Vitalik Buterin Urges Crypto Users To Move Funds Over AI Encryption Threat
Summary
OpenAI publishes more than 700 mathematical papers of new findings, weeks after it said 10,000 AI agents solved a 90-year-old problem in under 90 hours. Computer scientist Scott Aaronson calls the pace a "Mathocalypse." Cryptographers warn such advances could threaten public-key encryption, with Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin urging users to move funds to unused addresses.
Key Points
- A single experimental model works from one prompt per problem, OpenAI states.
- Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University says: "I think we might lose public key cryptography... encryption specifically."
- Valerio Capraro of the University of Milan says nobody knows whether the AI proofs are correct.