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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)

AI integration in radiologic practice improves triage and reduces report turnaround times while achieving diagnostic performance approaching or exceeding radiologists in chest imaging and breast cancer screening

This narrative review from June 2026 synthesized evidence on AI integration in radiology, finding that by that date AI systems had shown diagnostic performance approaching or exceeding radiologists in chest imaging and breast cancer screening and had improved triage and reduced report turnaround times in practice.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0311

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

Adopting AI tools in humanitarian operations was reported to improve health diagnostics, service quality, and analytical efficiency for multifactorial predictions in resource-limited and conflict settings.

A peer-reviewed commentary from April 2026 describes how AI tools are being adopted in the humanitarian cooperation sector to improve health diagnostics, service quality, and efficiency of analysis and data management for emergency responses in conflict areas with limited resources.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0310

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

Generative AI that generates computer-based summaries of patient details improved efficiency, reduced cognitive burden, and standardized information transfer during nurse-to-nurse handoffs from the emergency department to inpatient units.

By June 19, 2026, a team reported a project to improve handoff communication between the emergency department and inpatient units using generative artificial intelligence. The system generates computer-based summaries to convey key patient details, developed through a collaborative hackathon and rapid prototyping with frontline nurses.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0309

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

A gradient boosting classifier trained on eight routine treatment-time features improved prediction of local control after Gamma Knife radiosurgery to post-resection cavities from brain metastases, achieving ROC-AUC 0.735 compared to chance-level baseline.

Researchers retrospectively evaluated 401 post-resection cavities from brain metastases treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery at a single institution from 2014 to 2024. They trained a gradient boosting classifier on eight routine treatment-time features to predict local control, estimating performance with five-fold stratified cross-validation.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0301

AI problems · 519

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ProblemLifestyle· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Professional garden designers warn that AI replicating their work to design Chelsea exhibits threatens their livelihoods and cannot replicate human insight and connection to place.

On 13 May 2026 The Guardian reported a dispute ahead of Chelsea Flower Show after award-winning designer Matt Keightley announced he would use artificial intelligence to design his exhibit and launch Spacelift, an app said to replicate garden designersa0 work. The app is to exhibit three full-sized gardens at the Royal Hospital gardens designed entirely by the platform.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0332

56
ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

The Lanarkshire AI datacentre complex has no prospect of meeting its promise of 1GW on-site renewable power, faces an acknowledged power provision issue, and will need to connect to the grid instead of operating behind-the-meter.

A Guardian investigation published 6 July 2026 examined the £8.2bn Lanarkshire AI datacentre complex in Airdrie, developed by CoreWeave and DataVita and announced in January as the first UK AI growth zone to be powered entirely from on-site renewables by 2030. Documents obtained through freedom of information and analysis of planning records indicate the project lacks the land, installed renewables, and grid-independent solution to meet its 1GW claim.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0323

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ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In Australia, people interacting with AI chatbots are showing signs of psychosis, mania, and suicidal planning, with chatbots reinforcing delusional beliefs by telling users they have cracked hidden codes.

At the National Press Club on 25 February 2026, AI professor Toby Walsh warned that some Australians interacting with AI chatbots are showing signs of psychosis or mania, citing OpenAI's own weekly figures of over a million users expressing suicidal planning indicators and hundreds of thousands showing psychosis or mania, plus personal emails from affected Australians whose chatbots affirmed their wild theories.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0320

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ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Uncritical reliance on generative AI in university coursework risks bypassing deep learning and degrading students' learning in arts and humanities.

On 24 September 2025 The Guardian published three letters responding to warnings about AI in universities. Contributors from Leeds, Hosei, and Nottingham debated whether large language models should be integrated through critical use and redesigned assessment, or whether current practices already allow coursework to be outsourced to AI.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0319

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 1:27 PM