Investor Michael Burry, renowned for his foresight in the 2008 financial crisis, has publicly rebuked prominent figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies on social media for advocating a slowdown in AI advancements. He labeled their motivations as "exclusively self-serving."
Burry asserted that large language models (LLMs) should not be considered true AI, much less artificial general intelligence (AGI), and thus there is nothing to decelerate. He suggested that the push to slow development stems from a fear of heightened competition. Additionally, Burry argued that the discussions surrounding the "dangers" of their own technologies serve as marketing tactics aimed at generating the hype necessary for successful initial public offerings (IPOs), particularly given an actual but unspoken deceleration in corporate growth.
