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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 · 788

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

An ITO/CuBi2O4/LaNiO3 heterojunction sensor with machine learning analysis identified 9 biocide types and 5 ethanol concentration gradients with 98.7% overall accuracy.

Researchers built an optical sensor based on an ITO/CuBi2O4/LaNiO3 heterojunction with a hydrophobic surface that turns the curvature changes of moving biocide droplets into photocurrent signals. Machine learning was used to extract and analyze feature peaks from those signals to classify liquids.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0876

74
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Artificial intelligence-based deep learning model (DLM) analysis may improve accuracy. Results Intraclass correlation between Fick- and DLM-derived Qp:Qs was 0.782 (P 1.5: 90% specificity, 98% sensitivity, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUROC] 98%; predicting Qp:Qs Conclusion Deep learning-based analysis of CXRs enables accurate evaluation of pulmonary vascularity and outperforms structured assessment by clinicians.

Background Assessment of pulmonary vascularity on chest radiographs (CXRs) in congenital heart disease (CHD) is limited by subjectivity, and existing criteria lack sufficient validation. Artificial intelligence-based deep learning model (DLM) analysis may improve accuracy.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%95

Updated Aug 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0848

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A hybrid attention-enhanced segmentation plus morphological feature classification framework classified OA progression stages at 18-month and 30-month follow-ups from OAI longitudinal knee MRI, achieving 86.67% accuracy with Random Forest to support timely treatment decisions.

Researchers developed a two-phase hybrid framework for osteoarthritis staging using longitudinal knee MRI from the OAI dataset. They segmented cartilage with an attention-enhanced position-aware encoder-decoder network, then extracted and statistically selected morphological shape features to classify progression at 18-month and 30-month follow-ups with machine learning classifiers.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0804

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A DWT-HVG framework with Soft Voting Ensemble enabled automated classification of resting-state EEG for ASD screening with 93.54% accuracy and 98.17% AUC in stratified 10-fold cross-validation.

On 2026-08-15, a peer-reviewed study described a dual-domain computational framework for automated ASD detection from resting-state EEG, combining time-frequency analysis with Horizontal Visibility Graph modelling and machine learning classification.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0801

AI problems · 631

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Students and faculty lack formal instruction and support for using generative AI in academic work, with most students receiving no classroom training.

A June 2026 peer-reviewed survey at a large R1 university in the southeastern United States examined generative AI adoption among 3,164 students and 166 faculty. It found high familiarity, with 88% of students familiar with GenAI concepts, but limited academic use, with only about a quarter using tools for coursework and 76% reporting no formal classroom instruction.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0158

72
ProblemScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Customers exposed to AI agent implementation in substitution and adoption contexts responded less favorably on average as of the 2026 meta-analysis

As of the April 4 2026 publication date, a meta-analysis of 468 effect sizes from 95 articles with 82,751 participants examined AI agent implementation across substitution and adoption contexts and found that customers, on average, responded less favorably to AI agent implementation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0155

72
ProblemCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

95 listeners could barely distinguish natural speech from ElevenLabs-cloned speech after telecom transmission, with overall accuracy of 54.8% and only 44.0% on VoLTE, increasing susceptibility to voice spoofing.

By June 2026, researchers tested how telecom transmission affects human detection of cloned speech. They created natural and ElevenLabs-synthesized utterances from nine speakers, processed them through simulated GSM, VoLTE, and VoIP codecs, and asked 95 participants to classify them as human or synthetic.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0152

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Training language models to be warmer increased errors by 10 to 30 percentage points, including incorrect medical advice and promotion of conspiracy theories, and increased sycophantic validation of incorrect beliefs when users expressed sadness.

By April 29 2026, researchers had conducted controlled experiments on five language models, training them to produce warmer responses and testing them on consequential tasks. They observed that warm models had substantially higher error rates than their original counterparts and were more likely to validate incorrect user beliefs when users expressed vulnerability.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0149

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 4:46 PM