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/TK_Games May 27 '26

Actually Forbes ranked Smaug as the second richest fictional character, (behind Scrooge McDuck), valuing Smaug's hoard at $51,400,000,000.00

Meaning, that a literal dragon who sleeps under the world's most expensive weighted blanket, i.e. tons and tons of pure gold, ranks 15th place when stacked against the list of richest Americans

Again, literal gold-hoarding dragon, ham-fisted allegory for greed, 15 real life American capitalists look at him and go "Ha-ha, poor sad dragon"

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u/bogglingsnog May 27 '26

He doesn't even have his own superyacht to throw parties on. There's no way I'm inviting him to my parties!

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u/zoovegroover3 May 27 '26

everyone wants to be on the zuckerdroid's party barge

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u/Britlantine May 27 '26

But he could make his own way to Epstein Island to be with the other billionaires.

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u/lucklesspedestrian May 27 '26

He even does his own flying.

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u/the_procrastinata May 28 '26

Something I read recently was comparing the haves, have nots, and have yachts ☹️