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Evidence (3308 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

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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Distinguishing automation versus augmentation using causal methods changes policy responses (e.g., income support versus reskilling).
Policy implication drawn from conceptual separation of substitution and complementarity effects; logical inference rather than empirical demonstration in the paper.
high mixed Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... policy prescriptions chosen contingent on causal classification (automation vs a...
Methodological caveats across the literature (heterogeneity of tasks/measures, publication bias, short-term studies) limit the generalizability of current findings.
Meta-level critique within the synthesis noting study heterogeneity, likely publication/short-term biases, and variable domain-specific performance dependent on user expertise and workflows.
high mixed ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... generalizability and external validity of LLM-assisted creativity findings
Standard productivity metrics are likely to undercount the value generated by AI-augmented ideation; quality-adjusted measures of creative output are required.
Measurement critique based on the mismatch between existing productivity statistics and the kinds of upstream idea-generation gains observed in empirical studies; supported by the review's methodological discussion.
high mixed ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... measured productivity vs. true quality-adjusted creative output
Evaluation of the equivalency system should use metrics such as concordance between claimed competencies and verified inputs, predictive validity versus labor-market integration outcomes, and false positive/negative rates in automated decisions.
Methodological recommendation in the paper outlining specific evaluation metrics; this is a prescriptive claim (no empirical implementation reported).
high mixed Establishes a technical and academic bridge between the educ... concordance rate, predictive validity (e.g., accuracy, AUC), false positive/nega...
Results and implications are limited by the sample and context: evidence comes from law students on a single issue-spotting exam using one brief training intervention, so generalizability to experienced professionals, other tasks, or other models is untested.
Authors’ reported sample (164 law students) and explicit caution about generalizability in the study summary; the intervention and outcome are specific to one exam and one ~10-minute training.
high mixed Training for Technology: Adoption and Productive Use of Gene... Generalizability/applicability to other populations and tasks
Some mechanism-specific estimates are imprecise due to the sample size; confidence intervals for those estimates are wide.
Authors report wide confidence intervals for mechanism decomposition (principal stratification) results based on the randomized sample of 164 students.
high mixed Training for Technology: Adoption and Productive Use of Gene... Precision of mechanism estimates (confidence interval width for adoption vs prod...
There is no consensus in the literature on net job effects — studies diverge on whether AI produces net job gains.
Direct finding from the review: the 17 peer‑reviewed studies produce heterogeneous results on net employment impacts (some positive, some negative, some neutral).
Effects of AI adoption are heterogeneous across industries, firm sizes, regions, and worker characteristics (education, experience, occupation).
Microdata and firm-level studies exploiting cross-sectional and panel variation, quasi-experimental designs leveraging differential adoption across firms/regions, and comparative institutional analyses showing variation by context.
high mixed Intelligence and Labor Market Transformation: A Critical Ana... heterogeneity in employment and wage outcomes by industry, firm size, region, an...
The effects of K_T adoption are heterogeneous across industries, firms, countries, and cohorts — early adopters and capital-rich firms/countries gain most — implying important transition dynamics for political economy.
Cross-country comparisons, industry- and firm-level panel heterogeneity analyses, and case studies demonstrating variation in adoption timing and gains; model simulations emphasizing transition path dependence.
high mixed The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... industry-/firm-/country-level productivity, income, employment, and adoption tim...
Aggregate productivity (output per worker or per unit of inputs) can rise while labor’s share and employment decline due to substitution toward K_T.
Macro growth-accounting exercises decomposing output growth into contributions from labor, traditional capital, and technological capital; model simulations showing productivity gains coexisting with falling labor shares under substitution elasticities.
high mixed The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... productivity (e.g., TFP or output per worker) and labor share
There are critical gaps in governance mechanisms that are tuned to the scale of SME deployment of BI and AI.
Conclusion drawn in the narrative review of literature (2020–2025); no specific policy evaluations or sample sizes cited in the excerpt.
high negative From data to decisions: A narrative review of business intel... adequacy of governance mechanisms for SME-scale AI/BI deployment
SMEs face unequal/fairness issues in access to AI and there are biases in algorithms affecting SME deployment.
Identified as a key gap across the peer‑reviewed literature (2020–2025) in the review; the excerpt provides no quantitative measures or specific studies.
high negative From data to decisions: A narrative review of business intel... fair access to AI and algorithmic bias
There are critical gaps in data literacy among SME personnel.
Reported as a recurring theme in the reviewed literature (2020–2025) in the narrative review; no numeric prevalence or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
This structural under‑serving of SMEs by advanced BI and analytics is threatening inclusive economic growth and resiliency.
Argument presented in the review synthesizing literature (2020–2025); no quantified causal estimates or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high negative From data to decisions: A narrative review of business intel... inclusive economic growth and economic resiliency
SMEs are systematically under-served by advanced business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics infrastructure.
Narrative synthesis of peer‑reviewed literature (2020–2025) reported in the review; no specific studies or sample sizes given in the excerpt.
high negative From data to decisions: A narrative review of business intel... access/adoption of advanced BI and predictive analytics
These factors (surveillance anxiety, loss of autonomy, deskilling) negatively affect worker well-being and contribute to turnover.
Secondary data literature review of peer-reviewed research and industry evidence published 2022–2026 (method: secondary data review / synthesis). The paper synthesizes prior empirical and theoretical studies but does not report an original sample size.
high negative Redefining warehouse workforce competencies and roles throug... worker well-being and turnover
Automation and algorithmic systems introduce risks of deskilling that affect workers' capabilities.
Secondary data literature review of peer-reviewed research and industry evidence published 2022–2026 (method: secondary data review / synthesis). No primary sample size stated.
high negative Redefining warehouse workforce competencies and roles throug... deskilling / loss of skills
Algorithmic management reduces worker autonomy (loss of autonomy) in warehouse settings.
Secondary data literature review of peer-reviewed research and industry evidence published 2022–2026 (method: secondary data review / synthesis). Sample sizes not reported in this paper.
high negative Redefining warehouse workforce competencies and roles throug... worker autonomy under algorithmic management
Algorithmic management in automated logistics generates surveillance anxiety among workers.
Secondary data literature review of peer-reviewed research and industry evidence published 2022–2026 (method: secondary data review / synthesis). No sample size given.
high negative Redefining warehouse workforce competencies and roles throug... surveillance anxiety / worker psychological response to algorithmic management
The paper formalises an AI productivity transmission gap between technical adoption and inclusive productivity realisation.
Formal definition and derivation within the DIAC theoretical framework (analytical/modeling content).
high negative THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... gap between technical adoption and inclusive productivity realisation
AI does not translate directly from firm-level task efficiency into national productivity; its effect is filtered through complementary intangible investment, skills formation, data governance, competition policy, labor-market mobility, and social insurance.
Analytical DIAC model and accompanying theoretical argumentation in the paper; no empirical sample reported.
high negative THE AI PRODUCTIVITY TRANSMISSION GAP IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES... transmission from firm-level task efficiency to national productivity (i.e., pro...
AI use can reduce visibility of real skill differences among employees.
Reported findings from performance management and knowledge-work studies indicating that AI-mediated outputs can obscure underlying employee skill variation.
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... visibility of employee skill differences
Use of AI can produce over-reliance on AI recommendations, reducing active human judgment and accountability.
Cited empirical observations and prior literature on automation bias and AI-supported decision processes in organizational settings.
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... degree of human engagement/accountability in decisions
AI systems miss contextual information that humans use to make better decisions.
Examples and studies cited from hiring, performance management, healthcare, and knowledge work demonstrating omissions of context by AI tools.
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... contextual completeness of decision inputs
Empirical studies of AI use show recurring problems including mistakes in unusual cases.
Cited recent studies across domains (hiring, performance management, healthcare, knowledge work) reporting AI errors on atypical or edge-case instances.
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... frequency of errors on unusual cases
Human judgment rooted in experience cannot be fully replaced by current AI systems.
Argument based on literature synthesis drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, and organizational studies; supported by cited recent empirical studies of AI use in hiring, performance management, healthcare, and knowledge work (no single new experiment reported).
high negative What AI Cannot Learn: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Hum... ability of AI to substitute for human judgment
The paper identifies an emergent phenomenon called 'Precariousness 2.0' — a state of manufactured uncertainty characterized by loss of professional autonomy and chronic anxiety among workers.
Conceptual/qualitative construct developed in the paper from synthesis of secondary reports and national observations; no primary survey data cited supporting prevalence or magnitude.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... professional autonomy and worker anxiety (qualitative precarity)
Women in high-income countries face a risk of automation nearly three times higher than men due to their concentration in administrative roles.
Paper's secondary quantitative synthesis attributing a ~3x relative risk to occupational gender segregation (administrative roles); based on international report data referenced in the study.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... relative automation risk by gender
39% of current skills become obsolete.
Reported statistic in the paper synthesizing projections from the cited reports (WEF, ILO, McKinsey, PwC); no primary sample size stated.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... share of skills becoming obsolete
22% of employment undergoes structural change (masking the net job gain).
Reported summary statistic from the paper's secondary quantitative analysis of international reports; no primary sample size stated.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... share of employment experiencing structural change
Public discourse still focuses heavily on job losses while paying less attention to the opportunities that AI creates.
Author's observation/argument in the paper (qualitative commentary comparing public discourse emphasis).
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... media/public discourse emphasis on job losses vs. opportunities
The report identifies 'AI washing,' a practice in which companies mention AI as justification for what are really financially motivated layoffs.
Identification/term introduced in the paper based on examples or synthesis of corporate reporting and layoff cases (as described).
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... misuse/mislabeling of AI as justification for layoffs
Roughly 92 million jobs might face displacement by 2030.
Projection synthesized from cited external reports (WEF/PwC/MGI/Gartner/IMF) as reported in the paper.
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... number of jobs projected to face displacement by 2030
Many participants used the model to rubber-stamp a prior guess and, as a result, performed worse than the model alone.
Pilot analysis comparing hybrid forecasts to model-alone forecasts and observing a subset whose forecasting error exceeded the model's error; described qualitatively in the paper.
high negative Human Capital, Not Model Benchmarks, Predicts Hybrid Intelli... forecasting accuracy relative to model (worse performance)
The relational value of workplace AI companions remains underexplored.
Claim motivated by the authors' systematic interdisciplinary literature review (paper states relational value is underexplored); no numeric count of studies provided in excerpt.
high negative Thinking, Feeling, Becoming: A Relational Competency Framewo... extent of research attention to relational value
The existing international competency indices fail to capture the structural differentiation in AI-driven educational transformation across EU moderate innovator economies, rendering evidence-based policy design inadequate.
Stated as a motivating assertion in the paper; based on the author's critique of existing indices and the subsequent focused evaluation of selected EU moderate innovator economies (Visegrad and Baltic states). No specific quantitative comparison of indices is reported in the abstract.
high negative AI-Education and Innovation Competitiveness: EU Moderate Inn... adequacy of international competency indices to capture structural differentiati...
The paper reframes humans not as passive users, but as core system components whose competencies, limitations, and adaptive capacities constrain the performance envelope of optimized AI systems.
Framing/interpretive claim derived from the paper's perspective and literature synthesis (conceptual; no empirical support provided in text).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... constraining effect of human competencies and limitations on AI system performan...
Organizational structures, bias susceptibility, retraining constraints, and interface design co-determine system stability, error propagation, and optimization ceilings.
Conceptual claim based on synthesis of literature across organizational adoption and ML lifecycle management (no empirical tests or sample sizes reported).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... system stability and error propagation (incidence and spread of errors) and limi...
Human interfaces define throughput limits in areas such as prompt engineering, data-stream curation, adjudication of model outputs, and the orchestration of hybrid automation workflows including robotics, scraping, and digitization.
Theoretical assertion supported by the paper's systems-oriented analysis and literature synthesis (no empirical measurement or sample size provided).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... throughput / task completion capacity for workflows involving human-AI interacti...
Despite accelerating advances in AI capabilities, human capital remains the enduring and dominant system constraint.
Argument and synthesis of emerging research across human-AI interaction, ML lifecycle management, organizational adoption, and adult learning theory (conceptual synthesis; no empirical sample size reported).
high negative Optimizing Human Capital in AI-Enabled Architectures: A Syst... constraint on overall AI system performance (human capital as limiting factor)
Diagnostic heuristic: if letting AI in makes the task feel effortless, it is in the wrong place.
Authors' heuristic for educators (conceptual guidance; no empirical test reported in the excerpt).
high negative The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusi... perceived effort during task when AI is allowed
An unguarded AI helper left high-school students about 17% worse on an unaided exam than peers with no tool at all.
Described as the 'strongest causal evidence' in the paper; empirical study of high-school students measuring unaided exam performance. (Study design details and sample size not provided in the excerpt.)
Used poorly, AI replaces the cognitive work that learning requires and leaves an illusion of learning: a confident sense of mastery that collapses on the unaided task.
Authors' conceptual claim supported in the paper by reference to causal evidence (see following empirical claims); no sample size given in the excerpt.
high negative The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusi... performance on unaided tasks (collapse of apparent mastery)
Experts in the study assign a 14% probability to 'rapid-progress' scenarios characterized by substantial GDP growth, declining labor force participation, and accelerating wealth inequality.
Result from the 2025 forecasting study of experts (69 economists + 52 AI experts), reporting a probability estimate (14%) for a named scenario with specified macroeconomic and labor-market features.
high negative Preparing Organizations for AI's Economic Disruption: Eviden... probability assigned to a rapid-progress scenario with substantial GDP growth, d...
Developed economies leverage educational capital to mitigate the adverse inequality effects of AI adoption.
Reported interaction/moderation findings from OLS and Random Forest analyses on the World Bank/OECD dataset showing weaker or offset association between AI adoption and Gini in higher-education / higher-development country groups.
high negative Analyzing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Adoption on ... Gini index (income inequality)
Barriers limiting full AI adoption in auditing include resistance to change, algorithm aversion, heuristics and biases, lack of transparency, expertise and training gaps, and technological complexity.
Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of 43 studies synthesizing reported inhibitors and challenges to AI uptake in auditing from empirical and conceptual papers.
high negative AI in auditing: Drivers and barriers to its adoption and the... Barriers/inhibitors to AI adoption in auditing
GenAI adoption carries risks including overreliance on models, misalignment between model outputs and human needs, and uneven performance across tasks and contexts.
Reported adverse effects and risks identified in the reviewed literature (task-level experiments and applied studies summarized by the paper).
high negative Generative AI, Digital Infrastructure, and Firm Productivity... error rates, misalignment incidents, quality failures due to overreliance
AI has a significant negative influence on value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries.
Industry-type heterogeneity analysis within the same 30-province panel (2010–2022) showing a statistically significant negative coefficient for labor-intensive subsectors.
high negative The impact of artificial intelligence on value chain upgradi... value chain upgrading in labor-intensive equipment manufacturing industries
In manual jobs, AI compresses the returns to undereducation as tasks become more skill-intensive.
Occupation-specific heterogeneity analysis using CLDS and city AI diffusion showing reductions in the undereducation wage premium within manual-occupation subsamples under higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (occupation-specific interaction effects)
AI diffusion slightly lowers the wage premium for undereducated workers.
Interaction effects from fixed-effects models using CLDS and city AI diffusion indicators showing a small reduction in undereducation-related wage premium with higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (interaction: AI diffusion × undereducation)