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The Index

What the evidence says.What the public feels.

Ranks distinct AI gain and problem claims from the published record. Scores reward impact, independent source strength, scale, confidence, and recency.

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AI gains · 649

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GainEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Among university students, ChatGPT's self-learning capabilities supported knowledge acquisition and application, and individual impact and innovativeness increased perceived benefits and behavioral intention to use it.

Published June 2, 2024, this peer-reviewed study explored why university students adopt ChatGPT, examining how self-learning capabilities affect knowledge acquisition and application, how personalization relates to novelty value and benefits, and how individual impact, innovativeness, and barriers shape behavioral intention and actual use.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0408

68
GainScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integration of AI with databases, theory and automation enables systematic predictive materials discovery by identifying complex structure-property relationships and closing the loop between prediction and validation.

Published January 2026 in Chemical Science, the perspective describes a shift from empirical materials exploration to a digital ecosystem that unifies data, theory, and automation. AI analysis of growing datasets identifies complex structure-property links, while automated synthesis and high-throughput characterization close the loop to experimental validation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0406

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GainScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Large Language Models have demonstrated strong capabilities in structured reasoning and symbolic tasks, with coding succeeding as a concrete application area.

As of January 2026, this peer-reviewed review surveys Large Language Models applied to mathematics in both natural-style language and formal symbolic syntax suitable for automatic verification. It notes coding has emerged as a successful application of structured reasoning, while formalized mathematics has proven significantly more challenging.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0405

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GainScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

ChatMOF enables researchers to retrieve, predict, and generate metal-organic frameworks from natural language queries with high accuracy using GPT-4.

Published June 3, 2024 in Nature Communications, researchers described ChatMOF, an AI system built on GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 variants to handle metal-organic framework tasks from natural language. The pipeline includes an agent, toolkit, and evaluator to manage data retrieval, property prediction, and structure generation, reporting 96.9% searching, 95.7% predicting, and 87.5% generating accuracy with GPT-4.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0404

AI problems · 520

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Twitch users face having their data shared with Amazon for AI training without clear consent, prompting widespread anger.

On August 13, 2026, livestream gaming platform Twitch declared it will share its users' data with parent company Amazon to better train Amazon's AI models, a move that has raised hackles among its millions of users.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%97

Updated Aug 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0746

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ProblemCrime· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A 16-year-old used an AI-generated image to fake his own kidnapping and sent a threatening ransom message to his father to extort money to cover gaming debt.

On August 13, 2026, Hindustan Times reported that a 16-year-old in Uttar Pradesh used an AI-generated image to stage his own kidnapping. He sent his father, identified as a cloth merchant, a ransom message stating the teen would be killed if money was not transferred, in an attempt to obtain 2 lakh to pay a gaming debt.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%97

Updated Aug 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0745

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ProblemLabor· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Workers in occupations significantly exposed to AI face higher unemployment, longer spells of joblessness, and contracted wage growth leading to billions in lost earnings.

In August 2026 commentary, Robert Reich pointed to July BLS data showing 23,000 jobs lost and prior months revised down, alongside slowing wage growth, and cited new research linking AI exposure to labor-market strain. Morgan Stanley economists found higher unemployment in AI-exposed occupations, while Edlich and Slok found wage growth in those jobs contracted 6.7% since 2023 with at least $28bn in losses.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%97

Updated Aug 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0744

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 7:27 PM