Is Bitcoin Safe from AI Replacement Threats?

AI bots can also power sophisticated phishing attacks, where criminals impersonate legitimate sites to access -- and sometimes drain -- people's accounts and crypto wallets. Bots make it easier than ever to find and exploit weaknesses, such as vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts. That's a particular challenge for new decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. Another difficulty is that AI might speed up the progress of quantum computing. Developers have known for some time that quantum computers could ...