Importing libraries into jupyter causes it to error: the kernel appears to have died

Question

Doing something as simple as:

import pandas as pd

Causes Jupyter Notebook to crash with: the kernel appears to have died.

I have tested:

import sys

sys.version

Which correctly imports sys, and prints version 3.9.

Trying a few other libraries such as matplotlib, seaborn, and numpy gives the same error.

I have tried installing these liraries in the terminal in jupyter with conda install package, but they are already installed. I have also checked they are up-to-date, which they are.

I'm using the Macbook Air M1 chip, with Anaconda x64 installed.

Not sure what to do from here.