Michael Burry says AI leaders’ calls for a slowdown are ‘self-serving’ — and humanity has ‘nothing to fear’

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other AI chiefs are calling for slower development of the technology following fresh warnings that it could annihilate us all. Michael Burry says they’re just helping themselves.

The investor of “The Big Short” fame said in a late Sunday post on X that it was “self-serving” for the bosses of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies to push for a slowdown.

Let’s all take a moment to understand how self-serving it is for OpenAI, Anthropic and other execs of big hyperscalers to talk of slowing things down.

1. LLMs are not AI and won’t be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down.

2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing…