Three of the most powerful architects of artificial intelligence — Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — have arrived at a rare and sobering consensus: the technology they are building may outpace humanity's ability to govern it. Yet in calling for restraint, they have exposed a paradox at the heart of the modern AI economy, where the financial structures sustaining their companies depend entirely on the acceleration they now ask the world to abandon. It is a moment that reveals how deeply the fate of a technology can become entangled with the logic of capital — and how difficult it is to