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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 · 779

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

AI-driven real-time contamination detection, automated defect detection, and resource-efficient agriculture techniques improved food safety, quality consistency, and security by reducing public health risks and optimizing shelf-life and supply chains.

A comprehensive review published January 11, 2025 synthesized literature from 1990 to 2024 on AI in food systems, finding that machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and NLP are used for real-time contamination detection, predictive risk modeling, compliance monitoring, defect detection, shelf-life prediction, yield forecasting, and supply chain optimization, often integrated with processing techniques like high-pressure processing, UV treatment, pulsed electric fields, cold plasma, and irradiation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0547

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

Generative AI can improve higher education by enabling personalised learning and innovative assessments that enhance engagement and efficiency.

Published January 9 2025 in the British Journal of Biomedical Science, this peer-reviewed review examines how generative AI is being integrated into higher education, noting opportunities for personalised learning and innovative assessment alongside challenges to integrity and equity.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0546

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

AI integration in healthcare is enhancing medical professionals' diagnostic capabilities, enabling more individualized treatment plans, and improving operational effectiveness and patient involvement through applications like remote monitoring and predictive analytics.

This peer-reviewed review from January 2025 examined how AI technologies including robotics, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing are being applied in healthcare. Drawing on Web of Science literature from 2014-2024 and case studies such as Google Health and IBM Watson Health, it reported growth in publications and use in patient interaction, predictive analytics, and remote monitoring.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0544

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

AI models are improving forecasting and analysis of extreme climate events such as floods, droughts, wildfires and heatwaves, helping to enhance disaster response and risk communication.

Published February 24, 2025, this Nature Communications review examines how artificial intelligence is used to model and understand extreme weather and climate events including floods, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves. It reports that AI has improved weather forecasting, model emulation, parameter estimation, and prediction of extremes, while also discussing methods to identify and explain events more effectively.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0543

AI problems · 625

66
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-powered search engines and models are delivering answers directly to users through zero-click searches, reducing traffic to news sites and disrupting publisher revenue models in Australia.

On 24 February 2026, Nine Entertainment CEO Matt Stanton used the company's half-year results to urge Prime Minister Albanese to prioritize the news bargaining incentive, a policy that would impose a charge on qualifying tech firms including Meta, Google and ByteDance unless they strike payment deals with local publishers. The push comes as many deals under the original voluntary code have expired and as AI-driven zero-click searches grow.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-0704

66
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI slop tracks qualifying for global music charts, leading a coalition including the three majors to call for policies to disqualify them.

On July 29, 2026, The Hollywood Reporter reported that a coalition of labels including the three majors is calling for global music charts to adopt policies that would disqualify AI slop tracks from chart eligibility.

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

Updated Jul 30, 2026 · TRV-2026-0587

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%93

Updated Aug 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-0705

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

An AI-generated video published by the White House falsely depicted US hockey player Brady Tkachuk insulting Canadians, amassing over 10 million views and forcing him to publicly disavow it.

On 26 February 2026, reporting described a White House TikTok post after the US men's ice hockey gold-medal win over Canada that used an AI-generated video to show Brady Tkachuk insulting Canadians. The clip, labelled as AI-generated and viewed more than 10 million times, contained fabricated remarks Tkachuk said he never made.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0318

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 5:24 AM