‘I think I have AI anxiety’

A patient said to me the other day, half-smiling but clearly unsettled: “I think I’ve got anxiety about AI.”

They weren’t having a panic attack or describing clinical anxiety. What they were expressing was a persistent sense of unease that many of us are feeling right now.

A sense that the world is changing very quickly, that the systems we live within are being redesigned around us and that most of us don’t feel particularly consulted or prepared for a life increasingly immersed in artificial intelligence (AI).

If you’re feeling that way, you’re not alone.

A recent survey shows that the general public is more concerned about AI than AI experts – particularly around jobs and human connection – while both groups express strong concern about misinformation...