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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· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

K-means clustering of eight biopsychosocial variables identified three distinct AUD profiles that predicted 3-month abstinence, with Late-Onset achieving 65.8% abstinence, supporting stratified front-loaded intervention.

In a retrospective study of 102 patients at a tertiary care center in India, researchers used k-means clustering on eight biopsychosocial baseline variables to derive three AUD profiles. By the August 2026 publication date, they reported Late-Onset, High-Functioning, and Severe groups with differing 3-month abstinence rates corroborated by GGT levels and bootstrap-assessed cluster stability.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0687

72
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A random forest model using only routine preinjury clinical data predicted posttraumatic epilepsy onset up to 10 years after TBI in veterans, achieving AUC around 0.73-0.75 and identifying 17.5% of 5-year cases at 2.3% false positive rate.

Researchers developed and validated machine learning models to predict posttraumatic epilepsy onset at 2, 5, and 10 years after first TBI documentation in 107,987 post-9/11 US veterans, using only routine preinjury clinical data up to the month of injury. An optimized random forest achieved AUCs of 0.75 to 0.73 across horizons on held-out test data and enabled high-risk stratification.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 5, 2026 · TRV-2026-0652

72
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Monthly allocation of Medicaid care-management outreach by predicted individualized treatment effect prevented substantially more ED visits or hospital admissions than risk-based allocation at the same 10% capacity.

Researchers compared two ways to allocate scarce Medicaid care-management phone outreach each month for 164,063 beneficiaries in Washington and Virginia. Using a causal forest to estimate individualized treatment effects, they found targeting the top decile by predicted effect prevented 13.3 acute events per 2000 members per month, compared with 2.5 events under conventional top-decile risk targeting.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0571

72
GainSports· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integrated AI systems in sports biomechanics reduced reinjury rates by 23% and enabled technique assessment and injury prediction with high accuracy.

By August 2025, a scoping review of 73 studies published between 2015 and 2024 examined AI in sports biomechanics, focusing on wearable technology, motion analysis, and injury prevention. It reported that convolutional neural networks reached 94% agreement with experts, computer vision was within 15 mm of marker-based systems, and integrated AI systems were associated with a 23% reduction in reinjury rates.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0492

AI problems · 520

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

Perceived risk around AIGC reduced fashion designers' feelings of autonomy, competence and relatedness, undermining psychological conditions for adoption.

Researchers examined why fashion designers adopt Artificial Intelligence Generated Content, which is described as increasingly used in creative design. Using the Stimulus-Organism-Response framework combined with Self-Determination Theory, they surveyed 318 Chinese fashion-design practitioners and analyzed 21 items with PLS-SEM to link perceived risk, social influence and facilitating conditions to autonomy, competence, relatedness and behavioral intention.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0818

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

AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains can lead to unfair outcomes that perpetuate existing inequalities and reinforce harmful stereotypes, including generative biases in synthetic media.

A peer-reviewed survey published December 26, 2023 reviewed literature on fairness and bias in AI, focusing on sources such as data, algorithm, and human decision biases and the emerging issue of generative AI bias in synthetic media across healthcare, employment, criminal justice, and credit scoring.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0813

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

Rapid growth of deep learning workloads increases energy consumption and carbon emissions, while current carbon tracking and static scheduling fail to deliver carbon awareness in real ML operations.

On 2026-08-16, a peer-reviewed paper in Discover Artificial Intelligence described rising energy use and emissions from growing deep learning workloads in contemporary data centres and presented EcoSchedAI, a carbon-aware job scheduling framework intended to bring carbon awareness into actual machine learning operational processes.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0812

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 2:38 PM