Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a post on X on Monday that he is comfortable with the AI model Kimi 3.1 deliberately leaving top-end offensive cyber capabilities out of its training data.<\/p>\n
In his view, the trade-off is worth making because it gives defenders more time to prepare.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiscriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users,\u201d Buterin wrote.<\/p>\n
The world, he added<\/a>, needs time to harden systems and check old code before \u201cthe full weight of very powerful cyber attacks is upon us.\u201d In plain terms, he prefers a model that declines certain tasks for everyone over one that turns certain people away.<\/p>\n He also sketched what could go wrong. If \u201cthis first big wave of AI risk is not handled well,\u201d he cautioned, the result might be a \u201cdystopia of highly locked down models,\u201d with KYC checks, which tie an account to a verified identity, required for everything and intrusive surveillance to match. Depending on credentials and nationality, a person could end up a \u201csecond or third or fourth-class citizen\u201d in terms of model access.<\/p>\n Asked by X user LOID whether other labs would build those capabilities anyway, Buterin replied: \u201cYes of course they will.\u201d Read alongside that argument about time, the filtering is meant to delay such capabilities rather than prevent them.<\/p>\n Not everyone agreed. \u201cHard disagree,\u201d wrote<\/a> developer Youssof Al Toukhi, who brought up the recent attack on Hugging Face by an OpenAI model, and when Hugging Face tried to analyze the attackers\u2019 actions using frontier models, the providers\u2019 safety guardrails blocked the requests, forcing a switch to an open model, GLM 5.2. Calling the arrangement an \u201celitism system\u201d that \u201cwill only get worse overtime,\u201d the critic added: \u201cIntelligence needs to be democratized.\u201d<\/p>\n As CryptoPotato<\/em> reported previously, Buterin countered fears in May that AI-powered bug hunting would overwhelm developers and create non-stop openings for exploits, arguing<\/a> that AI-assisted formal verification could become one of the strongest defenses in crypto.<\/p>\n In his telling, a model can now write both the code and its proof, leaving developers to confirm that the statement proven is the one they wanted. His Monday post names formal verification of new codes among the work that needs the extra time. That May 19 post appeared as a hacker took<\/a> more than $76 million from the Echo Protocol cross-chain bridge, the third major exploit in four days.<\/p>\n In October 8, he warned<\/a> that AI-assisted mathematics could weaken ECDSA and similar cryptographic systems sooner than expected, although he added that users should not \u201cscramble to move their funds to new wallets today.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Vitalik Buterin Backs Kimi 3.1 Limits on Advanced Cyberattack Tools<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a post on X on Monday that he is comfortable with the AI model Kimi 3.1 deliberately leaving top-end offensive cyber capabilities out of its training data. In his view, the trade-off is worth making because it gives defenders more time to prepare. Restricting Use Cases, Not Users \u201cDiscriminating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Earlier Remarks on AI and Code Security<\/h2>\n