How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Bad news for the Czech community. Burnout at work is a major problem, and AI could add to this already overwhelmed employee problem. The honeymoon period with AI is over. When people are asked, what what are you afraid of? Losing my job to AI is actually second to last. What we saw rise up to the top. Is the expectation to do more. For the same Hey.

survey on How people are feeling. In tech right now, burnout is increasing significantly. Optimism is declining. It's never been crazier. When we can get to the optimistic part of this uh of this episode half of the people in tech.

And the other half. Then she told us. My brain is rotting. My work feels Worse. Way of describing it. We're definitely living in a simulation if we're alive right now, when we're about to start building data centers in space, and AI is gonna be the smartest human. But does this tell us we should be doing if we can do anything? We're in the second inning of a massive shift. No one knows how it will end.

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