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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 · 787

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Survey-weighted Explainable Boosting Machine achieved strong temporal stability for severe tooth loss prediction on US BRFSS cohorts, supporting transparent population-level risk stratification.

Researchers developed a TRIPOD+AI-compliant, survey-weighted MICE-EBM framework to predict severe tooth loss defined as six or more missing teeth using US representative data. The model was derived on BRFSS 2022 with 433,772 adults, temporally validated on BRFSS 2024 with 448,213 adults, and tested for cross-survey generalizability on NHANES 2015-2018 with 10,775 adults.

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

Updated Jul 31, 2026 · TRV-2026-0597

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A two-stage CNN pipeline using Faster R-CNN with EfficientNet-B7 detected dental implants on panoramic radiographs and classified brand and prosthetic platform size with high accuracy, supporting faster and more standardized clinical workflows when records are missing.

Researchers developed and validated a two-stage convolutional neural network pipeline to detect dental implants on panoramic radiographs and classify them by brand and prosthetic platform size. Using 387 radiographs with 1004 implants, the Faster R-CNN with EfficientNet-B7 backbone achieved 99.45% detection accuracy and 85.60% combined brand-and-platform accuracy across 25 partitions.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0595

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A machine learning-derived methionine metabolism-related risk score stratified colorectal cancer patients into high- and low-risk groups with significantly different overall survival in training and external validation cohorts.

By July 28, 2026, researchers reported a systematic machine learning analysis of methionine metabolism in colorectal cancer, using TCGA-COAD for training and two GEO cohorts for external validation. Unsupervised clustering defined metabolism-high and metabolism-low subtypes, and a StepCox plus plsRcox model termed MMRS was built from 41 subtype-associated prognostic genes to stratify patients by risk.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0593

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Deep learning models using orbital MRI predicted continuous clinical activity score with low error and inferred patient characteristics including age, sex, and smoking status.

Researchers developed and evaluated ResNet-50 models on the TOM500 orbital MRI dataset to predict continuous clinical activity score and patient characteristics in thyroid eye disease, training on 360 cases, validating on 100, and testing on 40.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0592

AI problems · 631

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In India, creators and users face unresolved copyright risk because the 1957 Act does not define ownership of AI-generated works or the legality of training on copyrighted data.

By June 2026, generative models such as GPT-4, Stable Diffusion and Mid journey were described as capable of producing entire works independently, while India's Copyright Act of 1957 remained drafted for human creators and relatively silent on such output.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0144

67
ProblemSports· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Current AI studies for sport-related concussion are frequently constrained by small or imbalanced samples, inconsistent definitions, limited external validation, and poor model interpretability.

By December 2025, a scoping review of six databases identified 55 studies of artificial intelligence across the concussion care pathway, from detection and diagnosis using EEG, speech and motor data to monitoring with wearables, mouthguards and video, plus prognosis and prevention modeling.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0141

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ProblemCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI systems exhibit a persistent black box problem that blocks trust and adoption in high-stakes domains including healthcare, finance, and criminal justice, while dark AI uses like deepfakes and AI-powered cyberattacks create governance risks.

By July 2026, this systematic review synthesized 141 studies to map seven emerging paradigms beyond generative AI, including Emotional and Empathetic AI, Social AI, Agentic AI, Multimodal AI, Explainable AI, and Responsible AI, documenting a shift from purely technical research to socio-technical integration.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0133

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Generative deepfake systems produce reputational, identity-based and corporate harms through chains of developers, prompting users, platforms and distributors that ordinary Saudi and Jordanian tort doctrine struggles to remedy.

As of its July 2, 2026 publication, this peer-reviewed article analyzes how deepfake and synthetic-media harms are produced through combined conduct of generative-model developers, prompting users, platforms and secondary distributors, and argues ordinary tort doctrine does not easily resolve the resulting civil-liability problem in Saudi and Jordanian law.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0132

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 7:00 AM