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What Vitalik Buterin has said about artificial intelligence
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. 4 statements from September 26, 2026 to November 8, 2026, each quoted word for word from the original and checked before publication. Newest first.
- November 8, 2026 · on X
“I know this is a predictable opinion from me but I don't agree with the strong emotional reaction against the anti-data-center movements that I've seen this week. As I see it, algorithmic progress means that whatever you would be able to do with more and bigger data centers in 2 years, you will be able to do with the data centers we have today in 4 years - probably sooner. So nothing remotely apocalyptically bad will happen from even extreme levels of success by anti-data-center people. Meanwhile we need all the…”
- October 26, 2026 · on X
“For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously. It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easi…”
Vitalik Buterin Calls for Focus on Airborne Disease Resistance →
- October 25, 2026 · on X
“I am okay with Kimi 3.1 deliberately leaving out top-end offensive cyber capabilities from their training data. Discriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users. And the world does need all the time it can get to prepare, harden, check old code, (properly) formally verify new code, etc before the full weight of very powerful cyber attacks is upon us. And if this first big wave of AI risk is not handled well, then we may well get a dystopia of highly locked down models, KYC gati…”
- September 26, 2026 · on X
“Testing out some of the mobile offline local knowledge apps that people have been trying to build (see here ) Definitely getting much better than the one I tried to build myself 2 months ago. But also still much slower and less effective at difficult questions than the models that can run on a laptop. It's weakest at specialized travel-related queries (eg. my eval is 'Tell me the best vegan restaurants in [city I am currently in]', unfortunately none of these performed well on that) Looking forward to seeing the…”
Vitalik Buterin Says Offline AI Apps Still Lag Laptop Models →
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