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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Sanguinetti Fernández-Ordoñez, Pablo Carlos author Palomo-Torres, María Bella author 2024-11-07 The media portrayal of artificial intelligence (AI) directly impacts how audiences conceptualize this technology and, therefore, its use, development, and regulation. This study aims to measure a key aspect of this problem: the feeling of AI anxiety conveyed by news outlets that represent this technology as a sort of “alien” that is autonomous, opaque, and independent of humans. To do so, we build an AI anxiety index based on principal component analysis (PCA) and apply it to a corpus of headlines (n = 1682) about AI published before and after the launch of ChatGPT in ten newspapers: The New York Times, The Guardian, El País, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, San Francisco Chronicle, Manchester Evening News, La Voz de Galicia, Ouest France, and Münchner Merkur. The results show that ChatGPT not only boosted the number of AI headlines (× 5.16) but also reduced positive sentiments (−26.46%) and increased negatives (58.84%). The AI anxiety index also grew (10.59%), albeit driven by regional media (61.41%), while it fell in national media (−6.82%). Finally, the discussion of the variables that compose the index reveals the opportunities and challenges faced by national and regional media in avoiding the feeling of AI anxiety. Sanguinetti, Pablo, and Bella Palomo. 2024. An Alien in the Newsroom: AI Anxiety in European and American Newspapers. Social Sciences 13: 608. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/socsci13110608 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36706 10.3390/socsci13110608 Inteligencia artificial Ansiedad Periodismo An Alien in the Newsroom: AI Anxiety in European and American Newspapers