Vitalik Buterin the Ethereum co founder dropped a post on X this Monday saying he’s totally chill with the AI model Kimi 3.1 skipping those top tier offensive cyber skills in its training data 🖤. In his view the trade off is worth it cuz it gives defenders more time to gear up rn.
Keeping It Case By Case Not People Specific 🔮
Discriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users Buterin wrote 😈. The world needs time to harden systems and check old code before the full weight of very powerful cyber attacks hits us he added ✨. In plain terms he prefers a model that declines certain tasks for everyone over one that turns certain people away fr.
Some Past Thoughts on AI and Securing Code 🕸️
He also sketched what could go wrong tho. If this first big wave of AI risk is not handled well the result might be a dystopia of highly locked down models with KYC checks tying accounts to verified identities and intrusive surveillance to match 🦇. Depending on credentials and nationality a person could end up a second or third or fourth class citizen in terms of model access 👁️. Asked by X user LOID whether other labs would build those capabilities anyway Buterin replied yes of course they will.
Not everyone agreed with a hard disagree from developer Youssof Al Toukhi who brought up the recent attack on Hugging Face by an OpenAI model 🔥. When Hugging Face tried to analyze the attackers actions using frontier models the providers safety guardrails blocked the requests forcing a switch to an open model GLM 5.2. Calling the arrangement an elitism system that will only get worse overtime the critic added intelligence needs to be democratized 💀. As reported before Buterin countered fears in May that AI powered bug hunting would overwhelm developers and create non stop openings for exploits arguing that AI assisted formal verification could become one of the strongest defenses in crypto 🌙. In his telling a model can now write both the code and its proof leaving developers to confirm that the statement proven is the one they wanted. His Monday post names formal verification of new codes among the work that needs the extra time. That May 19 post appeared as a hacker took more than $76 million from the Echo Protocol cross chain bridge the third major exploit in four days. In October 8 he warned that AI assisted mathematics could weaken ECDSA and similar cryptographic systems sooner than expected although he added that users should not scramble to move their funds to new wallets today.
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