{"id":243116,"date":"2026-05-29T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/what-happens-when-companies-become-too-ai-pilled-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:57:05","slug":"what-happens-when-companies-become-too-ai-pilled-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/what-happens-when-companies-become-too-ai-pilled-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when companies become too AI-pilled? | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job\u00a0truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI psychosis<\/a>.\u201d Indeed,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/25\/what-clickups-mass-layoff-tells-us-about-the-future-of-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ClickUp\u00a0recently\u00a0cut 22% of its workforce<\/a> for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/26\/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DuckDuckGo installs are climbing<\/a>\u00a0from users who want\u00a0Google\u00a0to stop forcing AI\u00a0into search\u00a0and just give them links.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch as TechCrunch\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into what happens when the AI-pilled and the AI-skeptical are both right at the same time, plus three deals worth knowing about and Waymo\u2019s new robotaxi hitting the\u00a0road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/what-happens-when-companies-become-too-ai-pilled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job\u00a0truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of\u00a0\u201cAI psychosis.\u201d Indeed,\u00a0ClickUp\u00a0recently\u00a0cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}