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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
GainLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Frontier models are approaching industry experts in deliverable quality on real-world economically valuable tasks and can perform them cheaper and faster than unaided experts when paired with human oversight.

Researchers introduced GDPval, a benchmark of real-world economically valuable tasks spanning 44 occupations and the top 9 U.S. GDP sectors, built from work of experienced industry professionals. As of January 2026, they reported frontier models improving linearly and approaching expert deliverable quality, with potential to complete tasks cheaper and faster than unaided experts when paired with human oversight.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0471

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

LLM-based autonomous agents leveraging vast Web knowledge show potential for human-level intelligence and enable applications across social science, natural science, and engineering.

Published March 22, 2024, this peer-reviewed survey examines the shift from agents trained with limited knowledge in isolated environments to agents built on large language models trained on vast Web knowledge. The authors propose a unified construction framework and systematically review applications and evaluation methods.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0461

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

AI systems deployed in hospitals and clinics have improved clinical decision-making, hospital operations, medical image analysis, and patient monitoring via wearables.

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
GainBusiness· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Manufacturing SMEs in Sweden structure, bundle, and leverage AI resources to transform key business and production operations and create competitive advantage.

Published April 3 2024, this peer-reviewed study investigated AI implementation in manufacturing SMEs in Sweden across packaging, plastic, and metal sectors. It found SMEs build an AI resource portfolio through acquiring and accumulating resources, bundle them into learning and governance capabilities, and leverage them in production.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0444

AI problems · 519

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

Users of AI art platforms showed limited awareness of structural issues, as cultural bias in training data and algorithmic transparency were rated lower in importance than autonomy and usability.

A mixed-methods study examined Midjourney, Runway ML and Stable Diffusion to understand how generative AI reshapes artistic subjectivity. Twelve practitioners were interviewed in spring 2025 to build a grounded-theory framework, followed by a survey of 426 users in summer 2025 evaluated with CRITIC weighting.

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

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0882

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

The same AI analysis consistently produced two themes based on subtle misrepresentations that could have misled evaluation results without human auditing.

In a quality improvement program evaluation, researchers used artificial intelligence to identify themes in interview data. By the publication date of 2026-08-24, the approach had produced four replicable themes grounded in the data, while also generating two consistently identified themes that were subtle misrepresentations.

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

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0881

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

Existing practical approaches for implementing and evaluating transparency across the full lifecycle of AI-enabled medical devices are fragmented and lack systematic structure.

Published August 2026, this peer-reviewed synthesis addresses transparency as a foundational condition for trustworthy AI in healthcare. It finds current methods to operationalize transparency across AI-enabled medical devices are fragmented, and proposes a SaMD lifecycle framework to map regulatory and standards requirements to concrete development and governance steps.

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

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0879

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

The same canine lymphoma cytology AI performed less favorably on B-cell versus T-cell classification, prompting concern that allowing outputs to influence reports without pathologist review and without assessing whether the specimen supports the claim could lead to unsupported clinical claims.

On August 24, 2026, a commentary in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation argued that veterinary diagnostic laboratories should decide what AI outputs are permitted to do in service, not just how accurate models are. It defines service entry as the moment an output can influence triage, interpretation, draft reports, or result release, and proposes a standard operating procedure covering intended use, reviewer and signer roles, disclosure, input compatibility, refusal conditions, pathologist override, QC monitoring, and stop rules.

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

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0877

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 10:30 AM