Vitalik shared a rather practical observation on X today.
It started when a Harvard humanities course banned chatbots, and applications rose by 40%. Some people debated whether models are better than humans at reading classics. Vitalik weighed in, drawing a distinction between knowledge and wisdom: AI is extremely knowledgeable and can recognize almost any reference, but it isn’t very wise. It often makes only the most superficial judgments about what an article is actually arguing.
This is directly relevant to crypto. These days, many people feed white papers and governance proposals to AI, then make decisions based on the summaries. The flaw Vitalik pointed out is greatest precisely when it comes to completely unfamiliar documents. As a co-founder of $ETH , he previously warned that AI could threaten critical areas of cryptographic security within two years, and he has also developed a paranoid mode for AI conversations.
It started when a Harvard humanities course banned chatbots, and applications rose by 40%. Some people debated whether models are better than humans at reading classics. Vitalik weighed in, drawing a distinction between knowledge and wisdom: AI is extremely knowledgeable and can recognize almost any reference, but it isn’t very wise. It often makes only the most superficial judgments about what an article is actually arguing.
This is directly relevant to crypto. These days, many people feed white papers and governance proposals to AI, then make decisions based on the summaries. The flaw Vitalik pointed out is greatest precisely when it comes to completely unfamiliar documents. As a co-founder of $ETH , he previously warned that AI could threaten critical areas of cryptographic security within two years, and he has also developed a paranoid mode for AI conversations.
