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

Among Chinese fashion-design practitioners, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, especially competence, increased behavioral intention to adopt AIGC tools.

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

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

Using mitigation approaches such as diverse and representative datasets and enhanced transparency and accountability can improve fairness of AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making and medical diagnosis.

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

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

CT-based prediction, including AI approaches, provides essential information for early hematoma expansion risk stratification to support individualized management after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.

This peer-reviewed review in GeroScience appraises CT-based prediction of hematoma expansion after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, a major determinant of early deterioration. It compares contrast-enhanced signs like spot, leakage and iodine signs with non-contrast signs including blend, black hole, island, satellite, hypodensity and swirl signs, plus shape and heterogeneity, and evaluates composite scores and AI approaches including radiomics, machine learning and deep learning.

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

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0810

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

Nursing academics selectively use AI to improve academic productivity and research writing efficiency.

A scoping review published August 15, 2026 examined how nursing academics perceive and use AI in nursing education, synthesizing 15 studies from eight countries with 2004 academics. It found most believe AI will revolutionise education but actual use is selective and conservative, concentrated at the augmentation level for productivity and research writing rather than assessment or transformative pedagogy.

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

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0808

AI problems · 520

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ProblemLabor· Rising· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

People who use AI at work receive negative social evaluations about their competence and motivation, which can harm job candidate assessments.

In four preregistered experiments with 4,439 participants, researchers tested how people who use AI tools at work are perceived. They found that AI users expect to be judged negatively and that observers do rate them lower on competence and motivation, with those judgments spilling over into hiring-related assessments.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0525

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ProblemLifestyle· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Women reported higher AI anxiety and lower positive attitudes, use, and perceived knowledge of AI, indicating gender-related inequalities in accessing and using AI systems

A May 2025 peer-reviewed study surveyed 335 adults about AI anxiety, attitudes, use, and perceived knowledge. It found women reported higher anxiety and lower positive attitudes, use, and perceived knowledge than men, and that higher anxiety correlated with less positive attitudes overall.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0524

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ProblemCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Fraud-detection models trained for specific scam types often fail to generalize to new fraud types and lose effectiveness when trained on outdated data, with inconsistent performance reporting.

On June 13 2025, Crime Science published a systematic literature review of AI and NLP for online fraud detection. The authors screened 2457 records and analyzed 223 studies, mapping data sources, algorithms, and evaluation metrics across 16 fraud types and summarizing best-performing methods for detecting scams in text.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0521

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Current GDPR and AI Act definitions of automated decision-making fail to capture real-life applications where automated systems assist rather than replace human decision-makers in migration and asylum.

Published March 2024, this peer-reviewed article analyzes automated systems used in public decision-making for migration, asylum and mobility. It finds that GDPR and AI Act definitions centered on fully automated decisions miss common practices where systems assist human decision-makers, and it proposes a taxonomy to support fundamental rights analysis.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 23, 2026 · TRV-2026-0519

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 1:07 AM