AI Anxiety Cascade Alert
Job displacement sentiment originating in the AI Adoption initiative is bleeding into other change initiatives. This sentinel monitors cross-initiative contamination in real time using Slack, Glint, and ServiceNow signals.
IF AI anxiety score exceeds 60% of AI-channel messages OR org restructure contamination score exceeds 75 → CEO-facilitated all-hands on AI strategy and workforce commitment within 10 business days. Freeze all new AI use-case activations until all-hands is complete.
Current AI anxiety: 48% of threshold 60% — 12pp remaining before trigger. Org restructure contamination: 68/100 of threshold 75.
Cascade Trend — AI Anxiety vs. Initiative Sentiment (12 Weeks)
As AI anxiety rises (orange), initiative sentiment scores fall in correlated patterns — evidence of cross-initiative contamination
- AI Anxiety
- Org Restructure Sentiment
- Email Rollout Sentiment
- Correlation Score
Initiative Contamination Status
Contamination score measures how strongly each initiative's sentiment decline correlates with the AI anxiety spike
Org restructure Glint sentiment dropped 11pp in 3 weeks — correlates 0.81 with AI anxiety spike
Email rollout support ticket language shifted — 23% now include AI/automation references
Early signal: 8% of ITSM feedback mentions AI automation concerns — below threshold but trending
Contamination Signal Evidence
Verbatim signals from Slack, Glint, and ServiceNow showing AI anxiety bleeding into other initiatives
"Is this restructure actually about replacing us with AI? The timing with Copilot rollout is not a coincidence." — #org-change, Feb 25
Recommended Actions to Break the Cascade
Prioritized by urgency — the cascade is a narrative problem that requires narrative solutions, not more data
Governance Rationale
The cascade is driven by a narrative vacuum. Employees are connecting dots across initiatives (AI rollout + org restructure + Copilot rollout) and arriving at a job displacement conclusion. Only a named, senior, explicit commitment breaks the narrative loop. Generic communications will not work.
What is an AI Anxiety Cascade?
A cascade occurs when sentiment or anxiety from one change initiative bleeds into others through shared employee networks, Slack channels, and Glint pulse responses. In this case, job displacement anxiety originating in the AI Adoption initiative is contaminating how employees interpret the org restructure and Copilot rollout — employees are connecting all three into a single AI displacement narrative, amplifying anxiety across the portfolio. The cascade is detected by measuring the statistical correlation between AI anxiety volume and sentiment declines in other initiatives over time. A correlation above 0.70 is considered strong evidence of contamination.