The Human Cost of Innovation: Defining AI Distress™

Overview

This white paper introduces and defines the novel concept of AI Distress™. As AI rapidly transforms our society, it is also simultaneously changing us. These changes can include a decline in cognitive and critical thinking skills, a spike in existential anxiety, a sense of meaninglessness, fear of death, overwhelm, cognitive dissonance, and psychological harm. New times call for new terms as we work together to make sense of our new reality.

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