"AI is setting us back a decade in terms of privacy," Vitalik Buterin stated in a new article published yesterday. OpenClaw's 15% of skills contain malicious commands, and agents can modify system settings without confirmation. These are already unfolding disasters, and anyone using any AI service should understand how to make themselves safer. Vitalik's core principles regarding privacy are: "Treat privacy, security, and autonomy as non-negotiable bottom lines, and see how far we can go." He has clear guidelines and recommended practices for hardware selection, software architecture, security design, and firewall settings. This aligns with his long-standing focus on building the Ethereum ecosystem. If these principles are followed, no other Layer 1 platform will surpass Ethereum in the future. While interacting with AI, we don't actually know how much AI knows about us. Vitalik's description of inputting our entire lives is, in my opinion, entirely apt. Currently, to maximize AI's productivity, we might want to feed it as much data as possible, the more detailed the better. However, this is planting a time bomb. When AI knows you better than anyone around you, a backlash may occur at some point, especially with current mainstream AI. These are all large, centralized corporations. A few companies, however, can control vital information about all of humanity. Therefore, appropriately protecting information privacy is a challenge for everyone.

It's chilling to think about; crypto always seems to thrive during periods of technological stagnation for mainstream technologies. 😅

Haha, that's how it is... Vitalik, who has consistently stuck to the same direction, is indeed a rare and valuable mentor figure right now.