At best, they were narrowly competent; at worst, morally compromised and dangerously deluded.

"Any time from the outside I've seen her in a difficult situation, she says it's tough and she's honest. She isn't deluded. She always addresses it."

It comes with the territory and anyone who thinks it doesn't is deluding themselves.

There could be “huge social ruptures where one side sees the other as very cruelly exploiting AI while the other side sees the first as deluding itself into thinking there’s sentience there,” he said.

If what his Cabinet members are telling the press is an accurate reflection of his views, it's pretty clear that he's deeply deluded.