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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 · 787

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Machine learning models trained on TriNetX data stratified patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors into risk tiers for cardiac immune-related adverse events within 90 days, achieving moderate discrimination.

Researchers built and tested machine learning models to predict cardiac immune-related adverse events shortly after starting immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Using records for 61,117 patients from TriNetX from 2010 to 2023, they defined events by diagnosis codes within 90 days plus hospital visits and compared elastic net logistic regression, gradient boosted trees, and random forest models.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0591

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A LightGBM model trained on metabolomic data predicted incident major depressive disorder among obese participants with AUCs around 0.82-0.84 over 3 to 9 years and outperformed existing clinical models.

Researchers developed metabolomics-based machine learning models to stratify future major depressive disorder risk among 41,459 obese participants followed for a median of 14.4 years. The optimized LightGBM model achieved AUCs of 0.844, 0.824 and 0.834 for 3-, 5- and 9-year predictions and outperformed existing clinical models, with temporal validation showing AUCs of 0.738-0.776.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0590

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Advances in AI have enabled opportunistic identification of osteoporosis and other pathologies on imaging performed for other indications.

This opinion article examines the concept of clinical justification for osteoporosis imaging, noting that advances in imaging and AI now permit opportunistic identification of osteoporosis and other conditions beyond the original scan purpose, and discusses how these opportunistic tools might eventually become standalone justified diagnostic pathways.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0589

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

In a retrospective audit of 5,000 women, the LBC-NET pipeline detected HSIL+ with higher sensitivity than senior cytopathologists and reduced review time while increasing daily capacity.

Researchers audited 5,000 archived liquid-based cytology cases and compared an interpretable machine learning pipeline, LBC-NET, to a double-blind panel of senior cytopathologists for detection of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions or worse, testing robustness across age and clinical subgroups.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0588

AI problems · 631

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

Japanese university students using GenAI experience ethical anxiety and heightened awareness of power and risk that complicates agency and moral responsibility.

By July 2026, researchers had surveyed 69 Japanese university students about everyday GenAI use and analyzed responses with systematic grounded theory. They found students moved through an iterative moral trajectory from recognizing power and risk to feeling ethical anxiety, then to reflexive evaluation and conditional trust, captured in the NECoAI model.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0129

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

When AI voice and video recording is used in pediatric emergency care, the absence of clinicians, parents, and child patients from design and governance undermines legitimacy and effectiveness, with unresolved issues around consent, emotional impact, and surveillance.

A 2026 position paper examines AI systems that record voice and video during pediatric emergencies, noting they are emerging as HCI technologies with implications for clinical work and are promoted for documentation, team performance, and debriefing. The authors argue that clinicians, parents, and child patients have been largely absent from design and governance.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0128

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

STARA adoption can displace routine tasks and roles, leading to involuntary career transitions including job loss due to automation.

What happened is that by 2026-06-03 scholars observed that smart technology, AI, robotics and algorithms were changing work design, with reviews noting varied effects on performance and wellbeing and primary emphasis on displacement of routine tasks and the need to upskill and reskill workers.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0126

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

Singers who contribute singing data face significant harms from downstream non-consensual use including vocal deepfakes and voice cloning.

By July 2026, researchers examined singing data collection as AI voice synthesis advanced, analyzing three singing datasets with the Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation framework. They found data-contributors have event-centric roles with minimal authority over licensing and access, while data-collectors retain control.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0125

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 6:59 AM