Albanian validation of AI attitude scales: emotional anxiety outweighs ethical concerns in 705 students and staff

The General Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence Scale (GAAIS), Attitudes toward Ethical AI Scale (AT-EAI), and AI Anxiety Scale (AIAS) showed good factorial validity and reliability in 705 Albanian students/staff (CFI≥0.987). Exploratory analyses: affective AI anxiety most…

• Cross-sectional survey of 705 students and staff at a single Albanian university; instruments translated, back-translated, and confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis.
• Affective AI anxiety had the strongest association with negative attitudes (β=0.32), while ethical non-maleficence weakly linked to positive attitudes (β=0.17).
• Limitation: single-institution, cross-sectional design limits generalizability; exploratory associational findings require prospective confirmation.

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