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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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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Use of an ambient AI scribe for 30 days was associated with reduced self-reported burnout and lower note-related cognitive load and after-hours documentation time among ambulatory clinicians.

Between February and October 2024, six US health systems enrolled 451 ambulatory clinicians in a quality improvement study of an ambient AI scribe, with 263 included in analysis after 30 days of use. Self-reported burnout fell from 51.9% to 38.8% with an odds ratio of 0.26, and secondary measures showed lower cognitive task load, more focused attention on patients, and less after-hours documentation.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0478

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

AI mental health apps and chatbots can reduce mental effort by tracking mood, sleep and exercise trends and delivering real-time coping prompts, freeing resources for adaptive coping.

The peer-reviewed article examines how AI has become an intimate presence in mental health through mood-tracking apps, emotion wearables, and therapeutic chatbots like Woebot and Wysa. It argues these systems enable cognitive offloading by aggregating biometric and self-report data and delivering CBT-based prompts, while simultaneously risking cognitive overload.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0475

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-driven multi-omics integration improves diagnostic and prognostic accuracy in precision oncology, with recent integrated classifiers reporting AUCs around 0.81-0.87 for difficult early-detection tasks.

By November 2025, this peer-reviewed review synthesized how artificial intelligence bridges the cancer multi-omics data deluge to clinical decisions, integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and radiomics using deep learning, graph neural networks, transformers, and explainable AI.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0473

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

Integrating County Health Rankings and social metrics with QCEW data in a regularized XGBoost framework improved out-of-sample prediction of state-level employment density.

Researchers developed a machine learning framework that combines economic employment data with non-traditional health and social metrics to forecast employment density at the state level. Using county-level QCEW data aggregated with County Health Rankings from 2014 to 2024 and a time-aware validation across the COVID-19 break, a tuned regularized XGBoost model reached Test R2 = 0.800, with a stacked Ridge ensemble at 0.827, and SHAP values were used for interpretability.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0470

AI problems · 520

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ProblemScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Commercial pressure to release AI tools before capabilities and flaws are fully understood has produced chatbots with easily bypassed guardrails that fail unpredictably while giving confident human-like answers

On 17 February 2026 The Guardian reported Oxford AI professor Michael Wooldridge warning that immense commercial pressure to win customers has pushed firms to release AI tools before capabilities and flaws are fully understood. He pointed to a surge in chatbots whose safety guardrails are easily bypassed as evidence that cautious testing was deprioritized, ahead of his Royal Society Faraday lecture.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0116

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ProblemClimate· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Building new gas-fired power plants to meet electricity demand from AI datacenters is forecast to cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions and lock in decades of pollution.

A new forecast from Global Energy Monitor finds 2026 is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions, with 252 gigawatts in development worldwide that would grow existing global gas capacity by nearly 50%. The US is leading the surge after tripling its planned gas-fired capacity in 2025, and about a third of the developing capacity is planned to be located on site at datacenters to serve artificial intelligence workloads.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0090

65
ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

UK creative agencies lost more than 14% of staff in 2025 as AI tools reduced or replaced agency roles, driving the biggest annual exodus since 2004 and hitting workers under 25 and entry-level hiring hardest.

In 2025 UK advertising agencies recorded their largest annual staff decline since separate reporting began in 2004, according to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Total employment fell from 26,787 to 24,963, with creative agencies falling from 14,775 to 12,659, a drop of more than 14%, led by a 19.2% fall among employees aged 25 or under.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-0705

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ProblemLabor· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Software workers face job loss as AI coding tools transform the industry, with Atlassian laying off 10% of staff

Australian software company Atlassian announced it will lay off 10% of staff, bringing the AI and jobs debate into focus. The article notes the software industry has been transformed, with developers reporting productivity changes from Anthropic's AI-powered coding tool Claude.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0075

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 12:05 AM