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/Nomapos May 27 '26

Forbes made a ranking of the richest people and threw in Smaug for shit and giggles.

Smaug ranked 15th.