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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 · 658

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GainPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

State regulators and courts retain discretion to regulate platform design and engineering decisions as content-agnostic conduct not categorically immunized by Section 230 or the First Amendment.

Published July 6 2026, this law review article argues that Section 230 and the First Amendment do not categorically immunize digital platforms for harms caused by their own design choices. It proposes a typology separating direct primary harms from design decisions from secondary harms from user content and tertiary harms, focusing on personal-data-driven algorithmic targeting and dark patterns like infinite scrolling.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0695

68
GainMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI autonomy feasibility increases when defined cognitive rules combine with novel rule creation, supporting a predominantly hybrid human-AI configuration across creative tasks.

Researchers analyzed 593 tasks across 126 occupations in the cultural and creative industries using GPT-4 generated synthetic annotations of Australian Skills Classification descriptions. They measured cognitive and behavioural rules and estimated AI autonomy feasibility and efficiency potential to map where human, AI, or hybrid carriers fit.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0693

68
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A CatBoost model trained on 1,858 non-dialysis CKD patients predicted 5-year all-cause mortality with AUC 0.813, outperforming logistic regression, and a simplified 5-feature version maintained AUC 0.795 in external validation.

Researchers developed and validated an interpretable machine learning model to predict 5-year all-cause mortality in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease using data from 1,858 patients in the KNOW-CKD prospective cohort, with 94 deaths observed. The CatBoost model achieved AUC 0.813 versus 0.747 for logistic regression, and a simplified version using age, eGFR, albumin, urine protein-to-creatinine ratio, and total calcium retained AUC 0.795 in an external cohort of 348 patients.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0688

68
GainPolicy· Rising· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-augmented implementation could help execute Medicaid work requirement processes and facilitate enrollment among eligible individuals, limiting unintended coverage loss.

On August 7, 2026, JAMA Health Forum published a Special Communication proposing that artificial intelligence tools could support implementation of health care policies, using Medicaid work requirements under the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025 as an example. The authors describe AI executing processes like generating eligibility screening tools, reviewing documentation, and linking data for compliance indicators, plus identifying at-risk individuals and monitoring implementation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0685

AI problems · 524

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI integration in drug discovery still limited by data quality and bias, lack of transparency and interpretability, high computational demands, and privacy and fairness risks.

Published December 12, 2025 as a peer-reviewed review, the article synthesizes how AI and bioinformatics are being applied across pharmaceutical R&D, from target identification to clinical use. It highlights advances in deep learning, graph networks, transformers, foundation models, and tools like AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, and AlphaFold3, reporting observed capabilities such as large-scale structure prediction and workflow compression from five years to 12-18 months.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0414

68
ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Use of the AI system for traffic violation appeals impacts decisions made by legal experts and creates tensions between street-level bureaucrats, screen-level bureaucrats and street-level algorithms.

Researchers conducted action research on the development and deployment of an AI system to process traffic violation appeals at a Dutch court, using interviews, observations, documents and a user-experiment to compare decisions made by, with and without the system.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0413

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

ChatGPT responses contained incorrect information in more than one instance and were written at a college graduate reading level, requiring caution for patient education.

In a study published June 22, 2024, two hip preservation surgeons graded ChatGPT 3.5 answers to ten common hip arthroscopy questions drawn from patient education sites, using an A-to-D scale and readability scores FRES and FKGL.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0412

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Applying conventional Western-rooted AI tools to Mijikenda musical heritage risks perpetuating digital colonialism through decontextualisation of sacred practices, infringement of data sovereignty, and cultural appropriation.

This peer-reviewed paper examines ethical implications of applying artificial intelligence to Indigenous musical heritage of the Mijikenda communities on Kenya's coast. It finds a divergence between AI's extractive logic and holistic Indigenous Knowledge Systems, with risks of decontextualising sacred practices and infringing data sovereignty.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0409

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 8:56 AM