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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

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI integration in radiologic practice improves triage and reduces report turnaround times while achieving diagnostic performance approaching or exceeding radiologists in chest imaging and breast cancer screening

This narrative review from June 2026 synthesized evidence on AI integration in radiology, finding that by that date AI systems had shown diagnostic performance approaching or exceeding radiologists in chest imaging and breast cancer screening and had improved triage and reduced report turnaround times in practice.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0311

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

Adopting AI tools in humanitarian operations was reported to improve health diagnostics, service quality, and analytical efficiency for multifactorial predictions in resource-limited and conflict settings.

A peer-reviewed commentary from April 2026 describes how AI tools are being adopted in the humanitarian cooperation sector to improve health diagnostics, service quality, and efficiency of analysis and data management for emergency responses in conflict areas with limited resources.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0310

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

Generative AI that generates computer-based summaries of patient details improved efficiency, reduced cognitive burden, and standardized information transfer during nurse-to-nurse handoffs from the emergency department to inpatient units.

By June 19, 2026, a team reported a project to improve handoff communication between the emergency department and inpatient units using generative artificial intelligence. The system generates computer-based summaries to convey key patient details, developed through a collaborative hackathon and rapid prototyping with frontline nurses.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0309

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

A gradient boosting classifier trained on eight routine treatment-time features improved prediction of local control after Gamma Knife radiosurgery to post-resection cavities from brain metastases, achieving ROC-AUC 0.735 compared to chance-level baseline.

Researchers retrospectively evaluated 401 post-resection cavities from brain metastases treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery at a single institution from 2014 to 2024. They trained a gradient boosting classifier on eight routine treatment-time features to predict local control, estimating performance with five-fold stratified cross-validation.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0301

AI problems · 625

55
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Routine use of AI-generated sets, lighting and imagery in typical film productions risks further visual degradation and enables plagiarism and crew displacement framed as mass layoffs.

In April 2026 coverage, Steven Soderbergh said he used generative AI for surreal dream-space images in a John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary and plans extensive AI for a Spanish-American war film, while other filmmakers including James Cameron, Doug Liman and Darren Aronofsky were described as investing in, joining boards of, or using AI for sets, lighting and web series.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0295

55
ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Writers using transformer-based generative AI face automation of stylistic mastery and loss of the sentence-by-sentence practice that historically trained writers.

Published 2 April 2026 in The Guardian, this first-person essay by Stephen Marche describes living and working with generative AI since before ChatGPT, including a 2017 Wired story, the 2023 AI-generated novel Death of an Author, and an installation at Bildmuseet Gallery in Sweden that articulates a different prayer every minute. It recounts a playground exchange where children label empty-sounding language as AI and the Hachette cancellation of Shy Girl amid AI-generation claims.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0292

55
ProblemOther· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

OpenAI put Stargate UK on hold in Britain, citing high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty, delaying planned sovereign compute datacentre capacity.

On 9 April 2026 The Guardian reported OpenAI had put on hold Stargate UK, a flagship element of a September 2025 UK-US AI deal that was presented as part of £31bn in US tech commitments. The plan involved OpenAI exploring offtake of 8,000 Nvidia chips at datacentres to be built by UK firm Nscale to provide sovereign compute for government and other UK institutions.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0291

55
ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

xAI alleges Colorado's AI law violates First Amendment protections by prohibiting disfavored AI speech and compelling developers to promote the state's views on equity and race.

On 9 April 2026, Elon Musk's xAI filed a lawsuit in US district court in Colorado seeking to block enforcement of Colorado's 2024 comprehensive AI law before its 30 June 2026 effective date. The law would impose new requirements on AI systems to protect residents from algorithmic discrimination in education, employment, healthcare, housing and financial services.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%62
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%62
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0290

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 14, 2026, 6:31 PM