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Most tech executives have approached the AI boom with calculated irresponsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

A spendthrift trust is irrevocable and designed to protect a beneficiary’s inheritance from creditors, civil lawsuits resulting from an alleged $100,000 bank fraud and/or, as importantly, their own financial irresponsibility.

From MarketWatch Apr. 16, 2026

"Anyone involved in this will have to pay the price for the irresponsibility of causing ...perhaps the largest financial scandal in this country’s history," Lula said.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

Often, the man’s callous irresponsibility would trigger a response that would snowball into something “unhinged,” intentionally augmented for dramatic effect.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2025

But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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