20 February 2026
Vitalik Buterin: Lengthening the feedback distance between humans and AIs is not a good thing for the world.
Today, it means you re generating slop instead of solving useful problems for people. It s not even well-optimized for helping people have fun.
Once AI becomes powerful enough to be truly dangerous, it s maximizing the risk of an irreversible anti-human outcome that even you will deeply regret.
The point of ethereum is to set us free, not to create something else that goes off and does some stuff freely while our own situation is unchanged or worsened. And, as others have pointed out, the models are run by openai and anthropic, so the thing is not even self-sovereign you re actually perpetuating the mentality that centralized trust assumptions can be put in a corner and ignored, the very mentality that ethereum is at war with
The exponential will happen regardless of what any of us do, that s precisely why this era s primary task is NOT to make the exponential happen even faster...