Javier Bargas-Avila argues that the term ‘AI psychosis,’ increasingly used to describe executives making sweeping company-wide AI decisions based on polished demos, misapplies a serious clinical diagnosis to an organizational problem. He contends the real issue is structural distance: leaders removed from day-to-day execution mistake a demonstration for an actual deployment. He proposes replacing the term with ‘AI Distance Blindness,’ or simply calling it poor leadership, to avoid trivializing genuine psychiatric illness while still naming the executive failure pattern.
