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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

56
GainMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI music generation platforms are reducing time and cost of song creation for musicians and creators in India.

On July 13, 2026, Free Press Journal published a roundup of six AI music generation tools presented as best options for musicians in India, naming Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs Music, Beatoven.ai, Google Gemini with Lyria 3 and Weights.gg.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%92

Updated Jul 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0217

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

AI programs let estate agents quickly and cheaply stage and enhance listing photos to help buyers visualise a property's potential.

On 8 July 2026 The Guardian reported on 'housefishing', the growing use of AI to enhance estate agent listings with fake dusk skies, added furniture and cleaned-up rooms. Examples included a south London Winkworth listing flagged on Reddit for removing a chimney breast in images, and a Maidenhead house listed at £635,000 where AI-added bedroom furniture could not physically fit.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%92

Updated Jul 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0216

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

AlphaGenome analyzes up to 1m letters of DNA to predict how non-coding mutations alter gene regulation across cell types, helping researchers pinpoint genetic drivers of disease and design targeted DNA sequences.

On 28 January 2026, Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts how mutations in non-coding DNA affect gene regulation. Trained on public human and mouse genetics databases, it can assess up to 1m letters of DNA at once to forecast impacts on gene switching across tissues.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%92

Updated Jul 14, 2026 · TRV-2026-0213

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

Editing the posted campaign photo with AI increased its brightness.

After Richard Tice posted a photo of an apparent Reform campaign event, critics pointed to five types of artifacts suggesting AI manipulation, including extra fingers, garbled placard text, smeared faces, pixel-perfect railings and geometric concrete, and a floating sign. Reform UK said the underlying photograph is real and that the posted version was slightly edited using AI mainly to increase brightness.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0118

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

In a Cambridge primary school coding club, a 10-year-old was able to retrain his image classification model after an error, demonstrating practical learning of how machine learning models are corrected.

By the publication date of 2026-01-05, The Guardian described a Cambridge classroom where Joseph, 10, from St Paul's C of E primary school coding club, trained an AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. The model initially mistakenly identified a fruit as a face, and Joseph then retrained it to get it back on track while friends built their own AIs.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0099

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

Young graduates may benefit from AI because its transformative power is projected to create unprecedented opportunities and new, more exciting jobs.

On a US podcast before 13 September 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that if he was graduating today he would feel like the luckiest kid in history, arguing that ChatGPT, released in November 2022, shows AI's transformative power. He acknowledged that job displacement will occur but said this always happens.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0098

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

US workers would gain workplace protection from AI through union-backed policies requiring a human to remain the final decision maker on issues affecting individuals, with broad survey support for such rules.

On 2026-05-12, The Guardian reported on a new poll released by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US. The poll found overwhelming support among US workers for pro-worker policies on artificial intelligence, including a specific proposal that a human be the final decision maker on issues affecting individuals, with 95% support for that requirement and more than nine out of ten supporting union-backed AI policies generally.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0091

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

At Wimbledon 2025, an AI electronic line-judging system was deployed to replace 300 human line judges.

At Wimbledon in July 2025, organizers replaced 300 human line judges with an artificial intelligence electronic line-judging system. Shortly after deployment, the new system failed to detect that player Sonay Kartal had hit a ball long during a match.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0083

AI problems · 514

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Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 12:55 AM