Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said there is still enormous uncertainty about the pace of AGI/ASI development, and whether the future of AI will amount to ordinary technological progress or trigger a superintelligence revolution in 2030 to 2040. He also expressed concern about a trend in which some large AI companies push for global AI decision-making power to be controlled by a small number of institutions, believing that in a “normal technology world” this would set off virtually all political alarms.

Vitalik reiterated his support for the d/acc philosophy, including decentralized defense technology routes such as open source, cryptography, secure hardware, and defensive biotech, and suggested that society set AI risk trigger mechanisms in advance—for example, revisiting measures to slow down or pause AI after triggers such as large-scale unemployment, a super-pandemic, or risks from autonomous weapons emerge.