By Arwa Mahdawi
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 11:10:00
DDo you ever feel like the people who run the world are delinquents? That the 1% live in a completely different universe than the rest of us? You’re not the only one. Even some tech elites are starting to worry about their colleagues’ perception of reality. “CEOs are particularly vulnerable to AI psychosis,” Aaron Levie, co-founder of enterprise cloud company Box, explained on X last month. His reasoning? “They are far enough away from the last mile of work that still needs to be done to generate the most value with AI. So when they experiment with AI, they see the happy results and often don’t consider the next 10 or 20 things that need to happen to get sustainable results from the agents.”
In other words, CEOs are so high up on the food chain that they don’t understand the human work required to turn a flawed AI creation into something that works properly in a business context. They are desperate to replace their tedious and expensive human labor…
