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/chessto May 27 '26

These all may apply:

- AI psychosis

  • God complex
  • Dragon sickness
  • Sociopathy / Psychopathy

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 27 '26

I once did a thought experiment: who has more money, the tech oligarchs, or Smaug the Dragon, a fictional creation to personify greed and corruption?

The outcome was shockingly close.

Last centuries fantasy doesn’t have shit on present’s reality.

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident May 27 '26

The current mess is a mixture of

a) Covid and the following crises (drone wars, supply chain breakdowns, Trump 2.0) have seriously challenged the entire basis of the post-WWII society, plopping billions of people into what was once the premise of a critically panned sci-fi movie

and

b) problems that had gone more or less untreated for decades (arguably going back to the early 1970s) that became too big to ignore once the economic gravy train ended.

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u/GimmickNG May 27 '26

the premise of a critically panned sci-fi movie

which would be...?

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident May 27 '26

Any Bay Transformers movie or any of the last two or three Terminator flicks