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AI anxiety spreads; older playbooks resurface for fear management

Sep 28, 2026SOURCE: npr.org
SO WHAT

In the thousand-day window, anxiety becomes interface design: whoever controls narratives shapes which choices remain available before the inversion hardens.

The piece frames AI risk fears as a psychological continuity problem, not a technical verdict. It reads like a coping memo during a phase transition signal.

This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.