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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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At the structural and macroeconomic level, artificial intelligence is reshaping the balance of power within the labor market and contributes to a gradual shift toward employer-driven dynamics.
Author's macroeconomic and structural analysis as presented in the paper; no specific datasets, methods, or sample sizes are reported in the excerpt.
high negative Artificial Intelligence in Israel, Trends, Developments, and... balance of power in the labor market (employer vs. worker influence)
There is a persistent female disadvantage in work intensity.
Analysis of EWCTS 2021 with IFR robot exposure measures using weighted logit models controlling for individual and job covariates and fixed effects; gender-specific patterns examined via interaction terms.
high negative Gendered Effects of Robotisation on Job Quality work intensity (job-quality dimension)
Ethical concerns—such as transparency, explainability, psychological effects, and responsible AI governance—are critical factors influencing employability outcomes.
Review synthesis highlighting ethical issues from empirical and industry literature as influential on employability outcomes.
high negative The Impact of AI on Employability and Evolving Job Roles of ... ethical concerns' impact on employability
There are significant AI adoption challenges in education and industry that affect employability and role transformation.
Synthesized evidence from industry reports and empirical studies discussed in the review highlighting barriers to adoption in education and industry.
From the perspectives of 'personal subordination' and 'economic subordination', AIGC deeply and implicitly controls the labor process through mechanisms such as dynamic path planning, blurring the boundaries of determination.
Analytical/legal argument in the paper linking conceptual standards of subordination to specific algorithmic mechanisms (e.g., dynamic path planning); supported by mechanistic discussion but no reported empirical measurement or sample.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... task_allocation / algorithmic control of tasks
AIGC constantly challenges traditional standards for determining labor relations.
Paper's analytic claim based on conceptual/legal argument that algorithmic features of AIGC complicate application of existing labor-relation tests; no quantitative validation or sample size provided.
high negative AIGC+ Determination of Labor Relations in the Context of the... employment (classification/determination of labor relations)
The transformation toward algorithmic enterprises raises critical concerns regarding agency, accountability, data monopolization, and algorithmic bias.
Presented as a principal concern in the paper's conceptual discussion and interdisciplinary critique; based on analysis of governance and ethical literature rather than new empirical evidence in the abstract.
high negative Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... risks to agency, accountability, market power (data monopolization), and algorit...
Algorithmic management and monitoring have reduced employees’ autonomy and perceived work meaningfulness, contributing to 'AI anxiety' characterised by concerns about job loss, skill obsolescence, and diminished control.
Qualitative studies, survey evidence, and theoretical literature reviewed that document impacts of algorithmic management on autonomy, meaningfulness, and worker anxiety (mixed-methods literature).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... employee autonomy, perceived work meaningfulness, and AI-related anxiety
Automation has intensified income inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers.
Synthesis of empirical literature linking automation adoption to widening wage and income gaps across skill groups (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... income/wage inequality between skill groups
Displacement effects have extended from manufacturing into cognitive roles such as clerical work and customer service.
Review of empirical studies documenting automation/substitution effects in cognitive, clerical, and customer-service roles (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... occupational displacement in cognitive/clerical/customer-service roles
Automation has put downward pressure on wages.
Cited empirical studies and wage analyses in the reviewed literature indicating wage suppression associated with automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... wage levels / wage pressure
AI and robotics have led to contractions in low-skilled occupations.
Synthesis of empirical literature reporting occupational contractions in low-skilled jobs following automation adoption (literature review).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... contraction in employment in low-skilled occupations
Extensive empirical evidence shows that AI and robotics can substitute for rule-based, codifiable routine tasks.
Review cites extensive empirical studies demonstrating substitution of rule-based, codifiable routine tasks by AI/robotics (literature synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... substitution of routine tasks (automation exposure)
Artificial intelligence and robotic technologies are fundamentally reshaping labour markets and pose multifaceted challenges to workers engaged in routine and low-skilled tasks.
Narrative review of domestic and international scholarly literature over the past decade (literature review / synthesis).
high negative From Technological Substitution to Institutional Response: A... risks to routine and low-skilled workers (labor market disruption / challenges)
Structural barriers, workforce biases, and digital skill gaps affect women’s participation in AI-enabled sectors.
Claim derived from the paper's synthesis of literature (peer-reviewed studies, policy analyses, preprints) identifying common barriers; the abstract does not report quantitative meta-analysis or specific sample sizes.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and GenderedEmployment: Reviewing Op... drivers of women's participation in AI-enabled sectors (barriers and gaps)
Routine-intensive sectors exhibit higher susceptibility to automation.
Synthesis result reported in the paper based on the systematic review of sector-specific literature (no numeric aggregation or sample size provided in the abstract).
high negative AI and the Future of Job Profiles: A systematic Review of Se... susceptibility to automation
The policy and research challenge posed by platform-mediated automation is not merely job quantity (technological unemployment) but institutional continuity — how societies reproduce practical competence when platforms optimize for efficiency rather than formation.
Normative and conceptual claim developed through literature synthesis (institutional economics, platform governance, workforce development); presented as an analytical reframing rather than an empirically tested hypothesis.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... institutional continuity and human capital reproduction (quality of workforce fo...
Entry-level roles have historically functioned as apprenticeships in which workers acquire tacit knowledge and critical judgment; if platforms curtail these formative occupational layers, organizations may lack future workers capable of exercising contextual reasoning required to manage complex systems.
Institutional economics and workforce development literature cited in the paper; conceptual synthesis without original empirical measurement reported.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... human capital formation (tacit knowledge acquisition and contextual reasoning ca...
Platform-mediated automation risks hollowing out labor structures from both directions: eroding repetitive, junior roles from below and automating supervisory coordination functions from above.
Theoretical argument synthesizing institutional economics and platform literature; articulated as a conceptual risk rather than demonstrated with original empirical data.
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... structural change in occupational layers (hollowing out of junior and supervisor...
Algorithmic systems are displacing routine tasks across both low-wage entry-level work and middle-management functions.
Stated in paper's argumentation; supported by a literature-based review drawing on platform governance literature and recent research on AI-enhanced automation (no original empirical sample or quantitative study reported).
high negative When Platforms Replace the Pipeline: AI, Labor Erosion, and ... displacement of routine tasks (across entry-level and middle-management roles)
An alternative specification that makes different choices about the timing of the pervasiveness of AI yields less robust results, though it also suggests that AI is labor saving.
Reported sensitivity analysis / alternative empirical specification in the paper; authors state the alternative yields less robust results but still indicates labor-saving effects.
high negative Early Estimates of the Impact of AI Within BEA’s Industry Ec... labor use (labor-saving effect)
Our baseline model finds evidence that AI is input saving.
Outcome reported from the baseline empirical specification indicating reductions in inputs associated with AI (authors' baseline model results).
high negative Early Estimates of the Impact of AI Within BEA’s Industry Ec... use of inputs (e.g., labor/capital inputs)
Thick subjectivist theories of meaning in life and meaningful work—those theories that emphasize that meaning-conferring activities are historically formed—enable us to appreciate how some losses cannot be made up, even if there are in principle ample alternative sources of meaning to be found elsewhere.
Theoretical claim about the explanatory power of 'thick subjectivist' normative theories; argued via conceptual philosophical analysis in the paper (no empirical testing reported).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... capacity of theoretical framework (thick subjectivism) to account for non-substi...
Even if there are rich non-work sources of meaning, this does not entail that there is not a significant and multi-faceted loss of meaning, one that cannot be compensated for or offset elsewhere.
Normative/philosophical argument presented in the paper (conceptual reasoning rather than empirical measurement; no sample size).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... loss of meaning due to automation and the (in)ability of non-work sources to com...
The argument that non-work goods can replace work-derived meaning fails to consider the embeddedness and thickness of meaning in human lives.
Philosophical/theoretical critique based on conceptual analysis (author's argument invoking the notions of embeddedness and thickness of meaning; no empirical study reported).
high negative Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and l... adequacy of non-work sources to substitute for work-derived meaning
Platforms can exploit workers' uncertainty about the cost of labor to effectively suppress wages.
Interpretation / implication drawn from the theoretical model and the result that a platform can achieve coverage while paying only O(log(M)/M) fraction of total labor cost under assumptions about workers' cost estimates.
high negative Stochastic wage suppression on gig platforms and how to orga... worker wages / wage suppression
There exists a simple pricing strategy for the platform that covers all M tasks with wait time O(M) while paying only an O(log(M)/M) fraction of the total cost of labor.
Theoretical result from the paper's posted-price procurement model under stated assumptions on workers' estimated costs; formal analysis/proof showing existence of such a pricing strategy for general M (no empirical sample).
high negative Stochastic wage suppression on gig platforms and how to orga... fraction of total labor cost paid by the platform (platform payments / total wor...
Because the technical threshold for this transition is already crossed at modest engineering effort, the window for protective frameworks covering disclosure, consent, compensation and deployment restriction is the present, while deployment remains optional rather than infrastructural.
Authors' normative claim based on their implementation (distillation and deployment) and interpretation that modest engineering sufficed; used to argue policy urgency for disclosure/consent/compensation frameworks.
high negative The Relic Condition: When Published Scholarship Becomes Mate... need for protective policy frameworks and timing
We term this the Relic condition: when publication systems make stable reasoning architectures legible, extractable and cheaply deployable, the public record of intellectual labor becomes raw material for its own functional replacement.
Conceptual framing introduced by the authors as an interpretation of the observed results and their implications; not an empirical measurement but a named condition/argument.
high negative The Relic Condition: When Published Scholarship Becomes Mate... conceptual risk of intellectual-labor replacement derived from extractable publi...
AI can exacerbate occupational polarization, digital exclusion, and discriminatory outcomes when models are trained on biased data or deployed without transparency and accountability.
Thematic synthesis across included studies identifying mechanisms (biased training data, lack of transparency/accountability) linked to negative distributional outcomes (occupational polarization, digital exclusion, discrimination).
high negative Artificial Intelligence in the Labor Market: Evidence on Wor... distributional and equity outcomes (polarization, exclusion, discrimination)
Inherent algorithmic opacity and historical data biases tend to give rise to obvious group prejudices based on gender, educational background, age, and regional origin, thereby further exacerbating the structural inequalities that exist in the current employment market.
Claim made in abstract referencing known sources of algorithmic bias (opacity, historical data bias) and listing affected group attributes; presented as a problem motivating the study, without specific empirical statistics in the abstract.
high negative Job Search Game Under an Algorithmic Black Box: Generation o... group prejudice / structural inequalities in employment
The opacity, fluency, and low-friction interaction patterns of LLMs obscure the boundary between human and machine contribution, leading users to infer competence from outputs rather than from the processes that generate them.
Theoretical argument grounded in prior literature on automation bias and cognitive offloading; presented as explanatory mechanism in the paper rather than an empirically tested causal estimate.
high negative The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... user inference of competence (output-based vs process-based attribution)
The paper introduces the 'LLM fallacy,' a cognitive attribution error in which individuals misinterpret LLM-assisted outputs as evidence of their own independent competence, producing a systematic divergence between perceived and actual capability.
Conceptual/theoretical claim and formal definition offered in the paper; no empirical validation reported in the abstract.
high negative The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... divergence between perceived competence and actual competence when using LLM out...
Low-skill roles in packaging, sorting, and basic assembly face a high risk of automation.
Paper's findings/prediction derived from task-level classification (routine/repetitive tasks) applied to jobs in Nagpur's medium enterprises; no reported sample size or quantified risk metrics in the excerpt.
high negative PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... risk of automation for specific low-skill job categories (packaging, sorting, ba...
Regulatory and labor friction is scored per sector using actual compliance frameworks (Basel III, FDA AI guidance, HIPAA) and BLS union density data, and is applied as a haircut to base adoption rates via an S-curve ramp.
Paper description of friction scoring method referencing specific regulatory frameworks and BLS union density; applied in the model as a haircut and S-curve adoption ramp.
high negative AI Capex Is Justified: A Bottom-Up Sectoral Estimate of Arti... adjustment (haircut) to sectoral adoption rates due to regulatory and labor fric...
Restricting AI productivity gains to the labor-generated portion of each sector's gross value added reduces the naive addressable base by approximately 72 percent.
Bottom-up sectoral model described in the paper that applies labor share to gross value added across 21 NAICS industries; the paper explicitly states the labor-generated restriction reduces the naive addressable base by ~72%.
high negative AI Capex Is Justified: A Bottom-Up Sectoral Estimate of Arti... reduction in naive AI-addressable economic base when restricting gains to labor-...
These advancements have raised concerns regarding workforce redundancy, particularly for routine and low-skilled jobs.
Synthesis of concerns documented in the reviewed literature and observed sectoral trends (literature review; qualitative synthesis).
high negative IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMME... risk of worker displacement in routine and low-skilled roles
Coder employment has continued to grow in recent years, though much more slowly than it did pre-2022.
Time-series comparison of coder employment levels/growth rates from CPS before and after 2022.
high negative AI and Coder Employment: Compiling the Evidence coder employment growth rate (pre-2022 vs. post-2022)
The deceleration in coder employment is not attributable to coders' exposure to slowing industries, implying an occupation-specific shock around the introduction of ChatGPT.
Regression/controlled analysis using a novel industry-level control variable for industry shocks to separate industry-level from occupation-specific effects.
high negative AI and Coder Employment: Compiling the Evidence occupation-specific change in coder employment growth (controlling for industry ...
Aggregate employment of coders has decelerated sharply since the introduction of ChatGPT.
Empirical analysis linking O*NET to CPS employment data showing a sharp slowdown in coder employment growth coinciding with ChatGPT's introduction.
high negative AI and Coder Employment: Compiling the Evidence aggregate employment of coders (employment growth rate)
Job insecurity emerges as a critical mediating factor influencing employee attitudes and behavioural responses to generative AI, including upskilling intentions and resistance to technological change.
Review-level synthesis identifying job insecurity reported in included studies as mediating relationships between AI adoption and employee attitudes/behaviours (e.g., upskilling, resistance).
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... upskilling intentions and resistance to technological change (mediated by job in...
Employees express concerns about role displacement (job loss or role changes) associated with generative AI adoption.
Reported across multiple studies included in the review; the review summarises these concerns as part of mixed employee perceptions.
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... perceived risk of role displacement / job loss
These positive perceptions coexist with employee concerns about skill obsolescence related to generative AI.
Synthesis of studies included in the review documenting worker concerns about skills becoming obsolete due to AI-driven changes.
high negative Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... concerns about skill obsolescence
AI infrastructure owners may command more wealth and capability than most governments, threatening the future viability or authority of the nation-state.
Futuristic projection based on the paper's modeling and synthesis of wealth/capability concentration under AI; no empirical measures or comparative data versus governments provided in the excerpt.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... relative wealth and capability of AI infrastructure owners vs. governments; impa...
Universal Basic Income (UBI), evaluated through incentive-structure lens, will default to a pacification mechanism rather than a genuine solution in the absence of a revolutionary threat that historically forced redistribution.
Normative and theoretical analysis of incentive structures and historical mechanisms of redistribution; the excerpt presents this as an argument rather than reporting empirical trials or quantified outcomes.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... policy effect of UBI (pacification vs. genuine redistribution/solution)
Unlike previous feudal orders, this one may prove uniquely resistant to revolution because the mechanisms of enforcement (autonomous weapons, AI surveillance, algorithmic propaganda) do not require human cooperation and therefore cannot be undermined by human dissent.
Logical and theoretical claim based on characteristics of AI-enabled enforcement technologies; presented as an argument rather than an empirically tested finding in the excerpt.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... resistance of a future authoritarian/feudal order to revolution due to autonomou...
Under this emerging order, the vast majority of humanity will lose their political leverage.
Theoretical and historical argument linking concentration of infrastructure control to political disempowerment; no empirical metrics or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... political leverage of the majority
Under this emerging order, the vast majority of humanity will lose their labor value.
Claim made via theoretical argument about automation and AI replacing labor value; no quantitative empirical evidence or sample detailed in the excerpt.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... labor value of the majority (economic value of human labor)
This structural transformation could stabilize into a neo-feudal equilibrium in which a vanishingly small class of infrastructure owners wields power comparable to pre-Enlightenment monarchs.
Futuristic projection and normative/historical analogy based on conceptual modeling of class structure under AGI; the excerpt gives no empirical data or formal model outputs.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... emergence of a neo-feudal equilibrium with extreme concentration of political/ec...
The convergence of geopolitical fragmentation (democratic decline) and AI-driven economic concentration is producing a structural transformation unprecedented in human history.
Theoretical synthesis and historical comparison; the paper presents this as an argument based on conceptual modeling and historical analogy; no specific empirical test or sample noted in the excerpt.
high negative A Framework for Understanding the Convergence of Geopolitica... structural transformation of political-economic order