Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed back against predictions that artificial intelligence could trigger a 50% Bitcoin crash within two years.
The debate began after Silicon Valley investor and AI-risk commentator Liron Shapiro said he sees a 50% probability that Bitcoin will fall more than 50% over the next two years because AI undermines what investors believe are the network’s security and robustness guarantees.
However, Buterin took the other side of this position, saying:
My basic reasons are that I am quite optimistic about cybersecurity in the long term and I see the primary problem as being getting the transition.
Buterin argued that Bitcoin should be able to handle security failures that…
