The Human Cost of Innovation: Defining AI Gap™, AI Distress™ and AI Traumatic Stress™ 

Written By Taryn Hughes

Overview

This white paper introduces and defines the novel concepts of AI Gap™, AI Distress™, and AI Traumatic Stress™, addressing a critical yet overlooked dimension of artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on mental health. 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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