AI Giants Call for Slower Pace? "Big Short" Burry Slams: Pure Hype to Mask Slowing Growth

Odaily News: The three "leaders" of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry unanimously called for slowing down the pace of technological development last weekend. Renowned "Big Short" investor Michael Burry has questioned this, calling the push to slow things down "self-serving." He stated that the push by OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies could slow down fast-moving competitors, thereby benefiting incumbents. He also challenged the fundamental premise of this argument, noting that large language models are not AGI, and therefore "there simply is no AI that needs to be slowed down." Burry also said that talking about the potential dangers of AI helps maintain investor enthusiasm as companies prepare to go public.