Jemma Spake

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1,071 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 23 Apr

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The Psychology of your 20s · 382. How is AI actually impacting our brains? · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

So we keep going until we reach destruction.

The environmental impact is one thing, but this isn't an environmental podcast.

This is a psychology podcast.

And the psychological impact of that impact is the one I want to dissect more.

I think something we're not talking about is how the threat of AI is making so much of us, so many of us, I should say, really pessimistic about the future and really depressed.

We are in this like weird reality.

where we all feel so hopeless.

We know people are going to lose their jobs.

It's unavoidable.

We just know that.

We know that climate change is going to get worse.

We know that we're going to stop being able to tell what's real or fake online, maybe even in person.

And that is hard on our collective mood and collective mental well-being.

We're seeing these fears reflected in an increasing sense of fear, listlessness, hopelessness, anxiety, especially in young people, you know,

We are not as positive about the future as the people and the generations before us.

We're one of the first generations who doesn't say and who won't say that they have things to look forward to.

There was a 2024 study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry that already has showed a really high and increasing prevalence of existential anxiety around AI.

particularly a sense of emptiness, anxiety about meaninglessness, guilt over AI-related catastrophes and unethical actions of AI,

Is anyone doing anything about this?

Anyone doing any thinking about this?

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