Investor Sounds Alarm: SoftBank Head Calls Superintelligence an Existential Threat

When the main visionary of technological capital changes his rhetoric, Wall Street holds its breath. On October 5, 2026, Masayoshi Son (head of SoftBank Group), who poured billions of dollars into OpenAI's infrastructure, publicly stated that artificial Super Intelligence poses a colossal danger in the wrong hands.

Son called for the immediate creation of international AI control mechanisms. For macroeconomics, this is a marker of a phase transition. The largest institutional investors have realized: unrestrained funding of frontier models creates a product that cannot be monetized within current legislation due to security risks. Son's statements are a lobbying tool. Capital demands that governments establish clear rules of the game (compliance) to protect sunk investments from sudden government bans and catastrophic incidents involving algorithms.

Source: SoftBank Group / Bloomberg / Japan Times