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Learn moreEven before we go deeper, I want to be upfront about this. I think Dario Amodei's concerns about the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development deserve to be taken seriously.
As the CEO of Anthropic, one of the companies building this technology, he has a front-row view of where AI is heading. That alone gives his warnings a perspective most of us don't have.
Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Sep. 12, 2026, calling for an intentional slowdown in advanced AI development.
He received remarkable support. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed it. Elon Musk said Amodei was "right." Even competitors in a fiercely competitive industry agreed that independent evaluators made sense.
This has been a primary topic of discussion for some time. I also think that if AI development continues at its current pace without safeguards, there is a real risk that we could eventually confront the darker side of what the technology is capable of doing.
Yes, of course, the potential benefits are enormous, but so are the consequences if its risks outpace our ability to manage them.
Hock Tan was on Mad Money on Sep. 14 and said that none of this changes anything for Broadcom (AVGO).
Both things can be true simultaneously. And understanding the tension between them is the most important thing for Broadcom investors right now.
What Broadcom CEO actually said and what he didn't dismiss
The market's reaction to Amodei's essay was expected. AVGO fell over 4.8% on Sep. 14. The iShares Semiconductor ETF dropped 5.6%. Infrastructure providers across the board got hit.
And most investors' question was whether a slowdown in frontier model development means a slowdown in compute demand.
Cramer asked Tan whether any of this has caused him to reconsider Broadcom's fiscal 2027 and 2028 AI semiconductor forecasts.
No, not in the least.
"We see the demand for compute infrastructure, for AI development or AI frontier models, and inference for the products that they feed to the world, as continuing to be very strong and, I believe, very durable," Tan said.
Tan wasn't dismissing Amodei's concerns. Tan agreed that AI needs guardrails.
"Like any tool, it's important to put governance and safeguards on how we use the tool," Tan said.
But he pushed back on the framing that AI poses existential risk at current capability levels. "It's not a live animal that will run wild by itself."
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