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Evidence (11633 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
Qualitative results underscored both perceived benefits in comprehension and challenges when interpretations of gaze behaviors were inaccurate.
Qualitative analysis of participant feedback from the study (n=36) reporting themes of improved comprehension and occasional problems when the assistant misinterpreted gaze.
high mixed From Gaze to Guidance: Interpreting and Adapting to Users' C... participant-reported benefits and challenges (qualitative themes)
The productivity decomposition classifies deployments into five regimes that separate beneficial adoption from harmful adoption and identifies which deployments are vulnerable to the augmentation trap.
Model-based taxonomy produced from the analytical decomposition (classification into five regimes described in the paper).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... classification of AI deployment regimes (beneficial vs harmful, vulnerability to...
Small differences in managerial incentives can determine which skill path a worker takes (whether they realize full potential or deskill).
Comparative statics / theoretical sensitivity analysis in the dynamic model indicating tipping behavior based on managerial incentives.
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... worker skill trajectory contingent on managerial incentives
Result 3: When AI productivity depends less on worker expertise, workers can permanently diverge in skill: experienced workers realize their full potential while less experienced workers deskill to zero.
Analytical result from the dynamic model showing path-dependent divergence in skill levels under particular parameterizations (lower dependence of AI on worker expertise).
high mixed The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cogni... long-run worker skill distribution (experienced vs less experienced)
India exhibits a distinctive polarisation pattern: a shrinking middle-skill workforce alongside a persistently large low-skill labour segment.
Descriptive analysis of secondary data and official reports from 2020–2024 comparing occupational and skill distributions in India.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and labour market polarisation in In... changes in the share of labour across skill bands (middle vs low skill)
Mathematics (SAFI: 73.2) and Programming (71.8) receive the highest automation feasibility scores; Active Listening (42.2) and Reading Comprehension (45.5) receive the lowest.
SAFI benchmark results reported for specific O*NET skills (numerical SAFI scores provided in the paper).
high mixed The AI Skills Shift: Mapping Skill Obsolescence, Emergence, ... SAFI score by skill (automation feasibility)
The rise of agentic AI development, where LLM-based agents autonomously read, write, navigate, and debug codebases, introduces a new primary consumer with fundamentally different constraints.
Conceptual claim argued in the paper; refers to the emergence of agentic LLM-based tools as new consumers of software artifacts rather than an empirical measurement; no sample size reported.
high mixed Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... who/what is the primary consumer of software engineering artifacts (human develo...
Analysis uncovers dramatic asymmetries: inhibition 17.6% vs. preference 75.0%.
Paper reports specific aggregated percentages for two types of implicit effects (inhibition and preference) observed in their analysis; methodology context implies these are results from the benchmark evaluation (300 items / 17 models).
high mixed ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptatio... rates of inhibition vs. preference effects (implicit memory outcomes)
Model behaviors vary strongly with levels of reasoning and with users' inferred socio-economic status.
Reported findings from evaluations that varied model reasoning prompts/levels and user socio-economic status signals; paper states behavior differences across these dimensions. Abstract does not give sample sizes or exact quantitative differences.
high mixed Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models... variation in model behavior by reasoning level and inferred socio-economic statu...
The rapid deployment of multi-agentic AI systems is reshaping the foundations of copyright law and creative markets.
Theoretical and conceptual argumentation presented in the paper; no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported.
The effects of generative AI depend not only on the technology itself, but also the behavioral strategies and incentive structures surrounding its use.
Synthesis and interpretation of RCT results showing interactions between incentive structure and AI-use patterns (no formal interaction coefficients or sample details provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI impact of incentives and strategies on AI outcomes
Through a pre-registered randomized control trial, we show that incentives mediate AI's homogenizing force in a creative writing task where participants can use AI interactively.
Pre-registered randomized controlled trial (experimental design) conducted on a creative writing task with interactive AI use (details such as sample size not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI extent to which incentives alter AI's homogenizing effect (mediating effect)
By conceptualizing the emergence of a posthuman economy, this study contributes to interdisciplinary debates on artificial intelligence, digital capitalism, and the transformation of economic organization.
Author-stated contribution of the paper based on conceptual/theoretical work; no empirical validation reported.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... conceptual contribution to interdisciplinary academic debates on AI and economic...
Contemporary organizations operate within hybrid intelligence environments where human expertise and algorithmic systems collaboratively produce economic knowledge, prediction, and action.
Theoretical synthesis using posthumanist and socio-technical perspectives within the paper; no empirical measurement or sample provided.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... presence of hybrid intelligence environments and collaborative human-algorithmic...
This article develops the concept of algorithmic agency to explain how artificial intelligence participates in economic decision-making within modern business systems.
Author's conceptual contribution described in the paper (theoretical development), no empirical testing reported.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... conceptual account of AI participation in economic decision-making (algorithmic ...
Emerging posthumanist scholarship suggests a deeper transformation in which economic agency itself becomes distributed across human and algorithmic actors.
Synthesis of posthumanist scholarship and theoretical literature cited in the paper; conceptual rather than empirical evidence.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... distribution of economic agency across human and algorithmic actors
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping contemporary economic systems as algorithmic infrastructures increasingly participate in interpreting information, generating predictions, and influencing organizational decision-making.
Conceptual argument in the paper drawing on posthumanist theory, socio-technical research, and digital economy scholarship; no empirical sample or quantitative data reported.
high mixed Algorithmic Agency and the Posthuman Economy: Artificial Int... extent to which algorithmic infrastructures participate in organizational inform...
Each country's legal framework could influence the ultimate trajectory of the AI race.
Framed in the chapter as a concluding implication of the comparative analysis; presented as a reasoned projection rather than an empirically validated prediction in the provided text.
high mixed Navigating Turbulence: The Challenge of Inclusive Innovation... trajectory of the international AI race
Data privacy, intellectual property (IP rights), and export restrictions are three critical aspects of the American and Chinese legal infrastructure that significantly impact AI innovation.
Author(s) state this as the organizing premise of the chapter; comparative legal analysis and normative argumentation rather than empirical measurement.
high mixed Navigating Turbulence: The Challenge of Inclusive Innovation... impact of legal infrastructure (data privacy, IP rights, export restrictions) on...
These results suggest the need for AI model development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task completion.
Authors' policy/research recommendation based on experimental findings showing short-term gains but longer-term harms.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... recommendation for AI development priorities (design objective, not an empirical...
These effects are observed across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension.
Trials included multiple task types (explicitly naming mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension); cross-task analysis reported.
high mixed AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Perf... task-specific performance and persistence across task types (math reasoning, rea...
Only a small subset of LLM retailers can consistently achieve capital appreciation, while many hover around the break-even point.
Empirical results from the 20-agent benchmark experiments reported in the paper, contrasting capital appreciation for winners vs break-even for many agents.
high mixed Market-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Economic... capital appreciation / agent profitability
Benchmarking on 20 open- and closed-source LLM agents reveals significant performance disparities and a winner-take-most phenomenon.
Empirical evaluation described in the paper using 20 LLM agents (open- and closed-source); results reported show uneven performance distribution.
high mixed Market-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Economic... performance (financial/competitive outcomes of retailer agents)
Chinese Marxism's dialectical approach—rooted in the yin‑yang principle—constitutes an alternative epistemology that fundamentally differs from Western either/or logic, and this epistemology underpins the semi‑core's policy and strategic stance.
Philosophical and textual analysis of contemporary Chinese Marxist thought presented in the paper, interpreted in relation to Bauman's philosophical work; no empirical measurement reported, presented as conceptual/theoretical evidence.
high mixed Theorising the Interregnum: epistemological orientation (yin‑yang dialectic vs Western either/or)
Tool developers, users, and social scientists conceptualize 'context' differently, and these divergent conceptualizations reveal specific pitfalls inherent in computational approaches to context.
Analytic comparison across stakeholder perspectives derived from interviews and conceptual analysis in the paper (qualitative evidence; sample size unspecified).
high mixed Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in ... differences in conceptual definitions and the resulting pitfalls for computation...
AI adoption significantly reshaped task profiles for 73% of respondents, particularly affecting routine data processing, administrative tasks, and scheduling activities.
Survey data and secondary data analysis reported in this study (sample size not stated); self-reported change in task profiles with reported percentage (73%).
high mixed Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Career Reconfiguration ... task profile change (impact on routine data processing, administrative tasks, sc...
Providing issue-specific design guidance reduces design violations, but substantial non-compliance remains.
Intervention experiments in paper: agents were given issue-specific design guidance and resulting patch compliance measured; reported reduction in violations but remaining non-compliance.
high mixed Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Const... design violations / design satisfaction
Evolutionary dynamics in the model reflect not just current fitness but factors related to the long-run growth potential of descendant lineages.
Mathematical analysis of the proposed model showing lineage growth potential influences dynamics (theoretical derivations/proofs within the paper).
high mixed A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs influence on evolutionary dynamics (current fitness vs long-run lineage growth p...
Policy implication: encouraging public sharing of AI-assisted solutions offsets the decline associated with private diversion (flow margin) but cannot repair participation-driven deterioration in conditional resolution; the latter requires directly maintaining contributor engagement.
Prescriptive conclusion from the theoretical model comparing interventions: public-sharing encouragement helps with flow-margin diversion but not with supply-side contributor thinning.
high mixed When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... archive creation (via posted volume) and conditional resolution (via contributor...
Diagnostic prediction: in a congested regime, observing a joint decline in posted volume and conditional resolution implies supply-side pool thinning is quantitatively present; by contrast, volume decline with stable or rising resolution indicates private diversion (flow margin) alone is the dominant force.
Analytical diagnostic derived from the model that links empirical patterns (volume and conditional resolution) to underlying mechanisms; no empirical validation given in the excerpt.
high mixed When AI Improves Answers but Slows Knowledge Creation: Match... posted volume and conditional resolution probability (joint pattern)
There is a robust inverted U-shaped relationship between robotics manufacturing development and urban carbon emissions.
Panel data analysis using 277 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2008 to 2019; econometric analysis reported in the paper finds an inverted U-shaped association and robustness checks are claimed.
AI adoption across firms is heterogeneous, varying across sectors such as finance, technology, and manufacturing.
Survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms across finance, tech, and manufacturing showing variation in AI integration; supported by qualitative interviews and policy analysis.
high mixed Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... heterogeneity in AI adoption across firms/sectors
The rapid, heterogeneous integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is profoundly reshaping the dynamics of work across the Nigerian business sector, generating both significant economic opportunities and acute labor market challenges.
Mixed-methods study combining a quantitative survey of 150 leading Nigerian firms across finance, tech, and manufacturing and qualitative analysis of government policy and workforce interviews.
high mixed Human Capital and the AI-Powered Future of Work: (Training, ... dynamics of work (economic opportunities and labor market challenges)
As technological progress devalues labor, the welfare benefits of steering initially increase but, beyond a critical threshold, decline and optimal policy shifts toward greater redistribution.
Analytical result from the paper's theoretical model that compares planner's optimal technology choice under varying degrees of labor devaluation and redistribution costs.
high mixed Steering Technological Progress planner welfare trade-off between steering and redistribution
For the short-run optimization problem of AI deployment given fixed job responsibilities and worker skill levels, the firm’s optimal strategy for an m-step job can be computed in time O(m^2) using dynamic programming; the long-run joint optimization including task assignment to workers can also be solved in polynomial time up to an arbitrarily small error term.
Algorithmic results and complexity analysis derived in the theoretical sections and appendices of the paper (dynamic programming construction and polynomial-time solution statements).
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation computational complexity (time complexity) of computing optimal AI deployment an...
Appending a neighboring step to an existing AI chain adds no additional human verification burden (verification is a fixed cost at the chain level), which can make appending steps to a chain optimal even if manual execution is individually preferable for the appended step.
Theoretical model setup and formal argument showing verification is incurred only at the last augmented step of a chain; illustrative examples (data scientist workflow) and comparative-cost reasoning in the paper.
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation marginal verification cost when extending AI chains
AI chaining can overturn standard comparative advantage logic in assignment: when multiple adjacent steps are executed as an AI chain, a step may be assigned to AI (as part of the chain) even if manual human execution would be preferred for that step in isolation.
Theoretical model of production as an ordered sequence of steps with firms endogenously bundling contiguous steps into tasks and jobs; formal comparative-static arguments and illustrative examples in the paper showing how fixed verification costs per chain change marginal assignment incentives.
high mixed Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation assignment of individual steps to AI versus human execution
Automation leads economic growth to accelerate, but the acceleration is remarkably slow because of the prominence of 'weak links' (an elasticity of substitution among tasks substantially less than one); even when most tasks are automated by rapidly-improving capital, output is constrained by the tasks performed by slowly-improving labor.
Theoretical mechanism from the task-based model (σ < 1 weak-links structure) combined with calibrated simulations that incorporate historical accounting results.
high mixed Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Gro... rate and speed of acceleration of economic growth in response to automation
The general public supports both targeted programs and broader interventions (including job guarantees and UBI), contrasting with economists' preferences.
Survey comparisons across groups contrasting normative policy support (textual summary in Key Findings; exact public-group percentages not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI policy preferences of the general public vs. economists
Unconditional forecasts are relatively close to historical trends, but under the rapid scenario the range of plausible outcomes expands (greater uncertainty).
Comparison of unconditional (all-things-considered) survey forecasts to conditional rapid-scenario forecasts; dispersion metrics referenced qualitatively in Key Findings (detailed variance numbers not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI forecast dispersion/uncertainty across scenarios
The effect of increasing the share of AI-automated R&D tasks is non-monotonic: firms initially target more radical innovations, but beyond a threshold of human-AI complementarity, they shift the focus toward incremental innovations.
Analytical comparative-statics in the theoretical model: varying the fraction of R&D tasks performable by AI yields a non-monotonic relationship between AI task-share and optimal recombination distance, with a threshold determined by human-AI complementarity.
high mixed Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... targeted recombination distance / radicalness of innovations as a function of AI...
Higher AI productivity encourages more distant recombinations, if the direct facilitation effect is stronger than the indirect effect due to intensified competition from rivals.
Comparative-static result from the analytical model: the paper derives a condition comparing the direct facilitation effect of AI on accessing distant knowledge and the indirect effect from increased competition; when the former dominates, equilibrium recombination distance increases with AI productivity.
high mixed Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombin... recombination distance (degree of distance in knowledge-space targeted by firms)
Both rapid model improvement and benchmark quality issues contributed to underestimating agent capabilities.
Synthesis of results: improved LLM performance plus audit findings showing benchmark errors together explain the prior underestimation; based on the re-evaluation and audit described in the paper.
high mixed ELT-Bench-Verified: Benchmark Quality Issues Underestimate A... factors contributing to underestimation of agent capabilities (model improvement...
Poaching by a dominant undertaking can, under certain conditions, constitute exclusionary abuse and structural abuse in both product and labor markets (drawing on Section 2 Sherman Act 'predatory hiring' scholarship and case law).
Paper's analytical claim based on comparative legal scholarship and case law (described in abstract); no empirical sample/experiment specified in abstract.
high mixed Employee Poaching as An Abuse of Dominance Under Article 102... legal classification of targeted hiring as exclusionary or structural abuse
Models performed well on commonly discussed topics but struggled with specialized health data.
Task-level performance comparison across topics in the elicited population statistics: better accuracy on commonly discussed topics, poorer performance on specialized health data tasks.
high mixed Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... topic-specific estimation accuracy
In a preliminary experiment, giving models web search access degraded predictions for already-accurate models, while modestly improving predictions for weaker ones.
A preliminary comparative test where some models were given web search access and changes in predictive performance were observed: degradation for already-accurate models and modest improvement for weaker models.
high mixed Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Rea... change in predictive accuracy with web search access
Developers actively manage the collaboration, externalizing plans into persistent artifacts, and negotiating AI autonomy through context injection and behavioral constraints.
Observed behaviors in chat transcripts and committed artifacts showing developers creating persistent plans, injecting context, and specifying constraints to shape AI behavior.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... practices for managing AI collaboration (externalization of plans, context injec...
Developers redistribute cognitive work to AI, delegating diagnosis, comprehension, and validation rather than engaging with code and outputs directly.
Content and interaction analyses of chat sessions showing developer prompts delegating diagnosis, comprehension, and validation tasks to the AI assistants (Cursor and GitHub Copilot) across the dataset.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... allocation of cognitive tasks (diagnosis, comprehension, validation) between dev...
Conversational programming operates as progressive specification, with developers iteratively refining outputs rather than specifying complete tasks upfront.
Qualitative/content analysis of the 74,998 messages across 11,579 sessions indicating patterns of iterative prompts and refinements rather than one-shot complete specifications.
high mixed Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11... mode of task specification (iterative refinement vs complete upfront specificati...
The influence of human capital (number of specialists in scientific and technological fields) on value added varies across sectors.
Number of specialists in scientific and technological fields included as a covariate in MMQR; reported heterogeneous effects across sectors/quantiles in the results section.