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Evidence (4004 claims)

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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
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Long-run integration (degree of long-run association) between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics differs systematically across national innovation systems.
Country-level decomposition of patent filing series and time-series econometric tests for long-run relationships / cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics patent series for each country/region (China, U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea).
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... measures of long-run association/cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced r...
Core AI, traditional robotics, and AI-enhanced robotics follow distinct historical trajectories over 1980–2019 and do not move together uniformly.
Time-series analysis using annual patent filing counts (1980–2019) for each domain; tests for common long-run relationships / co-movement across the three patent series (as reported in the paper). Country-aggregated and domain-specific patent time series were analyzed; exact sample size (total patents) not specified in the summary.
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... annual patent filing counts/time-series trajectories for each of the three domai...
Kondratieff, Schumpeter, and Mandel each highlight different drivers of capitalist long waves: Kondratieff emphasizes regular technological-driven renewal, Schumpeter emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation-led creative destruction, and Mandel emphasizes class relations and production structures.
Comparative theoretical analysis and literature synthesis across the three schools; conceptual summary of canonical positions (no original dataset; qualitative interpretation).
high mixed Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... theoretical drivers of capitalist cycles
The study's qualitative and exploratory design limits generalizability; the proposed framework requires quantitative testing and broader samples (practicing architects, firms, cross-cultural contexts).
Explicit limitations stated by authors; study is based on semi-structured interviews with architecture students (N unspecified) and inductive thematic analysis.
high mixed Human–AI Collaboration in Architectural Design Education: To... generalizability / external validity of findings and framework
Human factors (training, trust calibration, workflows) determine whether clinicians accept, override, or ignore GenAI suggestions.
Qualitative and quantitative human-AI interaction studies and pilot deployments discussed in the paper; specific sample sizes and effect sizes are not reported in the paper.
high mixed GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice override/acceptance rates; clinician-reported trust and cognitive load; adherenc...
Safety and net benefit of GenAI CDS hinge on deployment details: user interface, real-time feedback, uncertainty quantification, calibration, and how recommendations are presented (strong vs. suggestive).
Human factors and implementation studies referenced; early A/B tests and human-AI interaction research suggest interface and presentation affect acceptance and error rates; no large-scale standardized implementation trial data cited.
high mixed GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice acceptance/override rates; error rates; calibration metrics; clinician trust
Reimbursement models (fee-for-service vs. capitation) will influence whether cost savings from GenAI are realized or offset by increased service volume.
Economic incentive framework and prior health-economics literature cited; the paper does not provide direct empirical tests but references plausible incentive channels.
high mixed GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice total spending; per-patient cost; service volume under different payment models
Performance of structure prediction models scales with data, model size, and compute; there are tradeoffs between accuracy and inference speed/simplicity.
Paper explicitly states scaling behavior and tradeoffs in 'Compute and training' and 'Representative models' sections; no precise scaling curves or thresholds are provided in the text.
high mixed Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... model predictive performance as a function of training data volume, model size, ...
The United States' decentralized education system produces tensions between local innovation and federal accountability, with active debates over data and privacy laws shaping responses to AI in assessment.
Case study of U.S. policy and secondary literature documenting federal-state-local governance dynamics and ongoing legal/policy debates; descriptive evidence from public documents.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... policy tension between innovation and accountability; data/privacy regulation ac...
China's centralized control enables rapid piloting of AI-supported assessment but raises concerns over surveillance and data governance.
Country case study using Chinese policy texts and secondary analyses describing centralized education governance and data-governance practices; illustrative rather than empirical.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... speed of piloting AI assessment and surveillance/data-governance risk
India faces pressure to maintain high-stakes exams amid uneven digital access and is experimenting with blended formative tools.
Country-specific case study based on policy documents and secondary literature describing India's exam system and early technology initiatives; no primary survey/sample size.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... policy stance on high-stakes exams and digital access disparities
Four national case studies (India, China, the United States, Canada) illustrate diverse national responses to AI in assessment shaped by governance structures, resource constraints, cultural attitudes, and political pressures.
Cross-national comparative analysis using publicly available policy texts, recent reforms, and secondary literature for each country; descriptive, illustrative cases rather than exhaustive or representative samples.
high mixed The Future of Assessment: Rethinking Evaluation in an AI-Ass... national policy responses and governance approaches
Important tradeoffs exist (privacy vs. utility; centralized vs. federated data architectures; automated moderation vs. freedom of expression; cost/complexity of secure hardware) that must be balanced in VR security design.
Comparative evaluation across the reviewed corpus (31 studies) identifying recurring ethical and technical tradeoffs; authors discuss these qualitatively.
high mixed Securing Virtual Reality: Threat Models, Vulnerabilities, an... direction and magnitude of tradeoffs between privacy, utility, governance, and c...
The community knowledge functions both as practical how-to guidance and as collective experimentation with platform rules and revenue mechanisms.
Observed dual nature in the 377-video corpus: instructional workflows alongside demonstrations/testing of platform-tailored monetization tactics and workarounds.
high mixed Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... co-occurrence of instructional content and platform-experimentation practices
Typical practices emphasized by creators include rapid mass production of content, productizing prompt engineering, repurposing existing material via synthesis/localization, and packaging AI outputs as sellable creative services or assets.
Recurring practices surfaced through qualitative coding of workflows, tools, and pipelines described in the 377 videos.
high mixed Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... presence and frequency of recommended production and productization practices
Across the 377 videos, creators converge on a set of repeatable use cases and platform‑tailored monetization tactics.
Thematic coding of 377 videos produced a catalog of recurring use cases and tactics; the paper reports convergence across that sample.
high mixed Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... frequency and recurrence of specific use cases and monetization tactics in the s...
YouTube creators have collectively constructed and circulated a practical knowledge repository about how to monetize GenAI-driven creative work.
Systematic qualitative content analysis (thematic coding) of 377 publicly available YouTube videos in which creators promote GenAI workflows and monetization strategies.
high mixed Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on... presence and characteristics of a community knowledge repository (practical guid...
Limitations include generalizability beyond Chatbot Arena data, calibration of priors on novel tasks, audit costs/latency, user comprehension/cognitive load, and strategic manipulation.
Authors' stated limitations and open questions; these are candid acknowledgements rather than empirical findings.
high mixed Task-Aware Delegation Cues for LLM Agents generalizability, calibration, audit cost/latency, user comprehension, susceptib...
Some patients value human contact for sensitive cases; automated interactions can feel impersonal.
Semi-structured interviews with patients/staff and open-ended survey responses documenting preferences for human interaction in sensitive/complex complaints.
high mixed The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Complaint ... patient-reported preference for human contact and perceived interpersonal qualit...
The benefits of FDI (jobs, productivity, skills) are uneven and often conditional on institutional quality, labor regulation, and sectoral composition of investments.
Mechanism mapping and thematic synthesis linking heterogeneous empirical findings to contextual moderators (governance, regulation, sector); review emphasizes consistent role of these moderators across studies.
high mixed Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... spillovers (productivity, employment quality, wage gains), distributional outcom...
FDI’s effects on employment, wages, and income distribution in Sub‑Saharan Africa are mixed and highly context‑dependent.
Conceptual literature review synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical findings across micro, firm, sectoral, and macro studies; no new primary data. Review notes heterogeneous identification strategies and results across studies and contexts.
high mixed Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... employment levels, wages, income distribution
Governance approaches are emerging at global, regional and national levels; they vary widely across sectors and jurisdictions, creating opportunities for regulatory experimentation but also risks of fragmentation and regulatory arbitrage.
Cross-jurisdictional comparison of existing/global/regional/national governance instruments and sectoral guidance; gap analysis highlighting heterogeneity.
high mixed AI Governance and Data Privacy: Comparative Analysis of U.S.... degree of regulatory heterogeneity, instances of fragmentation/regulatory arbitr...
Weak formal institutions often coexist with strong informal institutions in African contexts, shaping governance, trust, and enforcement mechanisms in supply chains.
Cross-disciplinary literature review presented in the paper; conceptual argumentation rather than primary empirical analysis.
high mixed Continental shift: operations and supply chain management re... relative strength of formal vs informal institutions and their effects on govern...
Productivity gains from generative AI depend on task mix, integration design, and the availability of complementary human skills.
Theoretical evaluation and synthesis of heterogeneous empirical findings; authors highlight variation across firms, sectors, and tasks.
high mixed The Use of ChatGPT in Business Productivity and Workflow Opt... productivity change conditional on task mix/integration/human skills (productivi...
Existing evidence is time-sensitive and heterogeneous: rapidly evolving models, heterogeneous study designs, and many short-term lab/microtask studies limit direct comparability and long-run inference.
Meta-observation from the review: documented methodological limitations across the literature (variation in models, tasks, metrics; prevalence of short-term studies).
high mixed ChatGPT as a Tool for Programming Assistance and Code Develo... generalizability and comparability of empirical findings (study heterogeneity)
Real‑time and LLM‑based methods improve responsiveness but raise governance, transparency, and reproducibility challenges that BLS must manage (audit trails, uncertainty communication).
Operational tradeoff discussion in the paper identifying governance risks; no case studies or incident analyses provided.
high mixed Enhancing BLS Methodologies for Projecting AI's Impact on Em... tradeoff between responsiveness (timeliness/accuracy) and governance metrics (tr...
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...
Despite laboratory and pilot successes, many engineered bioprocesses remain at bench or pilot scale and require techno‑economic validation before industrial competitiveness can be established.
Review aggregate noting scale and validation status of case studies (many reported at lab or pilot fermenter scale) and explicit references to the need for TEA and LCA for industrial assessment.
high mixed Harnessing Microbial Factories: Biotechnology at the Edge of... technology readiness level (lab/pilot vs commercial), presence/absence of publis...
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
AI intensifies market concentration, reinforcing winner-takes-most dynamics through data-driven network effects.
Synthesis of market-structure and industrial-organization studies in the SLR reporting evidence of increased concentration and network/data advantages favoring incumbents.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... market concentration and competitive dynamics
AI displaces routine occupations.
Synthesis of empirical and modeling studies within the 78-study SLR reporting occupational/task-level substitution effects for routine activities.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Impact on E... occupational displacement
The magnitude of the negative association between AI exposure and weekly working hours grows over time, reaching its largest value in 2025.
Time-varying estimates from the event-study framework reported in the paper showing increasingly larger negative effects in later post-2022 years, with the largest estimate in 2025.
Industries with higher levels of AI exposure experienced larger declines in weekly working hours in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Exposure-based event-study empirical analysis comparing industry-level weekly working-hour trends between 2020 and 2025 using the constructed AI exposure index; the paper reports statistically significant negative associations in 2023–2025.
AI has caused a decrease in the labor share of income.
Estimated impacts reported in paper indicate a decline in labor share associated with higher AI exposure; stated as a result of the analysis.
high negative AI, Output, and Employment labor share of income
Brown AI’s infrastructure investment crowds out household expenditure, causing the reported consumption cost.
Mechanism described in the paper: modelled exogenous IT investment surge (S3) reallocates resources toward investment and away from household consumption in the CGE results.
high negative AI-Driven Energy Efficiency versus AI-Induced Energy Demand:... Mechanism: crowding-out effect on household consumption due to higher investment
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...
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