Artificial Intelligence's Impact on Mental Health

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 Artificial Intelligence's 

Impact on Mental Health

by Jillian Drummond


    The relationship between artificial intelligence and self-worth is a complicated one. While AI is marketed to help us be more productive in our careers and daily lives, a lingering discomfort surrounds it. 
    The rate at which AI learns is the most threatening issue. AI learns 125,000 times faster than the human neuron can. At that rate, how can we be enough? More importantly, how can governments keep up with regulations on the usage of AI when it develops thousands of new capabilities in the time one law is passed regarding its regulation? 
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    Although AI can do some great work, with an ever-increasing lack of control and stability, mental health will be affected. Many people feel their personal identity is threatened since they take pride in their jobs, their capabilities, and/or their accomplishments. Since people see those capabilities as part of their identity, facing the reality that AI can do it faster and better than them takes a toll on their self-worth. 
    
    
    

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