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AI Anxiety
Fear of replacement, existential dread, and the psychological impact of living alongside increasingly capable AI systems.
3 research papers
"It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage": Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions
Examines how people perceive fairness when algorithms make consequential decisions about them. Participants expressed deep discomfort with being "reduced to a number," revealing ps...
Fear of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from National Representative Data with Probability Sampling
Using nationally representative survey data, this study maps the prevalence and predictors of fear toward autonomous robots and AI. The findings reveal that AI anxiety is widesprea...
AI Anxiety
A conceptual analysis of AI anxiety as a societal phenomenon. The authors argue that much of the fear surrounding AI is based on misunderstandings of how AI works, inflated by medi...