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Comment by Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum cofounder; technologist
Putting liability on users feels most incentive-compatible. While the link between how a model is developed and how it ends up being used is often unclear, the user decides exactly how the AI is used. Liability on users creates a strong pressure to do AI in what I consider the right way: focus on building mecha suits for the human mind, not on creating new forms of self-sustaining intelligent life. The former responds regularly to user intent, and so would not cause catastrophic actions unless the user wanted them to. The latter would have the greatest risk of going off and creating a classic "AI going rogue" scenario.
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(2025)
7mo ago
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AI Verified
Verified: This is from Vitalik Buterin's "d/acc: one year later" essay (January 5, 2025) at vitalik.eth.limo. The source URL returned 403 to WebFetch, but multiple news outlets (crypto.news, cointribune, cryptoslate, coinedition) corroborate both the "mecha suits for the human mind" / "self-sustaining intelligent life" framing and the liability-on-users discussion from this specific essay. Year 2025 is correct. The vote "against" on "Build artificial general intelligence" aligns with Buterin's concern about AI "creating new forms of self-sustaining intelligent life" with risk of "AI going rogue."
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 7d ago
replying to Vitalik Buterin