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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

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

Professional deepfake developers' ethical values can inform governance measures that directly address developers and providers to curb dangers of synthetic media.

Published September 2024, this peer-reviewed study interviewed ten academic and commercial deepfake developers and ethics representatives to understand what values guide professional development of synthetic audio-visual media and how incentives shape their sense of agency.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0364

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

The EU AI Act creates a legally binding framework that aims to protect individuals against AI harms while reforming health technology policies in a top AI deployment sector.

In August 2024 the EU Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force as a legally binding framework governing AI development and use across the EU. The peer-reviewed overview published September 7, 2024 explains that healthcare is a top deployment sector and that the Act will significantly reform national policies and practices on health technology by imposing new obligations on tech developers, healthcare professionals, and public health authorities.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0359

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

Generative AI tools can enhance teaching and learning practices including learning design, regulation of learning, and automated feedback and assessment.

On September 2, 2024, a peer-reviewed commentary in Behaviour & Information Technology brought together nine experts to assess generative AI and large language models in education. The authors noted capabilities to enhance learning design, regulation of learning, and automated content, feedback, and assessment, while also flagging limitations, disruptions, ethical consequences, and misuses.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0358

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

AI-driven decision-making systems in the public sector can deliver improved efficiency and reliability for institutional decision-making processes.

This peer-reviewed paper from October 2024 examines why AI-driven decision-making systems becoming instrumental in the public sector often fail to translate predictive accuracy into better decisions, analyzing five challenges including distribution shifts, label bias, past decisions shaping data, competing objectives, and human-in-the-loop effects.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0354

AI problems · 625

56
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Music platform Deezer is flooded with synthetic music, with AI-generated songs comprising over half of daily uploads at about 90,000 tracks per day.

On July 25, 2026, TechBullion reported that more than half of tracks uploaded to Deezer each day are AI-generated, amounting to roughly 90,000 songs daily, making detection of synthetic tracks a practical requirement for music industry workers.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0567

56
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Using AI in film restoration risks cutting a generation from learning craft and severing the historical lineage of the medium.

During a Comic-Con panel about Pan's Labyrinth returning to theaters, Guillermo del Toro said the remaster and 3D re-release used no AI, stating 'absolutely no goddamn AI' was involved and that every element was done by hand with human depth decisions.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0566

56
ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI generated inaccurate summaries, prompting a German court to hold Google liable and the media regulator to require compliance with media laws as proprietary content

On July 14 2026, Germany's media regulator ruled that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI must comply with the country's media laws, after a court held Google accountable for inaccuracies in AI-produced content and defined AI summaries as proprietary material.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0560

56
ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-generated search overviews produced inaccurate information that led to a German court finding Google liable and prompted regulators to apply German media law to AI search features.

On July 14, 2026, Germany's media regulator said Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are subject to German media laws. The announcement followed a German court ruling that held Google liable for inaccurate information generated by its AI Overviews feature.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0559

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 14, 2026, 8:42 PM