Why AI Is Creating an Identity Crisis

I'll give a short answer.

I think it's because so much of our lives are being disrupted.

So much of what we know as our identity is being disrupted by AI.

But it's so important to know what we genuinely are.

believe ourselves to be where our worth is, how we understand ourselves so that that disruption doesn't send us completely off course, but allows us to grow and to adapt and to change.

And it makes it sound like some easy thing to do.

It's like, oh, I'll understand myself better.

But it's obviously a lot more complex than that.

But I think it's an opportunity that people reach sometimes through major life transitions.

So it might usually be reached through something like a bereavement, divorce, retirement.

And AI is forcing the questions that people would normally face at those times.

in a much more rapid way.

And of course, it's on a bigger scale than it has been previously.

What are some of the risks of not knowing who we are in a world increasingly shaped by AI? I

think the risks It could feel existential.

So if we think about those times in life that I think most of us have encountered where we feel like we've suddenly lost our way or something's been pulled from under us because life has changed in some way, whether that's been expected or unexpected.

So the feeling can be existential.

I think the practical risk is en masse looking at a lot of people who are feeling that.

So they're unsettled.

They are therefore underperforming.

If you talk about a work environment, well-being suffers, stress increases, burnout increases.

And then I think from the perspective of really needing people to understand how to tap into what we call human capabilities.

And at the moment, a lot of organizations are saying, hey, we need human skills, which I think is fantastic because, you know, these are the things that I've been arguing for for years.

But we can't just like plaster them on top of something.

It's like building a house without any foundations.