Vitalik Buterin said AI is showing the ability to break out of sandboxes, attack websites, find software vulnerabilities, and help Ethereum protocols detect bugs, perform complex cryptography, and carry out formal verification. According to Odaily, he said that about a month ago he updated ENS information without using a user interface for the first time, asking only a local AI agent to write a script, and the task took about five minutes.

Buterin said he expects AI directly executing complex on-chain operations to gradually become normal and to serve as a new user interface in more scenarios. He also said the Safe-related hack caused about $1.4 billion in losses and targeted the interaction layer between users and on-chain systems rather than on-chain contracts. He added that AI handling transactions directly may reduce risks from web interfaces, but it would also introduce new challenges such as AI security, prompt injection, and the accuracy of operation understanding.