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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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GainCrime· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A bagging ensemble combining random forest and multilayer perceptron improved landscape ecological vulnerability mapping for riverbank erosion, reaching 0.97 AUC and enabling targeted land management for disaster risk reduction.

On August 15, 2026, a peer-reviewed study reported a hybrid ensemble machine learning framework for assessing landscape ecological vulnerability to riverbank erosion. Using random forest, multilayer perceptron and bagging classifiers with multicollinearity-selected environmental and geomorphological parameters, the bagging ensemble achieved 0.97 AUC and 0.91 accuracy, mapping over half the area into high or very high vulnerability zones in Bihar and West Bengal.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0807

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

A CoxBoost + survivalSVM prognostic model built from resistance-associated cluster genes achieved C-index 0.686 and stratified LUAD patients with HR 2.54-10.51, with low-risk patients showing greater immune infiltration and ARNTL2 knockdown suppressing proliferation and invasion in A549 and H1299 cells.

By August 2026, researchers had used single-cell RNA sequencing of lung adenocarcinoma patients treated with neoadjuvant immunotherapy to map resistance-associated heterogeneity, identifying a malignant Cluster 2 enriched in non-responders with upregulated KRT17, S100A2, and CST6, and built a CoxBoost combined with survivalSVM prognostic model validated across seven independent cohorts.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0806

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-enabled intervention delivery for adult cancer survivors was associated with reported improvements in clinical and psychosocial outcomes, with model performance generally moderate to high across symptom tasks.

This scoping review examined 41 empirical studies published from 2015 to March 2026 on AI for cancer symptom management in adult survivors. Twenty-one studies focused on model development using mainly unstructured electronic health record data, 18 on AI-enabled delivery using patient-reported inputs, and 2 on both, employing natural language processing, machine learning, and conversational AI for detection, monitoring, triage, decision support, personalised management, education and counselling.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0805

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

Ensemble ML with SHAP clustering achieved R2=0.913 on 2020-2023 regulatory data and identified ten recurrent environmental settings driving PM10, enabling interpretable analysis without chemical speciation.

Researchers applied an explainable AI framework to four years of routine air-quality and meteorological data from a single urban monitoring station to move beyond concentration-only analysis of PM10. The best ensemble model reached R2=0.913, and SHAP-based clustering revealed ten recurrent environmental settings linked to enhancement, reduction, or transitional PM10 behavior.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%94

Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0803

AI problems · 631

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

ChatGPT deployment raises unresolved issues across sustainability, privacy, digital divide, and ethics that the authors argue require formal SPADE evaluation

Published May 5 2024, this peer-reviewed review argues that ChatGPT and subsequent conversational bots should be assessed through a Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics (SPADE) lens. It surveys issues and concerns raised over ChatGPT in those four areas and briefly discusses the recent EU AI Act in that context.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0418

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

Generative AI may expand misinformation, distribute workplace benefits unevenly, widen the digital divide in education, and deepen pre-existing inequalities in healthcare.

Published May 31, 2024 in PNAS Nexus, this peer-reviewed overview examines how generative AI could both exacerbate and ameliorate socioeconomic inequalities across information, work, education, and healthcare. It notes potential gains like democratized content creation, productivity boosts, personalized learning, and improved diagnostics alongside risks of misinformation proliferation and unevenly distributed benefits.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0417

67
ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Current copyright regimes are ineffective at assigning ownership and authorship for music autonomously composed by non-human AI creators.

A December 2025 peer-reviewed paper in ShodhKosh examines management of AI-generated music intellectual property. It describes autonomous composition via deep-learning and neural networks, analyzes how human and AI creativity differ on intent and originality, and finds existing copyright regimes ineffective at assigning ownership and authorship to non-human creators.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0416

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

AI use in recruitment and hiring creates a heightened risk of concealing and reproducing organizational inequalities through algorithmic invisibility and growing legitimacy of AI solutions.

A December 2025 review in Human Relations examined the growing use of artificial intelligence in recruitment and hiring and its implications for organizational inequalities. Using a hybrid scoping and problematizing approach, the authors synthesized multidisciplinary literature and found asymmetries in conceptualization, a heightened potential for AI to conceal inequalities, and ongoing contestation over regulation.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0415

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