**["The Big Short" Prototype Burry: AI Leaders Calling to Slow Development is "Selfish and Self-Serving," Humanity Need Not Fear]** Golden Finance reported on September 14, citing Business Insider, that Michael Burry, the investor prototype of *The Big Short*, posted on the X platform Sunday night stating that executives from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic calling to slow AI development is "selfish and self-serving." Burry listed four reasons: 1. Large language models are not AI and will not become AGI, so there is nothing that needs slowing down. 2. Slowing development benefits incumbents and hinders smaller competitors. 3. Hyping AI as an extinction-level threat fuels the "hype and boasting" supporting IPOs. 4. Intentionally slowing development provides cover for "truly uncontrollable growth slowdown." Burry further elaborated on his Substack, stating that Anthropic and OpenAI executives advocating for slowing development is "to enhance their perceived power before IPOs," and claimed that models like Claude and ChatGPT will not achieve true reasoning capabilities. Previously, AI leaders such as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei had called for slowing development, with Elon Musk also expressing support.