Wall Street expert Michael Burry on Monday suggested that leading technology leaders have ulterior motives for their recent deluge of warnings about artificial intelligence, arguing they are simply looking to boost profit margins. 

The prominent investor weighed in on the AI debate that sparked last week, when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left the company with a highly publicized resignation, warning that “AI could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s move triggered a stream of major Big Tech leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to issue statements calling for extensive guardrails over the technology and a global slowdown of development, warning the industry had “lied” to the public about AI safety risks and expressing concern that “we could lose control of the future to AI.”