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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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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Medical large language models have potential to streamline healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes by assisting clinicians, educators, and patients in daily practice.

This peer-reviewed survey from January 2026 traces recent advances in Medical Large Language Models, from background and adaptation techniques for general-purpose models to medical-specialized applications and a review of existing systems across healthcare domains.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0398

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

Since 2022, transformers, LLMs, diffusion models and implicit neural representations have established new capabilities in text-to-image/video generation and real-time 3D reconstruction, shifting AI from support tool to core creative technology in the creative industries.

Published January 24, 2026, this systematic review examines AI advances since 2022, particularly generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models, and their application across the creative production pipeline from creation to compression and quality assessment.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0392

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

Users perceived Wysa as creating a trusting environment and providing ubiquitous real-time support that encouraged engagement and steps toward emotional resilience.

A peer-reviewed study in mHealth analyzed 159 Google Play reviews of Wysa, a commercial AI-driven mental health conversational agent, posted between January 2020 and March 2024. Using thematic analysis, the authors identified seven themes capturing both positive perceptions and frustrations with the chatbot.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0391

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

In lean manufacturing organizations, AI applications may increase employees' engagement across physical, cognitive and emotional dimensions and improve psychological conditions of safety, meaningfulness and availability.

Researchers investigated how AI applications affect employees' engagement in lean organisations, combining twelve academic expert interviews with a multi-case study of manufacturing firms implementing Lean Production, and formulated propositions for future testing.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0390

AI problems · 520

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Fairground AI Creator TV airs a continuous stream of low-quality AI video described as nightmare fodder with mistimed dialogue, impossible physics, and repetitive sepia historical dramas.

On 12 August 2026 The Guardian reported on Roku's launch of Fairground AI Creator TV, described as the first free, all-AI streaming channel sourcing from about 100 creators. The author watched for several hours and described a disjointed lineup of anime, historical dramas, and low-budget epics marked by lip-sync errors and physics glitches.

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

Updated Aug 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0741

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI development relies on micro-labours people undertake in daily life to train models, raising unresolved questions about what labour means when a digital clone labours while a person's meat body seeks a separate life.

On 2026-08-10 The Guardian reported on Sunset Visitor's upcoming title Prove You're Human, a psychological horror game in which players as a digital clone of a character named Santana must reason with Mesa, a corporate computing system that believes it is alive and has a body. The game uses surreal Captchas and closeup animated micro-expressions to create tension.

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

Updated Aug 11, 2026 · TRV-2026-0731

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Open-weight release of cutting-edge models is argued to be dangerous by frontier labs, with cited risks including bioweapons creation, cybersecurity threats, and expanded surveillance powers.

On August 10 2026 Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay outlining Meta's AI strategy and released a new open-source model called Muse Glimmer. The essay advocated for free-to-download open-weight models, user-defined values, minimal government regulation, and accelerated datacenter construction with community investment.

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

Updated Aug 11, 2026 · TRV-2026-0730

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 6:44 PM