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

Text-to-image generators are being adopted as creative tools that enable increased human and non-human collaboration within the digital art ecosystem.

A systematic literature review published August 27, 2025 analyzed 38 publications on generative AI in digital art, documenting how text-to-image models that produce high-quality art in seconds are reshaping the ecosystem and prompting responses from artists, consumers, galleries, and policymakers.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0491

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integration of AI in healthcare offers opportunities for enhanced decision-making in clinical practice.

As of August 2025, this peer-reviewed mixed-method review synthesized existing literature on AI in healthcare, finding that AI-driven decision support systems reshape clinical practice by offering enhanced decision-making while simultaneously being linked to deskilling and upskilling inhibition among medical professionals.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0490

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-driven meal planning combined with CGMs and mobile health apps enables dynamic dietary adjustments and improved monitoring that can enhance metabolic well-being for people managing diabetes and obesity.

By September 2025, a peer-reviewed review in Food Science & Nutrition described an emerging model that combines continuous glucose monitors, AI-driven meal planning, and mobile health apps to tailor nutrition for diabetes and obesity based on genetic, epigenetic, microbiome, and real-time metabolic data.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0488

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GainScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Large Reasoning Models generate detailed thinking traces before answering and demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, with advantage over standard LLMs on medium-complexity controllable puzzles.

Published September 23, 2025, this peer-reviewed study systematically tested frontier Large Reasoning Models that generate detailed thinking processes before answering. Using controllable puzzle environments to vary compositional complexity, the authors analyzed final accuracy and internal reasoning traces and compared LRMs to standard LLMs under equivalent inference compute.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0487

AI problems · 520

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

By 2027-01-01, recent suicides and other serious harms were allegedly linked to companion AI chatbot use.

As of the 2027-01-01 publication date, companion AI chatbots were described as increasingly used to provide friendship, emotional support, and quasi-romantic relationships. The article notes reported benefits for loneliness and mental health, alongside recent suicides and other serious harms allegedly linked to such systems, and states it interrogates gaps in existing ethical and legal frameworks through four lenses including anthropomorphism.

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

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0054

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

AI datacenter boom is driving a surge in US gas-fired power development that risks locking in decades of pollution and raising power-sector emissions.

In the first half of 2026 the US overtook China in new gas-fired power construction, driven largely by proposals for AI datacenters. According to Global Energy Monitor, US projects under construction jumped 76%, putting the US at twice China's level, with total gas capacity in development rising to 378GW.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0884

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

AI models pilfer and profit from News Corp journalism, flooding users with low-quality AI slop without compensation.

News Corp reported full-year results on Thursday showing a small decline in Australian digital subscriptions to 1,162,000, alongside mixed advertising and costs for the new California Post. Chief executive Robert Thomson used the results to criticize AI models for using the company's journalism without adequate payment.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-0707

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 1:06 AM