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2026-09-16 · NASDAQ

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" Says an AI Slowdown Would Be "Self-Serving" for OpenAI and Anthropic

Key Points Since a researcher from Anthropic and OpenAI publicly warned that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction, AI companies have been discussing slowing down due to safety concerns. Burry believes the dire warnings are a distraction to mask underlying issues in the business models of the frontier AI labs. He's not the first to suggest that these labs are using fear to drum up excitement for the technology. 10 stocks we like better than Space Exploration Technologies › Since a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee recently resigned from Anthropic and warned the public that artificial intelligence (AI) companies could bring about human extinction, many of the big AI players have come to agree with the employee, Jacob Coxon.

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