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Evidence (4781 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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AI Adoption provides companies with opportunities for strategic renewal.
PLS-SEM analysis linking AI Adoption (measured in the survey of 207 entrepreneurial businesses) to strategic renewal/opportunity constructs reported as positive in the paper.
medium positive Drivers and Sustainable Performance Outcomes of AI Adoption ... Strategic renewal (opportunities)
Competitive pressures are a significant positive factor contributing to a firm's decision to adopt AI.
PLS-SEM analysis of survey data from 207 entrepreneurial firms measuring competitive pressure and AI Adoption (paper reports a positive relationship).
Social influences are a significant positive factor contributing to a firm's decision to adopt AI.
PLS-SEM analysis of survey data from 207 entrepreneurial firms measuring social influence and AI Adoption (paper reports a positive relationship).
Facilitating conditions are a significant positive factor contributing to a firm's decision to adopt AI.
PLS-SEM analysis of survey data from 207 entrepreneurial firms measuring facilitating conditions and AI Adoption (paper reports a positive relationship).
The study links digital technologies to evolving economic models, offering insights into how nations can leverage digital infrastructures to foster competitiveness, resilience, and sustainable growth.
Claim about the paper's contribution and policy-relevant insights; the abstract does not lay out the specific analytical framework, case comparisons, or empirical backing used to generate these policy prescriptions.
medium positive ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... national competitiveness; economic resilience; sustainable growth indicators
Digital transformation enhances efficiency and inclusion.
Reported as a finding in the paper; the abstract does not specify the empirical indicators, measurement approach, or samples used to establish efficiency and inclusion gains.
medium positive ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... economic efficiency (e.g., productivity, transaction costs) and inclusion (e.g.,...
China’s digital economy framework demonstrates the role of state-led policies, technological innovation, and private sector dynamism in shaping one of the world’s most advanced digital ecosystems.
Paper includes a special focus on China (case analysis implied); the abstract does not provide the specific evidence, datasets, or case-study methodology supporting this claim.
medium positive ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... development/advancement level of China's digital economy and contributing factor...
The digital revolution has fundamentally reshaped global economic structures, driving a transition from traditional labor- and capital-intensive systems toward knowledge-, data-, and technology-driven models.
Assertion presented in the paper's analysis; specific empirical methods, data sources, and sample size are not provided in the abstract.
medium positive ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION – CASE... structure of national/global economies (degree of reliance on labor/capital vs. ...
Generative AI (GenAI) offers transformative potential for productivity and innovation.
Synthesis of themes reported across the 28 reviewed papers (authors' thematic summary of literature highlighting potential productivity and innovation gains).
medium positive The Landscape of Generative AI in Information Systems: A Syn... productivity and innovation potential attributed to GenAI
The review suggests future research to ensure that GeoAI advances are fair, transparent, and aligned with urban policy goals.
Recommendation and research agenda presented in the paper based on identified gaps and ethical/policy considerations from the literature review (formulative guidance rather than empirical proof).
medium positive Advancing Urban Analytics: GeoAI Applications in Spatial Dec... alignment of GeoAI research and deployments with fairness, transparency, and pol...
There are opportunities to use GeoAI to enhance climate resilience, alleviate poverty, foster inclusive urban strategies, and develop better cities.
Prospective and applied examples synthesized in the review that illustrate possible applications of GeoAI for resilience, poverty alleviation, and inclusive planning (these are framed as opportunities; specific pilot studies or effect sizes are not provided in the excerpt).
medium positive Advancing Urban Analytics: GeoAI Applications in Spatial Dec... potential impacts on climate resilience metrics, poverty reduction measures, inc...
Recent research highlights improvements in methodology, decision-making support, and impacts on resilience, social inclusion, and fair governance.
Aggregate claim from the review of recent research; supported by cited methodological advances and application studies showing decision-support impacts (the excerpt does not enumerate the studies or quantitative measures).
medium positive Advancing Urban Analytics: GeoAI Applications in Spatial Dec... method performance (e.g., accuracy, robustness), decision-support quality, urban...
GeoAI methods support spatial planning, risk assessment, and policymaking in cities facing climate change, socio-economic disparities, and environmental challenges.
Review of applied GeoAI studies and case examples reported in the paper that demonstrate use in spatial planning, risk assessment, and policy support (specific studies and sample sizes not provided in the excerpt).
medium positive Advancing Urban Analytics: GeoAI Applications in Spatial Dec... effectiveness of GeoAI in spatial planning, risk assessment accuracy, and decisi...
Policy priorities should include enforceable AI governance, life-cycle carbon accounting across hydrogen supply chains, and targeted SME capability policies to realize conditional synergies between digitalization and green transition.
Policy recommendations derived from the review of empirical and institutional literature (authorial proposal based on synthesized evidence; not an empirical test).
medium positive The synergy of digital innovation and green economy: A syste... adoption/implementation of enforceable AI governance; adoption of life-cycle car...
Digital tools can accelerate green innovation and emissions reductions when coupled with credible standards, auditability, clean power, and workforce capability building.
Synthesis of peer-reviewed research and authoritative institutional reports (review article); conditional-synergy thesis based on multiple empirical and policy studies cited in the review (no single primary sample size reported).
medium positive The synergy of digital innovation and green economy: A syste... green innovation activity and greenhouse gas emissions reductions
These findings highlight research opportunities for machine learning applications in finance and for the development of sentiment-based corporate disclosure analytics.
Interpretation by the authors based on identified gaps in the 42-study review (e.g., underused corporate-report sentiment, limited labeled data, geographic concentration, few deep-learning/end-to-end approaches).
medium positive Machine Learning for Sentiment-Based Corporate Disclosure An... identification of research opportunities and directions (not an empirical outcom...
Regression-based and other supervised learning approaches remain dominant.
Aggregated reporting from the 42-study review showing a prevalence of regression and supervised ML methods in the literature sample.
medium positive Machine Learning for Sentiment-Based Corporate Disclosure An... modeling approach prevalence (regression / supervised learning)
The reviewed studies rely on feature-engineered sentiment indices derived from lexicons or sentence-level classification.
Review synthesis noting frequent use of lexicon-based sentiment scoring and sentence-level classification to produce engineered sentiment features across the sampled studies.
medium positive Machine Learning for Sentiment-Based Corporate Disclosure An... type of sentiment representation used (lexicon-based indices, sentence-level cla...
Most studies focus on the U.S. stock market.
Findings from the review of 42 studies indicating a majority of the reviewed works concentrate on U.S. markets (geographic coding/synthesis across studies reported by the authors).
medium positive Machine Learning for Sentiment-Based Corporate Disclosure An... geographic focus of empirical studies (U.S. market prevalence)
Machine learning methods have been widely used to predict stock prices using technical indicators and sentiment features, mostly extracted from social media and news.
Systematic review of the literature summarized in the paper (corpus of 42 studies published 2014–2025) reporting that many reviewed studies use ML to predict stock prices and that sentiment inputs commonly come from social media and news sources.
Visa recapture would reclaim approximately 339,000 unused visas from prior years, delivering immediate backlog relief under existing statutory authority.
Authors' calculation/estimate of cumulative unused employment-based visas available for recapture (presumably based on historical visa usage statistics from the Department of State); the excerpt does not show the year-by-year accounting or the assumptions used to reach 339,000.
medium positive The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An... Number of recapturable unused visas and immediate reduction in backlog
Dependent exemption (excluding spouses and minor children from counting toward the annual cap) would ensure that all 140,000 visas are allocated to independently qualified principal workers rather than divided among family members.
Policy design claim; premise depends on current family-derivative usage of the cap and would require counting statistics (number of visas currently used by dependents) to quantify effect—those counts are not provided in the excerpt.
medium positive The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An... Number/percentage of visas allocated to principal workers vs. dependents
Increasing the annual employment-based visa ceiling would alleviate the overall shortage that persists regardless of allocation methods.
Logical/policy claim that raising the statutory cap increases supply; the excerpt does not include a quantitative elasticity, model, or simulation showing the required increase or magnitude of backlog reduction.
medium positive The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An... Size of employment-based visa shortage / backlog
Phasing out the seven-percent per-country cap would gradually transition visa allocation from nationality-based limits to a demand-driven system, allowing applicants from high-demand countries to advance in the backlog without causing abrupt increases in wait times for those from low-demand countries.
Policy proposal with implied simulation/modeling rationale (demand-driven allocation); the excerpt does not provide a formal model, simulation parameters, or empirical test showing the gradual, non-disruptive transition.
medium positive The United States' Employment-Based Immigration System: An... Change in wait times by country after removing per-country cap (projected)
This study extends the technology–organisation–environment (TOE) theory by providing comprehensive empirical evidence of internal and external factors affecting BT adoption.
Use of the TOE framework to structure empirical analysis on 27,400 firm-year observations (2013–2021) linking technology (AI), organisation (corporate culture), and environment (market competition, government support, digital financial development) variables to BT adoption outcomes.
medium positive The effects of AI technology, externally oriented corporate ... Blockchain technology (BT) adoption as explained by TOE framework variables
Environmental factors—market competition, government support, and the level of digital financial development across provinces—positively affect BT adoption.
Empirical tests using the 27,400 firm-year sample (2013–2021) incorporating provincial- and market-level environmental variables (market competition, measures of government support, and provincial digital financial development indices) alongside firm-level data and BT adoption coding from annual reports.
medium positive The effects of AI technology, externally oriented corporate ... Blockchain technology (BT) adoption (firm BT adoption status)
Externally oriented corporate cultures, specifically competition-oriented and creation-oriented cultures, positively affect BT adoption.
Same sample of 27,400 firm-year observations (2013–2021). Corporate culture indicators (competition- and creation-orientation) collected via Python web crawler from the management discussion & analysis (MD&A) sections of annual reports; BT adoption measured by manual annual report keyword search and content validation.
medium positive The effects of AI technology, externally oriented corporate ... Blockchain technology (BT) adoption (firm BT adoption status)
AI technology positively affects blockchain technology (BT) adoption.
Empirical analysis of 27,400 firm-year observations of Chinese A-share listed firms (2013–2021). AI technology measured using AI patent data collected via a Python web crawler from annual report MD&A sections and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). BT adoption identified by manual search of annual reports for the keyword 'blockchain technology' and content assessment to confirm adoption status.
medium positive The effects of AI technology, externally oriented corporate ... Blockchain technology (BT) adoption (firm BT adoption status)
To alleviate adverse spatial spillovers, it is necessary to strengthen interactive development between digital–real integration and New Quality Productive Forces, foster interregional cooperation, and optimize resource allocation.
Policy recommendations derived from the paper's empirical findings (bidirectional positive relationship and negative spatial spillovers) — normative conclusion based on observed results.
medium positive Spatial Interplay Between Digital–Real Integration and New Q... Alleviation of adverse spatial spillovers (intended policy outcome)
The promotional effect of digital–real integration on New Quality Productive Forces is slightly stronger than the reverse effect (New Quality Productive Forces on digital–real integration).
Comparison of estimated coefficients from the GS3SLS spatial simultaneous equations model (paper reports the coefficient for integration→productive-forces is marginally larger than productive-forces→integration).
medium positive Spatial Interplay Between Digital–Real Integration and New Q... Relative magnitudes of the causal coefficients: Digital–Real Integration → New Q...
Cost–benefit analyses in AI economics should internalize long-term, hard-to-quantify harms (autonomy loss, social trust erosion) rather than rely solely on market price signals.
Normative critique of standard welfare analysis with literature support from ethics and political philosophy; no empirical recalculation of cost–benefit models provided.
medium positive Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Scope and content of variables included in cost–benefit analyses for AI policy
Investing in privacy-preserving AI methods (differential privacy, federated learning, synthetic data) and governance institutions is warranted as an alternative to atomized data markets.
Policy and technical recommendation based on literature on privacy-preserving techniques and governance models; paper does not present original technical evaluations or cost–benefit analyses.
medium positive Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Appropriateness and potential uptake of privacy-preserving technologies and gove...
Economists modeling AI markets should incorporate non-pecuniary harms, externalities, and moral constraints when assessing welfare, innovation trade-offs, and optimal policy.
Normative recommendation grounded in philosophical argument and critique of standard welfare frameworks; not supported by empirical methodological comparison in the paper.
medium positive Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place Scope of factors (non-pecuniary harms, externalities, moral constraints) include...
The paper's conceptual contribution challenges macro-centric crisis narratives by centering social mechanisms (support systems, peer benchmarking, institutional trust) as critical determinants of small-firm adaptation.
Theoretical framing (novel socially embedded analytical lens) combined with empirical results showing the importance of networks, identities, and normative motivations in explaining adaptation outcomes relative to macro-structural explanations.
medium positive Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... conceptual explanatory emphasis for small-firm adaptation (qualitative & compara...
The rapid rise of AI-enhanced robotics since the 2010s signals a shift toward increased embedding of AI into hardware systems, accelerating cross-sector spillovers.
Interpretation based on observed acceleration in AI-enhanced robotics patents (patent filings 1980–2019) and the convergence patterns reported in the paper. This is an inference drawn from patenting trends rather than a directly measured measure of cross-sector spillovers.
medium positive The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... inferred embedding/diffusion of AI into hardware systems as proxied by growth in...
Crises (pandemics, supply shocks) tend to accelerate digital and AI adoption, potentially shortening adjustment time to new technological regimes.
Interpretation of recent historical episodes (e.g., COVID-19) and diffusion literature; qualitative assertion without presented microeconometric identification.
medium positive Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... speed of digital/AI adoption
AI and the green transformation function as modern long-wave drivers by improving operational efficiency, enabling new products and services, and reorganizing competitive hierarchies.
Conceptual argument linking general-purpose technology literature to observed/anticipated capabilities of AI and green tech; literature synthesis without original empirical tests.
medium positive Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... operational efficiency, product/service innovation, competitive hierarchy change...
Schumpeterian cycles are driven by clusters of technological innovations and entrepreneurial activity; AI and green technologies represent contemporary innovation clusters with strong potential for productive disruption.
Application of Schumpeterian theory to contemporary technology trends via literature synthesis and conceptual argument (no empirical quantification provided).
medium positive Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... innovation-driven economic disruption and cycle dynamics
Integrating lived temporality into design and evaluation is necessary to preserve and enhance the qualitative aspects of human life in transhumanist transformation.
Normative/philosophical argument supported by literature synthesis and conceptual reasoning; no empirical demonstration (N/A).
medium positive XChronos and Conscious Transhumanism: A Philosophical Framew... preservation/enhancement of qualitative aspects of human life (well‑being, meani...
AI/ML methods can reduce reliance on animal models by simulating biology, optimizing experiments, and prioritizing candidate drugs—supporting the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement)—but this is contingent on rigorous validation and ethical oversight.
Conceptual and methodological arguments (Manju V et al.) and cited examples of validated in silico alternatives and experiment‑optimization workflows; no single trial or sample size—recommendation based on synthesis of studies and caveats about validation and regulation.
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Potential reduction in animal use / improved ethical compliance (qualitative)
CDRG‑RSF identified five prognostic genes including UBASH3B, which is associated with reduced NK activation and may mediate drug resistance—making it a candidate therapeutic target.
Feature selection within the CDRG‑RSF model yielded five prognostic genes; UBASH3B shown to correlate with immune suppression (reduced NK activation) and inferred links to drug resistance (associational analyses; functional validation not specified in summary).
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Prognostic significance of genes; association with NK activation and predicted d...
PIGRS prognostic model (LASSO + Gradient Boosting Machine ensemble using 15 programmed‑cell‑death immune genes) outperformed most published LUAD prognostic models.
Prognostic modeling using LASSO feature selection followed by GBM ensemble on a 15‑gene panel; comparative benchmarking against published LUAD prognostic models reported superior performance (metrics and external cohort testing referenced).
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Prognostic performance (e.g., survival AUC, concordance) relative to published L...
Multi‑omics integration and consensus clustering (10 methods) in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) identified three molecular subtypes (CS1–CS3) with distinct prognoses.
PIGRS study integrated transcriptome, DNA methylation, and somatic mutation data and applied ten clustering algorithms to define molecular subtypes; reported three subtypes with differing survival outcomes (external validation cohorts used).
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Molecular subtype membership and associated survival/prognosis differences
Data augmentation with Gaussian noise improved DNN performance for small sample cross‑omics training sets.
Cross‑omics study applied Gaussian noise augmentation during DNN training on small paired viral datasets and observed improved model performance and DEA recovery relative to non‑augmented training.
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... DNN predictive performance metrics (sample correlation, DEA log2FC correlation) ...
Dynamic Ensemble Selection‑Performance (DES‑P) produced parsimonious, high‑accuracy classifiers within the EPheClass pipeline.
Use of DES‑P for model selection in EPheClass reportedly yielded small, high‑performing ensembles (example: periodontal disease AUC = 0.973 with 13 features).
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Classifier accuracy/AUC and model parsimony
Applying centred log‑ratio (CLR) transformation and RFE to compositional microbiome data improves model parsimony and supports reproducibility in diagnostic classifiers.
EPheClass preprocessing: CLR to handle compositional 16S data and RFE to reduce feature sets; resulted in small feature panels (e.g., 13 features) with high performance and emphasis on rigorous validation to avoid prior overfitting issues.
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Number of features (parsimony) and classifier performance (AUC/reproducibility)
The same EPheClass approach produced successful parsimonious classifiers for IBD (26 features) and antibiotic exposure (22 features).
EPheClass applied to additional microbiome outcomes (IBD and antibiotic exposure) with RFE selecting 26 and 22 features respectively; performance described as 'successful' (exact AUCs not provided in summary).
medium positive Editorial: Integrating machine learning and AI in biological... Classification performance (AUC/accuracy) for IBD and antibiotic exposure
Firms and hospitals need differentiated investment and governance strategies by interaction level: integration and workflow redesign for AI-assisted; training and decision-support protocols for AI-augmented; process redesign, liability allocation, and oversight for AI-automated systems.
Prescriptive recommendations derived from cross-case findings (n=4) and the conceptual mapping to innovation management implications.
medium positive Toward human+ medical professionals: navigating AI integrati... organizational practices (investment decisions, governance, training), implement...
Different interaction levels produce heterogeneous productivity gains (throughput increases, faster/safer decisions, process cost reductions); economic evaluation should be level-specific.
Theoretical/generalization drawn from observed effects across the four qualitative cases and conceptual analysis linking interaction level to types of productivity gains.
medium positive Toward human+ medical professionals: navigating AI integrati... productivity metrics (throughput, decision speed/safety), cost reductions
Adoption of healthcare AI is better framed as an evolution toward 'Human+' professionals (complementarity) rather than wholesale replacement of clinicians.
Cross-case interpretive analysis of the four qualitative case studies and theoretical framing with Bolton et al. (2018); presented as the paper's core insight.
medium positive Toward human+ medical professionals: navigating AI integrati... degree of complementarity vs. substitution; preservation/enhancement of human ex...