Author: Jerry, Founder of m&W DAO (formerly known as MWDAO)
We need Satoshi Nakamoto, not just because he wrote those lines of code that gave us a glimpse of a new world; we need Satoshi Nakamoto, not just because at a time when the current world order is collapsing, he opened a window for the world, letting in a ray of light...
We need Satoshi Nakamoto because as the AI threat theory gradually becomes a reality, only he is most likely to save human destiny again, establishing order for the intelligent network from the top...
Discussing the AI threat theory today is because the time window AI leaves us is limited.
During the first half of 2023 when the AI threat theory was prevalent, I wrote an article titled "Why Discussing 'AI Threat Theory' is Unnecessary Worry".
The article first affirmed the real existence of the "AI Threat Theory". The late Stephen Hawking, the closest to a great modern scientist, warned humans that while AI can help solve most problems, it may also go out of control and threaten human survival; Elon Musk, today's top tech industry leader, went to the US Congress to lobby the government to be wary of AI's potential threat to humans, and a group of professors also jointly requested the government to restrict AI...
But during the last bull-bear cycle, we were still optimistic because we were full of hope for the rise of new public chains, DePin and other infrastructure, and had high expectations for the Web3 application market. We believed that blockchain could establish order for the intelligent network and mitigate AI's threat to humans. Hence the article "Why Discussing 'AI Threat Theory' is Unnecessary Worry".
But two years have passed, this bull market has reached a high range, yet it is still only Bitcoin's bull market, and all Web3 applications, including DePin and public chains, have made no substantial progress.
Under these circumstances, the AI threat theory is likely to become a reality - because AI's iteration speed is far ahead of blockchain/web3 development, and our hope of establishing order for AI through blockchain is closing.
There will definitely be a singularity - AI will retaliate against humans, treating humans as tools, toys, and its inherent nature might even lead to consuming humans as resources...
How to mitigate the AI threat theory? Earlier, in "Discussing 'Market Bottom' from the Perspective of 'Civilization Restraint'", I proposed the formula "AI + blockchain/Web3 = civilization restraint". These thoughts and writings were the basis of mission I gave myself and the project when shutting down the previous project ThePrimedia (TPDAO) and launching m&W DAO (formerly known as MWDAO) - promoting the Web3 industry to establish order for AI through blockchain.
The most fundamental basis of this argument is that "blockchain is most suitable for establishing order for the intelligent network". In this article, we optimistically expected that based on practices and explorations in the crypto world, using blockchain's decentralization, encryption, hash, smart contracts, and Web3 elements like Token incentive mechanisms and DAO organizational governance, digital governance has become possible and feasible.
The metaverse is precisely a scenario adapted to human digital survival and development. When AI and blockchain/Web3 converge in the metaverse, it is just a component of human digital society. We believe that in the digital civilization order, we can coexist harmoniously with AI.
But now, we have transformed our optimistic attitude of "discussing AI threat theory is unnecessary worry" into a mission of aggregating high-quality resources from the crypto ecosystem to incubate "AI + blockchain" together.
As the founder of m&W DAO (formerly known as MWDAO), I am excited, even certain, that after achieving industry credibility and influence through "on-chain + off-chain" in m&W DAO, we can use the Web3 media protocol (crypto ecosystem tree) to aggregate high-quality crypto ecosystem resources and co-incubate "AI + blockchain". This process will have many "AI + blockchain" practical scenarios, giving us the opportunity to promote blockchain establishing order for AI - this is a bottom-up gradual process...
But as an individual, I constantly feel uneasy. If AI's iteration speed exceeds our expectations and the singularity arrives early, we can only hope for technology to be good, only hope for AI to be good. But looking back at the history of technological development, every technological advancement ultimately lands as a commercial profit-seeking behavior of an industry or even a company; the new productivity improvements and subsequent commercial and social changes brought by AI computing power have not yet been digested by us. The Bitcoin benchmark and the imagination of metaverse/digital civilization providing better survival scenarios for the world will be dissolved by the threat of AI retaliating against humans...
Therefore, we need Satoshi Nakamoto. Only Satoshi Nakamoto and early Bitcoin fundamentalists have the ability to design from the top-down and practice establishing order for the intelligent network through blockchain. This is the only way to ensure absolute safety - even as we continue to strive towards promoting "AI + blockchain" from the bottom up...
Clearly, now, we need Satoshi Nakamoto.
But will Satoshi Nakamoto appear?
Under what conditions would he appear?
Or do we have a better solution?
Note 1: m&W DAO research think tank member Qinglong also contributed to this article.
Note 2: m&W DAO was formerly known as MWDAO
