Researcher: AI job-loss anxiety stems from fear of social exclusion

Edinburgh researcher David Duvenaud argues that the fear of losing meaning from AI-driven unemployment shares evolutionary roots with the fear of death: the need for meaning evolved to prevent group exclusion, making such anxiety far from trivial.

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