@buccocapital: Levie’s Law of AI Psychosis: The farther away you are from the actual work the more confident you are that humans are n…
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Aaron Levie's Law of AI Psychosis describes how CEOs and those distant from actual work tend to overestimate AI's ability to replace humans, focusing on happy-path results while ignoring the complex last mile of work.
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Levie’s Law of AI Psychosis:
The farther away you are from the actual work the more confident you are that humans are no longer needed
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Aaron Levie (@levie): 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.
So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have
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