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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 · 641

78
GainCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Open-source MCP servers demonstrated strong health metrics despite rapid adoption with SDK downloads surpassing twenty five million per week.

In a first large-scale empirical study published May 2026, researchers examined 1,899 open-source Model Context Protocol servers, the standard introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 to unify tool calling for Foundation Models. Using health metrics and a combined general and MCP-specific scanner, they measured adoption signals and code quality across the ecosystem.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0137

78
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A Random Forest model trained on linguistic, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and temporal features from Weibo posts predicted Self-Rating Anxiety Scale scores among consenting Chinese college students with R2 0.77 on the test set.

Researchers surveyed college students in China with the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and, with informed consent, analyzed their public Weibo posts. Using multi-dimensional features, a Random Forest model predicted anxiety scores within the study sample, achieving the best test performance among four models tested.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0121

77
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

EAGLE selectively analyzes informative regions of whole-slide pathology images, improving classification accuracy by up to 23% and reducing per-slide processing to 2.27 seconds.

On 2026-07-01, Nature Communications published a peer-reviewed study introducing EAGLE, a deep learning framework for digital pathology. The system was tested across 43 tasks from nine cancer types and was reported to outperform patch aggregation methods by up to 23% while processing one slide in 2.27 seconds.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%92

Updated Jul 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0252

AI problems · 514

73
ProblemLifestyle· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Deployment of ML for food quality control is constrained by data scarcity, domain coverage biases, and challenges integrating with legacy systems while meeting regulatory compliance and cost-benefit requirements.

On 2025-10-04, a peer-reviewed review in Foods synthesized 25 studies selected from 124 Scopus records from 2005-2025 to map machine learning use for quality control in food production. It organized findings into six domains covering quality applications, defect detection and visual inspection, ingredient optimization, packaging sensors and predictive QC, supply chain traceability, and Industry 4.0 models.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0481

73
ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Deployment of AI in healthcare raises ethical challenges and risks related to data privacy and algorithmic bias that must be mitigated.

This peer-reviewed review from March 2024 surveys how artificial intelligence is being integrated across hospitals and clinics, covering clinical decision support, operational management, medical image analysis, and patient monitoring with AI-powered wearables, drawing on case studies of domain-specific transformation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0454

73
ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Low-skilled workers are subjected to stronger technological control, and large language models disproportionately influence women, younger demographics, professional skilled laborers, and higher-income groups in the tertiary industry.

A peer-reviewed study published November 17, 2025 analyzed skill heterogeneity as technology moves from physical automation to cognitive automation. It assessed both substitution and control, finding limited substitution for high- and low-skilled workers, but stronger control for low-skilled workers, and compared sectoral effects of automation versus large language models.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0451

73
ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Industrial AI deployment creates ongoing ethical threats linked to entrusting machines with autonomy and decision-making responsibility.

Published December 2025 in Production Engineering Archives, this peer-reviewed theoretical paper reviews how artificial intelligence is being used in industry, including cobots, algorithmic management, employee monitoring, sustainability efforts, and generative AI, and summarizes existing international legal frameworks for safe and ethical AI.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0411

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 4:38 AM