Stark warnings from Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs are set to disrupt the AI stock trade they built up

The CEOs of leading AI companies are known for their blunt statements, and investors could be left holding the bag after the latest salvo.

Within in the course of 48 hours, AI titans in Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) CEO Sam Altman have managed to scare the hell out of the human race on the powerful technology they created and pushed their teams full of pioneering super-coders to supercharge.

"Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up," Amodei stated in a 3,800 word essay on Saturday. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of A.I. models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain."

Altman apparently agrees with his rival.

"I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier," Altman posted on X. "This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon."