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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

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

AI is being applied to support development and assimilation of financial regulation under China's new supervisory structure led by the NFRA.

Published April 28, 2025, the peer-reviewed article describes China's recent overhaul of financial supervision, centered on the new National Financial Regulatory Administration covering all financial sectors except securities and expanded PBOC oversight of financial holding corporations, alongside new rules for generative AI, deep synthesis, and algorithm recommendations.

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

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0535

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

Integration of AI, big data, blockchain, VR and IoT into digital tourism platforms can improve personalized travel experiences, operational efficiency, and eco-conscious travel options.

This peer-reviewed paper from April 2025 analyzes how digital tourism platforms integrate Industry 4.0 technologies including AI, big data, blockchain, VR and IoT. It builds a five-dimension conceptual framework covering market power, AI-driven automation and workforce change, innovation and inclusion, sustainability innovations, and data security and governance, linking these to SDGs.

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

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0531

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

Smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models show utility across well-being and clinical conditions and can positively impact mental health care when deployed as tools to augment and extend care.

As of May 2025, this review in World Psychiatry examined how smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models are being applied to mental health, evaluating evidence across well-being, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, eating disorders and substance use, and outlining advances in digital phenotyping and generative outputs.

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

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0523

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

Machine learning, led by neural networks, provides advanced quality control, safety monitoring, and process optimization across food industry domains including defect detection and predictive QC.

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

AI problems · 519

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

Clinical translation is limited by inconsistent evaluation, substantially lower performance on pathology-specific regions, and reliance on single-institution data with few reader studies or external validation.

Researchers systematically reviewed 41 studies through January 2025 that used deep learning to generate synthetic postcontrast T1-weighted MRI from precontrast images alone, aiming to reduce gadolinium use. Most work was in neuroimaging, using GANs and CNNs, and a targeted meta-analysis of 15 brain tumor studies reported high whole-image similarity metrics.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 27, 2026 · TRV-2026-0904

69
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In extended testing, the three-marker panel misclassified one febrile control, and the overall pilot size limits generalizability for rapid diagnosis.

By the publication date of 2026-08-25, a pilot study had collected breath samples from 17 melioidosis patients and 8 febrile controls and used two-dimensional gas chromatography mass spectrometry combined with machine learning feature selection to identify volatile signatures of infection and treatment course.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0896

69
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-driven medicinal chemistry is limited by data scarcity and inconsistency, model generalizability and interpretability issues, and a persistent gap between in silico predictions and validated candidates, with systematic evidence of faster or better drug delivery still accruing.

This peer-reviewed review from August 2026 examines how machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and generative modeling are being used across medicinal chemistry, including target discovery, virtual screening, property prediction, de novo design, fragment optimization, ADMET assessment, and clinical trial design, with emphasis on multimodal data fusion and human-AI collaboration.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0893

69
ProblemMedia & Arts· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

LLM-generated creative writing shows higher stylistic uniformity and tight clustering by model, lacking the broader heterogeneity and individual diversity seen in human-authored stories.

Researchers compared human-authored short stories with stories generated by GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Llama 70b in response to the same prompts, using Burrows' Delta and clustering methods including hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling to visualize stylistic relationships.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0883

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 10:23 AM