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

Michael Burry, the investor of "The Big Short" fame.

Bloomberg/Getty Images Michael Burry says AI leaders are looking out for themselves by supporting slower progress.

The investor from "The Big Short" said they're "self-serving" and there's "nothing to fear." AI chiefs have called for greater restraint after researchers warned AI could eliminate all humans.

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.

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LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI.

There is nothing AI to slow down.

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Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits… — Cassandra Unchained (@michaeljburry) September 14, 2026 Burry listed four reasons why: He doesn't view AI chatbots as the path to artificial general intelligence so there's "nothing" that needs its progress curbed.

A slowdown "benefits incumbents" and hampers smaller rivals.

Hailing AI as so powerful it's an extinction-level threat fuels the "hype & puffery" that feeds public offerings.