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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

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

UBNet-Seg, a 2.3M-parameter U-Net variant using lung fields as geometric proxy, achieved 95.85% lung Dice at 0.05s inference and 90.31% automated cardiomegaly accuracy on NIH, rising to 93.63% on NIH and 91.21% on OpenI after expert-guided refinement.

A peer-reviewed study published July 16, 2026 describes UBNet-Seg, a lightweight 2.3-million-parameter U-Net variant that infers cardiomegaly from lung field geometry rather than explicit heart segmentation. Trained on 11,748 images, it was evaluated on external NIH and OpenI chest X-ray datasets, reporting 95.85% lung Dice and 0.05-second inference.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%92

Updated Jul 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0257

81
GainScience· Rising· Evidence: High (5 sources)

AI-powered voice assistants were found to enhance independence and daily functioning and offer emotional companionship for socially isolated older adults

On 2026-07-09, a systematic review from Aston Publications Explorer synthesized 48 studies on older adults' interactions with AI-powered voice assistants, selected from 109 publications across Scopus, PubMed, and the ACM Digital Library. It identified six key research themes and reported a major finding on the potential for emotional companionship for socially isolated individuals.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%100
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0138

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GainScience· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

In the past decade, the global industry and research attentions on intelligent skin-like electronics have boosted their applications in diverse fields including human healthcare, Internet of Things, human-machine interfaces, artificial intelligence and soft robotics.

In the past decade, the global industry and research attentions on intelligent skin-like electronics have boosted their applications in diverse fields including human healthcare, Internet of Things, human-machine interfaces, artificial intelligence and soft robotics. Among them, flexible humidity sensors play a vital role in noncontact measurements relying on the unique property of rapid response to humidity change.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%100
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0062

AI problems · 514

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Conventional ultrasound imaging's profound reliance on operator expertise restricts reproducibility and global accessibility.

This comprehensive review traces ultrasound from operator-dependent manual imaging to robotic ultrasound systems developed over the past two decades, including teleoperated telesonography over 5G and increasingly autonomous platforms using force control and path planning.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0898

78
ProblemEducation· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In educational use, ChatGPT can generate wrong information and reflect training-data biases that may augment existing biases, raising privacy issues.

Published December 7, 2023, this exploratory synthesis examines ChatGPT after its November 30, 2022 public release and rapid adoption, reviewing recent literature on how the tool is being used in education. It identifies potential benefits for personalized and interactive learning and for formative assessment, while also noting drawbacks.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 19, 2026 · TRV-2026-0835

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Most models lacked external validation, only one was low risk of bias, publication bias was detected, and performance dropped in HIV-positive populations, leaving models not ready for routine clinical implementation.

By August 2026, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 34 studies evaluated AI and machine learning models to predict tuberculosis treatment failure. Nineteen studies with 100,790 participants were pooled, yielding an AUC of 0.836 with high heterogeneity, with tree-based and multimodal approaches common and most publications appearing after 2019.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0817

78
ProblemPolicy· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Stakeholders flag unresolved risks for AI in the medicine lifecycle around accuracy and reliability, data governance confidentiality and consent, and ethics fairness and bias prevention requiring further regulatory science research.

On 2026-08-13, a peer-reviewed article reported a European-wide survey to set regulatory science research priorities for AI use in the medicine lifecycle. Authors developed 28 research questions across seven domains and collected 273 responses from regulators, industry, patients and consumers, academics, and healthcare professionals, finding convergence in rankings across groups.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 15, 2026 · TRV-2026-0772

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 26, 2026, 11:45 PM