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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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GainEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integrating AI into educational settings enables personalized learning and support for diverse requirements including students with special needs.

A peer-reviewed discussion published February 2024 examines AI integration in education, arguing that personalized learning and support for diverse requirements including special needs students depends on developing AI literacy, prompt engineering proficiency, and critical thinking, while requiring educator training and curriculum adaptation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0573

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Evidence-enhanced modular LLM pipeline reduced variability and improved medical accuracy and consistency when generating standardized EMRs from authentic dental chairside audio, especially in complex prosthodontic cases.

On July 24, 2026, researchers reported developing and internally evaluating a modular LLM system to generate standardized EMRs from dental chairside consultations with acoustic interference and specialty heterogeneity. They compared a baseline end-to-end system to an evidence-enhanced system adding multisource evidence capture and multiversion collaboration with consensus voting, testing on 100 deidentified recordings from three specialties.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0570

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A survival-oriented machine learning framework distilled epigenomic and transcriptomic data into a 25-gene lipid-metabolic signature that stratified bladder cancer patients by risk across multiple cohorts and identified FASN and SCD as inhibitable drivers of proliferation and migration in cell models.

On July 24, 2026, a peer-reviewed study reported integration of promoter methylation and RNA sequencing data from bladder cancer tumors and adjacent normal tissue to identify epigenetically regulated genes, then used a survival-oriented machine learning framework to distill a 25-gene signature enriched for cell cycle and lipid metabolism. The signature stratified patients into high- and low-risk groups in the discovery set and 4 independent validation cohorts, and network analysis highlighted fatty acid synthase and stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase whose inhibition reduced proliferation and migration in cell line assays.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0569

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Persona-driven document-level augmentation with multiple LLM personas increased BioBERT disease NER F1 over gold-standard-only training on both RareDis and NCBI disease datasets.

Researchers tested whether large language model rephrasing controlled by persona prompts and XML tags could expand scarce expert-annotated data for disease named entity recognition. They applied the method to RareDis, a low-resource rare disease corpus, and NCBI disease, a general disease benchmark, and compared BioBERT performance with and without augmented variants.

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

Updated Jul 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0562

AI problems · 524

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ProblemCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Generative AI increases the scale and speed of Trust and Safety attacks and lowers barriers to creating sophisticated propaganda and deepfakes.

On April 13, 2026, a peer-reviewed CHI paper reported a qualitative study of 43 Trust & Safety experts across child safety, election integrity, hate and harassment, scams, and violent extremism. It found generative AI both expands attacker capabilities and offers new defensive tools for detection and mitigation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0197

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ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI adoption is associated with restructuring of work roles and widening wage gaps between AI-skilled and non-AI-skilled workers.

A peer-reviewed study published April 17, 2026 reviewed literature from 2020 to 2025 on AI in the labour market, examining changes in job roles, skill requirements, and HR practices through technological, organisational, and institutional lenses.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0196

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ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-driven automation that substitutes for routine tasks reduces demand and wages for low-skilled workers, causing absolute welfare losses for workers below a critical ability threshold and widening income inequality.

On 2026-04-02, a peer-reviewed paper presented a general equilibrium model of AI-driven automation with heterogeneous workers and irreversible skill investments. It finds automation reduces demand and wages for low-skilled workers in routine tasks while enhancing productivity where AI complements high-skilled labor, leading to higher aggregate output and total welfare but a higher skill premium and wider inequality.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0195

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Generative AI now mediating core parts of learning risks crossing into manipulation and deception and accelerating drift from educational goods to metrics, reshaping development of critical thinking and creativity.

As of May 2026, generative AI mediates core parts of learning, prompting a peer-reviewed conceptual paper to propose criteria for distinguishing legitimate pedagogical uses from manipulative and deceptive ones. It introduces three principles — moral legitimacy, developmental integrity, and value preservation — to assess influence and protect reflective judgement.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0190

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 6:24 AM