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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)

Stacked ensembles combining five CNN backbones improved automated detection and size stratification of periapical lesions on cropped intraoral radiographs, reaching high accuracy and high sensitivity for very small lesions on internal testing.

Researchers built stacked deep learning ensembles to detect periapical lesions and stratify them by radiographic size on intraoral radiographs. Using 146 cropped and augmented images, five CNN backbones were combined with MLR and XGBoost meta-learners and evaluated on an internal hold-out test set.

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

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0899

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Adapted iPsRS model using 13 individual-level SDoH predictors predicted 1-year all-cause hospitalization in a general adult cohort with AUROC up to 0.671, enabling equity-aware risk stratification for clinical care.

Researchers adapted the individualized polysocial risk score, originally built for type 2 diabetes, to a disease-agnostic cohort of 17,857 adults at University of Florida Health. Using 13 individual-level social determinants of health, they trained XGBoost and logistic regression models to predict all-cause hospitalization within one year, testing multiple fine-tuning levels and sampling strategies.

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

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0897

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

Machine learning analysis of breath volatiles identified candidate markers that discriminated culture-confirmed melioidosis from other febrile illnesses with perfect AUC in a small test set and tracked culture status and treatment time during antibiotics.

By the publication date of 2026-08-25, a pilot study had collected breath samples from 17 melioidosis patients and 8 febrile controls and used two-dimensional gas chromatography mass spectrometry combined with machine learning feature selection to identify volatile signatures of infection and treatment course.

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

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0896

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

Domain-specific EfficientNet-B0 classifier and Claude Vision API with human-in-the-loop guidance automated morphological characterization of microplastics from optical microscope images, achieving high F1-scores for shape/type, color and texture.

Researchers compared a domain-specific EfficientNet-B0 multi-task deep learning classifier trained on about 700 annotated optical microscope images against a zero-shot Claude Vision API augmented with expert human-in-the-loop guidance. Both were tested on the same independent test set for predicting microplastic shape/type, color, and surface texture, with the DL model reaching F1-scores of 91.2%, 88.5% and 85.1% and the VLM improving from 72-81% to 84-89% after refinement.

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

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0894

AI problems · 631

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

LLM-based multiturn chatbots for cancer patients and caregivers lack consistent reporting on safety risks and mitigation, and lack evaluation of conversational continuity and memory.

As of July 2026, a scoping review of literature from January 2022 to January 2026 identified only eight studies describing LLM-based chatbots that support multiturn dialogue for patients with cancer and informal caregivers. Most were prototype systems using ChatGPT-based models, some with retrieval-augmented generation, designed for information provision or emotional support.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0508

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

Small and medium-sized enterprises continue to face significant challenges in effective AI adoption, with ten critical barriers across technology, organization, and environment including data access, skill shortages, cultural resistance, infrastructure limitations, and weak governance.

This peer-reviewed conceptual analysis examines why small and medium-sized enterprises struggle to adopt AI despite its transformative potential. Using the technology-organization-environment framework combined with diffusion of innovations attributes, it identifies ten critical challenges across data access, skills, culture, infrastructure, and governance, and pairs them with context-sensitive solutions.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0500

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

AI systems face major risks across lifecycle stages including reliability failures and bias, and optimizing trustworthiness forces trade-offs such as fairness versus efficiency or privacy versus transparency.

As of its July 2025 publication, this peer-reviewed review examined how trust in AI systems can be systematically measured, analyzing frameworks including the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the AI Trust Framework and Maturity Model, and ISO/IEC standards around fairness, transparency, privacy and security.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0499

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integration of AI-augmented Digital Twins into healthcare requires addressing ethical, regulatory, safety, privacy, clinical validation and scalability constraints due to sensitive nonlinear human data

This peer-reviewed review from July 2025 examines how Digital Twins that are continuously updated by real-world data, when coupled with Artificial Intelligence, are being applied to healthcare, with emphasis on movement rehabilitation over the past seven years. It reports that this combination is reshaping care by streamlining diagnostic workflows, improving disease management, and enabling experimentation and predictive modeling without direct patient risk.

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

Updated Jul 22, 2026 · TRV-2026-0498

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 8:44 PM