There’s a growing disconnect in Silicon Valley between the corner office and the cubicles. In a recent post on X, Aaron Levie, CEO of content management platform Box, said the quiet part out loud about how his peers in the tech world fail to grasp the full scale of AI work. “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,” Levie wrote on X. He added: “So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.” In other words, CEOs see only the best in the tech, far removed from the bugs, hallucinations, and other snafus workers who are doing the grunt work encounter daily. That observation mirrors what’s showing up in the data. A 2025 survey from AI firm Rev found heavy AI users run into three times the number of hallucinations and spend nearly 10 times longer getting answers. Those are the employees “tokenmaxxing,” or maximizing the number of AI tokens they burn through. That’s a side of the tech some CEOs simply fail to grasp as they plan to lay off thousands of workers to replace with AI. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/box-ceo-aaron-levie-ai-psychosis-jobs-layoffs/ submitted by /u/fortune
Originally posted by u/fortune on r/ArtificialInteligence