Morra Aarons-Mele – Why we need to talk about AI-anxiety

What if the anxiety AI stirs up isn't a problem to suppress, but a signal worth listening to? And what if daring to pause for the uncomfortable, human conversations about AI is exactly what helps organizations move forward?

These are the key questions we discuss in this episode of Changing Conversations with Morra Aarons-Mele.

Morra is a leadership advisor and coach, speaker, author, and host of the top-rated Anxious Achiever podcast. She is also the founder of the award-winning digital consulting firm Women Online.

In this conversation, we share:

• Why AI anxiety is not irrational but deeply logical, since our nervous system is wired to react to uncertainty and a loss of control.
• Why anxiety, understood and channeled rather than suppressed, can be data and even a leadership superpower to leverage rather than a weakness to hide.
• How reconnecting with your values and your craft – what only you can do – helps you reclaim agency when AI makes work feel like something happening to you.
• Why leaders default to talking about AI's opportunities and tools while avoiding the emotions underneath, and why those conversations are so necessary.
• A simple way in: asking honest questions like "How does AI make you feel?" and "What's the conversation we're not having?" to open space for real dialogue.

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