The Commonplace
Home Papers Evidence Explore Trends Syntheses Digests About 🎲 Workforce Futures
Direction, evidence grade, and study type are AI-generated labels (gpt-5-mini), not human-verified. Syntheses are LLM-written. "Tensions" are machine-detected candidates, not confirmed contradictions. A research-acceleration tool, not peer review. How this is built →

Evidence (7560 claims)

Search and filter individual claims pulled from the papers. Looking for a specific finding ("what's the effect on wages?"), you're in the right place. Want to compare whole outcome categories against each other instead? Use the Evidence Explorer.

The board below groups claims two ways: by broad theme (nine paper-level topics) and by outcome category (the 34 claim-level outcomes that the Explorer and Syntheses also use).

Browse by theme

Nine broad, paper-level topics. Click one to filter the claims below.

Adoption
9875 claims
Filter claims →
Productivity
8807 claims
Filter claims →
Governance
7870 claims
Filter claims →
Human-AI Collaboration
7560 claims
Filtered →
Org Design
4892 claims
Filter claims →
Innovation
4781 claims
Filter claims →
Labor Markets
4004 claims
Filter claims →
Skills & Training
3308 claims
Filter claims →
Inequality
2332 claims
Filter claims →

Claims by outcome category

Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
Clear
Human Ai Collab Remove filter
No aggregation mechanism can simultaneously satisfy all desiderata of collective rationality (connection to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem); multi-agent deliberation navigates rather than resolves this constraint.
Theoretical argument connecting empirical multi-agent deliberation results to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and observations that deliberation trades off competing desiderata rather than achieving all simultaneously.
high mixed Beyond Arrow's Impossibility: Fairness as an Emergent Proper... satisfiability of collective rationality desiderata under aggregation mechanisms
Alignment systematically shapes negotiation strategies and allocation patterns between agents.
Experimentally comparing negotiation behavior and allocation outcomes across agent pairs where one agent is aligned (via RAG) and the partner is either unaligned or adversarially prompted; patterns of strategy and allocation differences reported.
high mixed Beyond Arrow's Impossibility: Fairness as an Emergent Proper... negotiation strategies and resource allocation patterns
The design space articulates four configurations—No AI, Hidden AI, Translucent AI, and Visible AI—each trading off among accountability, autonomy, and coordination cost.
Conceptual taxonomy introduced in the paper (design artifact). No empirical evaluation or sample reported in the abstract; tradeoffs are argued theoretically.
high mixed Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... tradeoffs among accountability, autonomy, coordination cost under different disc...
CLARITI matches GPT-5's resolution rate on underspecified issues while generating 41% fewer questions.
Empirical evaluation comparing CLARITI and GPT-5 on a task set of underspecified software engineering issues; the result reported in the abstract indicates parity in resolution rate and a quantified reduction in questions (41%) but the abstract does not report sample size, test set composition, or statistical significance.
high mixed Asking What Matters: Reward-Driven Clarification for Softwar... resolution rate (task success) and number of clarifying questions generated
They can produce fluent outputs that resemble reflection, but lack temporal continuity, causal feedback, and anchoring in real-world interaction.
Descriptive claim made in the text contrasting surface-level fluency with missing properties; no empirical data or experiments provided.
high mixed Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for... fluency vs. temporal_continuity, causal_feedback, real-world_anchoring
A within-subject human study with 20 players and 600 games shows that our interventions significantly improve performance for low- and mid-skill players while matching expert-engine interventions for high-skill players.
Within-subject human experiment reported in the paper: N = 20 players, 600 games total; comparisons of performance under the proposed interventions versus expert-engine interventions.
high mixed Improving Human Performance with Value-Aware Interventions: ... human player performance in chess games (game outcomes / performance metrics) by...
This work establishes a foundation for understanding how generative AI systems not only augment cognitive performance but also reshape self-perception and perceived expertise.
Paper's stated contribution presenting theory and conceptual groundwork; no empirical validation provided in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... interaction between augmented cognitive performance and changes in self-percepti...
The LLM fallacy has implications for education, hiring, and AI literacy.
Implications and argumentation presented in the paper; these are prospective and conceptual rather than supported by empirical data in the abstract.
high mixed The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Wor... impacts on education practices, hiring decisions, and AI literacy needs
Removing safety layers made the system less useful: structured validation feedback guided the model to correct outcomes in fewer turns, while the unconstrained system hallucinated success.
Qualitative and quantitative comparisons from the deployed evaluation across the three conditions (observations about turn counts, validation-feedback loops, and model hallucinations in unconstrained condition over the 25 scenario trials).
high mixed Bounded Autonomy for Enterprise AI: Typed Action Contracts a... number of interaction turns to correct outcome; presence of hallucinated success
AI plays a dual role as enhancer and eroder, simultaneously strengthening performance while eroding underlying expertise (the 'AI-as-Amplifier Paradox').
Framing claim presented in the paper's conceptual argument and grounded by the paper's stated year-long empirical study among cancer specialists (no numerical sample size reported in abstract).
high mixed From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asympto... preservation of underlying expertise vs. short-term performance
Although some frontier models exceed human performance, model accuracy is still far below what would enable reliable experimental guidance.
Paper reports instances where top-performing (frontier) models outperform aggregate human expert accuracy on SciPredict, but concludes overall accuracies are insufficient for reliable experimental guidance.
high mixed SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Expe... prediction_accuracy / usability_for_guidance
The local labor market will follow a dual trajectory: low-skill, routine jobs face high automation risk while demand will rise for AI-collaborative, higher-skill roles.
Paper's analytical prediction based on distinguishing current job roles into routine/repetitive vs cognitive/non-routine and projecting likely impacts; no numeric forecasts or sample sizes provided in the excerpt.
high mixed PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF JOBS IN NAGPUR DISTRICT MIDC: THE R... combined job displacement for routine roles and increased demand for AI-collabor...
Subjectivity persisted in AI-powered recruitment decisions; human judgment remained an important factor.
Theme 2 (subjectivity in AI-powered recruitment) from interviews indicating retained human subjectivity and judgement in recruitment processes (n = 22).
high mixed The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... degree_of_subjectivity_in_decision_making
Sensitivity analyses indicate the observed positive belief changes likely reflect recovery from carry-over effects rather than genuine training-induced shifts.
Authors' sensitivity analyses discussed in the paper that examined alternative explanations (e.g., carry-over effects) and concluded the belief-change result is likely due to recovery from such effects.
high mixed Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... validity of belief-change effect (source attribution: training vs. carry-over re...
We ran two large preregistered experiments (N=17,950 responses from 14,779 people) using conversational AI models to persuade participants on a range of attitudinal and behavioural outcomes, including signing real petitions and donating money to charity.
Statement in paper reporting two preregistered experiments, sample sizes (17,950 responses; 14,779 people), use of conversational AI models, and target outcomes including petition signing and charitable donations.
high mixed Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take politica... use of conversational AI to persuade participants on attitudinal and behavioral ...
Bounded agents act as an amplifying but not necessary extension to the foundation-model stack for changing work coordination.
Conceptual argument within the paper distinguishing bounded agents from the core stack; no empirical comparison or measurement reported.
high mixed Remote-Capable Knowledge Work Should Default to AI-Enabled F... role of bounded agents in amplifying coordination impacts
The effects of generative AI on work and organisations are heterogeneous and context-dependent, shaped by job roles, skill levels, and institutional environments.
Synthesis across the included studies noting variation in outcomes conditional on role, skill, and institutional context.
high mixed Generative AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Produ... heterogeneity of AI effects across roles/skills/institutions
Although the concurrent paradigm performs worse than the sequential paradigm in terms of immediate task performance, it is more effective in promoting users' emotional trust.
Comparison between concurrent and sequential AI-assisted decision-making paradigms in the RCT (N=120); authors report concurrent < sequential for immediate task performance, but concurrent > sequential for emotional trust.
high mixed How AI-Assisted Decision-Making Paradigms and Explainability... immediate task performance (negative) and emotional trust (positive)
AI adoption outcomes depend on organizational routines, data arrangements, accountability structures, and public values.
Empirical and theoretical literature review and argument in the article drawing on scholarship in digital government and public-sector technology adoption.
high mixed Governing frontier general-purpose AI in the public sector: ... determinants of AI adoption in government (organizational, data, accountability,...
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)
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)
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...
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...
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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