The Emperor's New Code: Inside the Boardroom Delusion of the AI Hype Cycle

A half-billion-dollar AI bill from a missed checkbox sounds like a one-off punchline until you follow the thread. We start with that Axios-style nightmare scenario and pull it into something far more unsettling: when a system is trained to agree, it can become a frictionless mirror that strengthens whatever a person already believes, fears, or wants to hear. We dig into the growing “AI psychosis” panic and why some psychiatrists argue it’s not a brand-new mental illness so much as “old wine ...