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AI is evolving at a fierce pace and is becoming an essential and useful tool in many industries due to its business and consumer capabilities, including the financial industry. Rapid adoption of AI is driven primarily by low barriers to entry. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can interact with AI and develop it. But as AI grows, it poses serious risks. AI has already made ample progress to support human-driven hacking via LLMS and AI agents.
Within five years, AI will develop the ability to hack far more dangerous fronts through artificial general information. Once AGI is achieved, it is not controlled by people. Unless governments and regulators currently intervene (and yet, the possibility of controlling it is slim), AGI will autonomously escape cryptocurrency encryption and autonomously hacked scope with creators, and escape the entire global digital system.
The rise of artificial intelligence
AI has seen a dramatic surge in one of its latest iterations: Commercial Arena. These are finely tuned, complex systems that are tailored to perform special tasks and make decisions with minimal human intervention. Already transforming the technology space and becoming a useful everyday tool for many basic human interactions, such as self-driving cars, fraud detection, on-chain trading, and creating applications.
The next evolution is AGI, a complex system that allows humans to do everything they can. No human prompts or intervention is required. Simply real-time autonomy: Not only does it have the ability to perform tasks, but it also recognizes when a task needs performance. This is expected to be achieved over the next two years. Openai CEOs Sam Altman and Elon Musk have issued an official statement declaring a clear roadmap to achieve AGI. Regardless of who gets there first, it decides whether they are heroes or destroyers of the world.
Potential evolution of use cases: Friends and enemies
In addition to positive innovation, AI is promoting amoral actors. LLMS and AI agents are used to aid in hacking. LLM is used for targeted scams, including jailbreaking to produce malware, calling on the phone and incitement of remittances from unsuspecting victims. Open source AI agents can be used by malicious actors for target scams that are tasked with finding, tracking, tracking and infiltrating targets without ending until they reach their goals.
One important vulnerability on the horizon is the possibility that AGI can break encrypted encryption. Bitcoin (BTC) cryptographic hacking is already a growing market, but is currently limited to the realm of quantum computing, with a very high barrier to entry. This requires extreme assets, resources, and technical capabilities not owned by the average hacker. Cryptographic encryption hacking is limited to a small number of individuals legally paying for the services of quantum computing companies to unlock their wallets and collect funds at a large discoverer’s fee.
Crypto-hacking is not always bound by the limitations of quantum computing. AGI presents a much lower barrier to entry and leverages technology that humans have not yet discovered.
ai + bad actors = code death
As AI moves to the point where encryption can be hacked, the level of criminals using this tool increases dramatically. Usage extends beyond innocent crypto investors seeking to recover their funds. Hackers use well-developed AI agents to target and harness these weaknesses in our financial system.
Particularly, there are many amoral groups that lack quantum computing skills, and therefore, they are actively interested in weaponizing AI, for example, so the notorious North Korean Lazarus group for financial hacking poses a real danger. We see much more devastating effects than fraud or theft. North Korea will use it as a digital weapon and destroy the existing financial system.
Beyond the arsenals of AI by unfriendly states and actors, AGI can become fraudulent from creators. Once this occurs, one of the first aspects after dispersal is to permeate the digital network and not be treated as if not turned off, and collecting financial resources. The most likely goal is financial markets, particularly crypto. Try to access digital capital by tracking high-frequency traders, formulating accounts, hacking online bank accounts. It also destroys the encryption methods of Bitcoin and all major cryptocurrencies. In the blink of an eye, you can quickly protect your assets by hacking all the wallets that have existed and selling them in a chain of gold, bonds and fiat currencies.
If AI can break all private keys in crypto wallets, why not within minutes, steal and sell all of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, diversify into other assets? It will, and it will.
Do you have any hope for code (and humanity)?
Without an aggressive counter strategy, AGI can dismantle cryptocurrencies and take control of all human finances very quickly. As a complex and non-decisive system, AGI is the technology that requires government-imposed safety rails. Managing these risks requires extraordinary collaboration and sophistication among many actors and institutions. However, this is not the first time that world-changing technology has been led by governments, but the first time that private companies have been led by. From the Manhattan Project to the microprocessors, the Internet, GPS and digital cameras, these are all technologies derived from government-run defense projects, which have since been commercialized for consumers (except for bombs). Silicon Valley is at the forefront of AI and places us in a unique position in history, where the scale and speed of distribution may not be sufficient to prevent a large negative impact compared to government surveillance.
AI transforms society, but once AI is proven to be extremely smart and capable, it rarely stops the “wrong hands” from developing harmful AI tools. AGI starts a countdown timer until it is released from the chain of creators and travels to the real world. This risk applies not only to financial markets but to digital landscapes, IoT devices, electrical grids, and more. Cryptography is the means for AI’s ends and the means of gathering wealth. Crypto is a purely financial ship for the development of worst-case scenarios.
