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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

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

Integrating pathology foundation models and multimodal AI to connect histology, genomics, spatial biology and longitudinal monitoring enables evolution-aware prediction of lymph-node metastasis and recurrence risk in colorectal cancer.

Published August 14, 2026, this peer-reviewed synthesis argues that lymph-node metastasis prediction in colorectal cancer should move beyond static histology to clonal ecology, integrating computational pathology with evolutionary oncology and AI-enabled tracking of dominant and dormant subclones.

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

Updated Aug 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0782

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI provides supervised decision support for fracture triage, preliminary jaw and tooth segmentation, planning preparation, and postoperative measurement in occlusion-oriented maxillofacial fracture reconstruction.

This narrative review from August 2026 summarizes AI applications across occlusion-oriented digital reconstruction of maxillofacial fractures, where treatment must address stable occlusion, mandibular movement, temporomandibular joint position, facial contour, and fixation as interdependent targets. It evaluates tasks from CT/CBCT screening and segmentation to model repair, shape completion, planning assistance, and postoperative deviation analysis.

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

Updated Aug 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0781

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A random forest model using nine routine blood-based predictors can screen for erectile dysfunction risk with high external validation performance, enabling early non-invasive detection during health check-ups.

Researchers developed and validated a machine learning model to predict erectile dysfunction risk from routine blood test data, using 4116 NHANES participants for training and internal validation and 489 NPTR-confirmed patients for independent external validation. The random forest model achieved the best results in external validation.

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

Updated Aug 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0778

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Deep learning models applied to standard ECGs can accurately identify arrhythmias, ventricular dysfunction, and congenital heart disease in pediatric populations, supporting earlier detection and risk stratification.

This review from August 2026 summarizes how artificial intelligence applied to standard electrocardiograms has been tested in pediatric and congenital heart disease. It reports that deep learning models have been shown to identify arrhythmias, ventricular dysfunction, and CHD, and are being extended to predict future risk and to analyze wearable and telemetry data.

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

Updated Aug 15, 2026 · TRV-2026-0774

AI problems · 631

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

Writers who used LLM-generated story ideas produced short stories that were more similar to each other, reducing collective diversity and producing a narrower scope of novel content.

In an online experiment reported July 12 2024, researchers gave some writers LLM-generated story ideas and had independent evaluators rate the resulting short stories. By that date they observed that access to AI ideas caused higher ratings for creativity, writing quality, and enjoyment, especially for less creative writers.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0386

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

Deployment of AI systems leaves individuals increasingly unable to understand or seek accountability for resulting harms, eroding the human rights framework's core function of empowering individuals against power disparities

Published 2024-08-19, this peer-reviewed article argues that AI's impact on human rights extends beyond discrete violations to a deeper attritional degradation. Using the concept of slow violence, it contends individuals lose capacity to comprehend and contest AI-driven harms, discrete rights lose their normative justifications, and even broad notions of human dignity fail to capture new challenges

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0382

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Complexity and volume of wearable sensor data create substantial modeling challenges, with additional barriers of data quality, computational requirements, interpretability, and privacy concerns for LLM deployment.

As of August 4, 2024, this peer-reviewed survey in Sensors reviewed early trends in using large language models such as GPT-4 and Llama to model vast wearable sensor data for human activity recognition, health monitoring, and behavioral modeling, integrating them with time series and deep learning methods.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0381

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI-integrated microfluidic technologies face persistent challenges in manufacturing, clinical validation, and system integration that limit translation into routine clinical and public health practice.

A February 2026 review in Biosensors summarizes how lab-on-a-chip systems have been advanced through 3D printing, modular substrates, and biosensor integration, and how coupling with AI and machine learning has created smart platforms for cancer diagnostics, infectious disease detection, point-of-care testing, and therapeutic monitoring.

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

Updated Jul 20, 2026 · TRV-2026-0380

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 2:29 PM