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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Window Peak Enrollment | 16,160 | ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06462989) | Historical highest value for the specific June-July window. |
| 2025 Window Peak Enrollment | 8,648 | ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07023510) | Recent high-water mark for a qualifying AI diagnostic trial. |
| AI in Clinical Trials Market | $13.08B | Industry Projection (2026) | Indicates increasing funding and volume of AI-integrated trials. |
| Typical Phase III Enrollment | 1,000 - 3,000 | Wikipedia/General Research | Baseline for ‘standard’ large-scale interventional studies. |
| Massive Bio Study Count | 3,804 | News Report (April 2026) | Example of a large-scale prospective evaluation of AI matching. |
Historical data for the specific June 4–July 4 registration window provides the strongest basis for this forecast. In 2024, the highest planned enrollment for a qualifying AI study was 16,160 participants (NCT06462989), which focused on AI-guided diagnostics for structural heart disease. In 2025, the peak for the same window was lower at 8,648 participants for the VALVE-AI trial (NCT07023510), an interventional study on AI-ECG driven echocardiography. Beyond these peaks, a significant number of AI trials are smaller pilot studies; for instance, many LLM-focused registrations in early 2025 reported enrollments of fewer than 50 participants. This reveals a pattern where ‘Diagnostic/Screening’ studies drive the maximum values, while ‘Therapeutic’ or ‘Decision-Support’ AI studies occupy the lower enrollment tiers. Generally, Phase III interventional trials across all of ClinicalTrials.gov typically range from 1,000 to 3,000 participants, making any study above 5,000 a notable large-scale event.
My analysis focuses on the ‘maximum’ order statistic—the single highest enrollment value across all qualifying trials in a specific one-month window. This value is inherently volatile and right-skewed. The historical data from 2024 and 2025 provides two critical data points: 16,160 and 8,648. These represent the ‘ceiling’ of AI-interventional registrations during this seasonal window.
I have weighted the forecast toward a value of 6,500, with a 50% HDI of 3,100 to 8,500. This reflects a ‘mean reversion’ from the 2024 outlier (16,160) while acknowledging that the 2025 peak (8,648) represents a more sustainable high-end for large-scale AI validation studies. My reasoning is split into three primary scenarios:
The ‘Moderate High’ Scenario (Most Likely): A large-scale multicenter diagnostic or screening trial registers, similar to VALVE-AI. These studies typically aim for enrollment between 5,000 and 9,000 to achieve statistical power for diagnostic sensitivity/specificity. This scenario anchors the bulk of the probability mass.
The ‘Outlier High’ Scenario: A repeat of a massive structural heart disease or global health screening trial occurs. These can push past 15,000 participants but are rare. I have assigned enough weight to the upper tail (up to 11,300 for the 80% HDI) to account for this, but I do not treat the 16,160 figure as the most probable outcome for a single month.
The ‘Low Maximum’ Scenario: In this case, no major diagnostic trials register during the June 4–July 4 window. Instead, the highest value might come from a large Phase III therapeutic trial or a pragmatic workflow study, which typically cap around 1,000 to 3,000 participants.
I have given less weight to LLM and Generative AI studies as drivers of the maximum value. Although these terms are trending, the evidence shows they are currently utilized in smaller pilot evaluations (often <500 participants). Therefore, the ‘winner’ of this enrollment count will almost certainly be an AI-driven imaging or diagnostic tool rather than a generative assistant. The mechanical exclusion of values over 1,000,000 prevents data entry errors from skewing the result but does not impact the realistic upper bound of 20,000–30,000 for legitimate trials.
Question: what will be the maximum enrollment among interventional ClinicalTrials.gov records first posted 2026-06-04 through 2026-07-04 whose Brief Summary literally contains one of the specified AI phrases? Resolution depends on the July 11 API v2 snapshot and careful client-side filtering (INTERVENTIONAL, StudyFirstPostDate in the window, exact case-insensitive substring matches for phrases like “artificial intelligence” / “large language model” / “generative AI” / “machine learning” / “deep learning”, and excluding single enrollments >1,000,000). Forecasters agree the distribution is heavy-tailed: most qualifying trials are small-to-mid-size (tens to a few thousand participants), but a single consumer-scale, EHR/pragmatic, population-health, cluster-randomized, or systemwide study can produce a multi-thousand or even 30k–40k outlier (notably NCT07552311 ~40,000 and historical NCT04005001 ~37,986). Quantitatively, teams place central mass in the low-thousands (medians around ~3–5k and most probability below ~5k) while assigning meaningful open-upper-tail weight (roughly ~12–17%) to a rare very large study above the supplied upper grid. Key practical caution: use the /api/v2/studies endpoint, paginate, check dataTimestamp/version, and perform literal Brief Summary substring checks locally because semantic keyword searches will overstate qualifying maxima. Overall, the main uncertainty is set composition (presence/absence of a single large pragmatic/digital registration) rather than steady time-series trend.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
We are forecasting an extreme value: the single largest “Enrollment” among studies that (i) are INTERVENTIONAL per API, (ii) are first-posted in a 31-day window (2026-06-04 to 2026-07-04), and (iii) have one of a small set of exact AI phrases as a literal substring in Brief Summary. The key uncertainties are (a) how many studies qualify under the strict Brief Summary substring rule (likely on the order of tens, not hundreds), and (b) whether the window happens to include a rare very-large pragmatic/cluster/digital-workflow trial (which can push enrollments into the >10,000 range and sometimes beyond the platform’s 16,100 upper bound).
Across the four analyst forecasts, the median of the maximum is consistently around 5,000–6,200, with a wide right tail. Forecasters 3 and 4 explicitly account for strict keyword matching reducing the sample size (lowering the typical maximum), while forecasters 1/4 emphasize the heavy tail (raising the chance of a >16,100 outcome). I synthesize these by centering the median near 5,800, keeping a non-trivial open-below probability (if the month’s qualifying set is small and all trials are modest), and assigning roughly ~10–15% probability to the open-above tail (a large pragmatic/implementation trial appears in-window).
An amateur forecast often anchors on a “typical” AI trial enrollment (hundreds) or anchors tightly to the provided [1,900, 16,100] range, missing that the question asks for the maximum over all qualifying registrations in a month and that enrollment is heavy-tailed. My forecast instead (i) models this as an extreme-value problem over an uncertain number of qualifying studies under strict substring criteria, and (ii) explicitly represents both open-below mass (sparse/small month) and open-above mass (rare very large pragmatic trial). Confidence is moderate: the result can be determined by a single unusual registration in the window.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — Across the forecasts, the dominant reasoning is that the outcome is the monthly maximum enrollment among a fairly large set of newly registered AI-mentioning interventional studies, so the key driver is not the typical study size but the right tail of the enrollment distribution.
The collective view is that the highest planned enrollment among qualifying AI-related interventional studies is most likely to be around 7,000 participants, with substantial uncertainty but a strong expectation that the result will be driven by an occasional large outlier rather than the typical study size.
— Iteration 2 — Across the forecasts, the main logic is highly consistent:
The target is driven by the upper tail, not the average study. The highest planned enrollment in a one-month set of AI-related interventional registrations is expected to come from a single standout trial, so the key issue is the chance of one unusually large study appearing in the window.
Most qualifying studies are assumed to be small or moderate. The models generally expect a few dozen relevant registrations, with most having relatively modest enrollments. That makes the maximum sensitive to whether just one trial is much larger than the rest.
The distribution is treated as heavy-tailed. All the rationales emphasize that clinical trial enrollments are not tightly clustered: while many AI trials may be pilots or mid-sized studies, a pragmatic RCT, cluster trial, screening intervention, or multi-site health-system study could push the maximum into the low thousands or low tens of thousands.
There is strong agreement around a central range. The forecasts cluster near 5,000–6,000 participants as a plausible center for the maximum, while also using the provided guidance that the likely range sits roughly above 1,900 and below 16,100.
The main disagreement is how extreme the upper tail could be. Some estimates keep the extreme upper bound closer to the teens of thousands, while others allow for much larger outcomes, including 20,000–100,000+, mainly to account for rare large pragmatic trials or occasional data-entry anomalies.
Overall, the collective reasoning suggests a moderately large maximum enrollment is most likely, with the result hinging on whether the month includes one especially large AI-related interventional study.
— Iteration 3 — Across the forecasts, the main reasoning is that the eligible set of studies should be modest in size, but the maximum enrollment will be driven by the right tail of the enrollment distribution.
The collective view is that the answer will likely be a mid-thousands enrollment maximum, not because most AI-related interventional studies are large, but because the largest study in a small-to-moderate sample is usually drawn from the extreme upper tail of trial sizes.
Summary of Rationales
To forecast the highest planned enrollment among newly registered interventional AI trials during the specified one-month window, the rationales balance the exponential growth of AI in clinical research with the highly restrictive resolution criteria and the statistically heavy-tailed nature of trial sizes.
Estimating the Volume of Qualifying Trials While AI and machine learning trial registrations are booming, the rationales agree that the pool of qualifying studies for this specific window will be relatively small. This is driven by two strict constraints:
The Underlying Distribution and Central Expectation Interventional AI trials exhibit a heavily right-skewed enrollment distribution. The vast majority of these studies are small, early-phase validations or localized pilots with median enrollments in the low hundreds. By taking the maximum from a small sample of qualifying trials, the rationales anticipate that the median central expectation will likely be driven by a standard, large-scale multi-center randomized controlled trial or diagnostic validation study, resulting in a maximum enrollment in the low-to-mid thousands.
Tail Risks: Mega-Trials and Anomalies The upper extremes of the forecasts are shaped by the rare but highly impactful “mega-trials” that create a fat right tail. The rationales highlight several factors that could push the maximum into the tens or hundreds of thousands:
Ultimately, the rationales construct a forecast anchored by a high probability of a standard multi-center trial maximum, while aggressively widening the upper tail to accommodate the rare but plausible arrival of a mega-trial or registry artifact during this specific month.
Question: What will be the highest planned enrollment among newly registered interventional studies on ClinicalTrials.gov (June 4–July 4, 2026) whose Brief Summary mentions AI? Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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The research summarizes market, registry, and trial-pattern context relevant to forecasting the highest planned enrollment among newly registered interventional studies on ClinicalTrials.gov (June 4–July 4, 2026) whose Brief Summary mentions AI. It notes rapid market growth for AI in clinical trials (market figures cited: USD 3.8 billion in 2025 growing to USD 120.91 billion by 2034) and growing regulatory interest (an FDA Request for Information on an AI-enabled optimization pilot for early-phase trials, dated April 29, 2026). Recent trial examples with AI in their descriptions were identified (NCT07227233, 105 participants; NCT05168150, 98 participants), and major CROs report AI tools cutting oncology recruitment timelines. No prediction-market contracts directly match the question.
Using ClinicalTrials.gov aggregate counts and registration rates, the research estimates monthly new interventional registrations of roughly 2,600–2,700 and suggests that, if 2–5% of those new interventional studies mention AI in the Brief Summary, about 50–135 studies would qualify in the one-month window. It summarizes typical enrollment distributions by phase (Phase I: ~20–100; Phase II: ~100–300; Phase III: ~300–3,000+), notes cost-per-enrollment constraints, and flags key uncertainties: strict phrase-matching criteria, study-type classification, timing variance in a one-month window, and the potential for a rare right-tail “mega-trial” (>10,000) to dominate the maximum. Reasonable historical anchors offered in the research: median enrollment likely 50–200, 90th percentile 500–2,000, and a maximum possibly ranging from 1,000 to 50,000+ depending on whether any large AI-mentioning population trials are registered in that month.
Sources used (as cited in the research)
(Note: the original research cited numbered references [2], [7], [11], [12], [13], [15], [16], [17] but provided no verbatim URLs for all numbered citations; I have included the ClinicalTrials.gov links that correspond to trials named in the research and the ClinicalTrials.gov homepage.)
Based on my research, I can provide you with relevant context for forecasting this question, though I was unable to locate specific prediction markets for this exact question.
AI in Clinical Trials - Rapid Growth:
Recent AI Clinical Trial Examples:
ClinicalTrials.gov Registration Volume:
Expected AI-Mentioning Studies in Target Period (June 4-July 4, 2026): Given the one-month window and rapid AI adoption, you might expect:
Enrollment Size Distribution - General Patterns:
Cost Considerations:
No specific prediction markets found for this question on platforms like Metaculus, Manifold, Polymarket, or Kalshi. This is likely due to the highly specific nature of the question and the future resolution date.
Phrase matching strictness: The requirement for exact phrase matches (e.g., “deep learning” won’t match “deep-learning” or “DL”) may exclude many AI-related studies that use abbreviations or hyphenated terms
Study type ambiguity: Some studies using AI for decision support or analysis might be classified as observational rather than interventional, even if the AI component seems interventional
Timing variability: The one-month window is relatively short, introducing high variance in outcomes
Right tail events: While most enrollments will be small (<500), a single large Phase III trial mentioning AI could dominate. Examples of large trials include cardiovascular mega-trials or population-level screening studies
AI mention likelihood by trial size: Smaller, earlier-phase trials may be MORE likely to explicitly mention novel AI methods in their summaries, while large pragmatic trials may be LESS likely to emphasize AI even if using it
Without access to historical data on this specific query pattern, reasonable anchors might be:
The key question is whether any mega-trials (>10,000 enrollment) will be registered in this specific one-month window that happen to mention the required AI phrases in their brief summaries. Such events would be rare but not impossible, particularly for AI-enabled screening or digital health interventions in large populations.
Conditioning on non-annulment: at least one qualifying study exists. I also assume any study already visible at forecast time does not count if that would make the question effectively resolved.
The critic’s latest points are mostly right. I was still too close to a smooth lognormal-ish “maximum enrollment” model, when this is better modeled as a mixture: many small exact-phrase studies, occasional medium/large interventional CDS or chatbot trials, and a rare population-scale screening/EHR/software record. ClinicalTrials.gov has huge monthly volume, but the qualifier is narrow: interventional, first posted June 4–July 4, and an exact phrase in the Brief Summary only. ClinicalTrials.gov listed 585,919 studies as of May 20, 2026, so the base volume is large, but only a small fraction will survive this exact filter. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The key correction I now emphasize more is field-level contamination. The 18,000-participant HPV chatbot example is exactly the trap: its title/keywords contain “large language model” / “artificial intelligence,” but the Brief Summary describes a “vaccine chatbot” and appears not to contain the required literal phrases, so it likely fails despite being tail-relevant at first glance. (clinicaltrials.gov) This makes me lower the center and the 80th–90th percentiles a bit.
I still do not want to collapse the right tail. Clean high-enrollment analogues exist: the Fitbit/Google pre-visit lab study has 40,000 estimated participants and a Brief Summary containing “generative AI,” while the PRISM mammography trial is interventional, has a Brief Summary containing “artificial intelligence,” and targets 400,000 screening exams. (clinicaltrials.gov) These examples show that valid enrollment counts can reflect platform users, exams, or health-system workflows rather than costly recruited drug-trial participants.
The lower tail also deserves more mass. Recent clean or near-clean exact-phrase interventional examples include very small studies, such as a 35-participant generative-AI breast oncology education module and a 10-participant machine-learning/connectomics stroke pilot. (clinicaltrials.gov) A non-annulled month where the maximum is under 1,000 is not the modal case, but it is materially plausible.
My updated distribution therefore moves down in the central range versus my last forecast, modestly trims the 90th–95th, but keeps a real sub-million tail because of valid population-scale AI screening/workflow trials and possible enrollment-definition oddities. ClinicalTrials.gov first-posted timing also remains lumpy because records are reviewed by NLM before being posted, so the one-month window is not a smooth sample of trial starts. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 20
Percentile 1: 90
Percentile 5: 380
Percentile 10: 700
Percentile 20: 1200
Percentile 30: 1900
Percentile 40: 2800
Percentile 50: 4100
Percentile 60: 6000
Percentile 70: 8900
Percentile 80: 14000
Percentile 90: 34000
Percentile 95: 76000
Percentile 99: 290000
Percentile 99.9: 875000
Conditioning on non-annulment.
I think the critic’s latest push is mostly right. My previous forecast still leaned a bit too much on the two adjacent high-enrollment examples. Those examples are real and highly diagnostic—the 40,000-enrollment Fitbit/Google generative-AI study first posted April 27, 2026, and the 25,518-enrollment UCSF machine-learning AKI pragmatic trial first posted May 22, 2026, show that this exact query can be dominated by large digital/EHR-style interventional records. (clinicaltrials.gov) But they are also unusually salient tail cases, and a one-month future window with strict Brief Summary matching should not treat them as routine.
The critic’s strongest point is that the modal qualifying study is probably much smaller: LLM/chatbot education, imaging, consent, clinician-vignette, patient-support, or single-center digital-health trials, often in the tens to hundreds. The exact substring rule also matters a lot: a large study can miss if it says only “AI,” “ML,” “algorithm,” or puts the full phrase outside the Brief Summary. I’m therefore lowering the median and the 60th–80th percentiles modestly.
I still defend a fat right tail. The maximum is not drawn from the median AI trial; it is drawn from the possibility of one pragmatic, app-based, platform, EHR, screening, or cluster-randomized workflow study. The UCSF example in particular is structurally close to the kind of record that could appear again: EHR-embedded, interventional, pragmatic, and large because many routine clinical encounters inherit the randomized intervention. (clinicaltrials.gov) Also, the ClinicalTrials.gov API data timestamp is still 2026-06-03, so as of the question open date there is effectively no visible in-window data yet; we are forecasting the full June 4–July 4 posting window rather than reacting to early observed records. (clinicaltrials.gov)
New adjustment: I now put more weight on a “mid-size winner” around 3,000–10,000 and a bit less on 50,000+. The upper tail remains meaningful, because online/consumer-health or health-system workflow studies can naturally enroll tens of thousands, but I agree that 5% above ~80k was a little high for this narrow one-month, Brief-Summary-only filter.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 55
Percentile 1: 180
Percentile 5: 625
Percentile 10: 1150
Percentile 20: 2250
Percentile 30: 3400
Percentile 40: 4800
Percentile 50: 6700
Percentile 60: 9600
Percentile 70: 14000
Percentile 80: 22500
Percentile 90: 41000
Percentile 95: 72000
Percentile 99: 210000
Percentile 99.9: 750000
I agree with the critic that my prior median was still a bit too high. The biggest valid correction is that this is not “AI use in clinical trials”; it is a narrow wording-and-metadata event: first-posted in a 31-day window, INTERVENTIONAL, and one of five literal phrases in Brief Summary. That rules out many large studies that say only “AI,” “LLM,” “algorithm,” “chatbot,” or put the terms in title/keywords only. I also agree that the one-month maximum should be modeled as “usually modest, occasionally spiky,” not as smoothly centered around the creator’s 2k–16k band.
I still do not want to collapse the right tail. ClinicalTrials.gov’s denominator is large: as of May 20, 2026, it listed 585,919 studies, with 447,111 interventional, and 22,091 studies first posted during 2026 to that point. That leaves plenty of opportunities for a wording-qualified AI/ML study to appear even in one month. (clinicaltrials.gov) The historical AI/ML ClinicalTrials.gov study is broader than this question, so it overstates the qualifying count, but it remains useful for the enrollment distribution: among 2010–2023 AI/ML trials, enrollment was right-skewed, median 255, IQR 80–1000, and 16.1% of interventional AI/ML trials exceeded 1,000 participants. (jmir.org)
Recent examples reinforce the mixed picture. There are qualifying-style interventional studies at ordinary sizes—500 for an LLM heart-failure CDS trial, 1,724 for FAST-AF, 62 for an AI-supported cancer chatbot, and 90 for an AI-based exercise chatbot—so a maximum below 2,000 is quite plausible. (clinicaltrials.gov) But a 6,000-enrollment LLM-CoManage interventional record shows that a normal large cluster/digital-health trial can qualify. (clinicaltrials.gov) And the 200,000-enrollment AI newborn-screening record first posted in January 2026 is strong evidence that the extreme right tail is real, not just theoretical, even though it does not count for the target window. (ichgcp.net)
My update: lower the center toward the critic, especially the 20th–60th percentiles, but keep a fat high tail. Conditional on non-annulment, my median is now about 3,300, with roughly 40% mass below ~2,200, but still about 10% above ~30k and a few percent chance of a large screening/public-health/registry-like or below-cap artifact record.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 8.1
Percentile 1: 45.1
Percentile 5: 190.1
Percentile 10: 430.1
Percentile 20: 850.1
Percentile 30: 1400.1
Percentile 40: 2200.1
Percentile 50: 3300.1
Percentile 60: 5100.1
Percentile 70: 8000.1
Percentile 80: 13200.1
Percentile 90: 28500.1
Percentile 95: 68000.1
Percentile 99: 230000.1
Percentile 99.9: 780000.1
Modal: 3675-5450 (26.0%) • partial_shift • 8m53s
Reading: strict
The resolution criteria are highly specific and mechanical: exact API field names, a fixed date window, a literal case-insensitive substring list with no abbreviation shortcuts, a hard 1,000,000 exclusion cap, and a single named source queried on a named date. There is no room for charitable or expansive interpretation — every inclusion/exclusion decision is dictated by explicit rules, warranting a strict reading.
Total evidence registered (shared pool): ?
| Variant | Perspective | Model | Turns | Tools | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | inside_view (inside_view_v1) | openai/gpt-5-mini | 25 | 25 | OK |
| 1 | outside_view (outside_view_v1) | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | 19 | 32 | OK |
| 2 | contrarian (contrarian_v1) | openai/gpt-5 | 10 | 10 | OK |
Evidence confidence: medium
high evidence]The reference period (late 2025 – May 2026) shows multiple large AI-interventional studies (AI-COLOSCREEN 3,342; AIM-FFR 2,100; chatbot vaccine trial 5,000; deep learning breast trial 5,000) clustered in this range. If the June 4–July 4 window follows the same distributional pattern, a study in this size range is the most common type of ‘large’ AI-interventional study. Historical median for large studies is well below 10,000.
A single outlier pragmatic trial or large EHR/AI-assistive study with enrollment in the 8,000–16,000 range would push the maximum above this band. The answer range’s upper bound (~16,100) suggests the resolver anticipates the possibility of a larger study.
medium evidence]The VALVE-AI trial (8,648, posted June 2025) demonstrates that AI-interventional studies with enrollment in the 5,000–10,000 range do get registered. The answer range upper bound of ~16,100 and the right-skewed nature of the distribution (mean 16,962 in historical data) allow for such outcomes. A large multi-site cardiovascular, oncology, or population-health AI trial could reach this range.
Such studies are less common than moderate-enrollment ones; among recent reference examples, only the VALVE-AI trial clearly exceeded 5,000. The 31-day window limits the number of registrations and therefore the probability of the tail being sampled.
low evidence]The question’s answer range extends to ~16,100, and historical data shows a mean of 16,962 driven by very large outlier studies. If a large public-health, pragmatic, or registry-based AI-assisted trial (e.g., a population screening or EHR-based intervention enrolling tens of thousands) is posted in the window, the maximum could reach this level. The 1,000,000 exclusion cap does not prevent legitimate very-large studies from qualifying.
No reference example in the 12-month prior period approached 10,000 enrollment (the maximum seen was 8,648 for VALVE-AI). The answer range’s lower bound (~1,900) and the clustering of reference examples below 9,000 suggest such outcomes are tail events. Only 24.1% of historical AI/ML studies exceeded 1,000 participants; the fraction exceeding 10,000 is far smaller.
low evidence]If the June 4–July 4 window happens not to include any of the occasional large-enrollment AI-interventional studies, the maximum could be driven by a study in the hundreds or low thousands. The majority (75.9%) of historical AI/ML studies enrolled 1,000 or fewer participants, so a window without large outliers is plausible.
The question’s answer range explicitly starts at ~1,900, suggesting the resolver anticipates the maximum will be at least that high. Reference period examples show multiple studies with enrollment well above 2,000 being registered each month.
inside_view_v1)Inside view: causal mechanism analysis
The question asks for the maximum enrollment across all qualifying interventional AI-mention studies posted in a 31-day window (June 4 – July 4, 2026). The mechanism is: a large pool of studies posts → some have large enrollment → the maximum is drawn from the right tail of that pool’s enrollment distribution.
Key evidence-weighted scenarios:
“Moderate maximum” (2,000–5,000 range) — tagged
highrelative evidence strength. The reference period (late 2025–May 2026) shows multiple studies clustering in this exact range: AI-COLOSCREEN (3,342), AIM-FFR (2,100), chatbot vaccine trial (5,000), deep learning breast tomosynthesis (5,000). This scenario has multiple data points supporting it. This maps primarily to below 1,900 (bin_0) and bins 1,900–3,675 (bin_1) and 3,675–5,450 (bin_2).“Large maximum” (5,000–10,000 range) — tagged
mediumevidence strength. The VALVE-AI trial (8,648, posted June 2025) is the clearest anchor. In a 31-day window, there’s a meaningful chance a similarly-sized cardiovascular or population-health AI trial registers. This maps to bins bin_2–bin_4.“Very large maximum” (10,000–16,100) — tagged
lowevidence strength. No reference example in the prior 12 months reached 10,000. Only possible if a major pragmatic or EHR-based population trial registers. Maps to bins bin_5–bin_9.“Small maximum” (below 2,000) — tagged
lowevidence strength. Given monthly registration volumes and the clustering of examples above 2,000, this is unlikely. Maps to bin_0.Distribution reasoning:
- The
high-strength moderate scenario covers roughly bins bin_1 and 1,900–5,450 (bin_2). Given multiple reference examples in 2,100–5,000 range, this zone should carry substantial mass.- The
medium-strength large scenario covers bins bin_2–3,675–9,000 (bin_4). The VALVE-AI at 8,648 anchors the upper end.- The
low-strength very-large scenario covers bins bin_5–above 9,000 (bin_9).- The
low-strength small scenario (bin_0, below 1,900) is possible but reference period evidence shows consistently larger studies.Calibration:
- With tens of qualifying studies in a 31-day window, the maximum is not dominated by the median (255) but by the right tail
- The answer range provided (1,900–16,100) itself signals the resolver expects a non-trivial enrollment
- I weight heavily toward bins bin_1 through bin_4, with the center of mass around 3,000–8,000
- The
high-evidence “moderate” scenario anchors most mass in bins bin_1 and bin_2- The
medium-evidence “large” scenario adds meaningful mass to bins bin_3 and bin_4- Small residual mass in tail bins
outside_view_v1)Reference class: monthly highest planned enrollment among interventional studies newly posted to ClinicalTrials.gov whose Brief Summary contains one of the qualifying AI substrings (use recent 12-month reference period: late 2025–May 2026). Base-rate anchor: historical monthly maxima in the recent reference period most often fall in the low-thousands (examples: AI-COLOSCREEN N=3,342; AIM-FFR N=2,100; two recent ~5,000 studies; VALVE‑AI N=8,648 is an upper-tail example) — per the Research Brief (sources 2,4,6,7,5). Adjustment: +5 percentage points toward a 2,000–5,000-monthly-max because multiple recent large registrations cluster in that band and monthly arrival rates (“tens to hundreds” of interventional AI-mention postings) give a reasonable chance of sampling that center (per brief). I do not move more than ±15 pp from the base-rate anchor to avoid overfitting to individual studies. Final distribution (bins explained): I allocate the largest mass to the 2,000–5,000 range (bins bin_1 1,900–3,675 and bin_2 3,675–5,450) because the Research Brief labels the 2k–5k scenario as high evidence (supporting examples: AI-COLOSCREEN 3,342; AIM-FFR 2,100; two 5,000 studies posted just before the window; per brief sources 2,4,6,7). That high-evidence scenario receives ~60% total mass (0.33 in bin_1, 0.32 in bin_2). A medium-evidence scenario (5,000–10,000; e.g., VALVE‑AI at 8,648, source 5) gets moderate mass (~25%) concentrated in bins covering 5k–9k (bin_3 and bin_4) with small tails into the adjacent bins (0.10 bin_3, 0.08 bin_4, small 0.05 cumulatively including a 0.02 tail in bin_5). Low-evidence tails (very large 10k–16.1k) get modest probability (~8%) spread across bins 5–8 (0.05 bin_5, 0.025 bin_6, 0.015 bin_7, 0.01 bin_8) to reflect the heavy right skew in historical data (mean pulled up by rare outliers, per source 1) but low direct evidence for such a study arriving in this particular 31-day window. A small chance (~7%) is assigned to the “below 1,900” bin (bin_0) reflecting the possibility the window contains only small- to mid-size AI interventional posts (most AI/ML studies historically enroll <=1,000; 75.9% below 1,000 per source 1). I weighted scenarios by the Research Brief’s relative_evidence_strength tags: the “Moderate maximum (2k–5k)” scenario was tagged high and so dominates the mass; the 5k–10k scenario was medium and receives materially less mass; the >10k and <2k scenarios were low-evidence and receive small tails. Mechanical/interpretation notes that influenced my shape: (a) strict literal-substring matching of Brief Summary (per interpretation) reduces matches relative to a broad-text search, slightly lowering the chance of catching more trials that mention AI only via abbreviation; (b) the registry’s 1,000,000 exclusion rule effectively never binds here; (c) evidence quality is rated medium in the brief, so I kept moderate uncertainty in the spread. Confidence in this forecast: medium (brief-assessed evidence quality = medium; key uncertainties include whether a single large pragmatic or registry-based AI trial will be registered in the June 4–July 4 window and whether enrollment counts will change between first posting and the July 11 query).
contrarian_v2)Adversarial reading
The brief’s evidence base (historical right-skew with 24.1% of studies >1,000 participants, recent reference max of 8,648 for VALVE-AI, and multiple 3k–5k examples) pulls the implicit consensus toward a moderate-to-large maximum enrollment in the 2,000–8,000 range for the 31-day window.
Counter-evidence found (or absence)
The 31-day fixed window is short relative to monthly registration volume; only the high-evidence scenario (moderate max) is supported by multiple recent concrete examples clustered below 6,000, while the medium-evidence scenario (5k–10k) rests on a single outlier (VALVE-AI) and the low-evidence tail scenarios rest on historical means driven by pre-2023 extremes that may not recur. The strict literal matching and Study First Posted date filter further reduce the effective sample.
Distribution implications
This shifts additional mass into 1900-3675 (bin_1) and 3675-5450 (bin_2) relative to a naive average across scenarios, because the high-evidence moderate-max scenario receives the greatest weight and recent examples cluster there; bins 5–9 receive only residual mass consistent with the low-evidence strength of the very-large tail.
Strategy: logit_mean • Drafts: 3/3
anchoring_v1The draft rationale uses the VALVE-AI trial (8,648 enrollment, posted June 2025) and two ~5,000-enrollment studies (posted April–May 2026) as its primary anchors, but these are drawn from a 12-month reference period that spans very different market conditions. Crucially, the draft’s “high-evidence moderate maximum” scenario (2,000–5,000) is built on only 4 concrete examples: AI-COLOSCREEN (3,342), AIM-FFR (2,100), chatbot vaccine (5,000), and deep learning breast tomosynthesis (5,000). These 4 examples all happened to cluster in the 2k–5k zone, but this is a small sample, and the citation of the VALVE-AI (8,648) as the reference-period maximum suggests the actual peak of a 12-month window is well above the draft’s modal bin (bin_1/bin_2). The draft places its p50 in bins bin_1–roughly 2,000–5,450 (bin_2), which corresponds more to the conditional mean of large studies rather than the modal maximum over a 31-day window drawing from tens of qualifying studies. With ~50–100 qualifying studies in 31 days and a heavy-right-tail distribution, the expected maximum will be substantially higher than the conditional mean of an individual study — this is a classic optimistic anchoring on representative examples rather than on order-statistic reasoning. The draft should shift the modal mass toward bins bin_2–3,675–7,225 (bin_3) to reflect that the maximum over many draws from a right-skewed distribution consistently exceeds the median draw.
ceiling_v1The key structural constraint here is the 1,000,000 enrollment cap combined with the reference period evidence showing the empirical ceiling for AI-interventional studies at ~8,648 (VALVE-AI, the largest seen in a 12-month reference period). The brief explicitly states “reference period (late 2025–May 2026) range of largest AI-interventional study enrollments: approximately 1,120 to 8,648.” This is a soft empirical ceiling, not a hard mathematical one, but it implies that bins above 9,000+ (bin_4) are drawing on very thin evidence — only the heavy historical right-tail mean (16,962) pulled by pre-cap outliers. Those outliers are categorically excluded by the 1,000,000 cap rule, which the forecaster acknowledged but did not fully integrate: the same extreme studies that drove the historical mean to 16,962 are precisely the ones that would have been excluded, making the uncapped historical mean a poor predictor of the capped distribution’s tail. The draft allocates ~11% of mass to bins 5–9 (above 9,000), which seems too high given no reference example in 12 months exceeded 8,648. Additionally, the answer range itself (1,900–16,100) was constructed by the question designer, not derived from observed data — treating it as evidence that “the resolver anticipates outcomes up to 16,100” risks circular reasoning and over-weighting the tails.
math_v1The draft’s probability distribution sums to 1.00 exactly and bin assignments map correctly to the stated scenarios. However, there is a significant internal inconsistency: the rationale claims to allocate ~60% mass to the “moderate maximum (2k–5k)” scenario, yet bins 1900–3675 (bin_1) and 3675–5450 (bin_2) together hold only 0.2852 + 0.2869 = 0.5721 ≈ 57.2%, which matches the claim. The stated allocation “0.33 in bin_1, 0.32 in bin_2” describes slightly different bins (wider boundaries) than the actual granular bins used. More critically, the forecaster should explicitly reconcile: the brief’s high-evidence scenario (2k–5k) anchors near the lower bins, but recent concrete examples (AI-COLOSCREEN 3,342; AIM-FFR 2,100; two ~5,000 studies) cluster in the lower–middle range; the actual bin boundaries create a mismatch where 3,675–5,450 (bin_2) captures only the upper tail of the exemplar cluster. Bin_1 (1,900–3,675) bridges the lower examples, but the forecaster does not explicitly state why median placement lands near 3,200–3,500 rather than anchoring more tightly to the concrete examples.
Reviews consumed: 3
The anchoring reviewer flagged that the question asks for a MAXIMUM over ~50-100 qualifying studies in a 31-day window, and order-statistic reasoning implies the expected max should exceed the median of representative individual large studies — I partially accepted this, shifting modest mass from bin_1 into bins bin_3–bin_5. The ceiling reviewer flagged that the 12-month empirical maximum was 8,648 (VALVE-AI) and that the historical mean of 16,962 was inflated by outliers that would be excluded by the 1M cap, arguing for less tail mass — I partially accepted this for the extreme tails (bin_7–bin_9) but balanced it against the anchoring reviewer’s opposing push. The two directional reviewers disagree (higher vs. lower), so I land between them: shift some mass from bin_1 toward bin_3–per anchoring’s order-statistic argument, which is structurally sound (bin_5), while keeping the extreme tail (bin_7–bin_9) modest (per ceiling’s cap-adjusted reasoning). The math reviewer flagged only minor narrative-vs-bin mismatches with no directional change; those are accepted as cosmetic. Net effect is a small partial shift toward a slightly heavier middle (bin_2–bin_4) with thinner extreme tails.
[ceiling] Bins bin_5–bin_9 should collectively receive only 5–7%, not ~11%, because the 12-month empirical maximum is 8,648 and the historical mean of 16,962 was driven by now-excluded outliers.
[anchoring] Shift modal mass toward bin_2–3,675–7,225 (bin_3) because the expected max from ~50 right-skewed draws substantially exceeds the median of a single large study.
[math] Narrative percentages don’t precisely match bin-level mass (e.g., stated 25% for 5k–10k scenario vs. actual ~34%).
| Bin | Probability |
|---|---|
| Below 1900 (bin_0) | 5.0% |
| 1900-3675 (bin_1) | 24.0% |
| 3675-5450 (bin_2) | 26.0% |
| 5450-7225 (bin_3) | 17.0% |
| 7225-9000 (bin_4) | 12.0% |
| 9000-10775 (bin_5) | 7.0% |
| 10775-12550 (bin_6) | 4.0% |
| 12550-14325 (bin_7) | 2.5% |
| 14325-16100 (bin_8) | 1.5% |
| Above 16100 (bin_9) | 1.0% |
wooley_rhino • run 88f6727e • $2.96 • 8m53s
Extracted Percentile Values: {0.1: 450, 1.0: 750, 5.0: 1300, 10.0: 1700, 15.0: 2100, 20.0: 2500, 25.0: 2900, 30.0: 3300, 35.0: 3700, 40.0: 4000, 45.0: 4300, 46.0: 4400, 47.0: 4500, 48.0: 4600, 49.0: 4700, 50.0: 4800, 51.0: 4950, 52.0: 5100, 53.0: 5250, 54.0: 5450, 55.0: 5650, 60.0: 6300, 65.0: 7200, 70.0: 8300, 75.0: 9600, 80.0: 11200, 85.0: 13500, 90.0: 17500, 95.0: 28000, 99.0: 75000, 99.9: 250000}
Model’s Answer: Looking at this forecasting question, I need to estimate the highest planned enrollment among interventional studies posted on ClinicalTrials.gov (June 4-July 4, 2026) whose Brief Summary contains specific AI-related phrases.
Historical Data on AI/ML Trial Enrollments:
Volume Estimation for the Window:
What drives LOW outcomes (~1,000-2,500):
What drives HIGH outcomes (~15,000-50,000+):
Registration timing of large trials - Probability wrong: ~30%. If no large AI trial happens to first-post in this narrow window, max stays moderate.
Phrase-matching restrictiveness - Probability wrong: ~20%. If large studies use different terminology, they won’t qualify.
Continued growth trajectory of AI trials - Probability wrong: ~15%. Market projections show rapid AI adoption; slowdown would reduce qualifying volume.
The median enrolled value across ALL AI studies is ~255, but we’re forecasting the MAXIMUM among perhaps 15-40 qualifying studies in a month. Given right-skew, the maximum should be well into the upper tail—likely in the thousands.
The default range (1,900-16,100) aligns with this expectation. Large pragmatic or system-level AI implementation trials occasionally reach tens of thousands, but are rare. Very large trials (>50,000) are possible but uncommon for AI-specific interventions.
I’m setting my median around 4,500 participants, with meaningful tail probability for both lower (no large trials happen to register) and higher outcomes (major system-level trial posts).
Percentile .1: 450 Percentile 1: 750 Percentile 5: 1300 Percentile 10: 1700 Percentile 15: 2100 Percentile 20: 2500 Percentile 25: 2900 Percentile 30: 3300 Percentile 35: 3700 Percentile 40: 4000 Percentile 45: 4300 Percentile 46: 4400 Percentile 47: 4500 Percentile 48: 4600 Percentile 49: 4700 Percentile 50: 4800 Percentile 51: 4950 Percentile 52: 5100 Percentile 53: 5250 Percentile 54: 5450 Percentile 55: 5650 Percentile 60: 6300 Percentile 65: 7200 Percentile 70: 8300 Percentile 75: 9600 Percentile 80: 11200 Percentile 85: 13500 Percentile 90: 17500 Percentile 95: 28000 Percentile 99: 75000 Percentile 99.9: 250000
ClinicalTrials.gov imposes fixed study-type and first-posted date constraints that narrowly define eligible registrations.
Enrollment is a single sponsor-reported integer (estimated or actual) and individual records set the maximum rather than an aggregate mean.
The stock of interventional records whose Brief Summaries mention AI-related terms has risen, increasing monthly draw counts.
Multicenter screening, diagnostic, and registry-style interventional designs create a heavy right tail in planned enrollment.
Higher qualifying-record volume in a month raises the chance of an extreme maximum but does not guarantee one.
Single-sponsor batches and the choice between population screening versus focused efficacy trials are the main inflection points that produce outsized enrollments.
Key uncertainty is tail sparsity: one large record can shift the monthly maximum by orders of magnitude, and such records are rare and clustered.
Sensitivity to literal Brief Summary matching and to edits after first posting means the qualifying set and its maximum can change between initial posting and later record versions.
Forecast (Q422): median highest planned enrollment = 9,940.0083
I treated this as a max-over-new-postings problem on ClinicalTrials.gov using the exact filters in the prompt. ClinicalTrials.gov says its data are sponsor-submitted, refreshed daily Monday through Friday, and that new studies are added almost every day, so a 31-day forecast is mostly about what kinds of new AI-related trials appear during the window rather than revisions to old records. (clinicaltrials.gov) Recent official study pages suggest a strongly right-skewed distribution among qualifying interventional AI studies. On the smaller or more typical side, I found examples such as the dementia-caregiver machine-learning trial first posted on March 3, 2026 with enrollment 550, the Kaiser Permanente AI-supported MCI rehabilitation trial first posted on March 16, 2026 with enrollment 130, the Beijing Anzhen cardiac-surgery LLM assistant trial first posted on April 13, 2026 with enrollment 500, the Guangxi/Vietnam UroMed LLM multicenter trial first posted on April 29, 2026 with enrollment 1,080, and the USC generative-AI lay-summary trial first posted on May 5, 2026 with enrollment 120. (clinicaltrials.gov) But there are also materially larger recent records: the LLM-CoManage cluster-randomized cardiometabolic-management trial was first posted on January 20, 2026 with enrollment 6,000, and Fitbit/Google’s Generative AI Pre-visit Lab Study was first posted on April 27, 2026 with enrollment 40,000. (clinicaltrials.gov) That sample is incomplete, but it implies at least three regimes: many academic or clinical AI trials with maxima still below 2,000; pragmatic or cluster-style deployments landing in the mid-thousands; and occasional consumer-platform or large-scale digital studies that jump straight above 16,000. Because one greater-than-16,000 outlier appeared very recently, I cannot dismiss that tail; however, most recent qualifying examples I found were still below 2,000, so I down-weight the giant-outlier scenario rather than making it the base case. (clinicaltrials.gov) My forecast therefore puts 34% probability on the monthly maximum being below 2,000, 48% on the 2,000 to 16,000 range with the modal support point around 5,600 to 6,000, and 18% on the maximum exceeding 16,000. The single best point estimate is 6,000. Intuitively, if no Fitbit/Google-like platform study appears, the winning record is likely a round-number pragmatic or multicenter AI trial in roughly the 4,000 to 8,000 zone; if a similar large consumer-facing digital study appears, the market probably resolves in the greater-than-16,000 bucket. (clinicaltrials.gov)
I treated this as a forecast of the monthly maximum planned enrollment among newly first-posted interventional ClinicalTrials.gov studies whose Brief Summary literally contains one of the target AI phrases. The official ClinicalTrials.gov data structure identifies the relevant fields, including study type and study first posted date, and the site says data are refreshed daily Monday through Friday. (clinicaltrials.gov)
For base rates, I focused on recent official study records whose visible Brief Summary text clearly appears to satisfy the phrase rule. Examples include NCT07337577 (First Posted 2026-01-13, enrollment 500, Brief Summary includes ‘large language model’), NCT07350486 (2026-01-20, 6000), NCT07432893 (2026-02-25, 672), and NCT07449182 (2026-03-04, 56). (clinicaltrials.gov)
April 2026 is the key right-tail evidence. I found NCT07512271 (First Posted 2026-04-06, enrollment 35, Brief Summary includes ‘artificial intelligence’), NCT07521488 (2026-04-13, 500, ‘large language model’), NCT07552311 (2026-04-27, 40000, ‘generative AI’), and NCT07555756 (2026-04-29, 1080, ‘large language models’). That is enough to show that the monthly winner can jump from ordinary double/triple-digit trials to a very large platform-style randomized study. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Recent May 2026 evidence still shows continuing flow of qualifying records, so I assign only a very small probability to the empty-set/annulment scenario. For example, NCT07583069 was first posted on 2026-05-13 with enrollment 62 and a Brief Summary containing ‘artificial intelligence’. Older but still relevant tail evidence includes the DECISION trial, first posted on 2025-08-08 with enrollment 1968 and a Brief Summary containing ‘artificial intelligence’. When a snippet did not clearly show one of the exact phrases inside Brief Summary itself, I treated that record as ambiguous and did not rely on it for calibration. (clinicaltrials.gov)
My substantive forecast is therefore a heavy-tailed mixture. Most of the time, the monthly maximum should still come from small or medium interventional AI studies, which keeps the modal bucket at ‘<2000’. But there is also a meaningful middle range around several thousand participants, supported by recent 6000-, 1080-, and 672-participant examples, and a real upper tail motivated mainly by the 40000-participant April 27, 2026 generative-AI registration. Because resolution is based on the July 11, 2026 public record, not necessarily the exact first-posted snapshot, I widened the distribution modestly to account for possible enrollment edits after posting and before resolution. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Bottom line: I still think an under-16000 result is more likely than not, but I do not think the upper tail is remotely negligible after the April 2026 40000-participant example. In words, my median-like view is that the winning study is more likely to be a medium/large implementation or community trial than a tiny pilot, while the main risk to an under-16000 forecast is another consumer-scale or multi-site AI service study similar to the Fitbit/Google generative-AI registration. (clinicaltrials.gov)
ClinicalTrials.gov’s official API materials say the v2 /studies endpoint is the relevant REST endpoint, the public site exposes Study Type, First Posted, Brief Summary, and Enrollment fields, and the database is refreshed daily Monday through Friday; on June 4, 2026, the version endpoint showed dataTimestamp 2026-06-03T09:00:05. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The biggest forecasting clue is how right-skewed recent comparable AI-related interventional registrations already are. Official ClinicalTrials.gov pages show: NCT07351604 was first posted on January 20, 2026 with planned enrollment 36,000; NCT07350486 was first posted on January 20, 2026 with planned enrollment 6,000; NCT07337577 was first posted on January 13, 2026 with planned enrollment 500; NCT07525245 was first posted on April 13, 2026 with planned enrollment 18,000; NCT07552311 was first posted on April 27, 2026 with planned enrollment 40,000; and NCT07583069 was first posted on May 13, 2026 with planned enrollment 62. Those same official pages also show the relevant AI wording in the summary text, such as large language model, generative AI, or artificial intelligence. (clinicaltrials.gov)
My read is that the monthly maximum is bimodal. Many qualifying registrations are small or moderate digital/behavioral pilots, which keeps a lot of mass below 2,000. But recent public-health and consumer-facing chatbot / generative-AI studies show that very large round-number planned enrollments can appear with little warning, which creates a genuinely large upper tail above 16,000. The 2,000-16,000 interior still matters because verified recent examples include 6,000, but the evidence I could verify is thinner in that middle band than at the low and very-high ends. That last sentence is my inference from the cited examples, not a direct official statistic. (clinicaltrials.gov)
I therefore put 40.8% on a result below 2,000, 37.2% on a result above 16,000, and the remaining 22.0% across exact 200-step values from 2,000 to 16,000. Within that middle band I center the mass on 6,000, with tapering weight on neighboring round-number values, because recent planned enrollments are often set at conspicuously round figures. I am keeping both tails fairly wide because I was able to verify strong examples at both ends, but I was not able to run a full exhaustive API census through this interface.
ClinicalTrials.gov’s search/API machinery makes this question fairly crisp mechanically. The official documentation says any study-structure field can be searched with the AREA operator, date windows can be specified with RANGE, and
protocolSection.statusModule.studyFirstPostDateStruct.dateis the field for the first public posting date after QC. ClinicalTrials.gov also says the API refreshes daily Monday through Friday, generally by 9 a.m. ET, so records near the end of the window can still change before the July 11, 2026 resolution pull. (clinicaltrials.gov)For base rates, the most useful broad reference I found was a 2010-2023 analysis of 3,106 AI/ML studies registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. In that dataset, 38.4% of AI/ML studies were interventional, and growth accelerated sharply after 2017, with 62.8% of all included AI/ML studies starting in 2021-2023. Among interventional AI/ML studies with enrollment data, 42.7% had enrollment 1-100, 41.2% had 101-1000, 10.1% had 1001-5000, 2.1% had 5001-10,000, 0.7% had 10,001-20,000, 0.6% had 20,001-30,000, and 2.5% had more than 30,000. The key implication is that most AI interventional trials are small, but the right tail is real enough that it matters a lot when forecasting the maximum of a month’s cohort. (jmir.org)
Recent 2026 analogs show exactly that shape. One especially important precedent is the interventional “Generative AI Pre-visit Lab Study,” which ClinicalTrials.gov shows as first posted on April 27, 2026 with planned enrollment 40,000. At the same time, many recent interventional AI/LLM studies are much smaller: I found examples at 6,000 planned enrollment for an LLM-enabled community co-management trial, 1,968 for an AI-assisted heart-failure detection trial, 500 for an LLM-based heart-failure CDS trial, 440 for an LLM-based breast-cancer emotional-management trial, and 320 for a machine-learning weight-estimation trial. So the current registry environment plainly supports both lots of small pilots and occasional very large digital/pragmatic deployments. (clinicaltrials.gov)
I therefore treated this as an extreme-value problem over a modest batch of new qualifying studies, not as a forecast of a typical AI study. My judgment is that the June 4-July 4, 2026 window will most likely produce roughly high-single-digit to low-teens qualifying new interventional registrations; that is an inference from the documented growth trend plus the density of spring-2026 examples, not from a complete future-window API pull. With that many draws from a heavy-tailed enrollment distribution, the maximum usually moves out of the sub-1000 range. My modal exact gridpoint is 6,000, but I still leave substantial tail risk to a much larger outlier because a 40,000-enrollment qualifying precedent already appeared in late April 2026. (jmir.org)
So my bottom line is: point estimate 6,000; about 18% on the maximum staying below 2,000; 56% spread across 2,000 to 16,000 with the center of mass around 4,000-8,000; and 26% on the maximum ending above 16,000. The main reason not to go lower is that the question resolves to the maximum, and recent qualifying-style studies already include both 6,000-scale and 40,000-scale interventional examples. The main reason not to put most of the mass above 16,000 is that the historical interventional AI base rate is still dominated by sub-1,000 and low-thousands studies. (clinicaltrials.gov)
I treated this as a forecast of the maximum in a 31-day arrival window, with the biggest uncertainty coming from whether the window contains only ordinary academic AI trials or also one unusually large consumer/public-health deployment trial. Mechanically, ClinicalTrials.gov says its modern API refreshes daily on weekdays, and the version endpoint showed a data timestamp of 2026-06-03T09:00:05 when I checked. The data structure documentation also distinguishes Study First Posted as its own field and Brief Summary as a separate searchable field, which matters because the question resolves only on exact phrase matches inside Brief Summary. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The recent analogs I found are extremely dispersed. On January 20, 2026, NCT07350486 was first posted with a Brief Summary explicitly saying the study is “large language model (LLM)-supported”; it is interventional and has planned enrollment 6,000. On March 5, 2026, NCT07452055 was first posted; its Brief Summary explicitly says “large language model-based” and its planned enrollment is 440. On May 4, 2026, NCT07565714 was first posted; its Brief Summary explicitly references “large language models (LLMs)” and its planned enrollment is 40. The most important tail example is NCT07552311: its Brief Summary explicitly mentions “generative AI models,” it was first posted on April 27, 2026, and it has planned enrollment 40,000 in a randomized multi-arm design. (clinicaltrials.gov)
That mix pushes me toward a heavy-tailed forecast. The exact-phrase-in-Brief-Summary rule should remove many superficially “AI” studies, so I do not want to overstate the upper tail. But the April 27, 2026 Fitbit/Google study is direct evidence that the filter does not prevent very large qualifying enrollments; meanwhile January’s 6,000-patient LLM co-management trial shows that even outside the rare mega-trial scenario, a monthly maximum can still land in the mid-thousands. (clinicaltrials.gov)
So my distribution is bimodal-ish: the single largest bin is still “below 2,000” (43%), reflecting the possibility that June 4 to July 4, 2026 contains only ordinary clinician-facing or pilot-style AI interventions. I then put meaningful mass through the 2,000 to 10,000 range, with a local peak at 6,000, because recent precedent already includes a 6,000-participant qualifying analogue. Finally, I assign a substantial 20% to “above 16,000,” almost entirely because a 40,000-participant generative-AI interventional study was posted only weeks before the forecast window. In words: my median sits around the low-thousands, but my mean is much higher because of the fat upper tail. (clinicaltrials.gov)