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What Vitalik Buterin has said about artificial intelligence
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. 2 statements from September 26, 2026 to October 25, 2026, each quoted word for word from the original and checked before publication. Newest first.
- 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…”
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