Artificial Intelligence Challenge in Medicine: Physicians’ Anxiety and Resilience | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 12, Volume 101, Issue 1, October 2025, Pages 4650-4657 PDF (692.21 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2025.456484 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) anxiety is an emerging problem that could prevent AI technology from being broadly embraced, utilized, and accepted in the healthcare sector. AI Anxiety can drastically affect an individual's views, behaviors, sense of wellbeing, academic performance, and decisions. Objective: This study aims to assess Egyptian physicians’ anxiety level toward AI and risk factors affecting it. Subjects and Methods: This cross-sectional study adopted self-administered web-based questionnaires distributed to 400 Egyptian physicians from April to June 2025. The questionnaire involved sosciodemographic data, work related data, artificial intelligence anxiety scale (AIAS) and resilience scale. Results: The findings indicated that 51.8% of physicians had AI anxiety. The median (IQR) total AIAS score was 77 (60-94), with sub-dimensions scores of 22 (16-27) for "learning, " 24 (17.2-32.0) for “job replacement, ” 19 (15.0-24.0) for “sociodemographic blindness, ” and 12 (8.0-17.0) for “AI configuration.” The median (IQR) participants’ resilience score was 14.0 (10.0-20.0). Conclusion: Physicians had psychological concerns regarding the future of AI-dominated world including fear of replacement, tasks automation and technical blindness. So, programs for continuing education should be encouraged in parallel to enhance the application of AI in healthcare, facilitate adaptation, increase physicians' technological competence, resilience and reduce anxiety related to AI. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Artificial intelligence anxiety; AI; resilience; Physicians; Job replacement | ||
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