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Evidence (2215 claims)

Adoption
5126 claims
Productivity
4409 claims
Governance
4049 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
2954 claims
Labor Markets
2432 claims
Org Design
2273 claims
Innovation
2215 claims
Skills & Training
1902 claims
Inequality
1286 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 369 105 58 432 972
Governance & Regulation 365 171 113 54 713
Research Productivity 229 95 33 294 655
Organizational Efficiency 354 82 58 34 531
Technology Adoption Rate 277 115 63 27 486
Firm Productivity 273 33 68 10 389
AI Safety & Ethics 112 177 43 24 358
Output Quality 228 61 23 25 337
Market Structure 105 118 81 14 323
Decision Quality 154 68 33 17 275
Employment Level 68 32 74 8 184
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 74 52 32 21 183
Skill Acquisition 85 31 38 9 163
Firm Revenue 96 30 22 148
Innovation Output 100 11 20 11 143
Consumer Welfare 66 29 35 7 137
Regulatory Compliance 51 61 13 3 128
Inequality Measures 24 66 31 4 125
Task Allocation 64 6 28 6 104
Error Rate 42 47 6 95
Training Effectiveness 55 12 10 16 93
Worker Satisfaction 42 32 11 6 91
Task Completion Time 71 5 3 1 80
Wages & Compensation 38 13 19 4 74
Team Performance 41 8 15 7 72
Hiring & Recruitment 39 4 6 3 52
Automation Exposure 17 15 9 5 46
Job Displacement 5 28 12 45
Social Protection 18 8 6 1 33
Developer Productivity 25 1 2 1 29
Worker Turnover 10 12 3 25
Creative Output 15 5 3 1 24
Skill Obsolescence 3 18 2 23
Labor Share of Income 7 4 9 20
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At equilibrium prices in symmetric markets, consumer surplus is improved by cheaper search but may be decreased by more informative search, due to weakened inter-business competition.
Equilibrium price analysis within the theoretical model for symmetric firms; comparative statics showing how search cost and signal informativeness affect pricing, competition intensity, and consumer surplus. No empirical validation reported.
high mixed Agentic Markets: Equilibrium Effects of Improving Consumer S... consumer surplus (under equilibrium pricing)
The market (in the model) tracks indications of fit for searched products and indications of quality for chosen products, thereby guiding subsequent searches.
Model structure and assumptions specified in the paper: an endogenous information-tracking mechanism that records signals from searches and purchases and which then influences future search behavior; presented as part of the theoretical framework rather than empirical evidence.
high mixed Agentic Markets: Equilibrium Effects of Improving Consumer S... information available to guide search (market-tracked signals)
This advantage is contingent upon robust AI governance, ethical frameworks, and the transition from 'pilot-lite' projects to integrated, data-driven 'AI-first' business models.
Conditional claim in the paper linking success to governance, ethics, and organizational integration; appears to be normative/analytical rather than empirical in the abstract.
high mixed The AI Advantage: Strategic Innovation and Global Expansion ... dependency of AI-driven advantage on governance, ethics, and organizational inte...
Energy policy uncertainty has a nonlinear effect on AI investment: moderate uncertainty fosters innovation, whereas high volatility hinders long-term investment.
Empirical analysis using nonlinear methods (WQR and WQC) on US quarterly data 2013Q1–2024Q4 (48 quarters), assessing distributional asymmetries across quantiles and time–frequency bands.
Machine-readable metrics and open scholarly infrastructure are reshaping scholarly profiles and incentives.
Conceptual and historical discussion referring to platforms and metrics (e.g., arXiv, Google Scholar, ORCID) as mechanisms changing incentives; no new empirical estimates provided.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... changes in scholarly incentives and profile construction due to machine-readable...
That interconnected ecosystem is fundamentally restructuring who can do science (access), how fast discoveries propagate, and what counts as a valid scientific contribution.
Argumentative claim linking infrastructural and tool changes to changes in access, dissemination speed, and norms of contribution. The paper presents examples and narrative but no systematic empirical evaluation or sample.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... access to scientific practice, speed of discovery dissemination, and norms of sc...
The most consequential development is not any single tool but the emergence of an interconnected ecosystem—AI agents, preprint platforms, open source codebases, and citation infrastructure—that forms a feedback loop.
Synthesis/argument based on multiple examples (LLM agents, preprint servers like arXiv, open-source code repositories, citation indices). No quantitative measurement or causal identification reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... emergence of an interconnected scientific infrastructure ecosystem
The central tension in AI for science is between automation (building systems that replace human researchers) and augmentation (tools that amplify human creativity and judgement).
Analytical claim based on the paper's review of historical examples and conceptual discussion; no primary data or experimental design reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... relationship between automation and augmentation in research practice
Science has repeatedly delegated its bottlenecks to machines—first inference, then search, then measurement, then the full workflow—and each delegation solves one problem while exposing a harder one underneath.
Interpretive historical argument drawing on examples across AI-for-science milestones (e.g., DENDRAL, search and inference systems, measurement automation, and contemporary end-to-end workflows). No quantitative sample or experimental method reported.
high mixed A Brief History of AI for Scientific Discovery: Open Researc... pattern of delegation and emergent bottlenecks in research workflows
The growth effects of AI are conditional on institutional quality and organizational adaptability.
Theoretical/analytical claim in the paper's framework and supported by the stylized-facts analysis indicating heterogeneity in productivity and growth outcomes by institutional and digital capacity indicators.
high mixed Artificial intelligence, institutional innovation and econom... growth effects of AI (heterogeneity/conditionality by institutions and adaptabil...
Chat intent varies systematically with both the timing of chat relative to search and the category of products later purchased within the same journey.
Cross-tabulation/regression-style descriptive analysis relating classified chat intents to timing (relative to search) and subsequent purchased product categories in journey-level logs.
The paper's primary contribution is to combine established ingredients—attention scarcity, free-entry dilution, superstar effects, and preferential attachment—into a unified framework directed at claims about AI-enabled entrepreneurship.
Stated contribution and methodological description in the paper (synthesis and applied formalisation); this is a descriptive/methodological claim rather than an empirical result.
high mixed The Economics of Builder Saturation in Digital Markets n/a (methodological contribution)
Modern pretrained time-series foundation models can forecast without task-specific training, but they do not fully incorporate economic behavior.
Statement in paper's introduction/abstract summarizing prior capabilities and limitations of pretrained time-series foundation models (no experimental sample or numeric evidence provided in the excerpt).
high mixed GARP-EFM: Improving Foundation Models with Revealed Preferen... ability of pretrained time-series models to forecast and degree to which they in...
The governance risk-mitigation effects of AI operate through increasing financial risk exposure.
Authors' mechanism tests indicate a relationship between AI adoption and changes in financial risk exposure measures, which they interpret as a channel affecting executive behavior.
high mixed The risk-mitigation effects of artificial intelligence adopt... financial risk exposure (financial risk/proxy metrics)
The paper draws comparisons between inference tokens and established commodities such as electricity, carbon emission allowances, and bandwidth to motivate financialization.
Theoretical comparison and historical analysis (drawing on the historical experience of electricity futures markets and commodity financialization theory) as presented in the paper.
high mixed AI Token Futures Market: Commoditization of Compute and Deri... similarity / comparability to established commodity markets
The effects of financial digital intelligence on the innovative development of strategic emerging industries vary across regions and sectors: there are differences across central, eastern, and western regions and across capital‑intensive and technology‑intensive sectors, while no significant impact is noted in other regions and industries.
Heterogeneity analysis reported on the panel dataset (5,731 observations, 2015–2022) examining regional and industry subsamples (details of subgroup sizes and statistical tests not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Financial Digital Intelligence and Innovative Development of... innovative development of strategic emerging industries (heterogeneous effects b...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) shows an insignificantly positive direct effect on local TFCP but a significantly negative indirect (spillover) effect, attributed to a 'pollution haven' effect.
Spatial Durbin Model estimates for FDI on panel (30 provinces, 2010–2023): direct coefficient positive but not significant; indirect coefficient significantly negative; interpretation given as pollution-haven mechanism.
high mixed Study on the impact of industrial intelligence and the digit... total factor carbon productivity (TFCP)
Industrial intelligence exhibits regional heterogeneity: a significantly negative direct effect in the east, a significantly positive direct effect in the central region, an insignificant direct effect in the west, and positive indirect (spillover) effects in the east and west.
Regional/subsample Spatial Durbin Model analyses dividing the sample into east, central, and west regions (30 provinces, 2010–2023); reported region-specific direct and indirect coefficients and significance levels.
high mixed Study on the impact of industrial intelligence and the digit... total factor carbon productivity (TFCP)
Industrial intelligence has an insignificantly negative direct effect on local TFCP, but its positive spatial spillover effect is significant at the 1% level, producing a significantly positive total effect.
Spatial Durbin Model results for industrial intelligence on panel (30 provinces, 2010–2023): direct coefficient negative and not statistically significant; indirect coefficient positive and significant at 1%; total effect positive and significant.
high mixed Study on the impact of industrial intelligence and the digit... total factor carbon productivity (TFCP)
China's TFCP rose overall from 2010 to 2023 but exhibited a widening regional gap of 'higher in the east, lower in the west'.
Panel data of 30 Chinese provincial-level regions (2010–2023); TFCP measured using an undesirable-output super-efficiency SBM model and summarized temporal and spatial patterns.
high mixed Study on the impact of industrial intelligence and the digit... total factor carbon productivity (TFCP)
The study identifies the main AI-enabled mechanisms advancing CE principles in smart manufacturing, waste valorisation, supply-chain transparency, and sustainable design.
Bibliometric network analysis of 196 peer-reviewed articles (2023–2024) and systematic review of 104 studies, per the abstract; identification is presented as a product of these analyses.
high mixed Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for the circular econo... AI-enabled mechanisms advancing circular economy principles (e.g., in smart manu...
AI is not an inherent instrument of justice but a malleable socio-technical force whose equitable outcomes depend on policy design and institutional context.
Interpretation and synthesis of empirical results showing conditional and heterogeneous effects of AI; normative conclusion drawn by authors from observed heterogeneity and mediating channels.
high mixed Artificial intelligence adoption for advancing energy justic... conceptual claim about AI's role in producing equitable outcomes
Governmental structures, labor supply and demand, and incorporation of financial measures act as key intervening variables affecting achieved ROI from GenAI implementations.
Qualitative synthesis and theoretical analysis reported in the paper identifying contextual/intervening variables.
high mixed Measuring Business ROI of Generative AI Adoption on Azure Cl... influence of governance and labor market factors on ROI
There is an evident tension between privacy and security in existing AI governance approaches.
Thematic synthesis and co-occurrence network from the reviewed studies identify trade-offs and tensions reported between privacy-preserving approaches and security requirements.
high mixed AI Governance Risk Tiering for Sustainable Digital Infrastru... presence of trade-offs/tensions between privacy and security in frameworks
The fragility of 'Pax Silica' has implications for global capitalism, technological governance, and geopolitical stability.
Analytical inference and concluding assessment based on theoretical framework and comparative analysis; no empirical quantification provided in the abstract.
high mixed The Logistics of Hegemony: Semiconductor Chokepoints, Global... impacts on global capitalism, technological governance, and geopolitical stabili...
The paper proposes new mechanisms through which big data affects individual welfare (beyond simple productivity gains), linking privacy costs, multiplier effects, and R&D transformation patterns.
Theoretical/mechanism development: the paper articulates new channels in its macro theoretical framework describing how data sharing impacts welfare via multiple mechanisms (model construction and analytic discussion; no empirical/sample validation).
high mixed Study on the impact of big data sharing on individuals’ welf... mechanisms linking big data to individual welfare (privacy, multiplier, R&D tran...
Consumption is affected by the multiplier effect and the transformation patterns of R&D.
Theoretical: model analysis links consumption dynamics to a multiplier effect and to how R&D transforms inputs/outputs (comparative statics/dynamics in the theoretical framework).
Individuals’ welfare is influenced by both the privacy cost of big data sharing and their consumption levels.
Theoretical: welfare in the model is specified as a function of consumption and a privacy cost term arising from big data sharing; result follows from analytic derivation within the model (no empirical/sample data).
high mixed Study on the impact of big data sharing on individuals’ welf... individuals' welfare (as affected by privacy cost and consumption)
Capability and trust formally diverge beyond a critical scale (Capability-Trust Divergence).
Claim of a formal proof in the paper (mathematical / theoretical demonstration). No empirical sample size reported in the excerpt.
high mixed The Institutional Scaling Law: Non-Monotonic Fitness, Capabi... capability and trust as functions of model scale
The Institutional Scaling Law shows that institutional fitness -- jointly measuring capability, trust, affordability, and sovereignty -- is non-monotonic in model scale, with an environment-dependent optimum N*(ε).
Theoretical derivation / analytic model presented in the paper (formal derivation of an 'Institutional Scaling Law'). No empirical sample size reported in the excerpt.
high mixed The Institutional Scaling Law: Non-Monotonic Fitness, Capabi... institutional fitness (composite of capability, trust, affordability, sovereignt...
Regional analysis shows inland regions remain capital-dependent, with an estimated (capital) elasticity of approximately 0.43.
Regional decomposition/estimation reported in the study comparing inland regions to coastal ones using the extended production function.
high mixed Analysis of China's Economic Growth Drivers: An Empirical St... capital elasticity in inland regions (≈0.43)
The paper is primarily theoretical and historical; empirical validation is needed to quantify the irreducible component of LLM value, and practical degrees of rule‑extractability may exist even if some capabilities remain tacit.
Stated limitations section acknowledging the theoretical nature of the work and the need for empirical follow‑up.
high mixed Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... need for empirical validation and degree of rule‑extractability of LLM capabilit...
If an LLM's full capability were reducible to an explicit rule set, that rule set would be an expert system; because expert systems are empirically and historically weaker than LLMs, this leads to a contradiction (supporting non‑rule‑encodability).
Logical proof‑by‑contradiction presented in the paper, supported by conceptual mapping between rule sets and expert systems and qualitative historical comparisons.
high mixed Why the Valuable Capabilities of LLMs Are Precisely the Unex... logical consistency of the reducibility-to-rules claim (validity of the contradi...
HindSight has limitations: it depends on citation and venue proxies for impact, uses a finite forward window (30 months), and may undercount delayed-impact research and be domain-specific to AI/ML.
Authors' stated limitations in the paper noting reliance on observable downstream signals (citations/venues), the finite forward window, field heterogeneity, and measurement noise.
high mixed HindSight: Evaluating LLM-Generated Research Ideas via Futur... Reliability and completeness of HindSight as an evaluation metric given proxy ch...
Demand for labor will shift toward data scientists, ML engineers, and interdisciplinary scientists, while wet-lab expertise and translational teams remain crucial.
Workforce trend analysis and employer hiring patterns summarized in the paper; interviews/case studies indicating changes in team composition.
high mixed Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... demand composition for roles (data scientists, ML engineers, wet-lab scientists)...
AI excels at hypothesis generation but cannot replace scientific reasoning and experimental validation; human expertise remains essential.
Argument and case examples in the paper showing AI-generated hypotheses requiring human-led experimental design, interpretation, and validation.
high mixed Has AI Reshaped Drug Discovery, or Is There Still a Long Way... role of AI versus human scientists in hypothesis generation and experimental val...
Net gains from AI are not automatic nor evenly distributed; benefits depend on translation rates to clinical success and on addressing non-technical enablers.
Synthesis and conditional argument informed by sector observations; not backed by empirical distributional analysis in the paper.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research distribution of gains across firms and translation to clinical success
Alignment with evolving regulatory expectations (evidence standards, auditing, liability) is necessary to translate AI capabilities into products and reduce adoption risk.
Policy-focused argument referencing regulatory uncertainty; no empirical measures of regulatory impact included.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research adoption risk and time-to-market under regulatory regimes
Realized, sustained impact ('democratized discovery') from AI depends on non-technological enablers: high-quality interoperable data, rigorous validation, transparency/auditability, workforce upskilling, ethical oversight, and regulatory alignment.
Synthesis and prescriptive argument in editorial grounded in observed constraints; no empirical testing of causal dependence provided.
high mixed AI as the Catalyst for a New Paradigm in Biomedical Research sustained impact of AI on discovery (realized democratized discovery)
Reward mechanisms reviewed include up-front token sales, milestone-triggered payouts, bounties, and royalties/licensing revenue distribution.
Synthesis of literature and case-study descriptions documenting available reward/payment mechanisms used by DAOs in decentralized science contexts.
high mixed Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Pharmaceutical... presence and prevalence of specific reward/payment mechanism types
Decision models in DAO governance include token-weighted voting, quadratic voting, reputation/stake-based delegation, and multisig/DAO councils for off-chain execution.
Theoretical review of governance mechanisms and survey of existing DAO practices as reported in secondary sources and project documentation.
high mixed Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Pharmaceutical... types of decision mechanisms implemented across DAOs
The review synthesizes cross-domain evidence on the use of AI across the continuum from target identification to regulatory integration and critically evaluates existing limitations including data bias, interpretability discrepancy, and regulatory ambiguity.
Statement about the scope and content of the review (literature synthesis and critical evaluation). This is a description of the paper's methods/content rather than an empirical finding; the excerpt indicates these topics are discussed.
high mixed THE AI REVOLUTION IN PHARMACEUTICALS: INNOVATIONS, CHALLENGE... coverage of limitations in AI application (presence and discussion of data bias,...
Major actors such as the United States, China, and the European Union pursue distinct models of AI development and regulation.
Comparative policy analysis and qualitative document review of national/regional AI strategies and regulatory proposals for the United States, China, and the EU (specific documents and sample size not specified).
high mixed The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Power, Regulatio... model of AI development and regulation adopted by each actor (US, China, EU)
The study identifies the emergence of three competing governance paradigms: the innovation-driven liberal model, the ethics-oriented regulatory model, and the state-controlled authoritarian model.
Finding from the paper's comparative policy analysis and qualitative review of policy documents across major actors (United States, European Union, China); underlying document sources referenced qualitatively but not enumerated as a quantitative sample.
high mixed The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Power, Regulatio... types of AI governance paradigms (innovation-driven liberal; ethics-oriented reg...
The pandemic produced a 1.5% increase in people identifying as potential entrepreneurs but a 2.3% contraction in emerging entrepreneurs, indicating a breakdown in converting aspiration into formal entrepreneurial activity (pipeline disruption).
Reported percentage changes in pipeline stages (potential entrepreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs) measured in the survey before/after (or during) the pandemic within the >27,000 respondent sample; comparison of identification and transition rates along the entrepreneurial pipeline.
high mixed Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Bu... transitions along the entrepreneurial pipeline (identification as potential entr...
Long-run integration (degree of long-run association) between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics differs systematically across national innovation systems.
Country-level decomposition of patent filing series and time-series econometric tests for long-run relationships / cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced robotics patent series for each country/region (China, U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea).
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... measures of long-run association/cointegration between core AI and AI-enhanced r...
Core AI, traditional robotics, and AI-enhanced robotics follow distinct historical trajectories over 1980–2019 and do not move together uniformly.
Time-series analysis using annual patent filing counts (1980–2019) for each domain; tests for common long-run relationships / co-movement across the three patent series (as reported in the paper). Country-aggregated and domain-specific patent time series were analyzed; exact sample size (total patents) not specified in the summary.
high mixed The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do in... annual patent filing counts/time-series trajectories for each of the three domai...
Kondratieff, Schumpeter, and Mandel each highlight different drivers of capitalist long waves: Kondratieff emphasizes regular technological-driven renewal, Schumpeter emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation-led creative destruction, and Mandel emphasizes class relations and production structures.
Comparative theoretical analysis and literature synthesis across the three schools; conceptual summary of canonical positions (no original dataset; qualitative interpretation).
high mixed Economic Waves, Crises and Profitability Dynamics of Enterpr... theoretical drivers of capitalist cycles
XChronos reframes transhumanist technology evaluation in experiential terms, creating both market opportunities and measurement/regulatory challenges for AI economics.
Synthesis and concluding argument in the paper summarizing proposed implications; conceptual reasoning without empirical tests.
high mixed XChronos and Conscious Transhumanism: A Philosophical Framew... shift in evaluation criteria toward experiential measures and resultant market/r...
RL and adaptive methods are good for real-time adaptation but can be myopic, require large amounts of interaction data, and struggle to incorporate long-term preference structure and ethical constraints.
Surveyed properties of reinforcement learning and adaptive methods in HRI/RS literature; no new empirical evaluation in this paper.
high mixed Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundation... real-time adaptation effectiveness, sample efficiency (amount of interaction dat...