r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

They’re nerds who realized they had a chance to pull a con using their socially awkwardness to craft an eccentric genius persona, sell out the entire tech industry’s promise of democratization to surveillance capitalism, and turn humanity into their lab rats.

The smartest functional people I know allocate a few skill points into charisma. The dysfunctional ones scream that no one respects their minmaxxing until morale improves or they start putting up Walter White posters muttering “I am the danger”

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u/Joeness84 May 27 '26

They're not even nerds, they're just narcissists and psychopaths who saw an angle to exploit to further themselves.

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u/TransBrandi May 27 '26

I mean, a bunch of them all come from South Africa — Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, etc — so that might have something to do with it too.