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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
Industry 1 1
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22% of employment undergoes structural change (masking the net job gain).
Reported summary statistic from the paper's secondary quantitative analysis of international reports; no primary sample size stated.
high negative AI AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR MARKET: THE SOCIAL CO... share of employment experiencing structural change
Estimated coefficients for young workers are negative, in line with the existing literature, but they are small and statistically insignificant.
Reported coefficient signs and statistical significance levels in the paper's main estimations (negative point estimates for young workers; described as small and insignificant).
high negative Labor Market Consequences of Generative AI: Early Evidence f... estimated effect on young workers' employment (coefficients)
ABS adoption negatively affects high-status batters' BB/K (walks-to-strikeouts ratio) relative to low-status batters.
Difference-in-differences linear regressions using KBO 2023 and 2024 season data for batters (n = 148); BB/K listed among impacted outcomes.
high negative Technology adoption and bias in officiating: automated Ball-... BB/K (walks-to-strikeouts ratio)
ABS adoption negatively affects high-status batters' strikeout rate (SO%) relative to low-status batters.
Difference-in-differences linear regressions using KBO 2023 and 2024 season data for batters (n = 148); SO% reported among affected metrics.
ABS adoption negatively affects high-status batters' walk rate (BB%) relative to low-status batters.
Difference-in-differences linear regressions using KBO 2023 and 2024 season data for batters (n = 148); BB% listed among impacted outcomes.
ABS adoption negatively affects high-status batters' IsoD relative to low-status batters.
Difference-in-differences linear regressions using KBO 2023 and 2024 season data for batters (n = 148); IsoD reported among affected metrics.
ABS adoption negatively affects high-status batters' on-base percentage (OBP) relative to low-status batters.
Difference-in-differences linear regressions using KBO 2023 and 2024 season data for batters (n = 148).
Monopoly production of AI restricts its deployment, slowing the transition and impact of AI.
Theoretical model comparing monopolistic AI producer behavior to competitive deployment; result is derived analytically. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... AI deployment / transition speed
Wages of labor that is substituted for by AI decrease in both absolute and relative terms.
Analytical economic model / comparative statics predicting wage declines for labor substituted by AI. No empirical sample reported.
high negative The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitiga... wages of labor substituted by AI
Public discourse still focuses heavily on job losses while paying less attention to the opportunities that AI creates.
Author's observation/argument in the paper (qualitative commentary comparing public discourse emphasis).
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... media/public discourse emphasis on job losses vs. opportunities
The report identifies 'AI washing,' a practice in which companies mention AI as justification for what are really financially motivated layoffs.
Identification/term introduced in the paper based on examples or synthesis of corporate reporting and layoff cases (as described).
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... misuse/mislabeling of AI as justification for layoffs
Roughly 92 million jobs might face displacement by 2030.
Projection synthesized from cited external reports (WEF/PwC/MGI/Gartner/IMF) as reported in the paper.
high negative AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Displacement, Opportunit... number of jobs projected to face displacement by 2030
The AI premium is absent in emerging markets, including China.
Geographic cross-sectional analysis indicating no significant AI premium in emerging market firms (explicitly mentioning China).
high negative AI Premium AI premium presence/absence in emerging markets (e.g., China)
Unemployment, idle labour and weakening domestic demand are holding back growth.
Empirical results reported in the paper indicate a negative relationship between unemployment (and related indicators) and economic growth in the 27-country panel (2008–2020).
high negative AI Readiness, Renewable Energy, and Industrial Development: ... economic growth (country-level) / unemployment rate
The existing international competency indices fail to capture the structural differentiation in AI-driven educational transformation across EU moderate innovator economies, rendering evidence-based policy design inadequate.
Stated as a motivating assertion in the paper; based on the author's critique of existing indices and the subsequent focused evaluation of selected EU moderate innovator economies (Visegrad and Baltic states). No specific quantitative comparison of indices is reported in the abstract.
high negative AI-Education and Innovation Competitiveness: EU Moderate Inn... adequacy of international competency indices to capture structural differentiati...
AI poses environmental challenges.
The abstract lists environmental challenges as one of the potential trade-offs identified by the systematic review of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... environmental_sustainability / environmental_impact
AI can contribute to widening inequality.
Abstract reports the review identifies widening inequality as a potential trade-off of AI, based on synthesis of 194 articles.
high negative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development: A Systemat... income_distribution / inequality
AI can give rise to job displacement.
The abstract states the review finds potential trade-offs including job displacement across the surveyed literature (194 articles).
Mediation analysis: AI adoption contracts employment in production and managerial positions.
Mediation models using occupational/role-level employment categories showing reductions in production and managerial headcounts associated with AI adoption.
high negative Creative disruption or destructive inequality? Firm-level ev... employment in production and managerial roles
AI adoption widens intra-firm pay disparities (increases pay inequality within firms).
Regression analyses showing divergent effects on employee vs. executive pay and explicit measures of intra-firm pay disparity in the panel data.
high negative Creative disruption or destructive inequality? Firm-level ev... intra-firm pay disparities (inequality between employees and executives)
Oligopolistic capture of productivity gains is intelligible as an outcome of AI-driven assetisation (i.e., productivity gains are appropriated by a small number of firms).
Theoretical claim based on political economy argument about assetisation and market power; no empirical sample or quantitative evidence reported in the excerpt.
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset distribution of productivity gains (capture by oligopolies)
Labour markets for university-educated workers are where the explanatory limits of human capital theory are most consequentially exposed.
Theoretical critique supported by political economy / sociological reasoning (no empirical sample reported).
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset adequacy of human capital theory to explain outcomes in university-educated labo...
AI should be understood as a productive rentier asset whose returns derive from constructed scarcity and access control rather than from commodity exchange.
Conceptual/theoretical framing based on political economy and sociological analysis (argumentative, no empirical sample reported).
high negative From human capital to asset ownership: AI as rentier asset basis of economic returns to AI (constructed scarcity and access control vs comm...
Experts in the study assign a 14% probability to 'rapid-progress' scenarios characterized by substantial GDP growth, declining labor force participation, and accelerating wealth inequality.
Result from the 2025 forecasting study of experts (69 economists + 52 AI experts), reporting a probability estimate (14%) for a named scenario with specified macroeconomic and labor-market features.
high negative Preparing Organizations for AI's Economic Disruption: Eviden... probability assigned to a rapid-progress scenario with substantial GDP growth, d...
The effectiveness of prompt injection rapidly diminishes as more candidates inject, collapsing when manipulation becomes widespread.
Controlled experiments that vary the share of candidates performing prompt injection and observe changes in manipulation effectiveness; exact sample size not provided in the abstract.
high negative Prompt Injection in Automated Résumé Screening with Large La... change in manipulation effectiveness as measured by shifts in applicant rankings
The review identifies significant compliance challenges related to emerging regulations, including New York City Local Law 144, Illinois HB 3773, and the European Union AI Act.
Legal and policy scholarship included in the systematic review of 34 studies, which discuss regulatory requirements and compliance issues associated with AI-based recruitment.
high negative Predictive Talent Acquisition: AI Governance and Enterprise ... regulatory compliance challenges (with specific laws cited)
AI-based recruitment systems frequently inherit demographic and historical biases embedded within training datasets, potentially leading to discriminatory hiring outcomes when adequate oversight mechanisms are absent.
Synthesis of findings across the systematic review of 34 studies reporting evidence of demographic/historical biases in training data and downstream discriminatory effects in hiring models.
high negative Predictive Talent Acquisition: AI Governance and Enterprise ... presence of demographic/historical bias and resulting discriminatory hiring outc...
There is a global disparity in data centre infrastructure (concentrations favouring some regions over others).
Analysis drawing on external data sources cited in the paper illustrating geographic distribution of data centre infrastructure.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... geographic distribution / concentration of data centre infrastructure
Data workers in Kenya report direct employment by big tech corporations and exposure to graphic content.
Qualitative interviews / responses from data workers in Kenya collected and reported in the paper.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... employment relationship (direct employment by big tech) and exposure to graphic ...
Hyper-datafication systematically redistributes labour risks and representational harms toward the Global South.
Qualitative responses from data workers in Kenya describing labour conditions and exposure; analysis of language data representation; external data on global data centre infrastructure and geography.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... labour risks (e.g., exposure to graphic content) and representational harms in l...
Hyper-datafication drives substantial and growing environmental costs.
Quantitative analysis of dataset growth and estimated storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint across the analysed Hugging Face datasets (≈550k); modelled storage and emissions impacts.
high negative How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in F... storage-related energy consumption and carbon footprint
Türkiye is one of the most fragile regimes due to its weak regulatory capacity, high algorithmic discipline, and lack of transparency.
Regime assessment in the comparative analysis component of the paper that evaluates Türkiye's regulatory capacity and algorithmic governance characteristics.
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... regime fragility measured by regulatory capacity, algorithmic discipline, and tr...
Regime positioning reveals that despite the EU's partial regulatory capacity, it cannot fully close the collective rights gap.
Comparative normative analysis of EU regulatory frameworks relative to collective algorithmic rights dimensions (paper's regime positioning assessment).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... EU regulatory capacity to close the collective rights gap
Individual-centered regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act, CCPA, LGPD, etc.) are limited in their understanding of the collective operating logic of algorithmic governance.
Normative comparative analysis of existing regulations across the EU, US, Latin America, Asia, and Türkiye as reported in the paper (conceptual/legal analysis rather than empirical measurement).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... adequacy of individual-centered regulatory frameworks to address collective algo...
Algorithmic governance under a data-driven, predictive, and dynamic authority architecture is creating structural transformations that exceed the institutional capacity of the existing individual rights paradigm.
Conceptual argument presented in the paper; theoretical analysis of algorithmic governance and its impacts on institutional frameworks (no empirical sample reported).
high negative COLLECTIVE ALGORITHMIC RIGHTS: A NEW RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE FOR... institutional capacity of the existing individual rights paradigm to address str...
This convergence has the potential to lower wages on entry-level thinking jobs.
Theoretical/empirical implication drawn from observed reduction in productivity differences; presented as a potential consequence rather than an established empirical result in the abstract.
high negative THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... wages of entry-level cognitive/thinking jobs
Early evidence indicates AI is reducing the productivity difference between beginner and expert employees.
Reported 'early evidence' from the paper's empirical analysis (difference-in-differences on freelance platforms) indicating convergence in productivity between novices and experts; no numeric effect estimates given in the abstract.
high negative THE ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ... productivity difference between beginner and expert employees
These results demonstrate how people's decision-making processes can be insufficient for overseeing AI in high-stakes domains.
Synthesis/interpretation of experimental findings (longer viewing when no AI, small increases in selection probability with more time for non-recommended candidates, IAT effects) to argue that human decision processes may not adequately supervise biased AI in high-stakes settings. This is an interpretive/concluding claim based on the experiment; not a direct empirical measure. Sample size not stated in the excerpt.
high negative Resume Screening, Fast and Slow: (Biased) AI Recommendations... adequacy of human decision-making processes for overseeing AI
In manual jobs, AI compresses the returns to undereducation as tasks become more skill-intensive.
Occupation-specific heterogeneity analysis using CLDS and city AI diffusion showing reductions in the undereducation wage premium within manual-occupation subsamples under higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (occupation-specific interaction effects)
AI diffusion slightly lowers the wage premium for undereducated workers.
Interaction effects from fixed-effects models using CLDS and city AI diffusion indicators showing a small reduction in undereducation-related wage premium with higher AI diffusion.
high negative Technological diffusion, skill reconfiguration and wage adju... wages (interaction: AI diffusion × undereducation)
Overeducation leads to a significant wage penalty.
Microdata from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) 2014–2018; cohort-based measure of educational mismatch; estimated using extensive fixed-effects models comparing wages by educational mismatch status.
AI serves as a financial risk factor for platform-based illustrators by increasing price pressures, enhancing market transparency, and increasing exposure to revenue volatility.
Author interpretation based on the statistical finding of a significant association between AI and income plus theoretical/accounting discussion; no additional quantified causal mechanism presented in the reported results.
high negative The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Revenue Performa... price pressure; market transparency; revenue volatility (as financial risks affe...
In the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), factors shaping last-mile costs and platform dependence include territorial scale, low population density, concentration of demand in Yakutsk, seasonal navigation and northern supply constraints.
Regional empirical analysis focused on the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) considering territorial scale, population density, demand concentration, seasonal navigation and supply chains as presented in the paper.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... drivers of last-mile costs and regional platform dependence
Common mechanisms through which food delivery platforms form market power include network effects, economies of scale and scope, data control, algorithmic management and ecosystem lock-in.
Comparative case analysis of major Chinese platforms (Meituan, Ele.me/Taobao Instant Commerce, JD Waimai), supported by statistical data review and academic literature on platform markets.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... mechanisms driving platform market power
Traditional indicators of market share, price and commission do not sufficiently reflect the influence of platforms that control data, algorithms, access rules, ratings and couriers’ work practices.
Conceptual argument and comparative case analysis drawing on the study's qualitative review of platform governance (Meituan, Ele.me/Taobao Instant Commerce, JD Waimai), supplemented by literature and regulatory/legal acts analysis.
high negative Market power of digital online food delivery platforms: Chin... platform influence beyond conventional market metrics (data and algorithmic cont...
Critical post-work thought posits that not only certain jobs, but also jobs in general, are disappearing.
Statement summarizing the position of a body of theoretical work ('critical post-work thought') as described by the author; this is a characterization of a viewpoint rather than an empirical finding.
high negative New Technologies and Increase in Employment claim of general job disappearance
The majority of extant studies focus exclusively on the 'technical' aspect of new technologies replacing labour, thereby ignoring their social dimension and consequently falling into the trap of technology fetishism.
Claim about the literature based on the paper's review and critique of existing studies; no citation counts or systematic review methodology described in the excerpt.
high negative New Technologies and Increase in Employment focus of extant studies (technical vs. social dimensions)
Policy asymmetries, digital literacy gaps, and regional inequalities deepen digital divides and impede inclusive development.
Policy analysis and comparative case studies documenting how policy differences, literacy, and regional disparities affect digital inclusion; China used as a focal example. No quantitative sample sizes or causal estimates given in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital divide / inclusiveness of development
Agriculture remains digitally marginalized due to infrastructural and institutional deficits.
Comparative case studies and sectoral data showing lower digital adoption in agriculture; qualitative policy analysis identifies infrastructure and institutional shortcomings. No sample size or quantified adoption metrics provided in summary.
high negative How to Utilize New Technologies to Improve Productivity digital adoption / marginalization in agriculture
Fertility is strongly countercyclical and almost perfectly negatively correlated with hours worked in the model, placing household time allocation at the center of the mechanism.
Model-simulated correlations and business-cycle dynamics showing fertility and hours worked time series and their correlation.
high negative Automation and Aging in General Equilibrium: AI Capital, Fer... correlation between fertility and hours worked (countercyclicality)