AI in the Workplace

How the show has covered AI's arrival in work — as a stressor, a skill, a hiring tool, and a cultural force.

What's been said

• Token anxiety is the new workplace stress. Al introduced "token anxiety" — the low-grade stress of watching your AI usage tokens tick up in real time — as a novel psychological load workers didn't ask for .
• AI literacy is becoming a leadership skill. Google's Generative AI Leader certification signals that managing with and around AI is shifting from nice-to-have to expected for leaders and managers .
• AI in recruitment may automate bias, not fix it. The flawed promise of AI hiring: algorithms that scale existing bias rather than remove it .
• AI meets the dark triad. Danny Wareham connected AI to the future of leadership and to dark-triad traits — how machine-mediated work could amplify or moderate the worst patterns in organisations .