On a Monday that will likely mark a turning point in how markets understand artificial intelligence, prominent voices from within the AI industry itself called for a deliberate slowing of development — and global investors responded with swift, synchronized selling. The selloff was not born of panic but of recalibration: a moment when the story that had carried technology stocks to historic heights was quietly, publicly questioned by those who had written it. When insiders counsel restraint, markets must ask whether the road ahead is longer, harder, or more uncertain than the price of admissio