Aaron Levie has watched his peers race toward artificial intelligence with something approaching religious fervor. The founder and chief executive of Box, the cloud content management company, offered a blunt label for what he sees. CEOs suffer from AI psychosis. Levie posted the diagnosis on X on May 24, 2026. “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,” he wrote. Short. Direct. And it landed. The remark quickly spread through tech circles. TechCrunch reported on it the next day. So did Futurism hours later. Both captured the same core idea. Top executives test an AI prototype, watch it spit out clean-looking output, and declare victory. They miss the debugging, the edge cases, the endless human fixes that follow. Levie gave a concrete example. Executives show off an impressive product prototype built with a chatbot.…