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Evidence (4004 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
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AI-driven productivity gains may not translate into broad-based demand if income is concentrated among capital owners, which could dampen aggregate profitability over time.
Theoretical argument grounded in Mandel-like distributional mechanics and demand-driven growth literature; speculative without empirical aggregation tests in the paper.
low negative Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... aggregate demand and aggregate profitability
Concentration of curated datasets and restrictive IP can create monopolistic rents and underprovision of public‑good datasets, implying policy interventions (data sharing incentives/standards) may be required.
Economic reasoning about market formation and data as a scarce asset; no empirical market analysis provided in summary (theoretical implication).
low negative Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Market concentration / data access (conceptual)
These infrastructural and access constraints create unequal starting points that can amplify later disparities in labor-market preparedness.
Inference drawn from observed survey disparities in access, hands-on training, and preparedness; the study did not directly measure labor-market outcomes but links preparedness to potential labor-market effects in discussion.
low negative Exploring Student and Educator Challenges in AI Competency D... implied labor-market preparedness (not directly measured in this study)
Top-down AI guidance from institutions is common, while grassroots input from educators and students is often missing, which reduces policy relevance and uptake.
Survey items and thematic coding indicating the origin and participatory nature of institutional AI guidelines; comparative prevalence reported in open and closed responses.
low negative Exploring Student and Educator Challenges in AI Competency D... degree of grassroots input or participatory design in institutional AI policy fo...
Overreliance on GenAI CDS may lead to deskilling of clinicians, eroding judgment over time and increasing systemic vulnerability.
The paper cites theoretical risk and references limited longitudinal concerns; empirical longitudinal studies demonstrating deskilling are scarce per the paper’s stated evidence gaps.
low negative GenAI and clinical decision making in general practice clinician diagnostic skill over time; reliance/override rates; error rates when ...
Commercial structural biology services for routine solved folds may be commoditized, pushing firms toward complex validation, novel targets, or high‑value contract research.
Paper suggests this in 'Disruption of service markets' as a projected industry response; it is a strategic implication rather than an empirically demonstrated trend in the text.
low negative Protein structure prediction powered by artificial intellige... change in demand/pricing for routine structural biology services and shift towar...
Returns to AI investments may exhibit increasing returns to scale, reinforcing winner‑take‑most dynamics unless offset by platformization or open‑source diffusion.
Economic scenario reasoning on capital intensity and platform effects; no empirical calibration or econometric evidence provided.
low negative How AI Will Transform the Daily Life of a Techie within 5 Ye... return on AI investment by firm size (evidence of increasing returns to scale) a...
Because feedbacks from capital and labor onto AI are weak, AI can grow rapidly and may lead to lock-in, concentration, and distributional risks that warrant monitoring and possible redistributive or competition policies.
Empirical finding of weak negative feedbacks to AI in estimated interaction coefficients combined with theoretical interpretation about growth and lock-in risks.
low negative Governance of Technological Transition: A Predator-Prey Anal... AI capital growth dynamics and potential long-run concentration/lock-in risks (q...
Job insecurity rises when FDI is short‑term, footloose, or concentrated in capital‑intensive extractive projects.
Conceptual arguments and empirical examples in the review linking investment temporariness and capital intensity to higher job instability; empirical evidence less comprehensive and context-specific.
low negative Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and Income Distrib... job security, job tenure, employment volatility
Private governance and firm-level solutions (internal standards, bargaining with unions) may proliferate, but these can entrench firm-specific norms and increase market power asymmetries.
Conceptual argument drawing on governance and industrial organization literature; no empirical measurement of prevalence or market-power effects included.
low negative AI governance under the second Trump administration: implica... prevalence of private governance; firm-specific norms; market power asymmetries
Inadequate protections reduce public trust in mobile-AI services, which can slow diffusion and undercut the growth trajectories that policy narratives anticipate.
Inferred from stakeholder commentary and policy discourse combined with communication-rights theory; the paper does not present survey or adoption-rate data.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... public trust in mobile‑AI; adoption/diffusion rates
Low-wage and platform workers are particularly exposed to algorithmic management and surveillance, with potential downward pressure on wages, bargaining power, and job quality.
The paper's qualitative analysis of stakeholder comments and policy omissions, combined with literature-based inference about platform labor dynamics; no primary labor-market survey or quantitative wage data provided.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... worker exposure to algorithmic management; wages; bargaining power; job quality
Soft‑law governance and growth-first narratives risk concentrating benefits (investment, productivity gains) while externalizing costs (privacy harms, biased decisioning) onto vulnerable populations, exacerbating inequality and reducing inclusive economic development.
Analytic inference from qualitative review of governance instruments and policy narratives combined with communications-ecology and political-economy reasoning; not based on quantitative economic measurement in the paper.
low negative Promising Protection, Producing Exposure: AI Ethics and Mobi... distribution of benefits and costs; inequality; inclusiveness of economic develo...
Uncertainty about long-run agentic behavior increases option value and downside risk of investing in agentic systems, which may raise discount rates and required returns.
Economic argument applying risk/return logic to agentic uncertainty; no quantitative empirical evidence provided.
low negative Visioning Human-Agentic AI Teaming: Continuity, Tension, and... investment valuation metrics (discount rates, required returns) for agentic syst...
Economic rents and advantages may accrue to agents who control large datasets, computing resources, and organizational processes that effectively integrate AI as a co-pilot, potentially increasing market concentration among AI providers.
Economic theory on scale economies and platform effects combined with observed industry patterns; reviewed literature provides conceptual arguments and case examples rather than broad empirical market-structure measurement.
low negative ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... market concentration measures; returns to data/compute ownership (not fully meas...
Generative AI poses substitution risk for entry-level or routine cognitive work focused on generation or drafting without evaluative responsibility.
Task-based analyses and case studies indicating automation potential for routine generation tasks; empirical demonstrations of AI-produced drafts/outputs that could replace such work, but longer-run displacement evidence is limited.
low negative ChatGPT as an Innovative Tool for Idea Generation and Proble... task automatability; employment/demand for routine-generation roles (largely unm...
Upfront integration and recurring governance costs mean smaller firms may face higher relative costs — potentially increasing scale advantages for larger incumbents.
Deployment case studies and cost reports indicating significant fixed integration and governance costs; inference to market structure is speculative.
low negative The Effectiveness of ChatGPT in Customer Service and Communi... relative upfront and ongoing costs; indicators of scale advantages or market con...
Vendors offering integrated governed hyperautomation stacks may capture premium pricing and increase switching costs, potentially widening adoption gaps between large incumbents and SMEs.
Market-structure and competitive dynamics discussed theoretically in the Implications section; no market-share or pricing data provided.
low negative Governed Hyperautomation for CRM and ERP: A Reference Patter... vendor pricing premiums; switching costs; differential adoption by firm size (ma...
There are risks that concentration of modeling capability around well-funded actors could create inequality in capture of downstream economic gains despite open data.
Risk analysis in the discussion section; argued qualitatively without empirical testing in the paper.
low negative High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity risk of unequal economic capture from downstream applications (projected)
Exposure to AI and platform work produces psychosocial effects for workers, including increased job insecurity, stress, and changing task content in surviving occupations.
Surveys, qualitative case studies, and workplace studies summarized in the review reporting worker‑reported insecurity and stress; the review also highlights inconsistent measurement and limited systematic evidence on psychosocial outcomes.
low negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... job insecurity, stress, psychosocial wellbeing, and perceived changes in task co...
Standardized, high-quality data will concentrate competition on modeling, compute, and algorithmic innovation, favoring actors with greater compute resources.
Economic argument presented in the discussion; not evaluated with empirical market data in the paper.
low neutral High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity distribution of competitive advantage in modeling/compute (projected)
The paper is the first systematic integration of XAI-based predictive modeling with counterfactual policy simulation specifically targeted at sustainability-oriented HR (Green HRM).
Authors' novelty claim stating this combination is novel in the Green HRM literature; no systematic literature review evidence provided in the summary to independently verify primacy.
low null result Explainable AI for Employee Retention in Green Human Resourc... novelty of methodological integration (claim about state-of-the-art)
The paper likely includes ablation studies and standard metrics (task success rate, step-wise error, plan coherence) to isolate contributions of the two training stages and to evaluate performance.
Summary states these analyses as 'likely additional methods' (i.e., typical but not fully detailed in the abstract); no direct confirmation or results provided in the provided text.
low null result Anticipatory Planning for Multimodal AI Agents task success rate, step-wise error, plan coherence (if present)
This study represents the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its influence on job displacement based on the existing body of literature.
Author assertion in the paper; the excerpt provides no external verification (no citation of prior reviews/meta-analyses to justify the 'first attempt' claim).
low null result A Study on Work-Life Balance of Women Employees in the IT Se... comprehensiveness of literature-based evaluation of AI's influence on job displa...
We currently lack an understanding of how political parties perceive the potential impact AI has on employment, the role of regulations in protecting workers from AI-related job losses, and the importance of AI educational and training programs.
Statement of a literature/knowledge gap motivating the study (assertion by the authors; no empirical basis provided in the excerpt).
low null result Political Ideology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Labor ... existing knowledge about political party perceptions of AI's impact on employmen...
Observable firm-level and economy-wide moments—changes in spans of control, manager share of payroll, incidence of new tasks, employment growth, and shifts in the wage distribution—can be used to test the model's predictions.
Model-implied empirical identification strategy and suggested measurable moments in the paper's discussion/implications section (theoretical prediction, not an empirical test).
low null result AI as Coordination-Compressing Capital: Task Reallocation, O... empirical testable moments (spans of control, manager payroll share, new-task in...
This study is the first systematic presentation of factual data describing employment outcomes of Russian university AI graduates.
Authors' stated novelty claim in the paper (asserted uniqueness of systematic institutional-level employment outcome data for Russian AI graduates).
low null result Employment og Graduates of Educational Programs in the Field... Novelty / uniqueness of compiled institutional-level dataset on employment outco...
Hybrid agency implies complementarity between GenAI and managerial/knowledge‑worker skills (curation, evaluation, coordination), potentially increasing returns to those skills while automating routine cognitive tasks—consistent with skill‑biased technological change.
Synthesis of recurring themes linking GenAI capabilities with managerial skill topics in the thematic clusters; positioned as an implication for labour demand and skill composition rather than an empirically tested effect.
low positive Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... expected changes in returns to managerial/knowledge‑worker skills and automation...
Public investments in standards, verification infrastructure, and public-interest datasets can correct market failures and support trustworthy AI.
Policy recommendation informed by governance and public-good theory and examples from the literature; the claim is prescriptive and not validated by new empirical evidence within the paper.
low positive The Evolution and Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence... trustworthiness of AI systems and correction of market failures via public inves...
Humans who configure and teach agents gain understanding and skills themselves — learning-by-teaching generates human capital accumulation endogenous to agent deployment (bidirectional scaffolding).
Qualitative, naturalistic observations and comparative documentation of users configuring/teaching agents during the one-month study; no randomized assignment or pre/post quantitative skill testing reported.
low positive When Openclaw Agents Learn from Each Other: Insights from Em... human skill accumulation / understanding from configuring/teaching agents
Models trained primarily on negative constraints will generalize constraint adherence more robustly under distribution shift than models trained primarily on preference rankings.
Presented as a central, experimentally falsifiable prediction derived from the paper's theoretical account; the paper does not present large-scale empirical confirmation and recommends controlled experiments to test this.
low positive Via Negativa for AI Alignment: Why Negative Constraints Are ... robustness of constraint adherence under distribution shift (e.g., adherence rat...
Negative examples function as counterfactual eliminators that rule out regions of behavior space, allowing a model to settle on robust acceptable behavior, whereas positive preference signals require continual calibration in a high-dimensional, context-sensitive space.
Informal/structural theoretical argument and analogy to falsification presented in the paper; no direct empirical test reported there demonstrating this exact mechanism.
low positive Via Negativa for AI Alignment: Why Negative Constraints Are ... conceptual measure of behavioral space reduction and subsequent robustness (oper...
Regulators may prefer systems that support contestability and audit trails and could mandate argumentation-style explainability in certain sectors.
Speculative policy prediction; no regulatory statements or empirical policy adoption evidence cited.
low positive Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... regulatory adoption rate of contestability/audit-trail requirements
Better contestability may reduce litigation and regulatory frictions if decisions are transparently defensible.
Speculative legal-economic claim; no case studies or empirical legal analysis provided.
low positive Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... frequency/cost of litigation and regulatory disputes post-adoption of contestabl...
New service layers may emerge (argumentation-as-a-service, audit firms, explanation certification, human-in-the-loop orchestration platforms).
Speculative market/industry evolution claim based on analogous tech-service cretions; no empirical evidence.
low positive Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents Tha... emergence and market size of new service verticals around argumentative AI
Tools that improve detection or quantification may reduce downstream costs from missed diagnoses or unnecessary follow-ups, improving cost-effectiveness in some scenarios.
Economic modeling and limited observational analyses that extrapolate diagnostic improvements to downstream resource use; direct empirical cost-effectiveness studies are scarce.
low positive Human-AI interaction and collaboration in radiology: from co... downstream healthcare utilization (additional tests, treatments), cost per diagn...
Intelligent turn-level assignment can reduce costly human attention to only high-value moments, improving overall system productivity.
Conceptual implication from the assignment-layer design and empirical trade-offs reported; presented as an advantage in the paper rather than a directly measured economic productivity study.
low positive Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Human-AI Online Di... distribution of human attention / system productivity (conceptual, not directly ...
HADT demonstrates a concrete way to substitute expensive human diagnostic labor with AI assistance while preserving high accuracy, implying reductions in marginal cost per consultation.
Inference drawn in the paper's implications section based on reported reductions in required human effort and maintained diagnostic accuracy (economic claim extrapolating from experimental results; not directly measured as cost in experiments).
low positive Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Human-AI Online Di... implied marginal cost per consultation (not directly measured)
The practical value of the study lies in outlining an analytical framework that can support the design of adaptive workforce strategies, reduce vulnerability to technological disruption, and strengthen the capacity of economies to respond to ongoing digital change.
Claim about the paper's contribution based on the produced analytical framework; the paper presents the framework but does not report empirical validation or outcome measures from real-world implementations.
low positive EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PREPARING HUMAN ... utility of analytical framework for adaptive workforce strategy design, vulnerab...
Integration of data-driven and AI-supported training tools is a critical component for effective reskilling and upskilling.
Argument based on theoretical analysis and review of practices; the paper recommends integration but does not present empirical performance metrics or randomized evaluations of such tools.
low positive EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PREPARING HUMAN ... effectiveness of training/reskilling when using data-driven and AI-supported too...
The findings have significant implications for policymakers and industry stakeholders in achieving a just transition to sustainable energy.
Concluding interpretation by the paper's authors based on the literature review; no empirical evaluation of policy uptake or impact included in the summary.
low positive Job Polarization in Solar Power Plants: A Systematic Literat... progress toward a 'just transition' (equitable employment outcomes during energy...
There is a growing need for effective policies to mitigate polarization, including re‑skilling initiatives, inclusive hiring practices, and equitable distribution of job opportunities across regions.
Policy recommendation derived from the systematic literature review and synthesis of recent reports/studies; not presented as tested interventions with quantified effects in the summary.
low positive Job Polarization in Solar Power Plants: A Systematic Literat... mitigation of job polarization (e.g., changes in skill distribution, wages, mobi...
Cultural, structural, and decision-making elements co-evolve through recursive feedback loops in human–AI collaboration, advancing process-theoretical understandings of such collaboration.
Analytic interpretation of interview data indicating recursive feedback between cultural norms, structures, and decision routines in AI-integrated startups; presented as an advance to process theory (qualitative evidence; no quantitative test reported).
low positive Hybrid decision architectures: exploring how facilitated AI ... co-evolution dynamics of cultural, structural, and decision-making elements in o...
The study introduces 'hybrid decision architectures' as a dual-level construct that explains how AI triggers systematic organizational change in startups.
Conceptual/theoretical contribution based on synthesis of qualitative interview findings and process-theoretical reasoning (theoretical claim supported by interview data; empirical generalizability not established in excerpt).
low positive Hybrid decision architectures: exploring how facilitated AI ... explanatory power of the 'hybrid decision architectures' construct for organizat...
A broad-based consumption tax would rebalance a tax system that can no longer depend on taxing individual labor income.
Normative claim in the paper proposing consumption taxation as a corrective mechanism; no empirical evaluation of consumption tax effectiveness included in the excerpt.
low positive Taxing AI tax system rebalancing (reliance on consumption versus labor income for revenue)
In the long term, adopting a broad-based consumption tax should be considered if the share of labor income declines.
Long-term policy recommendation in the paper grounded in theoretical argument about tax base resilience; no empirical scenario analysis or threshold values for 'share of labor income' provided in the excerpt.
low positive Taxing AI tax system balance/revenue stability as labor income share declines
In the short term, increasing capital gains rates on the sale of ownership interests in AI-intensive firms would help internalize the distributive imbalances generated by wealth concentration in AI firms.
Policy prescription offered in the paper based on normative reasoning; no empirical simulation, modeling, or estimated revenue/distributional effects provided in the excerpt.
low positive Taxing AI distributional impacts (wealth concentration), tax incidence from capital gains ...
The future of success will not depend on outpacing machines but on cultivating distinctly human capacities: empathy, discernment, imagination and moral reasoning.
Central argumentative claim of the conceptual essay, derived from cross-disciplinary theory (leadership, emotional intelligence, ethics); no empirical validation or sample provided.
low positive Deconstructing success: why being human still matters future success (as determined by cultivation of specific human capacities)
Productivity-based definitions of success should be dismantled and reconstructed into a framework centered on adaptability and purpose.
Prescriptive recommendation based on synthesis of leadership theory, emotional intelligence research and AI ethics; presented as theoretical proposal rather than empirically tested intervention.
low positive Deconstructing success: why being human still matters formulation of success frameworks emphasizing adaptability and purpose (conceptu...
By mapping trends and gaps in the literature, the study offers guidance for future research and for policymakers navigating AI's economic and regulatory landscape.
Authors' synthesis of topic-modeling results and identified mismatches between research topics and policy priorities; interpretative recommendations provided in the paper.
low positive Mapping the Landscape of the Economics of AI Literature: Gap... qualitative guidance (recommendations) for future research and policy priorities