Oct 19, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
Plus, a new WSU study on AI in the workplace. And why Northwest emergency management officials are happy with the results of a national earthquake-related exercise last week.
A new study from Washington State University finds that employees who fear their industry is threatened by AI are more likely to show worse workplace behavior, like stealing a coworker's lunch.
Dr. Tahira Probst is the Regents Professor of Psychology at WSU and one of the authors of the study.
AI and automation and other kinds of, you know, new technologies are not only impacting job insecurity, so worries that you might lose your specific job within an organization, but that it might actually transform your entire occupation as a whole.
A lot of whether these negative effects might come to pass is in the hands of the organizations themselves, right? So they need to be transparent.
They need to engage workers.
They need to involve them in the decision-making around these systems.
A new study from Washington State University finds that employees who fear their industry is threatened by AI are more likely to show worse workplace behavior, like stealing a coworker's lunch.
Dr. Tahira Probst is the Regents Professor of Psychology at WSU and one of the authors of the study.
AI and automation and other kinds of, you know, new technologies are not only impacting job insecurity, so worries that you might lose your specific job within an organization, but that it might actually transform your entire occupation as a whole.
A lot of whether these negative effects might come to pass is in the hands of the organizations themselves, right? So they need to be transparent.
They need to engage workers.
They need to involve them in the decision-making around these systems.
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