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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
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models show utility across well-being and clinical conditions and can positively impact mental health care when deployed as tools to augment and extend care.

As of May 2025, this review in World Psychiatry examined how smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models are being applied to mental health, evaluating evidence across well-being, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, eating disorders and substance use, and outlining advances in digital phenotyping and generative outputs.

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

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0523

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

DynStabNet E(3)-equivariant graph neural network predicts dynamical stability of semiconductor crystal candidates without explicit phonon calculations at inference, achieving 97% accuracy and cutting per-structure evaluation from hours to ~1 ms to accelerate large-scale screening.

Researchers developed DynStabNet, an E(3)-equivariant graph neural network that learns to predict whether crystal structures are dynamically stable from phonon-informed training data, avoiding explicit phonon calculations at inference. As of the July 2026 publication, the model was reported to reach 97% accuracy while reducing evaluation time per structure from several hours to about 1 ms.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0510

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

SVM-based model using 18 features across four dimensions predicted injury risk in 800 university football players with 95.6% accuracy and 99.2% ROC-AUC, with SHAP identifying stress, sleep and balance as top factors.

Researchers built an 18-feature model across basic information, training, fitness and lifestyle dimensions for 800 Chinese university football players from a Kaggle dataset, comparing 10 algorithms and finding SVM best at 95.6% accuracy with SHAP highlighting stress, sleep and balance as key predictors.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0476

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

AIPatient simulated patient system using six LLM agents and a knowledge graph built from MIMIC-III achieved 94.15% EHR-based QA accuracy and accessible readability, with medical students rating it high fidelity and matching or exceeding human-simulated patients for history-taking.

On 2025-12-19, a peer-reviewed study in Communications Medicine described AIPatient, a simulated patient system powered by six LLM-based agents and a knowledge graph derived from MIMIC-III. Testing reported 94.15% accuracy on EHR-based medical QA, high validity, accessible readability scores, and stable performance across robustness tests, with a medical student user study finding high fidelity and educational value.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%89

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0427

AI problems · 631

69
ProblemBusiness· Stable· Evidence: High (2 sources)

AI companies have been able to use Australian books, music, art and news to build and train models without artist control or compensation, while communities face impacts from large energy-intensive datacentres competing for land, power and water.

On 15 July 2026, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a new office of AI and said Australia will legislate the strongest possible protection for creatives against unlicensed use of their work to train AI models, while also imposing strict new rules on large energy-intensive datacentres.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0227

69
ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: High (2 sources)

Predict+ was recalled because the AI-enabled clinical decision support tool for shoulder replacement outcomes lacked required pre-market clearance/approval.

On 2026-02-05, Blue Ortho initiated a recall of Predict+, an AI-enabled clinical decision support tool that uses machine learning to predict outcomes after shoulder replacement surgery, because the device lacked pre-market clearance/approval.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%100
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 12, 2026 · TRV-2026-0044

68
ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Digital devices, social media and AI tools influence brain function and cognitive abilities, with potential negative impacts on attention, memory and related functions.

A Frontiers in Cognition review published in November 2023 surveyed how digital devices, social media platforms, and AI tools affect human cognition. It described these technologies as integral to daily life, bringing convenience and efficiency, while also examining their positive and negative influences on attention, memory, addiction, perception, decision-making, critical thinking and learning across different age groups.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1055

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

Models were validated only at sample level without patient or centre grouping, and exploratory risk strata were not evaluated for clinical utility or safety, so they do not establish symptomatic UTI or safe antibiotic decisions.

Researchers developed and internally validated machine-learning models to estimate the probability of urine-culture positivity using routinely collected urinalysis data from 2530 sample records across three university hospitals. Using a stratified 75:25 sample-level split, 13 supervised algorithms were tested, with CatBoost showing the highest test-set AUC of 0.858 (95% CI 0.829-0.892) and similar performance to other gradient-boosting models.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1053

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 7:53 PM