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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

71
GainScience· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

Secure federated learning allows organizations to build data networks and share knowledge without compromising user privacy.

In a January 2019 peer-reviewed survey, researchers described two persistent barriers for AI: data siloed as isolated islands and tightening privacy and security requirements. They proposed a comprehensive secure federated-learning framework that includes horizontal, vertical, and transfer variants, and surveyed existing work on definitions, architectures, and applications.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0212

71
GainScience· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

A three-track neural network that jointly processes sequence, distance, and coordinate information enables accurate prediction of protein structures and protein-protein complexes, approaching DeepMind's accuracy.

In work published August 20, 2021, researchers built on the CASP14-era DeepMind approach to protein folding. They developed RoseTTAFold, a three-track network that processes sequence, distance, and coordinate information simultaneously, achieving accuracies approaching those of DeepMind.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0211

71
GainScience· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

Deep learning models composed of multiple processing layers improved state-of-the-art performance in speech recognition, visual object recognition, object detection, drug discovery and genomics by 2015

Published in May 2015, this peer-reviewed overview describes deep learning as models with multiple processing layers that learn multi-level representations of data, trained via backpropagation to adjust parameters between layers

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0209

71
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: High (5 sources)

Random Forest survival model achieved comparable predictive accuracy to Cox regression on colon cancer mortality data, with low concordance error.

Published in 2017, this methods paper explored Random Forest as an alternative to Cox regression for survival analysis. Using 66,807 colon cancer cases from the SEER database, the authors built both a Cox model and a Random Forest model to derive mortality-associated risk factors and compared their predictive performance.

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

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0208

AI problems · 631

68
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

LLM-generated creative writing shows higher stylistic uniformity and tight clustering by model, lacking the broader heterogeneity and individual diversity seen in human-authored stories.

Researchers compared human-authored short stories with stories generated by GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Llama 70b in response to the same prompts, using Burrows' Delta and clustering methods including hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling to visualize stylistic relationships.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0883

68
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Users of AI art platforms showed limited awareness of structural issues, as cultural bias in training data and algorithmic transparency were rated lower in importance than autonomy and usability.

A mixed-methods study examined Midjourney, Runway ML and Stable Diffusion to understand how generative AI reshapes artistic subjectivity. Twelve practitioners were interviewed in spring 2025 to build a grounded-theory framework, followed by a survey of 426 users in summer 2025 evaluated with CRITIC weighting.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0882

68
ProblemScience· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

The same AI analysis consistently produced two themes based on subtle misrepresentations that could have misled evaluation results without human auditing.

In a quality improvement program evaluation, researchers used artificial intelligence to identify themes in interview data. By the publication date of 2026-08-24, the approach had produced four replicable themes grounded in the data, while also generating two consistently identified themes that were subtle misrepresentations.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0881

68
ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Existing practical approaches for implementing and evaluating transparency across the full lifecycle of AI-enabled medical devices are fragmented and lack systematic structure.

Published August 2026, this peer-reviewed synthesis addresses transparency as a foundational condition for trustworthy AI in healthcare. It finds current methods to operationalize transparency across AI-enabled medical devices are fragmented, and proposes a SaMD lifecycle framework to map regulatory and standards requirements to concrete development and governance steps.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 25, 2026 · TRV-2026-0879

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 16, 2026, 1:49 AM