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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
GainBusiness· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

French SMEs using generative AI tools were able to reassess business models and build entrepreneurial resilience during COVID-19 and geopolitical market turbulence.

In a peer-reviewed study published June 25 2024, researchers surveyed 87 SMEs in France about their use of generative AI tools during the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical crises, and economic slowdown. Using a pre-tested survey and WarpPLS 7.0 modelling, they tested how generative AI and entrepreneurial orientation relate to entrepreneurial resilience under market turbulence.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0397

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

The EU AI Act establishes a risk-based legal framework and EU-wide governance bodies that promote safe and lawful AI while protecting citizens' health, safety and fundamental rights and keeping the European AI industry competitive.

In February 2024 the Council and European Parliament agreed on the AI Act, a risk-based regulation intended to ensure ethical and responsible AI use across the EU single market. The article examines the governance system in the April 2024 version of the text, noting the creation of a European Artificial Intelligence Office and planned Board, advisory forum, scientific panel, and national competent authorities.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0393

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

Innovation managers reported generative AI is more likely than traditional AI to make employees' jobs more fulfilling when used in firms' innovation projects.

In mid-2024, researchers reported results from a large-scale survey and follow-up interviews of innovation managers in the USA to assess how AI is actually used in innovation. They found adoption is high and widespread, with AI applied in more than half of surveyed firms' innovation projects and concentrated in the development stage rather than idea or commercialization stages.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0388

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

Sustainable AI-Metaverse adoption in universities substantially fosters digital pedagogical innovation and enhanced perceived student learning outcomes

On March 4, 2026, a peer-reviewed study in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence reported results from 280 university students on an ESG-informed framework for Sustainable AI-Metaverse Adoption. Using SEM-PLS, the authors found environmental and social factors were stronger predictors of adoption than governance factors, and that sustainable adoption was linked to higher digital pedagogical innovation and enhanced student learning outcomes.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0343

AI problems · 519

68
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In the matched Stage II-III cohort, patients with low lymph node ratio showed potential harm from adjuvant chemotherapy, indicating heterogeneous treatment effects and risk of overtreatment.

Researchers used a Causal Forest causal machine learning model on a retrospective cohort of gastric cancer patients treated between 2007 and 2017 to estimate who benefits from adjuvant chemotherapy. The model identified lymph node ratio as the most dominant predictor of benefit, with a significant interaction at a 0.25 threshold in a propensity-matched Stage II-III cohort.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0866

68
ProblemEducation· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI auto-contouring raises concerns that future radiation therapy practitioners may have reduced ability to critically evaluate auto-generated contours.

This peer-reviewed educational perspective from August 2026 examined how organ-at-risk contouring is taught in an Australian undergraduate radiation therapy program as AI auto-contouring enters clinical workflows. The authors reviewed curriculum scope and technologies and examined students' preferred methods, confidence across OARs, and perceived factors affecting quality.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0863

68
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

The TyG-FI showed limited incremental predictive advantage over FI-Lab alone and reduced discrimination on external validation, with AUROCs dropping to 0.694 and 0.667 in eICU compared to 0.764 and 0.769 internally.

Researchers derived and tested the triglyceride-glucose frailty index in 2230 MIMIC-IV adults with KDIGO-defined AKI, examining associations with ICU, in-hospital, 28-day, 90-day and 365-day mortality, identifying two consensus phenotypes, and evaluating 12 prediction algorithms with SHAP and LIME interpretation and external validation in 1831 eICU patients.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0862

68
ProblemClimate· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Sentinel-2 and CART-based operational AGB mapping in Pinus brutia produced total estimates that differed by more than 700,000 Mg across the same 13,687 ha area depending solely on which allometric reference was used, making reference selection a dominant source of uncertainty.

On 2026-08-22, a peer-reviewed study reported testing how three different allometric reference datasets affect Sentinel-2-based aboveground biomass mapping in Pinus brutia. Using 112 field plots and CART as primary model with Random Forest as robustness check, authors mapped biomass over 13,687 ha and compared totals to forest management plan data.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Aug 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0861

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 12:31 PM