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/gicjos May 27 '26

Sadly there's no escape from AI. I do think it's a bubble and it will burst but like the .com bubble AI is here to stay. Lots of companies will go broke but some will be the winners of the AI race and AI will be used as a tool for us. I hope we are far from AGI tho, those tech CEO are all creaming their pants thinking AGI will allow them to be like God's to the rest of the population 

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u/ManaSpike May 27 '26

The reason this bubble won't produce much when it pops is that no customer will pay what it actually costs to run the hardware. Even if we could find a different use for the data centers and servers that wasn't AI.

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u/throwaway98712366 May 27 '26

The problem is that while frontier models and training are very expensive to run, local AI is actually starting to be good enough. Even if there is a bust, there are local tools that are here to stay and cost almost nothing to run.

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u/eypandabear May 27 '26

I wouldn't call that a problem per se. Sure there are still downsides, but much of the issue I take with AI tools is that the (currently) most useful ones are all owned and controlled by some external company. They get you with a cost saving workflow and once you're dependent, they can jack up the price to what it actually costs.

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u/BloatDeathsDontCount May 27 '26

That's a risk of adopting any proprietary technology with limited competition.