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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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GainBusiness· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Surveyed IT and ITeS managers report that organizational use of Generative AI is associated with improved organizational performance, with the relationship moderated by organizational innovativeness.

Researchers surveyed 384 managers in IT and IT-enabled services firms and modeled Generative AI adoption using institutional theory and AI ethics principles. By July 2024 they reported that coercive, normative and mimetic pressures, along with fairness, accountability, transparency, accuracy and autonomy, influence GenAI use, which in turn influences organizational performance moderated by innovativeness.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0387

68
GainMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Writers who received LLM-generated story ideas produced short stories that were rated as more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, with the largest improvement for less creative writers.

In an online experiment reported July 12 2024, researchers gave some writers LLM-generated story ideas and had independent evaluators rate the resulting short stories. By that date they observed that access to AI ideas caused higher ratings for creativity, writing quality, and enjoyment, especially for less creative writers.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0386

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

Virchow, the largest pathology foundation model to date, enables pan-cancer detection with 0.95 specimen-level AUC across nine common and seven rare cancers and matches production tissue-specific models using less training data.

In a July 2024 Nature Medicine paper, researchers introduced Virchow, a foundation model for computational pathology, and tested its ability to support clinical decision-making from histopathology images.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0385

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GainClimate· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI applications in urban planning and disaster management are being used to help city officials make informed decisions and optimize resource usage to improve quality of life for urban residents.

As of July 2024, this peer-reviewed article surveyed how AI applications are being applied to sustainable urbanization, from urban planning to disaster management, using data analytics, machine learning and predictive modeling to support city officials.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0384

AI problems · 520

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ProblemScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Existing single-cell AI approaches often ignore the structured nature of the data and rely on the assumption that more training data always improves performance, leading to repeated predictions and missed rare gene signals.

Researchers introduced GFCAB, an AI model for single-cell transcriptomics based on Geneformer, designed to align with the organization of single-cell data. The model reduces repeated predictions and broadens gene consideration, yielding more diverse and biologically meaningful outputs.

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

Updated Aug 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-0723

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

Fake videos about GTA 6 generated by artificial intelligence were circulating on online platforms, prompting copyright enforcement.

On July 24, 2026, Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6, intensified efforts to remove fake videos about the game that were generated by artificial intelligence and posted to online platforms, using DMCA notices.

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

Updated Aug 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-0722

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 6:34 PM