"The Big Short" Michael Burry: AI Giants' Calls to Slow Development Are "Self-Serving" Moves

According to Business Insider, Michael Burry, the real-life inspiration behind the film The Big Short and a prominent short seller, has heavily criticized the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic for their call to "slow down AI R&D," accusing their approach of being highly self-serving. Burry cited four core reasons: large language models are not true AI, shielding vested interests, generating hype for an IPO, and concealing the dilemma of stagnant growth. He further argued that this so-called "proactive push to slow down" is simply a smokescreen to mask the fact that the sector’s decelerating growth is spiraling out of control and that its IPO timelines have inevitably been delayed.