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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 the evidence layer documentation 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
Organizational Efficiency 📄 1886 1246 320
Positive
Moderate 14.1% 5.8% 31 β = 0.49, p < 0.001
435
1348 ⚡ 1213618 4657 View
Governance & Regulation 📄 1723 986 377
Positive
Moderate 10.0% 6.4% 47 Not quantified
270
1029 ⚡ 1048276 4155 View
Technology Adoption Rate 📄 1322 775 284
Positive
Moderate 13.8% 8.2% 37 over 80%
182
754 ⚡ 433043 2743 View
Decision Quality 1024 595 237
Positive
Solid 17.9% 14.4% 18 ≈20%
235
734 ⚡ 426313 2681 No synthesis yet
Output Quality 📄 865 502 203
Positive
Solid 22.9% 12.5% 22 Ω(sqrt(M/D))
150
548 ⚡ 372089 2369 View
AI Safety & Ethics 901 264 462
Negative
Moderate 10.5% 10.5% 17 k agents
224
627 ⚡ 319229 2022 No synthesis yet
Research Productivity 📄 668 320 93
Positive
Moderate 9.3% 14.7% 19 18-25% increase
53
282 ⚡ 97739 1714 View
Firm Productivity 📄 739 524 85
Positive
Moderate 13.7% 4.0% 8 β1 = 0.714 (p-value = 0.000, which is less than α = 0.01)
140
453 ⚡ 121575 1637 View
Task Allocation 📄 892 412 116
Positive
Solid 15.6% 10.0% 23 79%
226
669 ⚡ 95576 1586 View
Market Structure 629 202 252
Split
Moderate 7.2% 2.9% 18 ≈ USD 220bn; USD 270–500bn
122
371 ⚡ 106183 1290 No synthesis yet
Innovation Output 489 357 58
Positive
Solid 18.2% 3.9% 17 partial mediation
83
307 ⚡ 46677 999 No synthesis yet
Task Completion Time 501 340 95
Positive
Solid 24.4% 9.6% 14 from hours to minutes
92
329 ⚡ 44362 767 No synthesis yet
Firm Revenue 374 254 70
Positive
Solid 17.1% 8.2% 6 linear in own liquidity
45
220 ⚡ 27682 705 No synthesis yet
Consumer Welfare 335 160 95
Positive
Solid 17.0% 9.2% 12 approximately 28 to 40 percent of the difference between recommendations
70
208 ⚡ 32924 695 No synthesis yet
Skill Acquisition 📄 452 263 79
Positive
Moderate 11.7% 3.2% 15 g = 0.14, 95% CI: [-0.18, 0.47]
77
255 ⚡ 20551 685 View
Error Rate 395 151 199
Split
Solid 21.3% 13.0% 13 73% reduction
102
280 ⚡ 45012 677 No synthesis yet
Employment Level 📄 341 108 80
Split
Moderate 13.8% 5.2% 14 ≈80% employment rate (prime-age 25–54)
64
186 ⚡ 21657 675 View
Inequality Measures 📄 374 52 242
Negative
Moderate 11.5% 4.2% 13 50–70%
76
221 ⚡ 20049 621 View
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 239 115 76
Positive
Moderate 10.9% 1.7% 10 −0.041, p < 0.001
35
131 ⚡ 20663 586 No synthesis yet
Worker Satisfaction 291 133 103
Split
Solid 25.1% 4.9% 6 ρ ∈ ((5√73 − 17)/48, 1)
51
188 ⚡ 24971 551 No synthesis yet
Automation Exposure 📄 299 99 116
Split
Moderate 10.7% 4.8% 13 χ² = 43.27, p < 0.01
80
196 ⚡ 14107 477 View
Regulatory Compliance 224 106 85
Split
Moderate 13.4% 6.2% 9 β = 0.487, p < 0.01
55
124 ⚡ 13362 421 No synthesis yet
Team Performance 180 112 32
Positive
Solid 25.0% 7.8% 9 ≈0.8322 (recovers decentralized benchmark)
28
110 ⚡ 6690 347 No synthesis yet
Developer Productivity 187 126 32
Positive
Solid 19.8% 7.5% 10 2.09x the pre-mandate baseline
24
104 ⚡ 7942 346 No synthesis yet
Wages & Compensation 📄 196 80 73
Split
Solid 21.4% 7.5% 9 β = 0.61, p < 0.001
33
112 ⚡ 9185 332 View
Training Effectiveness 223 160 32
Positive
Moderate 13.9% 4.8% 11 Õ(ε^-4) total samples
48
126 ⚡ 4427 332 No synthesis yet
Job Displacement 216 20 136
Negative
Moderate 6.0% 1.9% 9 µ = 3.34/5
42
119 ⚡ 1811 260 No synthesis yet
Hiring & Recruitment 122 60 38
Positive
Solid 18.9% 9.3% 7 increase of 300 job openings
23
81 ⚡ 4811 225 No synthesis yet
Creative Output 66 34 17
Positive
Solid 28.8% 7.7% 6 5.5 to 10.2 percentage point higher likelihood
11
38 ⚡ 2014 169 No synthesis yet
Skill Obsolescence 120 5 88
Negative
Moderate 6.7% 1.8% 8 39%
20
66 ⚡ 821 163 No synthesis yet
Labor Share of Income 67 15 34
Negative
Moderate 11.9% 4.6% 5 πK → 1; πH → 0; πAI → 0
11
35 ⚡ 941 109 No synthesis yet
Social Protection 70 41 20
Positive
Moderate 14.3% 2.9% 7 public cultural services can act as productive social infrastructure advancing SDG 8 (decent work) given adequate digital capacity
7
30 ⚡ 698 104 No synthesis yet
Worker Turnover 54 26 23
Split
Moderate 13.0% 2.3% 6 β = −0.29, 95% CI [−0.41, −0.17]
10
34 ⚡ 567 87 No synthesis yet
Industry 1 0 0
Moderate 0.0% 0.0% 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.