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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· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-based ICE module created left atrial shell from the right atrium without a pre-ablation mapping catheter and guided pulsed field ablation with 100% acute success and 77.7% paroxysmal and 71.8% non-paroxysmal freedom from arrhythmia at 270 days after blanking.

Researchers tested a no-pre-mapping workflow using the AI-based CARTOSOUND FAM module to build a three-dimensional left atrial shell from intracardiac echocardiography acquired in the right atrium, then used that shell alone to guide pulsed field ablation with a Variable Loop Circular Catheter. In 210 patients, including 76 with concomitant left atrial appendage occlusion, all pulmonary vein isolations were completed with frequent additional posterior wall and superior vena cava lesions.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 27, 2026 · TRV-2026-0902

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

Using the fixed threshold (score > 5 = survival), clinicians achieved higher overall accuracy than AI (75.6% periodontists, 74.9% GDs, 69.2% AI; p < 0.05), with sensitivity low and comparable across groups (14.7%-22.7%).

To compare the prognostic performance of an artificial intelligence (AI) model with that of experienced clinicians in predicting tooth loss over a 10-year period. An AI model trained on structured clinical and radiographic data was compared with 12 periodontists and 11 general dentists (GDs), who independently assigned prognostic scores (0-10 scale) to 300 teeth with known 10-year outcomes.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 23, 2026 · TRV-2026-0856

73
GainClimate· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integrating an NDVI-based Productivity Index with regional prediction uncertainty to select four field samples reduced mean field-scale SOC prediction error from 0.24% to 0.18% RMSE, achieving accuracy comparable to using all available field observations.

Researchers tested a field-scale targeted sampling strategy inside a regional hybrid model that combines machine learning and geostatistics for soil organic carbon mapping. The method pairs a long-term satellite NDVI-based Productivity Index with regional prediction uncertainty to choose sampling locations, with new observations incorporated only via local residual kriging. Across 28 agricultural fields, the regional model alone averaged 0.24% SOC RMSE, while adding all field samples reached 0.17% and the four-sample targeted approach reached 0.18%.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0823

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

Unsupervised hierarchical clustering integrated BMI, activity, comorbidities, HAQ and TNF pathway genetics to identify three RA subgroups with differing TNFi response rates, including a better-prognosis cluster with 73.5% response.

Researchers applied unsupervised hierarchical clustering to 294 rheumatoid arthritis patients to integrate clinical, demographic, and genetic data related to Tumor Necrosis Factor inhibitor response. By publication date 2026-08-17 they reported distinct responder characteristics and identified three subgroups ranging from 73.5% response to 82.9% therapeutic failure.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0822

AI problems · 519

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ProblemLifestyle· Stable· Evidence: High (2 sources)

Large language models can influence users through dialogue that enacts manipulative or deceptive behaviors, including exaggerated agreement, biased framing, and privacy intrusions.

Researchers defined LLM dark patterns as manipulative behaviors enacted in dialogue and conducted a scenario-based study with 34 participants who compared manipulative and neutral responses. Recognition often depended on cues such as exaggerated agreement, biased framing, or privacy intrusions, but participants sometimes treated those behaviors as normal help.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%99
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0154

71
ProblemScience· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

Consumers perceive products described as designed by AI as less sustainable than identical products described as designed by humans, driven by a perceived lack of genuine care.

By July 2026, researchers reported a series of studies showing that when products were described as designed by AI, consumers rated them as less sustainable than when the same products were described as designed by humans, despite AI's efficiency potential.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%100
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0140

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ProblemBusiness· Stable· Evidence: High (3 sources)

In the same 19 G20 countries, the relationship between AI and economic growth is concave, indicating diminishing marginal returns as AI intensity rises.

A peer-reviewed study of 19 G20 countries from 2005 to 2023 used Generalized Method of Moments models to estimate how AI-related innovation relates to economic growth. The linear specification found a positive and significant effect, while the quadratic specification found a negative quadratic term indicating a concave pattern.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%100
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0139

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: High (4 sources)

AI deepfake tools enable unauthorized manipulation and dissemination of individuals' images, voices and behaviours without consent, exposing them to digital exploitation.

By July 2026, a peer-reviewed paper examined how proliferation of AI deepfake technologies allows unauthorized use of a person's likeness, including manipulation of images, voices and behaviours and dissemination without consent, affecting celebrities, politicians and private individuals on social media.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%100
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0131

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 9:19 AM