"AI psychosis" is one of those very useful analogies, and you can tell, because "AI psychosis" has found even *more* metaphorical uses, describing *other* bad beliefs about AI. Today, I want to talk about three of these AI psychoses, and how they relate to one another: the investor AI delusion, the boss AI delusion, and the critic AI delusion.
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