{"id":240189,"date":"2026-07-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:35:11","slug":"how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Is Fueling Anticipatory Anxiety At Work And What To Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianehamilton\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\">How AI Is Fueling Anticipatory Anxiety At Work And What To Do About It<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianehamilton\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianehamilton\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anticipatory anxiety is growing at work as uncertainty arises from conflicting expert predictions about the future effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and skills.<\/li>\n<li>Uncertainty from AI predictions shifts focus from present opportunities to future possibilities, leading to rumination and reduced curiosity and adaptability.<\/li>\n<li>Curiosity is key during times of technological disruption, as it encourages exploration, questioning, and openness to challenging assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders should recognize that anticipatory anxiety may cause them to focus on monitoring threats rather than exploring opportunities, leading to a lack of progress.<\/li>\n<li>It is more productive to direct attention towards becoming adaptable and developing skills useful regardless of AI&#8217;s impact rather than trying to predict the future.<\/li>\n<li>Curiosity and adaptability should guide actions in response to AI&#8217;s changes; instead of allowing anxiety to define the future, one should become more prepared for any outcome by cultivating valuable human qualities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How AI Is Fueling Anticipatory Anxiety At Work And What To Do About It https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianehamilton\/2026\/07\/04\/how-ai-is-fueling-anticipatory-anxiety-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/690e7a668d1fb472effa43de\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240191,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189\/revisions\/240191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}