Mental Health in the AI Era: Career Anxiety Disguised as Upskilling
zakelfassi · x · 2026-07-26
The author outlines the mental health challenges of living in the AI age: mass career anxiety disguised as "upskilling," the guilt of using AI to replace years of professional training, and cognitive overload from rapidly changing tools. People feel simultaneously behind and ahead, yet there is a lack of public health conversations addressing this structural anxiety.
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