The people who have ascended to leadership positions are deeply divorced from reality.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
They get paid for saying whatever VCs want to hear and now that thing is "we have now become an AI-native company". The thing I'm still trying to understand is who is scamming whom
The crazy thing is their salary does not actually benefit from riding these trends. Unless it's equally/even more clueless board level pressure with ulterior motives (i.e., lifting their other AI investments or the sector as a whole).