper reports low incidence of downward RTI (movement into less automation-exposed occupations) among participants.
high negative Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Expos... change in Routine Task Intensity (RTI) of occupations post-participation
Creative and interpersonal roles (musicians, physicians, natural sciences managers) show the reverse (i.e., they score low on RL feasibility but high on general AI exposure).
Empirical comparison between the RL Feasibility Index and existing AI-exposure measures, with named creative/interpersonal occupations showing opposite rankings.
high negative What Jobs Can AI Learn? Measuring Exposure by Reinforcement ... relative RL feasibility vs. general AI exposure for named creative/interpersonal...
Existing indices measure the overlap between AI capabilities and occupational tasks rather than which tasks AI systems can learn to perform, and as a result misclassify occupations where the gap between present capability and learnability is large.
Conceptual critique and comparison of existing AI-exposure indices vs. the authors' proposed learnability-focused approach (paper text argument and empirical comparisons implied later).
high negative What Jobs Can AI Learn? Measuring Exposure by Reinforcement ... accuracy/misclassification of occupations by AI-exposure indices vs. learnabilit...
Workers acquire skills through generative AI tools but lack credible ways to signal or validate these skills in competitive freelance markets (a structural challenge the paper terms 'invisible competencies').
Reported finding and conceptual contribution based on the paper's mixed-methods study (survey + semi-structured interviews).
high negative Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... ability to signal/validate skills acquired via generative AI in freelance market...
There is a shift from learning as growth to learning as survival, where upskilling is oriented toward immediate market viability rather than long-term development.
Reported thematic finding from the paper's interviews and survey of freelance knowledge workers.
high negative Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... orientation of upskilling (immediate market viability vs long-term development)
Freelancers do not treat generative AI as their primary learning resource due to inconsistency, lack of contextual relevance, and verification overhead.
Reported finding from the paper's mixed-methods study (survey + semi-structured interviews with freelance knowledge workers).
high negative Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... role of generative AI in freelancers' learning stacks / barriers to using it as ...
Freelance workers must continually acquire new skills to remain competitive in online labor markets, yet they lack the organizational training, mentorship, and infrastructure available to traditional employees.
Framing statement in the paper's introduction / literature review (not reported as an empirical result from this study).
high negative Upskilling with Generative AI: Practices and Challenges for ... need for continual upskilling and availability of organizational training/mentor...
Algorithmic collusion is a new form of market failure arising from the agentic economy.
Theoretical claim and analysis of market failure mechanisms; no empirical antitrust cases or simulation evidence included in the provided text.
high negative DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... existence/emergence of algorithmic collusion as market failure
The marginal gains from genAI came at the high cost of recruiter deskilling, a trend that jeopardizes meaningful oversight of decision-making.
Qualitative interview evidence (n=22) where participants described loss of skills/deskilling associated with genAI use and concerns about oversight.
high negative Resume-ing Control: (Mis)Perceptions of Agency Around GenAI ... deskilling / erosion of practitioner skills and oversight capacity
The decision of whether or not to adopt genAI was often outside recruiters' control, with many feeling compelled to adopt due to directives from higher-ups in their business.
Reports from interviewed recruiters (n=22) indicating organizational pressure and top-down calls to integrate AI.
high negative Resume-ing Control: (Mis)Perceptions of Agency Around GenAI ... decision-making autonomy over tool adoption
Recruiters believe they have final authority across the recruiting pipeline, but genAI has become an invisible architect shaping the foundational information used for evaluation (e.g., defining a job, determining what counts as a good interview performance).
Qualitative findings from interviews with 22 recruiting professionals describing perceived authority versus the influence of genAI on informational inputs.
high negative Resume-ing Control: (Mis)Perceptions of Agency Around GenAI ... perceived decision authority vs. shaping of evaluation criteria
GenAI subtly influences control over everyday recruiting workflows and individual hiring decisions.
Qualitative evidence from semi-structured interviews with 22 recruiting professionals (n=22).
high negative Resume-ing Control: (Mis)Perceptions of Agency Around GenAI ... perceived control/agency in workflows and hiring decisions
AI-adopting firms anticipate smaller increases in their own prices and lower medium- to long-term inflation than non-adopters.
Survey questions on firms' price-change expectations and macro inflation expectations, comparing responses of adopting vs non-adopting firms.
high negative The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... firms' expected own price increases and medium- to long-term inflation expectati...
AI adoption leads to a contraction of blue-collar employment.
Difference-in-differences analysis of administrative employer–employee records showing decreases in blue-collar employment associated with adoption.
high negative The economic impact of artificial intelligence: evidence fro... blue-collar employment (count or share)
The research also identifies policy loopholes and unequal AI preparedness on the continent.
Findings from the paper's systematic review highlighting gaps in policy frameworks and uneven preparedness across Sub‑Saharan African countries; no country‑level counts or indices provided in the summary.
high negative The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... presence of policy gaps and heterogeneity in AI preparedness across countries
Results indicate rising job displacement, industrial change, and inequality.
Aggregate findings reported from the systematic review pointing to increases in job displacement, structural industrial change, and inequality across studies; no aggregated numerical magnitudes provided in the summary.
high negative The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... incidence of job displacement; extent of industrial/structural change; levels of...
They are a threat to semi-and unskilled jobs, particularly in manufacturing.
Conclusion from the systematic review synthesizing studies on automation risk to semi- and unskilled positions, especially in manufacturing; no numerical risk estimate provided in the summary.
high negative The Impact of AI-Driven Automation on Semi and Unskilled Wor... risk of displacement for semi‑ and unskilled manufacturing jobs
Vulnerable populations—including low-skill workers, aging labour forces, and developing economies—are especially affected by AI-driven changes.
Abstract highlights special attention to vulnerable populations in the review and asserts differential impacts; no specific empirical estimates or sample sizes provided in abstract.
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... distributional effects / disproportionate adverse impacts on vulnerable groups
AI displaces routine cognitive and manual tasks.
Explicit finding reported in abstract based on the paper's systematic review of empirical studies (no individual study sample sizes or quantitative estimates provided in abstract).
high negative AI and the Transformation of Human Employment: Challenges, O... displacement of routine tasks / job_displacement for routine roles
In resource-dependent regional economies, AI adoption can transform seasonal industries into continuous economic infrastructure and replace intermediate coordination roles and traditional employment structures.
Illustrative case analysis used in the paper to show how the framework applies to resource-dependent regions; described as an illustrative argument rather than an empirically validated causal estimate in the provided text.
high negative Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... transformation of seasonal industries to continuous infrastructure and replaceme...
Training systems are still predicated on the idea that technology demands higher skill levels, an assumption increasingly challenged by the rise of AI, which now threatens even high-skill occupations.
Argumentative/literature-based claim in the paper drawing on trends in AI capability and occupational exposure (no specific sample size given in abstract).
high negative AI, the Future of Work, and the Politics of the Welfare Stat... skill demand assumptions of training systems and exposure of high-skill occupati...
Existing welfare states are ill-equipped to manage AI-driven disruptions: most social benefits remain grounded in work-based eligibility and emphasize rapid reintegration into the labor market.
Policy/literature analysis and descriptive claim made in the paper (comparative welfare-state institutional assessment).
high negative AI, the Future of Work, and the Politics of the Welfare Stat... design of social benefits (work-based eligibility and reintegration emphasis)
Fear of AI automation is widespread and cuts across educational groups.
Analysis of emerging public opinion data from the 2024 OECD 'Risks that Matter' survey, reported in the paper (survey-based finding).
high negative AI, the Future of Work, and the Politics of the Welfare Stat... public fear of AI automation
There is limited but suggestive early evidence of labor market disruption from AI/LLMs.
Paper summarizes emerging empirical research indicating early signs of disruption; the abstract characterizes the evidence as limited and suggestive without presenting numeric estimates or sample sizes.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... labor market disruption (e.g., displacement, reallocation)
Certain occupations face the greatest risk from AI-driven automation (the article examines which occupations are most at risk).
Paper claims to examine occupation-level risk using synthesized empirical studies; the abstract does not list which occupations or quantitative risk estimates.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... occupation-level risk of automation / exposure to AI
There is a gap between theoretical automation potential and observed real-world implementation of AI/LLMs.
Synthesis of recent empirical studies that compare task-level exposure metrics with employment and usage data; no specific sample sizes or numeric estimates provided in the abstract.
high negative AI Displacement Risk in the Labor Market: Evidence, Exposure... difference between theoretical automation potential and actual adoption/implemen...
Privacy law encounters difficulties in addressing large-scale data processing and meaningful consent within employment relationships; anti-discrimination law faces evidentiary challenges in identifying algorithmic bias; doctrines of responsibility are expanding to encompass duties of oversight, verification, and explainability.
Legal analysis highlighting specific doctrinal challenges and emergent duties; no empirical tests or quantified measures included in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... effectiveness of specific legal doctrines (privacy, anti-discrimination, respons...
Traditional legal categories (privacy, consent, non-discrimination, employer responsibility) continue to apply formally but are increasingly strained in substance by the scale of data processing, opacity of AI systems, and their degree of autonomy.
Doctrinal critique and conceptual analysis provided in the paper; no empirical quantification of the degree of strain is supplied in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... fit/adequacy of existing legal doctrines to address AI-related employment issues
The decentralized and sector-specific regulatory approach reflects technological neutrality but exposes significant regulatory gaps, particularly with respect to transparency, accountability, and the protection of workers' rights.
Normative/legal analysis in the paper identifying gaps in a decentralized regulatory regime; specific case studies or empirical measures of gaps not provided in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... regulatory completeness and coverage regarding transparency, accountability, and...
Israel has not enacted a comprehensive statutory framework specifically governing the use of AI in the field of employment; regulation is implemented through a hybrid model of indirect application of existing legal doctrines (primarily privacy and labor law), soft-law instruments, collective bargaining agreements, and internal organizational and professional regulation.
Doctrinal and regulatory analysis reported in the paper describing Israel's legal/regulatory landscape; no legislative text counts or timeline analysis provided in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... existence and form of statutory and regulatory frameworks governing AI in employ...