Of course we should not underestimate the potential. But many different actors will have to cope with that problem. Humans adapt to new threats. We have already adapted to X bots, many people can now distinguish real conversations from fake content.

If AI advances into the direction of ARA (agent replication) and tries to use this technique for "consensus manipulation", this will not be limited to Bitcoin but to all discussions and conflicts we have all over the Internet (the offline world, at first, wont be that much affected). We will have to develop strategies to distinguish them from human contributions as well, because otherwise we would be overwhelmed with the AI noise emitted by different lobby/interest groups. Of course this will be more difficult, as it is well possible that an AI in a couple of years could successfully impersonate a human for several days up to weeks. But there are possible strategies to cope with that.

Centralized social network services will eventually probably resort to KYC-like strategies like face verification to not collapse to AI content. But fortunately that's not the only possible action to be taken. For decentralized networks, for example "pseudonym parties" are a possibility: people gathering offline exchanging their pseudonyms. It may be necessary to re-verify them regularly to prevent to many to give their pseudonyms to an AI, and not always it will be possible, but in general it should be a quite effective strategy against AI replication.

So Bitcoin can't be seen as isolated from the whole AI content problem. If humans can't cope with that, we will have worse problems than a Bitcoin developer decision influenced by AI.

I think also that in a world full of AI noise, the power of logical, plausible, fact-based arguments would increase. And if an AI software is able to deliver a new plausible and fact-based argument for a development decision, it should not be treated different than a human. We would perhaps even be able to make Bitcoin more secure with AI assistance.

I don’t think AI pose a threat to bitcoin but I believe that over-reliance on AI will be a problem in the next 50 years. Today, students hardly do their module assessments and projects by themselves, most of them use AI to write the whole thing. It is so sad that developers are creating AI that can humanize other AI content. Very soon we are going to have an epidemic of graduates who have no idea what they studied in school because they used AI.

AI can potentially threaten Bitcoin's decentralization if attackers use it to attack the network or manipulate it. For example, AI is able to optimize a 51% attack by analyzing network weaknesses, or create complex botnets to influence consensus.

However, the Bitcoin architecture itself is stable: PoW makes it more difficult to concentrate power, and open source allows for quick adaptation. As long as AI does not control physical resources (energy, equipment), radical threats are unlikely.

But this is why school are no longer necessary in the modern day because while students waste years in school learning things that would not be useful to them. It would had been better they spend those years learning more important things. We have many students in school yet when they are done, they still have to learn other skills to survive but if those skills were been thought in school then we would not have to have many unemployed graduates because they will be doing well already. Jobs like being a streamer or content creator is not been taught in school yet they are now among the highest playing career that anyone can have. AI was introduced to make life easier and that is what it will keep doing and not being a threat to Bitcoin.

The thing is AI could always evolve in different ways but we can possible tell till it's actually done, cause the rate at which different industries uses AI these days is something else, if one AI ends up like it always do in the movies and starts working on it own will without any command then it's over.

AI is so freaking amazing, useful for many things and it's very far from been a overhyped scam or bubble like you said, if not it would not be this scary today what AI is capable of and at the same time, the claimed threat to Bitcoin is not available, I couldn't see any.

The only threat that could be for Bitcoin in the future is quantum computer and if that day should come a easier solution is always available, a patch can be create and installed in Bitcoin chain.

I no longer believe that both AI and Quantum computer are a threat to Bitcoin and I think it's best if others understand this too, there is nothing that can take over Bitcoin position ever again.

Ai can never be a threat to bitcoin, not now, not in the future, not ever.
You should know or understand that Ai sources information from various sources which are still controlled by humans, Ai had no power of its own, Ai can not reveal what is not reveals online somewhere, and it can't do what hasn't been done before, so when ever we are talking about the things that are a threat to bitcoin, lets not bring Ai into the picture because it can never be a threat..

Ai as a matter of fact has been of great help to bitcoin and will continue to be, alot of people are learning about bitcoin and crypto currencies through the help of Ai, my younger brother was studying how the bitcoin blockchain works, and he was using Ai to do all of his research, and to my amazement, he already knows even far more then I myself knows.

I think that when Satoshi nakamoto was thinking about creating Bitcoin he has this kind of thoughts in his mind so I don't personally see artificial intelligence as a threat to Bitcoins decentralized nature because I don't think that anyone can ever be able to do that anyone who is going to be a threat is that person that will find Satoshi and gets the Bitcoin program from him so artificial intelligence is not one thing that I don't consider been a threat.


Yes it's true that some recent crypto currencies especially altcoins makes use of artificial intelligence but that is not with Bitcoin Bitcoin is unique and different from all these altcoins so anyone thinking about making Bitcoin centralized via artificial intelligence is dreaming

That quote is almost two months old; in the tech world he posted as a teenager and is now in old age...

There are two threats to crypto - one it created itself (AI) and the other I've been warning about for years.

Traditional computing, the kind AI uses, relies on bits that be on or off.  (Initial designs contemplated 10 phase bits to mimic base 10 but it was too complicated for the time).  Quantum computing relies on qubits that can be multiple values at once.  A Bitcoin private key is 256 bits - 1 or 0.   Theoretically, a 256 qubit com could crack a bitcoin private key in one try.  But Atom Computing's system has 1,180 qubits and the financial system still exists - because qubit noise requires error correction, and if you understand RAID, it means more space for the same information.   If we ever discover how to control quantum fluctuations (like we can control 100,000,000 degree plasma) then existing systems are already more than enough.

The US government has a plan to upgrade all systems to quantum proof by 2035.   HA!   I can search projections that say 10k years to 100-200 years to a couple years away - based on when they were written.  A recent article stated how the technology has been more effective than they expected.  

Further Reading:  Roughly a quarter of Bitcoin sits in older wallet formats that might be more vulnerable to quantum attacks.

At least the current bitcoin hodlers will get notice to upgrade when the older accounts start getting hacked.