AI Companies Ask to Slow Down

Cracks are starting to appear. Open AI and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research. Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogey man technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together. Bonus points if we can lobby for this to be included in the national security bucket. Then US govt can bail us out. Yay! If Nvidia is the bank, they should be starting to sweat a bit. It's not often companies ask for a voluntary slowdown.

A dark-mode forum post jokes that OpenAI and Anthropic publicly asking to slow AI research is really an admission that the technology may not become much more useful and that AGI is not coming. It sarcastically frames slowing the huge AI spending rate as a national-security issue so the US government can bail out the companies, while Nvidia is depicted as the bank that should be worried. The meme is used as a cynical reaction to AI hype, massive spending, and fears of an AI investment bubble.

• @gentoomemes / 21983 2026-09-13