The anxiety around AI isn’t irrational. It has arrived in exactly the territory we have long used to define human worth — language, judgement, synthesis, the making of meaning.
Leaders who dismiss that fear lose people. Leaders who name it, and then show a credible path where human capability is developed rather than displaced, keep them.
Psychological safety isn’t a soft add-on here. It’s the condition under which people will question AI outputs, report harms and keep learning — the behaviours a responsible transition depends on.