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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

73
GainClimate· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Respondents reported that AI can lower municipal waste management costs and improve sorting, recycling, and collection routing.

A peer-reviewed study published October 4, 2025 examined AI for municipal waste management in Industry 4.0. Based on a 2024 online survey of 78 respondents mainly from Europe with experience or interest in AI, logistics, and ecology, authors reported that 78% saw AI reducing waste management costs, 59% saw greatest benefits in sorting and recycling, and 51% saw effectiveness in optimizing collection routes.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 29, 2026 · TRV-2026-0585

73
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Federated learning allows hospitals and health systems to train shared models without centralizing patient data, supporting real-time IoT and wearable monitoring for predictive analytics and personalized care.

This peer-reviewed review from December 2024 examines federated learning as a decentralized approach for smart healthcare, where institutions collaborate on machine learning without sharing raw patient data, integrated with IoT devices, wearables, and remote monitoring for real-time predictive analytics.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0550

73
GainPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI is being applied to support development and assimilation of financial regulation under China's new supervisory structure led by the NFRA.

Published April 28, 2025, the peer-reviewed article describes China's recent overhaul of financial supervision, centered on the new National Financial Regulatory Administration covering all financial sectors except securities and expanded PBOC oversight of financial holding corporations, alongside new rules for generative AI, deep synthesis, and algorithm recommendations.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0535

73
GainBusiness· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integration of AI, big data, blockchain, VR and IoT into digital tourism platforms can improve personalized travel experiences, operational efficiency, and eco-conscious travel options.

This peer-reviewed paper from April 2025 analyzes how digital tourism platforms integrate Industry 4.0 technologies including AI, big data, blockchain, VR and IoT. It builds a five-dimension conceptual framework covering market power, AI-driven automation and workforce change, innovation and inclusion, sustainability innovations, and data security and governance, linking these to SDGs.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%90

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0531

AI problems · 631

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Algorithmic opacity and lack of interpretability frameworks tailored to resource-constrained environments have impeded clinical adoption of ML for breast cancer, contributing to diagnostic delays in settings with limited pathology capacity.

On September 11, 2026, a peer-reviewed study in PLOS Digital Health reported an explainable AI framework for breast cancer diagnosis designed for underserved settings. Using 569 fine-needle aspirate specimens from the Wisconsin dataset, the authors benchmarked eight supervised classifiers with 10-fold cross-validation and a hold-out test set, then applied SHAP analysis to surface global and individual-level feature contributions.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1071

69
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

LLM-generated answers to patient questions about robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty remained above recommended patient-education reading levels and should be regarded as supplementary rather than standalone sources of information.

A September 2026 peer-reviewed study in The Knee compared four large language models on 30 common patient questions about robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty, evaluating responses with DISCERN, QAMAI, a 5-point clinical accuracy scale, and PEMAT and Flesch-Kincaid readability measures.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1069

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Apparent superiority of ML over logistic regression for trauma mortality prediction may be inflated by convergent practices including comparing best-of-several ML models to a single LR comparator, reliance on internal validation, selective reporting, and AUC-only synthesis.

A systematic review and meta-research appraisal examined 20 studies comparing machine learning and logistic regression for trauma mortality prediction, with 17 studies (243,324 patients) in primary synthesis. The pooled within-study AUC difference favoring the best ML model was 0.026 (95% CI 0.009-0.043), 0.017 in co-primary analysis of studies reporting CIs, with extreme heterogeneity and a prediction interval crossing zero.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1068

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Deep learning models for MCI-to-AD conversion face substantial barriers to routine clinical use due to heavy reliance on ADNI, lack of diverse multicenter data, overfitting, and poor interpretability.

This PRISMA-guided systematic review examined 60 studies published between 2019 and February 2026 that used deep learning to classify Alzheimer's stages and predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. It found cross-sectional designs predominant, CNNs dominant for neuroimaging, and growing use of RNNs and transformers for longitudinal data, with multimodal approaches in 24 studies.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1067

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 7:49 PM