Michael Burry Calls AI Apocalypse Warnings a ‘Self-Serving’ IPO Strategy

The Big Short investor says the biggest threat facing OpenAI and Anthropic may not be rogue superintelligence, but the economics behind the AI boom.

BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM

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Rogue superintelligence that can commandeer weapons systems and launch attacks. Large Language Models that wreak havoc on biological research labs, creating new viruses that spread globally. 

This kind of AI doomerism has dominated recent headlines following former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon’s viral, Sept.8 thread on X. Coxon detailed the myriad ways rapid AI development could unleash humanity-destroying harms. The message was so effective it spurred........

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