School psychology class: Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health

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Over-reliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health

• The article discusses how AI could lead to increased loneliness. Suggest how the humanistic approach might explain the negative effects of AI on employees’ wellbeing

• Discuss how the psychodynamic approach and learning approach(es) might explain the impact of AI on workers’ mental health

• Design an repeated-measures experiment to investigate the impact of AI in the workplace. In your response, you should give details of groups and variables, forms of control that might be necessary, and how the data would be analysed

• The article highlights both benefits and risks associated with the role of AI in the workplace. Discuss the role of the biological and cognitive approaches in explaining how employees adapt to AI in the workplace

Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School