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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· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI systems enable precision nutrition by delivering real-time dietary recommendations and meal planning tailored to individual biological markers like blood glucose, and improve food production through quality control and waste minimization.

A July 2025 review in Frontiers in Nutrition surveys AI at the intersection of nutrition and food systems, detailing methods such as deep learning, federated learning, and computer vision for precision nutrition and smart manufacturing.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0496

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GainLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI adoption was found to enhance employee wellbeing indirectly by improving task optimization and safety-related work factors.

Researchers surveyed 207 Finnish and international companies headquartered in Finland and modeled how AI adoption relates to employee wellbeing. By July 2025 they reported that AI adoption did not directly affect wellbeing but had an indirect influence through task optimization and safety.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0495

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GainCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Machine learning approaches including supervised, unsupervised, deep learning and hybrid methods improve prevention and detection of healthcare fraud in large, imbalanced datasets.

Published August 25, 2025, this peer-reviewed review synthesized current machine learning methods for healthcare fraud detection, covering supervised, unsupervised, deep learning, and hybrid approaches like SMOTE-ENN, explainable AI, federated learning, and ensemble learning, and noted Medicare, LEIE, and Kaggle as common evaluation datasets.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0494

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

AI adoption in government was found to improve efficiency and service delivery through automation of routine tasks and predictive analytics.

A systematic review of 43 studies from 2020-2025 examined how artificial intelligence is transforming government decision-making, finding benefits in efficiency and data-driven service delivery alongside drawbacks including bias and transparency deficits.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0493

AI problems · 520

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ProblemLifestyle· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Among furniture artisans in South-East Nigeria, AI-facilitated superwood utilization for sustainable manufacturing was hindered by severe knowledge deficits, low substantive AI understanding, low perceived ease of use, and unreliable electricity and internet

By July 2026 researchers surveyed 196 furniture artisans and interviewed 30 practitioners across South-East Nigeria to examine AI-facilitated superwood use amid timber scarcity. They found adoption negligible, awareness low at 34.2% for superwood and 45.4% for AI with only 7.7% substantive AI understanding, and perceived ease of use low at M=2.87 for superwood and M=2.65 for AI

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0122

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ProblemClimate· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Attention-based deep-learning feature selection failed to capture N2O emission patterns under out-of-distribution high-flow conditions, and LLM-augmented selection showed lower predictive accuracy with mean R2 0.596 compared to 0.712 for attention-based.

By the publication date of 2026-07-12, researchers tested a knowledge-driven feature selection framework for data-driven wastewater modeling, comparing classic attention-based deep learning against expert-guided and LLM-augmented selection. In the reported case study of N2O emissions at a full-scale plant, expert-guided selection achieved mean R2 0.723 and MAE 0.033, slightly above the best attention model at R2 0.712, while LLM-augmented reached R2 0.596 and MAE 0.041.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0120

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ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Users completing innovation tasks with AIGC may experience alienation outcomes including cognitive fixation, degradation risk, and problem risk.

As of the July 10 2026 publication date, researchers reported a grounded theory study of 1,502 public articles and more than 120,000 words of interviews to examine how AIGC influences user innovation. They built a TCEU framework where technical factors and content factors act as external drivers and user factors act as internal drivers, with technology popularity and platform convenience as moderators.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0112

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

VGenAI content did not provide resource-constrained minor parties with competitive engagement benefits, leaving engagement asymmetries between major and minor parties intact.

During the four weeks before the 2025 German federal election, 37 parties' Facebook and Instagram accounts published nearly 1,000 VGenAI images and videos. Minor parties used VGenAI at higher rates than major parties, consistent with lower-cost access to professional visuals, while mainstream major parties disclosed AI origins more frequently than minor parties and the AfD, which used more photorealistic, citizen, criminal, and negative-tone imagery.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0109

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 2:19 AM