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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 Explorer (34 categories)

One row per outcome category — the bird's-eye view. Use this to compare topics against each other: which have the most agreement, the strongest evidence, the most recent activity. To read the individual claims behind a category instead, use the Evidence page (or click any row here to drop into them).

Pick a lens to re-sort the board; click any column header to sort by it; click a row to browse its claims.

What do these lenses and columns mean?

Lenses

Consensus
How much the papers in a category agree on the direction of the effect.
Strength
How strong the underlying evidence is, by study design and grade.
Momentum
How much new research is arriving in the category.
Contested
How much the findings conflict with each other.
Coverage
How much evidence exists in the category at all.

Columns

Papers / Claims
Distinct papers, and total extracted claims, in the category.
Pos / Neg
Papers whose claims lean positive or negative once grouped by paper.
Direction
The balance bar. The badge reads "Positive" or "Negative" when at least 60% of directional papers agree, otherwise "Split".
Depth
A Solid / Moderate / Thin roll-up of evidence strength. Hover a cell for the exact formula.
Causal %
Share of papers using an RCT or quasi-experimental design.
High-grade %
Share of claims the model graded "high".
Gen.
Distinct units of analysis the evidence spans. A rough breadth proxy, not a formal external-validity test.
Effect
The most common effect-size phrase in the category. Only about 11% of claims carry one.
30d / 90d
Papers added in the last 30 and 90 days. The bar is scaled to the busiest category.
Tensions
Pairs of claims that point opposite ways (one positive, one negative) across different papers. Machine-detected candidates, not confirmed contradictions: the rule does not check whether the two claims describe the same population, period, or outcome.
Synthesis
A written "state of the evidence" page, where one has been published.

Every label here is AI-generated and unverified. See About & Methodology for how it is built and where it falls short.

Primary: Secondary:
Category Papers Pos Neg Direction Depth Causal % High-grade % Gen. Effect 30d 90d Tensions Claims Synthesis
Governance & Regulation 📄 684 381 154
Positive
Moderate 11.0% 5.3% 25 statistically significant
145
437 ⚡ 141664 1630 View
Organizational Efficiency 📄 531 336 90
Positive
Moderate 13.9% 4.2% 14 +8.49%
130
363 ⚡ 75628 1243 View
Technology Adoption Rate 📄 562 324 122
Positive
Solid 15.1% 7.7% 23 over 80%
142
378 ⚡ 76888 1178 View
Research Productivity 📄 383 151 45
Positive
Moderate 7.3% 11.2% 14 18-25% increase
66
160 ⚡ 21018 1023 View
Output Quality 📄 315 191 77
Positive
Solid 23.8% 8.2% 14 +29.2% signal-to-noise ratio
86
227 ⚡ 55650 807 View
Decision Quality 285 145 86
Positive
Solid 21.4% 9.0% 8 ≈20%
65
192 ⚡ 32001 668 No synthesis yet
AI Safety & Ethics 270 80 144
Negative
Moderate 8.1% 2.7% 11 100% elimination of security risks
46
139 ⚡ 23872 630 No synthesis yet
Firm Productivity 📄 283 198 29
Positive
Moderate 14.5% 2.4% 6 ≈8–12% (larger gains in high-income countries)
43
136 ⚡ 11993 627 View
Market Structure 255 80 90
Split
Moderate 5.5% 1.4% 9 −0.8 percentage points per 1pp robot density
37
100 ⚡ 7910 507 No synthesis yet
Task Allocation 📄 221 114 32
Positive
Solid 17.2% 5.5% 12 ĥχ ≈ +1.0 × 10^{-3}
61
172 ⚡ 7304 401 View
Skill Acquisition 📄 196 108 33
Positive
Moderate 12.2% 1.6% 13 g = 0.14, 95% CI: [-0.18, 0.47]
35
108 ⚡ 4281 317 View
Innovation Output 174 122 15
Positive
Moderate 14.4% 3.0% 10 up to 30%
32
116 ⚡ 2959 303 No synthesis yet
Employment Level 📄 154 46 26
Positive
Moderate 11.7% 3.2% 11 ≈80% employment rate (prime-age 25–54)
21
67 ⚡ 2870 284 View
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 108 47 36
Split
Moderate 12.0% 0.0% 6 β = –0.455, p < 0.001
15
48 ⚡ 3464 284 No synthesis yet
Consumer Welfare 125 60 34
Positive
Solid 16.0% 2.0% 7 well below the price of a STEM textbook per student per semester (under worst-case usage ceiling)
24
68 ⚡ 3803 244 No synthesis yet
Firm Revenue 149 96 29
Positive
Moderate 14.1% 4.5% 5 +0.13% UCTR, +0.25% UCTCVR
24
66 ⚡ 2616 242 No synthesis yet
Task Completion Time 171 126 26
Positive
Solid 25.7% 9.2% 9 ≈10x reduction in expensive evaluations
54
128 ⚡ 3902 239 No synthesis yet
Inequality Measures 📄 153 23 91
Negative
Moderate 11.8% 3.1% 10 50–70%
26
77 ⚡ 2067 227 View
Worker Satisfaction 101 49 33
Split
Solid 31.7% 4.0% 6 strong association between career optimism and perceptions of AI-related competencies
23
70 ⚡ 3390 202 No synthesis yet
Error Rate 114 40 66
Negative
Solid 20.2% 6.9% 8 statement/item identity explains more label variance than annotator-level characteristics
23
71 ⚡ 3520 189 No synthesis yet
Regulatory Compliance 99 43 41
Split
Solid 15.2% 2.8% 9 zero feeder-limit violations
10
29 ⚡ 1812 178 No synthesis yet
Automation Exposure 📄 100 39 38
Split
Moderate 7.0% 6.7% 9 75-80%
27
78 ⚡ 1540 163 View
Training Effectiveness 96 65 13
Positive
Moderate 11.5% 2.6% 8 slower than personalized instruction by a factor linear in the number of learner types
17
56 ⚡ 742 153 No synthesis yet
Wages & Compensation 📄 84 39 26
Positive
Solid 20.2% 5.5% 6 β = 0.61, p < 0.001
13
36 ⚡ 1484 146 View
Developer Productivity 83 59 10
Positive
Solid 21.7% 2.8% 8 β = 0.18, p < 0.01
26
71 ⚡ 988 144 No synthesis yet
Team Performance 70 48 7
Positive
Solid 24.3% 2.1% 4 significant partner-type × service-empathy interaction
13
41 ⚡ 550 143 No synthesis yet
Job Displacement 96 10 65
Negative
Moderate 7.3% 0.9% 9 substantially larger (for higher income households vs lower income families)
15
62 ⚡ 454 117 No synthesis yet
Hiring & Recruitment 40 28 4
Positive
Moderate 10.0% 11.3% 6 traditional IT service hiring displaced by product-focused roles and GCC expansion
4
18 ⚡ 224 71 No synthesis yet
Social Protection 40 23 12
Positive
Moderate 12.5% 4.5% 6 public cultural services can act as productive social infrastructure advancing SDG 8 (decent work) given adequate digital capacity
6
23 ⚡ 149 66 No synthesis yet
Creative Output 28 15 7
Positive
Solid 21.4% 0.0% 4 5.5 to 10.2 percentage point higher likelihood
8
21 ⚡ 380 64 No synthesis yet
Skill Obsolescence 53 0 46
Negative
Moderate 11.3% 0.0% 5 up to 53% reduction
13
38 ⚡ 132 61 No synthesis yet
Labor Share of Income 31 8 12
Negative
Solid 19.4% 3.8% 5 tends to zero
5
19 ⚡ 199 53 No synthesis yet
Worker Turnover 19 9 10
Split
Moderate 5.3% 0.0% 4 β = 0.348, p < 0.001
2
3 ⚡ 87 32 No synthesis yet
Industry 1 0 0
Moderate 0.0% 0.0% 1 1 1 No synthesis yet

⚡ A tension count is how many claim pairs in a category point opposite ways (one positive, one negative) across different papers. These are machine-detected candidates, not confirmed contradictions: the rule does not check whether the two claims describe the same population, period, or outcome. Read both papers before treating any pair as a real disagreement.